LINUX Unplugged
An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux.
Mon, April 28, 2025
612: 25 Years of LinuxFest Northwest
We're live from LinuxFest Northwest 2025. We're joined by guests from the audience, try our hand at Linux trivia and share our experiences from the best fest in the West. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. ConfigCat Feature Flags : Manage features and change your software configuration using ConfigCat feature flags, without the need to re-deploy code. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2025 Day 1 LFNW2025 - LinuxFest Norhtwest Homepage — 25 Years of Community Excellence. See how far COSMIC has come this year by Carl Richell - LinuxFest Northwest 2025 COSMIC Desktop COSMIC Alpha 7 — ISO excited for the latest COSMIC alpha release! We’ve been busy clearing up scores of bugs while soldering together the features that we absolutely must include before the Big Betahemoth descends upon the Earth. Let COSMIC Alpha 7 commence! pop-os/cosmic-epoch: Next generation Cosmic desktop environment <a title="COSMIC Desktop Alpha 7 Brings More New Features" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/cosmic-desktop-alpha-7-adds-more-new-
Sun, April 20, 2025
611: Distro Double Trouble
Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04 are here—We break down what's new, what stands out, and what we love most about each release. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. ConfigCat Feature Flags : Manage features and change your software configuration using ConfigCat feature flags, without the need to re-deploy code. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is. GNOME 48 Release Notes Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) The newest Ubuntu version ushers in ARM64 support for early adopters Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop JB Gaming Den Retro Game Corps on YouTube Pick: Ignition — Ignition is a minimal app for editing autostart entries on Freedesktop-compliant Linux distributions. <a title="Ignition on Flathub" hr
Sun, April 13, 2025
610: Linus' Next Big Thing
Apple's software is going rotten, while Linux sneaks up as the better Mac. Linus grumbles through Git's 20th birthday, and we spot a hardware window Linux better not slam shut. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. ConfigCat Feature Flags : Manage features and change your software configuration using ConfigCat feature flags, without the need to re-deploy code. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Tailscale Community Meetup Seattle — Calling all Tailscale users, homelabbers, and networking enthusiasts! We’re bringing the community together for a casual, community focused meetup in Seattle. POLL: Would you tune into a Saturday LFNW Live Stream? Celebrating Git's 20th anniversary with creator Linus Torvalds — Discover the origins of the open-source version control system, why he handed over the reins a few months in, and what he thinks about adding new programming languages to Git. Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds - YouTube uemacs - Linus Editor — Random version of microemacs with my private modificatons <a title="Yes Linus' uemacs is pa
Mon, April 07, 2025
609: We Used to Be Friends
We attempt to get one of the great gaming classics running on Linux, and dig into some of the technical issues still holding back Linux. Plus: Chris has a new handheld. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. ConfigCat Feature Flags : Manage features and change your software configuration using ConfigCat feature flags, without the need to re-deploy code. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2025 Schedule POLL: Would You Tune Into a Saturday LFNW Live Stream? LINUX Unplugged LIVE@LFNW Sunday — Sunday 10:00 AM · 1h · HC 108 Linux-Powered Payments: Running a Lightning Node with nix-bitcoin — Sunday 1:30 PM · 45 min · HC 204 Lutris - Open Gaming Platform for Linux — video game preservation platform aiming to keep your video game collection up and running for the years to come. GitHub - ValveSoftware/Proton: Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components <a title="R36MAX Retro Handheld Game Console with 64G Built-in 18000+ Classic Games" href="https://www.amazon.co
Sun, March 30, 2025
608: Linus' NT Surprise
Linux 6.14 lands with big improvements for gaming, laptops, and filesystems—but why is a Windows feature sneaking into our kernel? Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. River : River is the most trusted place in the U.S. for individuals and businesses to buy, sell, send, and receive Bitcoin. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2025 Schedule LINUX Unplugged LIVE Sunday — Sunday 10:00 AM · 1h · HC 108 Linux-Powered Payments: Running a Lightning Node with nix-bitcoin — Sunday 1:30 PM · 45 min · HC 204 Linux 6.14 Linux 6.14 from Linux Kernel Newbies Btrfs Support for uncached buffered I/O FUSE and io_uring Windows NT synchronization primitives for Linux NixOS/nixos-h
Sun, March 23, 2025
607: Ubuntu's Rusty Roadmap
Canonical's VP of Engineering for Ubuntu reveals why they're swapping coreutils for Rust-built tools. Then we break down the GNOME 48 release, and why this one is special. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. River : River is the most trusted place in the U.S. for individuals and businesses to buy, sell, send, and receive Bitcoin. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Jon Seager Engineering Ubuntu For The Next 20 Years — We should look deeply at the tools we ship with Ubuntu by default, selecting for tools that have resilience, performance and maintainability at their core. Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu — Starting with Ubuntu 25.10, my goal is to adopt some of these modern implementations as the default. My immediate goal is to make uutils’ coreutils implementation the default in Ubuntu 25.10, and subsequently in our next Long Term Support (LTS) release, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, if the conditions are right. GNOME 48 Release Notes — The GNOME project is excited to introduce GNOME 48, a fresh release shaped by six months of hard work from our amazing community. Named “Bengaluru”, this release pays tribute to the dedication of the GNOME Asia 2024 organizers. awesome-tuis <a title="Pick: Ulauncher" href="https:
Sun, March 16, 2025
606: Nix's Magic Cookbook
We have stories to share, guests joining us, insights from our week at Planet Nix, and Brent's big bombshell. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. River : River is the most trusted place in the U.S. for individuals and businesses to buy, sell, send, and receive Bitcoin. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Flox - Nix for Simplicity & Scale — Flox is all about simplifying your development workflow—think reproducible, portable dev environments powered by Nix, but without the steep learning curve. Whether you’re a solo coder or part of a big team, Flox lets you manage and share environments effortlessly, so you can focus on building great software instead of wrestling with setup headaches. Planet Nix Talk - Kelsey Hightower's Perspective on Nix Talk - Aneesh from Anthropic - Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It Talk - Eelco Dolstra Intros Configurable Flakes Talk - Mike Kelly - Building a Chromebook replacement with NixOS Eelco
Sun, March 09, 2025
605: Goodbye World
We are digging into a superpower inside your Linux Kernel. How eBPF works, and how anyone can take advantage of it. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. River : River is the most trusted place in the U.S. for individuals and businesses to buy, sell, send, and receive Bitcoin. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM eBPF Perf Tools 2019 | SCaLE 17x SCALE2019_eBPF_Perf_Tools.pdf Oracle Releases DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 For Linux Systems Gentoo Linux Touts DTrace 2.0 Support bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018 Full-system dynamic tracing on Linux using eBPF and bpftrace A thorough introduction to eBPF BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO a
Mon, March 03, 2025
604: One Week Left
We're pre-gaming two of the biggest Linux events of the year. Engineers, organizers, and surprise guests are dropping by to give us the scoop before it all begins. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. River : River is the most trusted place in the U.S. for individuals and businesses to buy, sell, send, and receive Bitcoin. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM SCALE 2025 Meetup — El Cholo Cafe Pasadena - Saturday, Mar 8, 2025, 7:00 PM Planet Nix — March 6th-7th, 2025 @ Pasadena, CA at the Southern California Linux Expo. Flox - Your dev environment, everywhere — Flox help teams focus on building fast by providing reproducible environments that span the entire software lifecycle. With Flox, developers can create environments that contain all of the tools and frameworks they need, binding them with the software they ship into the world. Kelsey Hightower on X kelseyhightower on GitHub Kelsey Hightower on LinkedIn Robert Hernandez SCaLE Profile <a title="Fireside Chat: An Outsider’s Look at Nix - Ron Efroni, Kelsey Hightower" href="https://w
Mon, February 24, 2025
603: All Your Kernels Belong to Rust
There have been major Rust developments in the Linux Kernel; we discuss what's new and how it will impact the future. Plus, we're joined by a special guest. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. River : River is the most trusted place in the U.S. for individuals and businesses to buy, sell, send, and receive Bitcoin. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Get started with River 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Planet Nix - Speakers SCALE 22x Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust — Yes, mixed language codebases are rough, and hard to maintain, but we are kernel developers dammit, we've been maintaining and strengthening Linux for longer than anyone ever thought was going to be possible. We've turned our development model into a well-oiled engineering marvel creating something that no one else has ever been able to accomplish. Adding another language really shouldn't be a problem, we've handled much worse things in the past and we shouldn't give up now on wanting to ensure that our project succeeds for the next 20+ years. We've got to keep pushing forward when confronted with new good ideas, and embrace the people offering to join us in actually doing the work to help make sure that we all succeed together. <a title="Kees Cook on Rust in the kernel" href="https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for
Mon, February 17, 2025
602: The BSD Humbling
Our FreeBSD Challenge comes to a close, and chances are one of us will be paying the Windows tax. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Planet Nix Flox — Your dev environment, everywhere The Launch 🚀 09: The Eagle has Landed The Rules of the FreeBSD Challenge libluksde — Library and tools to access LUKS Disk Encryption encrypted volumes linuxulator-steam-utils — Linux Steam on FreeBSD bhyve/Windows - FreeBSD Wiki Chapter 12. Linux Binary Compatibility doas - dedicated openbsd application subexecutor doas mastery Chapter 33. Firewalls <a title="ardour « audio - ports - FreeBSD ports tree" href="https://cgit.freebsd.o
Mon, February 10, 2025
601: Taming the Demons
It's week one of our FreeBSD challenge, and for one of us, that penalty Windows install looks uncomfortably close! Plus, Zach Mitchell joins us to update us on Planet Nix. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LINUX Unplugged - 2025 FreeBSD Challenge Rules.md Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kit FreeBSD 14.0 on aarch64 Raspberry Pi 4/400 - Download, Install & Configure LinuxBoot: Booting FreeBSD from Linux EuroBSDCon booting FreeBSD using Linux Provisioning LinuxBoot Images for FreeBSD FreeBSD Handbook: Chapter 1. Bootstrapping and Kernel Initialization FreeBSD Handbook: Chapter 15. The FreeBSD Booting Process <a title="How to Manage FreeBSD Boot Process?" href="https://www
Mon, February 03, 2025
600: Everyone, Everywhere, All at Once
We celebrate 600 episodes, announce a new show feature, and officially launch the FreeBSD challenge. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM nixbsd: An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel The Rules of the FreeBSD Challenge Speedruns - FreeBSD Wiki Pick: direnv-vscode — This extension adds direnv support to Visual Studio Code by loading environment variables for the workspace root. Pick: Warehouse on Linux | Flathub — Warehouse provides a simple UI to control complex Flatpak options, all without resorting to the command line.
Mon, January 27, 2025
599: Psycho Shower Linux Power
On the eve of episode 600, we introduce our next challenge and explore the new wave of Linux phones. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Liberux – Privacy, Security, Freedom PinePhone Braveheart Linux smartphone begins shipping January 17th - Liliputing Mecha Comet - Modular Linux Handheld Computer powered by Open-Source Software — The Comet is a handheld Linux computer that brings extensibility in hardware and software adapting to your needs. Mecha Comet - Modular Linux Handheld Computer by Mecha Systems Inc. — Kickstarter Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers — The Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers will provide a neutral space where industry leaders, academia, developers, and the broader open source community can work together to support projects within the Chromium ecosystem. Wine 10.0 Released With Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI — Wine 10.0 brings more than six thousand changes that built up over the past year in th
Mon, January 20, 2025
598: Not Your Distrohopper's Distro
With more criticisms of NixOS than ever—do they have a point? We'll dig into the tough critiques and give our perspective. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM NixOS is interesting, but has fatal flaws LUP 600 meetups! Planet Nix — March 6-7, Before and Alongside SCaLE SCALE 22x — March 6-9, 2025 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA. LFNW2025 - "25 Years of Community Excellence" — April 25 - 27, 2025 Nix - Death by a thousand cuts — TLDR: In its current state (2025), I don't generally recommend desktop use of Nix(OS), even for seasoned Linux users. Rich Hickey: Simple Made Easy — Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path. Simple Made Easy Transcript Ansible is a Lisp <a title="Should I
Sun, January 12, 2025
597: Cache My OS
We're taking on some of the toughest critiques of the Linux desktop, then taking a look at CachyOS and what makes it feel like a million bucks. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition | Hacker News Why Desktop Linux Matters, Even If (Almost) No One Uses It Colony Events CachyOS — Blazingly Fast OS based on Arch Linux — CachyOS is designed to deliver lightning-fast speeds and stability, ensuring a smooth and enjoyable computing experience every time you use it. Whether you're a seasoned Linux user or just starting out, CachyOS is the ideal choice for those looking for a powerful, customizable and blazingly fast operating system. CachyOS/linux-cachyos: Archlinux Kernel based on different schedulers and some other performance improvements. <a title="firelzrd/bore-scheduler: BORE (Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer) CPU Scheduler" href="https://github.com/firelzrd/bore-scheduler" ref="
Mon, January 06, 2025
596: Perilously Pontificated Predictions
We make our big Linux predictions for 2025, but first, we score how we did for 2024. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2025: Call for Speakers — Call closes at 11:59 PM PST on Planet Nix CFP - Jan 6th Colony Events LUP was the #2 top show on Fountain.fm for 2024. THANK YOU! LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later MAGI OS: AI powered Linux MakuluLinux AI podcast – MakuluLinux MakuluLinux X – AI Integration Update – MakuluLinux OpenZFS Native Encryption Use Raises Data Corruption Concerns Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 Brings RISC-V & Drop
Sun, December 29, 2024
595: Network 'n Burning Bonanza
We tested out the OpenWRT One and tried it in a unique use case. Then, Wes goes back to 1999 to solve a problem. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2025: Call for Speakers — Call closes at 11:59 PM PST on 2025-01-10. Conference is 2025-04-25 through 2025-04-27. Qobuz — Buy your favourite albums in CD or Hi-Res quality and enjoy them forever. Los Machucambos In Phase 4, Los Machucambos - Qobuz Los Machucambos – In Phase 4 – Vinyl (LP, Album, Stereo), 1961 [r5061780] | Discogs Los Machucambos - Wikipedia cdrdao: cdrdao is a free and open source utility software application for authoring and ripping of audio and data CD-ROMs cdrdao-pled: Portable Linux x86_64 pre-built download of the open source CD burning/ripping utility cdrdao that works on all modern Lin
Mon, December 23, 2024
594: 2024 Tuxies
It's the fifth annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, and desktops of 2024. Join us for the final Tuxies, and the second annual Boosties! Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LINUX Unplugged 542: 2023 Tuxies Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
Mon, December 16, 2024
593: Zen and the Art of Kernel Preempting
A special guest joins us for the news, then we dive headfirst into our RT Linux kernel adventures—where speed seduced, but stability ghosted us. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Xfce 4.20 Desktop Released With Wayland Improvements & New Features Xfce 4.20 Release Notes The Last Tuxies Plan your meetup: Colony Events LUP 600 Pacific Northwest Party · Colony Events Introducing CentOS Stream 10 — CentOS Stream serves as a development branch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), providing a continuous preview of features before they are incorporated into RHEL. EPEL 10 is now available — The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) 10 has been officially released, offering users access to over 10,000 packages built from 3,600 source packages, thanks to the efforts of over 150 Fedora package maintainers. Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller: A change of hats! — Matthew
Mon, December 09, 2024
592: Chris' Netboot Nonsense
USB thumb drives are old and busted. No hard drive? No problem. Need a quick system rescue or work in another distro for the day? Easy. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM ODROID H4 PLUS ODROID H4 Mini-ITX Kit Plan your meetup: Colony Events LUP 600 Pacific Northwest Party · Colony Events Request for Proposals: Flathub Program Management — The GNOME Foundation, in partnership with KDE e.V., is bootstrapping Flathub LLC to become a self-sustaining entity. Flathub to become a self-sustaining entity and they're looking to hire someone to help Flathub Statistics Flathub Verified Apps Verification | Flathub Documentation <a title="op
Mon, December 02, 2024
591: KDE Goes Banana
The KDE and GNOME projects are working on official Linux distributions, but do we need more distros? We dig into their special sauce. Plus: Wes' top DNS server pick, and it's not one we've heard before. Sponsored By: Black Friday Member Sale : 30% Off for the lifetime of your Membership! Code: blackfriday Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released — The OpenWrt One costs $89 with a case ($68.42 for the logic board only) and is hacker-friendly, featuring robust hardware specifications such as a MediaTek MT7981B SoC, dual Ethernet ports (2.5 GbE and 1 GbE), USB-C power, and modular expansion options. Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros "KDE Linux" (codenamed "Project Banana") Akademy 2024 - Saturday 7th September - Room 1 - YouTube An Operating System of Our Own - Akademy 2024 - FTV Adrian Vovk <a title="A Desktop
Mon, November 25, 2024
590: Self-Host Before You're Toast
Two years ago, we took a small step toward digital privacy. Today, we're rethinking everything about our online lives, and we'll give you the tools to do the same. Sponsored By: Black Friday Member Sale : 30% Off for the lifetime of your Membership! Code: blackfriday Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Syncthing — Open Source Continuous File Synchronization 2024 Tuxies.Party — New category based on your feedback, and we've cleared out the hall of fame, all distros and desktops up for a vote! BlueBubbles Davx5 Location | Home Assistant Companion Docs Garmin Forerunner 265 Obtainium: Get Android app updates straight from the source. OSS-DocumentScanner: Android document document scanning app <a title="Simple Mobile Tools" href="https://simplemobiletools.com/index.html" ref="no
Mon, November 18, 2024
589: 6 Reasons to Love Linux 6.12
The Linux 6.12 kernel isn't just another update — it's a game-changer that deserves our full attention, from performance improvements to fascinating new features. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership : Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Linux 6.12 Features Are Super Exciting With Real-Time, Sched_ext, Intel Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5 - Phoronix Release v6.12 · torvalds/linux LKML: Linus Torvalds: Linux 6.12 The 6.12 kernel has been released Linux_6.12 - Linux Kernel Newbies Linux Kernel Release Model How do kernel version numbers work? : r/linux4noobs <a title="2. How the development process works — The Linux Kernel documentation" href="https://www.kernel.o
Mon, November 11, 2024
588: Clearing out the Tumbleweeds
We go back in time to revisit our favorite classic SUSE release and then fix Brent's broken box the hard way. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership : Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Test openSUSE Tumbleweed GNOME online Fountain 1.1.6 is now live on iOS and Android — Our latest release contains more bug fixes than ever before - plus we have improved navigation by making the bottom nav bar persistent across all pages. Planet Nix — CFP Submission Deadline: December 9th, 2024 LINUX Unplugged 432: Three Tumbleweed Temptations LINUX Unplugged 461: Deep in the Tumbleweeds nix-community/nixos-images — netboot and kexec images for NixOS Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! <a title="bees: Best-Effort Extent-Same,
Mon, November 04, 2024
587: Triple Fedora Taste-Test
Fedora 41 is here! We break down the best new features, then branch out for a three-way spin showdown. Which flavor will come out on top? Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership : Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike Flock 2024 Introducing Fedora Miracle, a proposed Fedora spin built on Mir - YouTube miracle-wm-org/miracle-wm — Miracle is a Wayland tiling window manager built on Mir miracle-wm miracle-wm wiki Roadmap - miracle-wm wiki nwg-piotr/nwg-shell — Installer & meta-package for the nwg-shell project: a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors nwg-shell - a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors fast fedora 41 mirror What’s new for Fedora Atomic Des
Mon, October 28, 2024
586: Kexec with Determination
We're hot-swapping our rigs to Fedora 41; then Graham Christensen gives us the inside scoop on a new Nix distribution, and Determinate Systems' big week! Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership : Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM dracut-loopback Reboot Linux faster using kexec Linux.com :: Reboot like a racecar with kexec Linux 3.14 To Support EFI Kexec Capability ByteDance Working To Make It Faster Kexec Booting The Linux Kernel Defeating Secure Boot With Linux Kexec Google Engineers Get Windows Booting When Kexec'ed Under Linux <a title="The Future is Nix" href="https://determinate.systems/posts/the-future-is-nix/" ref="nofollow"
Mon, October 21, 2024
585: Choosy Moms Choose Ubuntu
Wes got Mom a new Linux laptop, and he lets her pick the distro. Plus, we take a look at the new Ubuntu 24.10, and why we think this release might be a good sign for the future. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership : Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Ubuntu 24.10 - Oracular Oriole Ubuntu Unity AMD Framework 13 Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! imagegenius/docker-immich — Monolithic (Single) Docker Container for Immich rramiachraf/dumb — Private alternative front-end for Genius. qdm12/gluetun: — VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in. SCaLE 22X Call for Papers<
Mon, October 14, 2024
584: Captain Meshtastic and the Solar Cowboy
After building nodes, climbing roofs, swapping antennas, and even some war driving, it's time for our Meshtastic deep dive! Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership : Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Meshtastic — An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices Bitcoin Vets: Establish communications via meshtastic & ham radio network Meshtastic in the air — Avery Airfield in Spruce Pine which is running air delivery of critical supplies to HLZs in the AO is now equipping flights with Meshtastic airborne nodes which significantly increases coverage of vital communications. Heltec V3 27100 Cell holder MPPT Solar Charge controller for 1S cells 25 Watt Solar Panels Project Box <a title="Pole Mounts" href="http
Mon, October 07, 2024
583: Nix on Easy Mode
Wes gives his shell superpowers to solve a tricky problem. Then, we share an update on our favorite Google Photos alternative, including breaking changes and a great new way to run it. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership : Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM bda in the Nix Nerds Matrix Chat with Python Woes Install a couple of Python packages : r/NixOS Anyone using python UV on NixOS? : r/NixOS devenv — Fast, Declarative, Reproducible and Composable Developer Environments using Nix devenn's direnv integration POLL: Do you use any tools to "move between machines"? Immich Release v1.117.0 <a title="NixOS Immich Module" href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/nixos/mo
Mon, September 30, 2024
582: On the CUPS of Disaster
We explain the one-packet attack on CUPS and discuss its real-world implications. Plus, a Meshtastic update and more. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership : Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS — A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace existing printers’ (or install new ones) IPP urls with a malicious one, resulting in arbitrary command execution (on the computer) when a print job is started (from that computer). Marcus Hutchins Scan finds 107,287 servers responding to the UDP port 631 — Instead of relying on Shodan data, I performed my own internet-wide scan using a distributed network of servers. This resulted in discovering drastically more exposed cups-browsed instances, causing my total count to rise from 13,289 to 107,287. Shodan on X: 75,000 exposed CUPS daemons on the Internet Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! nodeboard — Your Ultimate Digital Inventory
Mon, September 23, 2024
581: The Linux Escape Hatch
What if we had to abandon ship and stop using Desktop Linux? We've come up with a master plan, and put it to the test. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership : Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Meshtastic Linux-Native Application MeshMap — Meshtastic Node Map LINUX Unplugged 269 — What if desktop computing went a very different direction in the late 90s? Deeply multithreaded from the start, fast, intuitive, and extremely stable. This is the world of Haiku, and we go for a visit. The Dawn of Haiku OS — Haiku, unlike its more established competitors, is exceedingly good at tackling one of the toughest challenges of modern computing: multicore microprocessors. Let's take a look at why that is, how Haiku came to be, and whether the operating system running on your computer really performs as well as it should. Haiku Project History Haiku R1/beta5 Release Notes — The fifth beta for Haiku R1 over a year and a half of hard work to improve Haiku’s hardware support and its overall stability, and to make lots more
Mon, September 16, 2024
580: Brent's Boogie Bus Broadcast Bash
The things we like in the new Nextcloud release, and we attempt to upgrade our production server live—from a big blue bus. Sponsored By: Core Contributor Membership : Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM OpenSats Grants Long-Term Support for WireGuard Creator Jason Donenfeld OpenSats Lightning Node Nextcloud Hub 9 Introducing Nextcloud Hub 9 - the world's leading open source collaboration platform! - YouTube Day 1: Nextcloud Community Conference 2024 - YouTube Day 2: Nextcloud Community Conference 2024 - YouTube Nextcloud Community Conference 2024 Mailvelope — Mailvelope is a browser a
Sun, September 08, 2024
579: Lost & Found
Secret moments from the show you've never heard before. We kick off with some hardware hurdles, then dive into the news and share a few surprising stories. Sponsored By: Core Contributor Membership : Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
Mon, September 02, 2024
578: Young and the Rustless
Rust meets Linux in a clash of coding cultures. Why some developers are resisting, and where things go from here. Sponsored By: Core Contributor Membership : Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Berlin with Brent: September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Sat, Sep 14, 2024 Berlin Buds on Matrix Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust adoption, and why the Linux kernel is 'the only thing that matters' KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit + AI_Dev China 2024 Rust for filesystems — At the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Wedson Almeida Filho and Kent Overstreet led a combined storage and filesystem sessi
Mon, August 26, 2024
577: Summer Kernel Corn Roast
Sixty vulnerabilities and exposures disclosed in one week sounds like a lot. We'll explain why it's just business as usual. Sponsored By: Core Contributor Membership : Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Toronto Meetup — Thursday, Aug 29, 2024 Berlin with Brent — September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Saturday, Sep 14, 2024 Check out Alex’s “Building a Colo Server” video Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs — The cause: an update Microsoft issued as part of its monthly patch release. It was intended to close a 2-year-old vulnerability in GRUB, an open source boot loader used to start up many Linux devices. What the f*** is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care — This update was not supposed to apply to dual-boot systems, but did anyway. <a title="SBAT Revocations: Boot Process - Ubuntu Community Hub" href="https://discourse.ubu
Mon, August 19, 2024
576: The Secret Server
We reveal how we turned our humble LAN into a public server farm, all while keeping our IP address under wraps and our ISP blissfully unaware. Sponsored By: Core Contributor Membership : Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Toronto Meetup — Thursday, Aug 29, 2024 Berlin with Brent — September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Saturday, Sep 14, 2024 Check out Alex's "Building a Colo Server" video — Building a colo server for Jupiter Broadcasting using the 45Homelab HL15 server. Firewall - NixOS Wiki nftables wiki The netfilter.org "nftables" project Gentoo Nftables Examples networking/nftables: add .tables property and d
Mon, August 12, 2024
575: Brent's Busted Builds
Brent's computer pulls an all-nighter at the worst possible moment, and the hits keep coming for open-source Android distributions and our new 2FA tool. Sponsored By: Core Contributor Membership : Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Toronto Meetup — Thursday, August 29, 2024 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT Sacramento LUG Meetup — Saturday September 7th, 2024 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM PDT Anker PowerConf S330 USB Speakerphone Corsair Void RGB Elite Wireless Premium Gaming Headset Loss of popular 2FA tool puts security-minded GrapheneOS in a paradox GrapheneOS on X — Google can either permit GrapheneOS in the Play Integrity API in the near future <a title="GrapheneOS on X" href="https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1818430429264838886" ref="nofoll
Mon, August 05, 2024
574: COSMIC Encounter
The COSMIC desktop is just around the corner. We get the inside scoop from System76 and go hands-on with an early press build. Sponsored By: Core Contributor Membership : Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM System76 tips Fedora Cosmic spin for 2025 release with Fedora 42 — It looks like System76's exciting new Rust-based Cosmic DE will get an official Fedora spin in the upcoming Fedora 42, potentially giving Linux users with bleeding-edge hardware an official way to try Cosmic. Pop!_OS Mattermost — An excellent place to engage if you want to bring COSMIC to a distro near you. iced — A cross-platform GUI library for Rust Smithay — A smithy for rusty wayland compositor Testing COSMIC — The easiest way to test COSMIC DE currently is by building a systemd system extension. Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! Por
Mon, July 29, 2024
573: Universal Blue Man Group
Think Silverblue, but with cloud-native tooling used to build it. From Aurora to Bazzite, our impressions of the ambitious Universal Blue project. Sponsored By: Core Contributor Membership : Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Universal Blue — The Universal Blue project builds a diverse set of continuously delivered operating system images using Fedora Atomic Desktop's support for OCI/Docker containers. Universal Blue Architecture Diagram Aurora — Aurora is a clean and reliable desktop operating system for every type of user. Many batteries included. Bluefin — Bluefin is a custom image of Fedora Silverblue offering the best of both worlds: The reliability and ease of use of a Chromebook and the power of a GNOME desktop. Bazzite — The next generation of Linux Gaming for all of your devices - including your favorite handheld. uCore — An OCI base image of Fedora CoreOS with batteries included; a lightweight server image including most used services or the building blocks to host them. <a title="Bazzite Desktop Environment Tweaks - Bazzite - Docs - Universal Blue" href="https://universal-blue.discourse.group/docs?topic=574" ref="n
Mon, July 22, 2024
572: Data Security Only a Maniac Could Love
Wes' self-decrypting bcachefs disk and a GrapheneOS twist that'll make you ditch your iPhone. Sponsored By: Core Contributor Membership : Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM clevis — Clevis is a pluggable framework for automated decryption. It can be used to provide automated decryption of data or even automated unlocking of LUKS volumes. bcachefs Encryption What measured boot and trusted boot means for Linux Automatically decrypt your disk using TPM2 — Entering the passphrase to decrypt the disk at boot can become quite tedious. On modern systems a secure hardware chip called “TPM” (Trusted Platform Module) can store a secret and automatically decrypt your disk. This is an alternative factor, not a second factor. Keep that in mind. Use systemd-cryptenroll with FIDO U2F or TPM2 to decrypt your disk Automatic LUKS 2 disk decryption
Sun, July 14, 2024
571: Multi-Machine Lifestyle
Wes reports from the Skunkworks lab, and Brent tells us about his new computing lifestyle. Sponsored By: Core Contributor Membership : Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Nix Nerds Matrix Room Beelink SER5 Mini PC Minisforum UM690 Pro pyenv-flake: experimental nix flake that can build pyenv pythons dotenvx-flake: A nix flake for dotenvx auto-patchelf.sh - NixOS/nixpkgs Packaging/Binaries - NixOS Wiki Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! <a title="Try the JB Test Gathio Instance hosted by HybridSarcasm" href="https://jbevents.hybridsarcasm.xyz" ref=
Mon, July 08, 2024
570: RegreSSHion Strikes
We dig into the RegreSSHion bug, debate it's real threat and explore clever tools to build a tasty fried onion around your system. Sponsored By: Core Contributor Membership : Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Spokane Meetup - No-Li Brewhouse · JB Events on Gathio Plasma/Krunner Docs — Brent's tip: 'https://search.nixos.org/options?query=\{@}' (the '\{@}' is the magic sauce) autossh — Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels autossh on GitHub Spokane Meetup — No-Li Brewhouse, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PM RegreSSHion — Remote Code Execution Vulnerability In OpenSSH Server regreSSHion — Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution Vulnerability in OpenSSH server. <a title="NixOS Security advisory: OpenSSH CVE-2024-6387 “regreSSHion” – update your servers ASAP" href="https://discourse.nixos.org/t/
Sun, June 30, 2024
569: Our Plasma Panacea
Why we think Plasma 6.1 is the desktop for people who like to mess with computers. Sponsored By: Core Contributor Membership : Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Marknote - KDE Applications Marknote 1.3 - KDE Blogs — Marknote lets you create rich text notes and easily organise them into notebooks. You can personalise your notebooks by choosing an icon and accent color for each one, making it easy to distinguish between them and keep your notes at your fingertips. Your notes are saved as Markdown files in your Documents folder, making it easy to use your notes outside of Marknote as well as inside the app. Spokane Meetup - No-Li Brewhouse, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PM No-Li Brewhouse Menu 10 best beer gardens in the US where you can quench your thirst KDE Plasma 6.1 Desktop Env
Mon, June 24, 2024
568: All Your Silos are Broken
Online identity is a ticking time bomb. Are trustworthy, open-source solutions ready to disarm it? Or will we be stuck with lackluster, proprietary systems? Sponsored By: Core Contributor Membership : Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups XZ Utils Backdoor Vulnerability (CVE-2024-3094): Comprehensive Guide The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind Who is ‘Jia Tan,’ the coder behind the XZ Utils Linux backdoor? Reflections on Distrusting xz The Linux kernel does not accept anonymous contributions due to legal reasons. — The Linux kernel does not accept anonymous contributions due to legal reasons. <a title="Kernel.org Docs on contributions" href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/1.
Mon, June 17, 2024
567: So Long sudo
Your Linux box is a-changin'. systemd has a huge new release; we'll get into the most impressive features, including the new sudo replacement. Plus, our thoughts on the new Linux Arm laptops that are just around the corner. Sponsored By: Core Contributor Membership : Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Announcing systemd v256 — In the weeks leading up to this release I have posted a series of serieses of posts to Mastodon about key new features in this release. systemd changes with v2⁸: systemd 256 Released With run0, systemd-vpick, importctl & Other New Features Lennart on systemd-vpick — Basically, you can now place multiple versions of the same resource in some dir of your choice, suffix that dir's name with .v/ and the you get some basic version management in place: delete or add new versions by just removing/adding new files, and the tools will find the newest item dropped in automatically. Introduction to Portable Services — “Portable services” do not provide a fully isolated environment to the payload, like containers mostly inte
Mon, June 10, 2024
566: Chef's Choice Ubuntu
We try Omakub, a new opinionated Ubuntu desktop for power users and macOS expats. Sponsored By: Core Contributor Membership : Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Have a pint with Alex in Norwich , Sun, Jun 16, 2024, 2:30 PM | Meetup Spokane Meetup, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PM Nextcloud Conference 2024: call for speakers - Nextcloud Nextcloud Conference 2024 - Nextcloud Berlin with Brent: September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Fri, Sep 13, 2024 | Meetup notch on X — Alright, that's enough spyware in my OS. Do I go desktop Mac, or do I have the energy to go full Linux? Not sure, but I'm tired of my operating system treating me like the product. DHH on X — If I have such a fundamental misalignment with where Apple has gone, why stay? I think that
Mon, June 03, 2024
565: Mistakes That Made Us Love Linux
The facepalm moments that make us question our sanity—and swear off sudo for a week. Sponsored By: Core Contributor Membership : Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare — What if you care about AI's environmental impact, privacy holes, and the ethical problems of training on data without the creators' permission? The answer might be to switch to Linux. Yes, Linux. Kate Asks about Mistakes to Avoid — Hey boys-Microsoft has officially gone off the deep end with this AI stuff. I'm pretty sure AI Clippy is pulling the strings behind the scenes. Any tips for escaping to Linux before I get assimilated? What are the big don'ts for a newbie? Jeremy Molina on X — sudo rm -rf ./ on the root directory 😓 Lee Ball on X — I thought I was in a backup directory when I did an rm -rf but turned out I'd forgotten the ./ and just went into /var/lib/mysql and not the backup of said directory. ChaoticHuman on X — I think my most major beginner mistake once was something like sudochownuseraccount/ because I wanted to not have to deal with file-ownership-conflicts though I no longer remember what exactly
Mon, May 27, 2024
564: The Goldilocks Build
We're following one simple rule to build a Linux desktop so stable it could outlive us. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Core Contributor Membership : Save $3 a month on your membership, and get the Bootleg and ad-free version of the show. Code: MAY Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature for Windows 11 could already be in legal hot water Apple GPT — What We Know About Apple's Work on Generative AI Chris' BeeLink — Beelink Ryzen 7 5700U Up to 4.3GHz 8C/16T RV BeeLink Nix configuration.nix Slack - NixOS Wiki Chris' Win 7 Inspired Look musnix — Real-time audio in NixOS Boost Pick: nh — NH reimplements some basic nix commands. Adding functionality on top of the existing solutions, like nixos-rebuild, home-manager cli or nix itself.
Mon, May 20, 2024
563: Nix's People Problem
After months of debate, the Nix community might be coming to a resolution. We'll examine what happened, what's changing. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Core Contributor Membership : Save $3 a month on your membership, and get the Bootleg and ad-free version of the show. Code: MAY Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Using Tailscale for Android just got a whole lot better Report on NixOS Governance Discussions - by Chris McDonough The NixOS Foundation board announced on April 30 that Eelco Dolstra is stepping down from the board following the recent calls for his resignation. A leadership crisis in the Nix community (LWN) — On April 21, a group of anonymous authors and non-anonymous signatories published a lengthy open letter to the Nix community and Nix founder Eelco Dolstra calling for his resignation from the project. NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community - Announcements - NixOS Discourse <a title="NixOS Foundation Bo
Mon, May 13, 2024
562: Red Hat Knows How to Party
Three revelations from Red Hat Summit. Our on-the-ground report will separate fact from hype. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Core Contributor Membership : Save $3 a month on your membership, and get the Bootleg and ad-free version of the show. Code: MAY Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Introducing image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a new deployment method that takes a container-native approach to deliver the OS as a bootc container image. Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Overview Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux YouTube Example podman-desktop-extension-bootc — Support for bootable OS containers (bootc) and generating disk images. bootc Introduction — Transactional, in-place operating system updates using OCI/Docker container images. bootc is the key component in a broader mission of bootable containers. Show HN: Convert your Containerfile to a bootable OS <a title="What is InstructLab?" rel="nofollo
Mon, May 06, 2024
561: Folders as a Service
A few of our go-to tools for one-liner web servers, sharing media directly from folders, and a much needed live Arch server update, and more! Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Core Contributor Membership : Save $3 a month on your membership, and get the Bootleg and ad-free version of the show. Code: MAY Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Berlin with Brent — May Meetup, Sat, May 11, 2024, 6:30 PM CEST Linuxfest Northwest 2024 Videos Tiny File Manager — Web based File Manager in PHP, Manage your files efficiently and easily with Tiny File Manager and it is a simple, fast and small file manager with a single file. Tiny File Manager Password Options Tiny File Manager Project Demo noblepayne/tinyfilemanager-flake — nix run github:noblepayne/tinyfilemanager-flake Big list of http static server one-liners — python -m http.server 8000
Mon, April 29, 2024
560: Linux Festivus For the Rest of Us
The first LinuxFest is back and better than ever. We share stories and friends from one of the best Linux gatherings of the year: LinuxFest Northwest. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2024 — An annual open-source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group, the Information Technology department at BTC, Cascade STEAM, and Jupiter Broadcasting. Bellingham Technical College — At BTC, we're here to help you access the hands-on education that can give you an advantage in today's job market. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Downloads Now Available — Ubuntu 24.04 is an exciting Long Term Support (LTS) update with this new Linux distribution release being powered by the Linux 6.8 kernel, making use of Netplan for networking on the desktop, features the modernized desktop OS installer, various performance optimizations, and a ton of new features. x32-proxy — UDP and Web Socket proxy server for Behringer and Midas digital mixer control. LinuxFest Northwest YouTube Peyton's GitHub Electromagnetic Field — A non-profit camping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things: hackers, artists, geeks, crafters, scientists, and engineers. <a title="completenoob's NixOS ZFS on Root Setup" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.completenoobs.c
Mon, April 22, 2024
559: Linux is Bigger in Texas
We're back from Austin, with interviews and stories to share. Plus, it's Gentoo week and we take our first look at Fedora 40. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Fedora 40 beta is fastest operating system I've tested — Apps opened in the blink of an eye. The Overview appeared instantly. Everything seemed to be built around the idea that the user works at the speed of madness and the OS is there to help make it happen. Fedora Linux 40 Docs Fedora Linux 40 Cleared For Release — Fedora 40 thus will see its official release happen next Tuesday, 23 April. F40 Change Proposal: Drop Delta RPMs — According to early feedback from Release Engineering, it looks like it will not be feasible to address the shortcomings of Delta RPMs as they are currently implemented, and since they often no longer result in a net reduction in download sizes for upgrades, this Change proposes both to disable the generation of DeltaRPMs during the compose process, and to disable the deltarpm support in dnf / dnf5 by default. Berlin with Brent May Meetup — May 11, 2024 LinuxFest Northwest 2025 — April 26 - 28, 2024 <a title="System76 and Jupiter
Sun, April 14, 2024
558: Top 5 Essential Apps
We asked, and you answered: Your top 5 Linux app essentials and post-install rituals. Plus, some news to better cope with "extreme file-system damage." Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Berlin with Brent: May Meetup — Brent is back in Berlin! Please join the Jupiter Broadcasting community for an evening together, and bring your friends! 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Warp — Warp allows you to securely send files to each other via the internet or local network by exchanging a word-based code. Bcachefs Repair Code Reaching Complete & Robust Recovery — "This patchset was kindly tested by a user from India who accidentally wiped one drive out of a three drive filesystem with no replication on the family computer - it took a couple weeks but we got everything important back." Linux 6.9-rc3 Released With Many Bcachefs Patches — "[...] but hey, if you had a corrupted bcachefs filesystem you'd probably want this, and if you thought bcachefs was stable already, I have a bridge to sell you. Special deal only for you, real cheap." Fedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOME F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma W
Mon, April 08, 2024
557: Crouching kexec, Hidden Linux
We're building a completely hidden Linux OS inside an existing system—with no trace left behind. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — The global money app for fast, safe payments and bitcoin. Get sats easy. 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM — Grab the Fountain app and listen live, boost along, and more. Shufflecake — Plausible deniability for multiple hidden filesystems on Linux System76 and Jupiter Broadcasting Epic Parking Lot BBQ, Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 4:30 PM | Meetup Jupiter Extras: Nostr Workshop — Our Nostr workshop. We'll help you get your Nostr identity and answer any questions. 24.05 Call for Release Manager & Editor - NixOS — Both roles are fulfilled in tandem, meaning you get paired with an experienced partner, who already filled the role during the previous release. HiddenVM — Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace. — HiddenVM is a simple, one-click, free and open-source Linux application that allows you to run Oracle's open-source VirtualBox software on the Tails operating system. Tails persistent volume feature VeraCrypt <a title=
Mon, April 01, 2024
556: The xz Backdoor Exposed 🚨
We're breaking down the attack: how it works, how it was hidden, and why time was running out for the attacker. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM oss-security mailing list — Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise. Fedora Announcement Debian Announcement Ubuntu Announcement Kali Linux Announcement Arch Linux Announcement Gentoo Announcement openSUSE Tumbleweeed Announcement NixOS Unstable Discussion Why does it take two weeks for NixOS to replace xz? Andres Freund on Mastodon — I was doing
Mon, March 25, 2024
555: Glide like a Goose, Honk like a Moose
We test the Linux-first, all-AMD Sirius 16 laptop, discuss the new Hyprland release, and share a few stories from our recent trip. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! FlakeHub.com : FlakeHub.com is the all-in-one platform for secure, compliant, and transformative Nix development. Bring Nix to work the way you always wanted with FlakeHub.com. Register for the private beta and get a secure, compliance-friendly Nix and all the support you need. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Introducing GNOME 46 — GNOME 46 is code-named “Kathmandu”, in recognition of the amazing work done by the organizers of GNOME.Asia 2023. S.O.D.A Machine (Shell On Demand Appliance) — A fusion of hardware, software, art, and hacking, all encapsulated in a project derived from recycled materials. LINUX Unplugged on Fountain Nostr Protocol Docs — Details on how the Nostr Protocol works and why. Hyprland — Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks. Hyprland Wayland Compositor Celebrates Two Years With A New Release hyprland 0.37.1 nixpkgs PR <a title="Hyprland Release
Mon, March 18, 2024
554: SCaLEing Nix
We're on the ground live at NixCon and SCaLE. We catch up with old friends, and discover how Nix is devouring the Linux world one function at a time. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! FlakeHub.com : FlakeHub.com is the all-in-one platform for secure, compliant, and transformative Nix development. Bring Nix to work the way you always wanted with FlakeHub.com. Register for the private beta and get a secure, compliance-friendly Nix and all the support you need. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: nix-community/lanzaboote — Secure Boot for NixOS Eelco Dolstra’s PhD Thesis — The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model Docker and Nix (DockerCon 2023) [YouTube] Flox — Create development environments with all the dependencies you need and easily share them with colleagues. Work consistently across the entire software lifecycle. flox on GitHub — Developer environments you can take with you. Gsettings - Monitor All System Settings Change dconf Reference Manual foss-north — foss-north is a free / open source conference covering both software and hardware from the technical perspective. We provide a meeting place for the Nordic foss communities and will bring together great speakers with great audiences. <a href="https://nixos-users-against-mic-sponsorship.github.io/" title="An Open Lett
Mon, March 11, 2024
553: Portably Predictable Productivity
We each bring surprise topics, a mix of hardware and software, as we prepare to hit the road for NixCon and SCaLE. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! FlakeHub.com : FlakeHub.com is the all-in-one platform for secure, compliant, and transformative Nix development. Bring Nix to work the way you always wanted with FlakeHub.com. Register for the private beta and get a secure, compliance-friendly Nix and all the support you need. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM NVIDIA SHIELD Portable — Stream PC games, play android games, run apps, movies, music, and more. Fountain — Podcasts powered by community 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM Yard House Menu Super Productivity — Super Productivity is an advanced todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities. It also comes with integrations for Jira, Gitlab, GitHub and Open Project. Super Productivity on GitHub Super Productivity Demo <a href="https://github.com/fort-nix/nix-bitcoin" title="fort-nix/nix-bitcoin" rel="
Mon, March 04, 2024
552: Plasma's Perfect Play
Plasma 6 is out, and we've been giving it a go. What's new, our thoughts, and the lessons other desktops should learn. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! FlakeHub.com : FlakeHub.com is the all-in-one platform for secure, compliant, and transformative Nix development. Bring Nix to work the way you always wanted with FlakeHub.com. Register for the private beta and get a secure, compliance-friendly Nix and all the support you need. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD — The HDMI Forum has rejected our proposal unfortunately. At this time an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation is not possible without running afoul of the HDMI Forum requirements. NVK is now ready for prime time — Today, I'm proud to announce that NVK, the open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, is now ready for prime time. FUSE Passthrough Support May Land For Linux 6.9 To Help Boost I/O Performance — The FUSE passthrough mode patches were recently queued up into FUSE.git's for-next branch. With the patches now in the "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.9 merge window in March, the code will hopefully be merged for this next kernel cycle barring any last minute issues. First Ni
Mon, February 26, 2024
551: AI Under Your Control
Corporate AI is a hot mess, but open-source alternatives can be open-ended chaos. We’ll test some of the best ways to get local AI tools under your control. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Warp Terminal : Warp - the re-imagined terminal now available for Linux with multiple distributions available including Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Arch Linux. FlakeHub.com : FlakeHub.com is the all-in-one platform for secure, compliant, and transformative Nix development. Bring Nix to work the way you always wanted with FlakeHub.com. Register for the private beta and get a secure, compliance-friendly Nix and all the support you need. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM First NixCon North America! Southern California Linux Expo 21 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM Yard House Menu Fountain.fm Google halts Gemini image generation to fix White balance — Google has suspended availability of text-to-
Mon, February 19, 2024
550: Ready Player Linux
Chris spends the week in a VR desktop, revealing the glitches, gains, and VR's open-source future. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Warp Terminal : Warp - the re-imagined terminal now available for Linux with multiple distributions available including Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Arch Linux. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Simula One - Standalone (Preorder) — Contains detachable compute pack with SimulaOS pre-installed. Can be optionally tethered to host PCs for gaming and other purposes. SimulaVR Headsets Delayed into 2024 Fountain.fm — Podcasts powered by community 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM Yard House Menu Immersed — Empower Work With Spatial Computing Immersed on Meta Quest Immersed: Linux + Mac + PC Compatibility! <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Immersed/wiki/index/" title="Immersed Reddit Wiki
Mon, February 12, 2024
549: Will it Nixcloud?
Deploying Nextcloud the Nix way promises a paradise of reproducibility and simplicity. But is it just a painful trek through configuration hell? We built the dream Nextcloud using Nix and faced reality. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Warp Terminal : Warp - the re-imagined terminal now available for Linux with multiple distributions available including Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Arch Linux. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Introducing Fedora Atomic Desktops 45Drives/autotier — A passthrough FUSE filesystem that intelligently moves files between storage tiers based on frequency of use, file age, and tier fullness. Ok, what is the “actual” way to install Nextcloud completely, fully, as in all the features, and best performance? Help a newbie to make a choice - 🚧 Installation - Nextcloud community Nextcloud All-in-One NextcloudPi — NextcloudPi is a ready to use image for Virtual Machines, Raspberry Pi, Odroid HC1, Rock64 and other boards. <a href="https://www.yo
Mon, February 05, 2024
548: Uncomfortable Linux Truths
Some uncomfortable truths about using Linux, and then we introduce a new segment: Will it Nix? Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Warp Terminal : Warp - the re-imagined terminal now available for Linux with multiple distributions available including Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Arch Linux. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. The Bitcoin Company : You can spend your sats, and keep the show on the road. Earn Bitcoin with every credit card, gift card, flight, hotel stay, prepaid Visa card purchase, and shopping through our app. Promo Code: UNPLUGGED Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM First NixCon North America! Southern California Linux Expo 19 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇 — Saturday, March 16th, 2024, 1:30 PM Yard House Menu FOSDEM 2024 Nextcloud NixOS Module Nextcloud NixOS Wiki Entry <a href="https://carjorvaz.com/posts/the-holy-grail-nextcloud-setup-made-easy-by-nixos/" title="The Holy Grail Nextcl
Sun, January 28, 2024
547: Behind the Shelves
Data-hoard with purpose and manage your audiobooks and podcasts with one application, plus the lone Linux box that remains on Mars. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! The Bitcoin Company : You can spend your sats, and keep the show on the road. Earn Bitcoin with every credit card, gift card, flight, hotel stay, prepaid Visa card purchase, and shopping through our app. Promo Code: UNPLUGGED Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Jupiter Extras: Brunch With Brent: Tim Canham LINUX Unplugged 478: The Best of Both Worlds audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server audiobookshelf showcase Self-Hosted 114: Unintended Consequences Libation: Liberate your Library — Free and open-source app to manage your Audible books. Fully supported on Windows, Linux, and macOS. OpenAudible Home — Download, Backup and Manage Audible Audiobook Libraries</l
Mon, January 22, 2024
546: What You’re Missing about NixOS
Trying NixOS can be fraught with complexity, half-completed guides, and boring videos. Even if you never plan to switch to NixOS, we invite you to come along for a hype-free ride that digs into one of the most rapidly developing areas of Linux. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. The Bitcoin Company : You can spend your sats, and keep the show on the road. Earn Bitcoin with every credit card, gift card, flight, hotel stay, prepaid Visa card purchase, and shopping through our app. Promo Code: UNPLUGGED Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Get Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM First NixCon North America! Southern California Linux Expo 21x — SCaLE is the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America. It is held annually in the greater Los Angeles area. SCALE 21x Registration FOSDEM 2024 - Feb 3-4 — FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don't need to register. Just turn up and join in! Getting started with NixOS by Mike Kelly — I previously wrote Why do people love NixOS so much? to try and explain the advantages of using Nix. So now let’s dive in and actually
Mon, January 15, 2024
545: 3,062 Days Later
Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole. Special Guest: Kent Overstreet. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Boltz — Privacy First, Non-Custodial Bitcoin Exchange. bcachefs — bcachefs is an advanced new filesystem for Linux, with an emphasis on reliability and robustness and the complete set of features one would expect from a modern filesystem. bcachefs Erasure coding — Bcachefs takes advantage of the fact that it is already a copy-on-write filesystem. If we're designing our filesystem to avoid update-in-place, why would we do update-in-place in our RAID implementation? bcachefs Caching — bcachefs can be configured for writethrough, writeback, and writearound caching, as well as other more specialized setups. bachefs Compression — Unlike other filesystems that typically do compression at the block level, bcachefs does compression at the extent level - variable size chunks, up to (by default) 128k. bcachefs Encryption — bcachefs uses AEAD style encryption (ChaCha20/Poly1305), where each encrypted block is authenticated with a MAC, with a chain of trust up to root (the superblock), and every encrypted block has a unique nonce. bcachefs Snapshots — bcachefs provides Btrfs style writeable snapshots, at sub
Mon, January 08, 2024
544: Half the Bits, Double the Pain
This challenge gets ugly as we slowly realize we've just become zombie slayers. We load Linux on three barely alive systems, and it takes a turn we didn't expect. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Core Contributor Membership : Get double the content, and support the production directly. When you use promo code 2024 you'll take $3 off a month, forever. This a limited offer, with only 50 redemptions possible. Promo Code: 2024 Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. Linux 6.7 Set For Release With Bcachefs File-System, Intel Meteor Lake Graphics In Good Shape - Phoronix 32-Bit Challenge Details HP Mini 110-4100CA Netbook Intel Atom Processor N2600 Specifications Crunchbangplusplus — Debian Based Minimal Linux Distro CBPP/cbpp: #!++ - GitHub <a href="https://doc
Sun, December 31, 2023
543: Profoundly Prophetic Prognostications
We make our big Linux predictions for 2024, but first, we score how we did for 2023. Special Guest: Michael Tunnell. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. TuxDigital — TuxDigital creates podcasts and videos to help people improve their lives through technology. Our content covers everything from computer hardware and apps to fitness tips to help people live their best life through educational and entertaining media. First NixCon North America! Southern California Linux Expo 19 System76 Virgo laptop PCB design open sourced ahead of release — The company began sharing hints about the upcoming System76 Virgo laptop earlier this year. Now System76 has released the PCB design files, giving us a few more clues about what to expect. System76 Virgo Laptop Project on Github <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Merged-Linux-6.7" title="Bcachefs
Sun, December 24, 2023
542: 2023 Tuxies
It’s the fourth annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, and desktops of 2023. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. 32-Bit Challenge Details — Can you live and work for a week on a 32-bit system? That's the challenge. It might seem simple, but we think you'll be surprised. Texas LinuxFest CFP Extended — The CFP deadline for #TXLF has been extended until December 30, 2023, 05:00 UTC (December 29, 2023, 23:00 CST)! Texas Linux Fest Matrix Chat ⚠️ Did we miss something in the 2023 Tuxies?
Sun, December 17, 2023
541: Out with a Bang
The stories that kept us talking all year, and are only getting hotter! Plus the big flops we're still sore about. Special Guest: Kenji Berthold. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM 32-Bit Challenge Details — Can you live and work for a week on a 32-bit system? That's the challenge. It might seem simple, but we think you'll be surprised. Let's find out if the world has moved on too far for 32-bit systems, or if they can still be saved from the landfill. First NixCon North America! Southern California Linux Expo 19 Ubuntu’s New Installer Milestone Ubuntu 23.10 Restores ZFS File-Sys
Mon, December 11, 2023
540: Uncensored AI on Linux
We test two popular methods to run local language models on your Linux box. Then, we push the limits to see which language models will toe the line and which won't. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. Brent in Berlin Meetup — Brent is back in Berlin and we're having a LOW KEY meetup at the NixOS night at cbase. One Time Fiat Fun for SCaLE 2024 Southern California Linux Expo 19 Purchase a SCALE Pass 63 First NixCon North America! NixCon North America | SCALE 21x NixCon North America Call for Proposals Texas Linux Fest 2024 <a href="https://discuss.lfnw.org/t/lfnw2024-rea
Mon, December 04, 2023
539: Rollback Required
This week, our embarrassment is your entertainment. Then, we check the age and health of all our disks with one app. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. LFNW 2024: Ready or not — Quick on the heels of our wildly successful MiniFest this Fall, LinuxFest Northwest is proud to announce a full event: LinuxFest Northwest 2024 - April 26-28 2024! LFNW 2024: Call for Sessions LFNW: Call for Sponsors My $500M Mars Rover Mistake — A Failure Story by Chris Lewicki Unplugged Tuxies 2023 — Vote in the 2023 Tuxies before it's too late! ⚠️ Did we miss something in the 2023 Tuxies? Get your Tuxies “I Voted” sticker from TheGoldenDragon — $2 Digital Sticker <a href="https://github.com/AnalogJ/scrutiny" t
Mon, November 27, 2023
538: Surprisingly Smooth Transition
PipeWire hits 1.0, and Wim Taymans joins us to reflect on the smooth success of PipeWire. Plus the details on the first NixCon North America, and more. Special Guests: Wim Taymans and Zach Mitchell. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. Unplugged Tuxies 2023 — Vote in the 2023 Tuxies! ⚠️ Did we miss something in the 2023 Tuxies? How to get started with Tailscale in under 10 minutes First NixCon North America! — We envisage NixCon North America as a complement to the core NixCon in Europe, enriching the global Nix community through more localized events. This event is not just a conference; it’s a celebration of our growth, diversity, and the shared passion for Nix. Southern California Linux Expo 19 Purchase a SCALE Pass <a href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=102844" title="One time
Sun, November 19, 2023
537: This Makes Us Unemployable
Can we save an old Arch install? We'll attempt a live rescue, then get into our tips for keeping your old Linux install running great. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. Is Arch Linux suitable for server environment? — Probably the biggest issue with Arch as a server operating system is that it's not clear where and when applications may break after an upgrade. More often than not, you have to keep up with what's going on in the wiki and on the forums before doing any sort of upgrade Unplugged Tuxies - 2023 ⚠️ DID WE MISS SOMETHING? Get your Tuxies "I Voted" sticker from TheGoldenDragon — $2 Digital Sticker Texas Linux Festival 2024 — Texas Linux Fest is the first state-wide annual community-run conference for Linux and open-source software users and enthusiasts from around the Lone Star State. Much like SCALE in Los Angeles, Ohio Linux Fest in Columbus, and Linux Fest Northwest – and an ever-growing list of successful
Mon, November 13, 2023
536: Plasma Power-Ups
The problem with GNOME's great news, plus our first look at Plasma 6. Then, the surprising place NixOS is getting adopted. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. Amazon Making its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android — Amazon’s new operating system is also based on a flavor of Linux, and is using a more web-forward application model. App developers are being told to use React Native as an application framework, which allows them to build native apps with Javascript-powered interfaces, webOS Open Source Edition — The open-source software platform built for smart and connected devices of tomorrow. Unplugged Tuxies 2023 — Vote in the 2023 Tuxies ⚠️ DID WE MISS SOMETHING IN THE 2023 TUXIES? 2023 Tuxies Sticker by TheGoldenDragon <a href="https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/11/09/gnome-recognized-as-public-interest-infrastructure/" title="GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure" rel="nofollo
Fri, November 10, 2023
535: Hit the Turbo
A special guest joins us, and we each give Fedora 39 a try. What’s new, what we liked, and what didn’t make the cut! Special Guest: Drew DeVore. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. Element Going AGPL — 📣⚠️📣 Announcing a new home and license (AGPLv3) for Synapse and friends: going forwards Element’s work on Synapse, Dendrite & related server-side projects is going to be released as AGPLv3 rather than Apache. A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends — The benefit of switching to AGPLv3 is that it obliges downstream developers to contribute back to the core project - either by releasing their modifications as open source for the benefit of the whole Matrix ecosystem, or by contacting Element for an alternative license. Future code contributors to Synapse will need to sign a contributor license agreement (CLA) based on the Apache Software Foundation’s CLA, giving Element the right to license the contribution commercially to third party proprietary forks so we can use it to help fund Matrix core development in future. Synapse goes AGPL Discussion on Hacker News <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/selling-exceptions.html" title="Selling
Mon, October 30, 2023
534: We Nixed Proxmox
We did Proxmox dirty last week, so we try to explain our thinking. But first, a few things have gone down that you should know about. Sponsored By: Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. Unplugged Tuxies - 2023 — It's time to vote on the 2023 Unplugged Tuxies! ⚠️ Tuxies 2023: Did we miss something? Let us know! Fedora 39 Delayed To At Least 7 November — While Fedora 39 was aiming for an ideal "early final" release on 18 October, that didn't happen, it was delayed, and then delayed again. Now the earliest Fedora 39 will possibly shift is 7 November. Bug: F39 RC1.2 images have sometimes “RC” in their name Bug: Failed media check immediately disappears on bare metal, shows a black screen instead <a href="https://meetbot-raw.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2023-10-26/f39-final-go_no_go-meeting.2023-10-26-17.00.html" title="F39 Final Go/No-Go meeting"
Mon, October 23, 2023
533: LinuxFest North Jeff
We try and pull off one too many projects, but you can't argue with the results. We report on our week of rebuilds and rescues and having a blast at LinuxFest Northwest. Special Guest: Frank Karlitschek. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. LinuxFest Northwest Scuba.Tech Call for Feedback: Unplugged Tuxies - 2022 - Forms — You have one week! Let's make this the best Tuxies EVER! Texas Linux Festival 2024 Call For Papers Open Now Stones Throw Brewery 1-Up Lounge Video Game Bar & Lounge Brandywine Kitchen BitMaker-hub/NerdMiner_v2: Improved version of first ESP32 NerdMiner — The main aim of this project is to let you learn more about minery an
Mon, October 16, 2023
532: We Like Snaps Now
Has Canonical finally nailed snaps? Why it looks like Ubuntu has turned a new corner; our thoughts on the latest release. Plus, a special guest and more. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox’s Wayland Backend Soon — So as we near the end of 2023 or going into early 2024, it's looking like we're nearing the point of finally having native Wayland support with the upstream Firefox builds. LinuxFest Northwest Meetups Ubuntu 23.10 Released — This is the release where the team aims to land as many major changes as possible to ensure that the community has the chance to take them for a spin and provide feedback for further refinement ahead of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Brave New Trusted Boot World — This document looks at the boot process of general purpose Linux distributions. It covers the status quo and how we envision Linux boot to work in the future with a focus on robustness and simplicity. <a href="https://0pointer.net/blog/fitting-everything-together.html" title="Fitting Every
Mon, October 09, 2023
531: The Windows Challenge
We ran Windows for the week with three seemingly simple objectives. How we did, our take on what's gotten a lot better about Windows, and what still needs some work. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. Support for XPS 13 9343 Microsoft launches new web app store for Windows — Microsoft has rebuilt its web version of the Microsoft Store from the ground up with a new UI and easier ways to find apps. Use the winget tool to install and manage applications — The winget command line tool enables users to discover, install, upgrade, remove and configure applications on Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers. winget-cli — WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. Chocolatey Community — The Largest Repository of Windows Packages <a href="https://christitus.com/install-windows-the-arch-linux-way/" title="Install Windows the Arch Linux Way" rel="nof
Mon, October 02, 2023
530: Leave the Pi in the Oven
Why the Raspberry Pi 5 doesn't meet our expectations, and the x86 boxes you should consider instead. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. ESP32 board equipped with Ethernet and MicroSD card slot Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! — Today, we’re delighted to announce the launch of Raspberry Pi 5, coming at the end of October. Priced at $60 for the 4GB variant, and $80 for its 8GB sibling. Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks — Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O. Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics Continue With Open-Source Driver & Crazy Fast Compared To RPi 4 Raspberry Pi 5 Review: A New Standard for Makers — The Raspberry Pi 5 is significantly faster than its predecessor while costing almost the same price. Its only drawback, which is likely temporary, is that some older HATs and add-ons may not have ha
Mon, September 25, 2023
529: Changing the Game
Even if you don't game, the data is in, and the impact of the Steam Deck on Linux is massive. We'll go into details and then share our long-term review of the Deck. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Listener Jeff. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’ How SteamOS is Contributing to the Linux Ecosystem - OSS EU 2023 [YouTube] Open Source Summit Europe 2023: How SteamOS is Contributing to the Linux Ecosystem Igalia — Open Source Consultancy and Development Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community — Alberto Garcia of the open-source consulting firm Igalia, which continues to collaborate w
Mon, September 18, 2023
528: Where's Your Data?
Today's theme is data sovereignty, and we'll check in with two crucial projects that are giving you more options. Special Guest: Noah Chelliah. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. Ask Noah Show 354 — Google makes the news this week in one of the largest cases in history over meaningful competition. Do we need the regulation to stop Google? Ubuntu will start allowing you to use a TPM chip for encryption, plus your livestreaming, ZFS, and VPN questions are answered! LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Postponed LinuxFest Northwest Meetups Hub 6: Healthy meeting culture and the first local AI Assistant [YouTube] “Nextcloud Hub 6” launched🚀 — Nextcloud Hub 6 has evolved into a robust collaboration platform that empowers organizations and individuals to work seamlessly while ensuring data privacy. <a href="https://element.io/blog/element-x-experience-the-future-of-element/" title="Element X" rel="nofo
Mon, September 11, 2023
527: Framing Brent
Brent's new Framework laptop has been torn apart and put back together again. We'll find out if it's up to his standards. Plus, we're kicking off a new build. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby - Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org - You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. CCCamp23 — Chaos Communication Camp 2023 Framework — The time has come for consumer electronics products that are designed to last: products that give you back the power to upgrade, customize, and repair them. We’re excited for the opportunity to fix the consumer electronics industry together. Framework 13 — Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition (13th Gen Intel® Core™) Nextcloud Conference 2023 LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Fundraising Merch is Live — Your fest is back! Support its return with a shirt and/or donation. I use NixOS
Mon, September 04, 2023
526: Canonical Wins by Default
While chaos is brewing in SUSE and Red Hat land, Canonical stays the course and doubles down on the Linux desktop. Plus, our thoughts on the kernel team GPL-blocking NVIDIA. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: jblive.fm — Jupiter Broadcasting Live Audio Stream 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. AMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5 Million Lines, Entire Linux Kernel At 34.8 Million Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules — It changes the behavior of symbol_get(), causing it to fail when asked to look up a symbol that is not marked GPL-only. This is an inversion of the usual test, which denies access to symbols that are marked GPL-only. The reasoning is that symbol_get() has always been intended for low-level cooperation deep within the kernel, where everything is expected to be GPL-only anyway. Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA’s Proprietary Driver — Back in 2020 when the original defense was added, NVIDIA recommended avoiding the Linux 5.9 for the time being. They ende
Mon, August 28, 2023
525: Beating Apple to the Sauce
We daily drive Asahi Linux on a MacBook, chat about how the team beat Apple to a major GPU milestone, and an easy way to self-host open-source ChatGPT alternatives. Special Guest: Neal Gompa. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. Hector Martin's Controversial Question — Would you be okay with us adding some really trivial telemetry to the Asahi installer? Berlin with Brent — Brent will be back in Berlin for the Nextcloud Conference and can't get enough of Berlin Meetups! Friday, September 8th, 6 PM. Fedora Asahi Remix Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware — Fedora Asahi Remix will be their new flagship distribution for providing a polished Linux experience on Apple Silicon. Fedora Asahi Remix: bringing Fedora to Apple Silicon Macs (Flock To Fedora 2023) <a href="https://asahilinux.org/2023/08/fedora-asahi-remix/" title="O
Mon, August 21, 2023
524: How Our Server Got It's Groove Back
Can we build an indestructible server that stands up to the test of giving out root login to the Internet? Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. Spokane Linux Love, Sat, Sep 16, 2023, 1:00 PM | Meetup — It's finally happening! Let's get together at Iron Goat Brewing. Best laptops for NixOS - Help - NixOS Discourse Mobile NixOS Devices List — Mobile NixOS Iron Goat Brewing LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Sponsorship Prospectus — LinuxFest Northwest 2023 will be held October 20-22, 2023 at Bellingham Technical College. The Fest is a free and open community event dedicated to provide and support educational activities related to Linux and Open Source Software. NixOS friendly hosters - NixOS W
Sun, August 13, 2023
523: Ride the Rhino
We're trying out Rhino Linux—a unique take on rolling Ubuntu with AUR-like powers and other surprises. Sponsored By: Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. Rhino Linux — Rhino Linux re-invents the Ubuntu experience as a rolling release distribution atop a stable Desktop Environment. Rhino Linux 2023.1, how we made the distro. — Rhino Linux has now officially moved out of Beta! We have released Rhino Linux 2023.1 on x86_64, ARM, Pine64 and Raspberry Pi devices. Pacstall — Pacstall uses the stable base of Ubuntu but allows you to use bleeding edge software with little to no compromises, so you don't have to worry about security patches or new features. rhino-pkg Documentation Rhino Linux | Unicorn Desktop — Based on XFCE, this desktop experience is lightweight and fast, but 100% powerful. Rhino Linux Quick Start Guide Rhino Linux ISO Builder So
Mon, August 07, 2023
522: Practical Privacy
Why Linux reigns for privacy; our recommendations for secure tools from chat to DNS. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration — This project is aimed at being simple while allowing a ton of customisation and flexibility. To get started, you’ll need an instance of Home Assistant running with the ESPHome add-on as well as the Home Assistant companion app on your mobile phone to receive notifications when someone presses the doorbell button. Alex in Chicago, Aug 10, 2023 | Meetup The U.K. Government Is Dangerously Close to Eroding Encryption and Normalizing Mass Surveillance — "The U.K. government wants to grant itself the right to scan every message online for content related to child abuse or terrorism—and says it will still, somehow, magically, protect peoples’ privacy. That’s simply impossible. U.K. civil society groups have condemned the bill, as have technical experts and human rights groups around the world." <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/1
Mon, July 31, 2023
521: Rethinking GNOME
Two important news stories, plus our thoughts on GNOME’s new windowing proposal and the Framework 16. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. The Framework Laptop 16 DIY AMD 7040 Nextcloud Conference 2023 — Annually bringing the global Nextcloud Contributor Community together for a week of coding, design, discussion, talks & fun! Berlin with Brent, Fri Sep 8, 2023 | Meetup.com — Brent will be back in Berlin for the Nextcloud Conference and can't get enough of Berlin Meetups! Alex will be in Chicago August 10th! PayPal Shut Down GrapheneOS Foundation’s Account Used For Donations GrapheneOS on Twitter — Unfortunately, PayPal permanently locked our GrapheneOS Foundation account today. No reason has
Mon, July 24, 2023
520: To Infinity and Berlin
Do they build them better in Germany? We try out the next-generation InfinityBook Pro 14 and dig into TUXEDO OS. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index. ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index. Office Hours 33: Just Burn it all Down — Why independent media is getting just as bad as mainstream media, and Brent's escape from a wildfire. Plus, an update on our new bounty release format! TUXEDO Computers — TUXEDO Computers are customizable Linux notebooks and Desktop PCs optimized in the first place to run with Ubuntu-based Linux operating systems. TUXEDO OS Download TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen8 Linux Ultrabook Is Now Available for Pre-Order TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen8 — 17 mm thin, 1.3 kg light, a chassis footprint of only 31 x 21.5 cm, paired with a top-notch 16:10 3K Omnia display, a max-sized 99 Wh battery and a 14-core Intel Core i7-13700H high-performance processor. <a href="https://github.com/ddev/ddev" tit
Mon, July 17, 2023
519: The Clone Grift Wars
Have Oracle and SUSE lost their minds? Plus, we dig into Fedora's proposal to add telemetry collection to Workstation. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To — Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden. Berlin with Brent, Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 6:00 PM | Meetup Berlin Buds on Matrix Dissociated Press: Clone Wars SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment — SUSE is committed to working with the open source community to develop a long-term, enduring compatible alternative for RHEL and CentOS users. SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code. Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux — SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen today argues that SUSE is wading into t
Mon, July 10, 2023
518: Race To Immutability
Can Ubuntu make a great immutable desktop? We're trying the brand-new "Everything is a Snap" Ubuntu Core Desktop. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Berlin with Brent Meetup — Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:00 PM Berlin Buds on Matrix Things are Changing | Office Hours 32 — We've got a radically new format idea for Office Hours and want to tell you all about it. Linux Action News 299 — Recent advances in embedded Linux, Canonical takes full control of LXD, ZFS gets a handy Btrfs feature, and updates on the show's production. Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base — Behind the scenes, the Canonical team has been actively exploring the benefits of Ubuntu Core beyond the realm of IoT, most notably in the context of developers and daily users. ubuntu-core-desktop on GitHub — This directory contains an image of Ubuntu Core 22 with the GDM display manager loaded into the boot file system. Actions · canonical/ubuntu-core-desktop - GitHub <a href="https://github.com/canonical/workshops" title="canonical/workshops on GitHub" rel="nof
Mon, July 03, 2023
517: Caught Red-Hatted
Just about every take on the Red Hat news seems to have missed the mark. Special Guest: Carl George. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Berlin with Brent Meetup — Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:00 PM Berlin Buds Matrix Room Our Essential Apps | Self-Hosted 100 — We cover our must-have self-hosted apps, reflect on the state of Self-Hosting now, and discuss what's new in Proxmox 8. Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes — There was a time, not too long ago, that Red Hat found value in the work done by rebuilders like CentOS. We pushed our SRPMs out to git.centos.org in a neat package that made them easy to rebuild; we even de-branded it for them. More recently, we have determined that there isn’t value in having a downstream rebuilder. Linux Action News 298 — Why everyone is excited about the next Linux kernel, Valve's big hire, and Red Hat's clone war. Ask Noah 343 Interview w/Mike McGrath — Mike McGrath joins the Ask Noah Show to discuss the changes Red Hat is making in how they make their source code available. A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model — We fear that be it through incompetence or malice, many RHEL salespe
Mon, June 26, 2023
516: The Fixer-Upper
Chris tears into two old PCs, and builds a surprisingly powerful multi-monitor Wayland workstation. Plus, Wes has a new device, and Brent wants answers. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Too many Disks? Perfect. Chris' Workstation neofetch Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard — Black. Wired, Comfortable, Ergonomic Keyboard with Cushioned Wrist and Palm Support. Split Keyboard. Magic TrackPad NixOS Remote Desktop FOUR Displays U.S. Intelligence Has Admitted Amassed Data on ‘Nearly Everyone’ — A newly declassified report confirms that the government has unprecedented insight into our lives through smartphones, cars, web browsing, and other tech. DNI Haines Statement on Declassified Report on Commercially Available Information <a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2023/item/2389-odni-senior-advisory-group-panel-declassified-report-on-commercially-available-info
Sun, June 18, 2023
515: Ham Sandwich
Is Ham Radio a natural hobby for Linux users? An old friend joins us to explain where the two overlap. Special Guest: Noah Chelliah. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Ask Noah Show Episode 200: Ham Radio Linux Superstation — We celebrate episode 200 by sharing our plans to serve the community better! Ham Radio has come a long way from tubes and dials. Alex Archer KC0REL joins us to discuss building the ideal ham shack on Linux! HAM - Official Documentary (2022) - YouTube — HAM is a short documentary that follows a group of Montanan amateur radio enthusiasts that show the loyal community of amateur radio, explore what it means to be a ham, and how they are trying to keep the hobby alive. FT8—What Is It and How Can I Get Started? — FT8 is one of the many digital modes often referred to as sound card modes (SCM) because they utilize a computer’s sound card to bring in audio from your radio to be processed by software to decode the information embedded in the signal. Amateur Radio Software For Linux | KC7NYR Closed Source Ham Radio Software on GNU/Linux awesome-hamradio — Awesome hamradio repositories. <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/citizenscience/ham-radio-operators-tune-in-to-giant-waves-in-the-earths-i
Mon, June 12, 2023
514: Connection Established
We get the inside scoop on SouthEast LinuxFest, and share a few stories from the early days of the Linux community. Special Guest: Noah Chelliah. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: DebianBookworm — Bookworm is the development codename for Debian 12, released on 2023-06-10. Debian 12 “Bookworm” Officially Released, Here’s What’s New For the LAS Time | Linux Action Show 468 - YouTube Ask Noah ThinLinX JMP: Your phone number on every device SouthEast LinuxFest — For the regulars and newbies, please review our schedule to get a feel for what’s happening at this year’s events. For the newbies, be sure to read our About Us page to understand a bit more about the event in general. SELF 2023 Schedule southeastlinuxfest - YouTube Argon ONE V2 Case for Raspberry Pi 4 — The Argon ONE Case is now better than ever as it has many new features <a href="https://github.com/nix-communi
Mon, June 05, 2023
513: There Is No Distro
We attempt to swap Linux distributions live on our production server, to prove that new tooling makes the Linux distro model obsolete. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice [LWN.net] — Red Hat's Matthias Clasen has let it be known that LibreOffice will be dropped from a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux release, and the future of its support in Fedora is unclear as well. The distribution model is changing The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support — Estimated Monthly Costs - ~$9000 / month for hosting cache.nixos.org NixOS 23.05 released Introducing NixOS Anywhere Nixos-anywhere: install nixos everywhere via ssh — You can then initiate an unattended installation with a single CLI command. Since nixos-anywhere can access the new machine using SSH, it's ideal for remote installations. Quickstart - nixos-anywhere Disko Examples <a href="https://netbird.io/" title="NetBird" rel="nofoll
Mon, May 29, 2023
512: The Sound of Rust
We take a "Rust-only tools" challenge for a week and admit what worked, and what sucked. Plus, a surprise guest. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Why I left Rust LinuxFest Northwest 2023 LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Call for Speakers GrapheneOS on Twitter — GrapheneOS will be undergoing restructuring of the organization and development team. Daniel Micay has stepped down as lead developer and will be stepping down as a non-profit director. Features and security patches will continue to be delivered to users as rapidly as before. Daniel Micay on Twitter — It appears the wording above was unclear. I'm stepping down as a GrapheneOS Foundation director and as lead developer. I won't have any leadership role in the GrapheneOS project. It will take time/work to transfer my responsibilities to others, especially non-development roles. Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora Adopting Bitcoin 2023 LUP on in the top 10 charts TWICE. <a href="https://bitcoi
Mon, May 22, 2023
511: Accepting the Future
How we found peace with the Linux community’s perpetual debates; and our tricks for finding the signal from the noise. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Spotify App Stops Working for Linux Users GrapheneOS version 2023051600 Released — Add initial Contact Scopes feature as an alternative to granting the Contacts permission... Add production ready Pixel 7a support. GrapheneOS Discussion Forum: Version 2023051600 Released GrapheneOS on Twitter — Our new Contact Scopes feature is now available in the Alpha channel. It provides a way to avoid granting the Contacts permission for apps requiring it. It's similar to our Storage Scopes feature replacing needing any of the media/storage permissions. GrapheneOS on Twitter — GmsCompatConfig (sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer configuration) version 53 released. Asahi Linux To Users: Please Stop Using X.Org — Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin issued a lengthy post encouraging users of this Apple Silicon focused Linux distribution to stop using X.Org as Wayland is the future. <a href="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/pt-br/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html
Sun, May 14, 2023
510: Thinking in Decades
The push for free software takes years, maybe even generations. Brent gets the inside story from the Free Software Foundation Europe. Special Guest: Matthias Kirschner. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: SteamDeckHQ on Twitter — What is your opinion on the ROG ALLY? Is it something you’ll be getting after seeing the stream and reading the reviews? We are on the fence here. Love the idea of extra power, but the worse battery life, using windows, glitches, and lack of touchpads does hamper our excitement. ROG Ally (2023) — The ROG Ally is a true Windows 11 gaming machine, and comes bundled with 3 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for free. FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe — Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology. Matthias Kirschner - FSFE EU Parliament wants to protect Free Software in AI regulation — Today the European Parliament's responsible committees voted by a large majority to protect Free Software in the AI regulation. FSFE and the antitrust case against Microsoft Public Money? Public Code! - FSFE — Why is software created using taxpayers' money not released as
Mon, May 08, 2023
509: The Next Gen Desktop
The first new desktop environment in a while that has caught our attention, and it promises to unlock the full power of cutting-edge Linux. Why we think every desktop will copy ideas from Hyprland soon. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Hyprland Hall of Fame Hyprland Master Tutorial — If you are coming to Hyprland for the first time, this is the main tutorial to read. Hyprland - ArchWiki — Hyprland bundles its own version of wlroots, which closely follows the wlroots-git. This improves stability, while also avoiding dependency conflicts with other wlroots-based compositors. Nix | Hyprland Wiki — Hyprland on Nix can be installed either from Nixpkgs (release version) or from the flake (directly from the main branch). Hyprland on NixOS — The NixOS module enables critical components needed to run Hyprland properly, such as: polkit, xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland, graphics drivers, fonts, dconf, xwayland, and adding a proper Desktop Entry to your Display Manager. awesome-hyprland — Useful tools and libraries that either work or are designed for Hyprland! Outdoor Home Assistant — Why Chris needs ANOTHER Home Assistant instance and a major breakthrough for self-hosters. <a href="https://www.thesprinklergeek.com/" title=
Mon, May 01, 2023
508: The Worst Distro Ever
Two listeners race to set up a web server on Suicide Linux. One slip-up and it's all gone. Who will survive? Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: The Sprinkler Geeks Suicide Linux — It's a game. Like walking a tightrope. You have to see how long you can continue to use the operating system before losing all your data. Suicide-linux — now available on Docker! Suicide Linux bashrc JupiterBroadcasting.com, hugo-based and community-driven! Hugo — The world’s fastest framework for building websites. The Determinate Nix Installer. — nix-installer is an opinionated alternative to the official Nix install scripts. NixOS Package Search: Hugo Hugo in nixpkgs Mike Kelly on Twitter — Dammit @ChrisLAS, @wespayne, and @brentgervais, I could have won yesterday's challenge, had I only embraced Nix-Shell. Better late tha
Mon, April 24, 2023
507: Full Wobble
Why Fedora 38 might Sway you to try it; and how it runs on the MacBook M1 Max. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Redesigned Flathub Site Launches For Flatpak Apps — A redesigned version of the Flathub website has launched for this weekend's Linux App Summit. Flathub remains the centralized website for exploring and finding new Flatpak sandboxed Linux apps. Flathub — Welcome to Flathub, the home of hundreds of apps which can be easily installed on any Linux distribution. Browse the apps online, from your app center or the command line. Olympia Linux Spring Meetup Announcing Fedora Linux 38 — Fedora Linux 38 introduces several new Spins — variants that showcase different desktop environments. Fedora 38 Released With GNOME 44 Desktop, GCC 13, Many New Features — Fedora 38 brings many changes including the GCC 13 system compiler and other updated toolchain components like GNU Make 4.4, Glibc 2.37, Binutils 2.39, Golang 1.20, Ruby 3.2, and more. What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38 How to rebase to Fedora Linux 38 on Silverblue <a href="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/f38/spins/
Mon, April 17, 2023
506: Three Wild and Crazy Topics
We surprise each other with three secret topics, with one big catch. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Fleek — Install and manage all the tools you need to be productive. Use a simple command line tool or edit one YAML file and you're off to the races. ublue-os/fleek: Own your $HOME Fleek First Steps — You have two choices with Fleek. You can use Fleek with a simple CLI tool and YAML file to manage your installed packages, aliases and path, or you can use Fleek as a one-time generator to create a lightly-opinionated Nix Home Manager flake for you. nix-community/home-manager — Manage a user environment using Nix. Home Manager - NixOS Wiki DeterminateSystems/nix-installer — nix-installer is an opinionated alternative to the official Nix install scripts. Sharing Fleek Configurations — You can use Fleek to share your configurations across multiple computers. This is useful if you use multiple computers and want to keep your configurations in sync. Containers and Kubernetes Explained | Linode, now Akamai <a href="https://www.meetup.com/jupiterbroadcasting/events/292645094/" title="Olympia Linux Spring M
Mon, April 10, 2023
505: Keep Your Darn Secrets
We try out the most secure messaging app in the world, and Wes’ new note system that's so great you’ll want to abandon your current one. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups — Two April Meetups: Raleigh - April 8th and Olympia - April 29th. LinuxFest Northwest on Twitter — Call for Speakers is open from March 5th through June 4th, so if you are interested in being a speaker please submit a proposal now! LinuxFest Northwest 2023: Call for Speakers Logseq — A privacy-first, open-source knowledge base. Logseq is the open toolbox for workflows that deal with lots of information. logseq-publish — Publish your Logseq graph with a GitHub Action. logseq-schrodinger — A plugin to export pages in Logseq to Hugo. logseq-searchable — A quick utility to conduct OCR parsing on images and insert the result as a property. SimpleX Chat — The first messenger without user IDs. SimpleX on Google Play SimpleX APK <a href="h
Mon, April 03, 2023
504: It's a Trap!
Why using the iPhone makes it harder to run Linux; Chris follows up on his four-month-long challenge to ditch iOS for GrapheneOS. Plus, Brent's extended stay in Berlin has led to some developments you won't want to miss. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: c-base interface — welcome onboard c-base matelight: — Show text and gifs on mate crates. Raleigh-Durham Pizza Party! — Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 3pm EST Olympia Linux Spring Meetup — Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 1:00 PM PDT Podverse Call for Help LINUX Unplugged 486: Goodbye, Google Immich — Self-hosted photos and videos backup solution from your mobile phone KDE Connect — Enabling communication between all your devices. Made for people like you. iodé — The Eco Friendly Smartphone Protecting Your Privacy Berlin Buds Matrix Room LibreSign — Libre digital signature app for Nextcloud. <a href="https://nextcloud.
Mon, March 27, 2023
503: Berlin with Brent
Brent dives deep into Nextcloud's new release from inside their offices, and takes an unexpected dip in the local lake with a listener. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: DoomLinux — A bash script to build a minimal linux operating system just to play Doom. Hub 4 pioneers ethical AI integration for a more productive and collaborative future — Today, we are excited to announce a major step forward with Hub 4 – the very first on-premises collaboration platform to integrate intelligent features across its applications. Linux Action News 285 — Nextcloud moves to the front of the pack with their new release, a moment to appreciate curl, and Amazon goes all in with Fedora. Develop for Nextcloud Brunch with Brent Jupiter Extras Litestream: Streaming SQLite Replication — Stop building slow, complex, fragile software systems. Safely run your application on a single server. Podcasting 2.0 Apps Alby LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org</
Mon, March 20, 2023
502: Docker Shocker
The story of an open-source hero who became a villain. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Berlin Meet Up — Join Brent for an impromptu, short-notice, Nextcloud-esque meetup in Berlin! Berlin Buds on Matrix Docker is deleting Open Source organisations — Yesterday, Docker sent an email to any Docker Hub user who had created an "organisation", telling them their account will be deleted including all images, if they do not upgrade to a paid team plan. The email contained a link to a tersely written PDF (since, silently edited) which was missing many important details which caused significant anxiety and additional work for open source maintainers. Coder Radio 66: Docker All The Things We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams — We apologize for how we communicated and executed sunsetting Docker “Free Team” subscriptions, which alarmed the open source community. Deploy a Docker registry server Introducing lscr.io — We are partnering with Scarf to create our own pseudo-registry, lscr.io. This isn't a true docker registry, we're not hosti
Mon, March 13, 2023
501: Fat Stacks for Flatpaks
Robert McQueen shares the inside scoop on Flathub’s ambitious plans to create a universal app store for all distros—and we ask the hard questions. Special Guest: Robert McQueen. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — October 20-22, 2023 at the Bellingham Technical College. Flathub in 2023 - Flathub Discourse — We’ve been busy behind the scenes, so I’d like to share what we’ve been up to at Flathub and why—and what’s coming up from us this year. Robotic Tendencies » Flathub in 2023 Rule of Acquisition 57 — Good customers are as rare as latinum… treasure them. Fountain on Twitter — The veterans are dominating the charts as we celebrate some major milestones this week 👏 Podcasting 2.0 Apps Trayscale — An unofficial GUI wrapper around the Tailscale CLI client. Trayscale on Flathub Pick: abcde — A Better CD Encoder A collection of abcde.conf files
Mon, March 06, 2023
500: Our Biggest Announcement Yet
We're celebrating 500 episodes with the biggest announcement yet. Special Guest: Listener Jeff. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — Your Fest is Back! October 20-22, 2023 at the Bellingham Technical College. Wes' First Episode: LUP 100 — We reflect on 100 episodes of LINUX Unplugged, the themes from episodes past & then review Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon edition. Brent's First Episode: LUP 255 — Big changes are coming to Fedora with the merger of CoreOS. We chat with a couple project members to get the inside scope about what the future of Fedora looks like. Fountain charts 1701home.com — 1701 Home is a trek-based Mastodon where people can discuss the Star Trek franchise while sharing and connecting about their other interests! Peertube Headless Seeder — This container uses Python, Selenium, and Firefox to monitor and seed live streams of a PeerTube channel headlessly. Podcasting 2.0 Apps Eleven Labs AI — The most realistic and versatile AI speech software, ever. AI Voice Conversion Demo <a href="https://github.com/JupiterBroadcasting/linux-unplugged/issues" title="Submit a Soundboard Clip on
Mon, February 27, 2023
499: 'velopers Choose Snap
Ubuntu makes its anti-Flatpak stance official, while KDE and GNOME team up to turn Flathub into a universal Linux app store. Plus, we try the Intel Arc GPU. Could this new hardware make Linux bulletproof? Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup — Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PM Linux 6.2 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Promoted — Linux 6.2 overall has been in good shape from my continued testing and especially for Skylake/Skylake-derived cores is looking better if opting for Call Depth Tracking and it's great to have stable Arc Graphics A380/A750/A770 working out-of-the-box in the labs. Performance is looking better with later Arcs mesa 23.0.0 Released intel-extension-for-pytorch at xpu-master Install intel-extension-for-pytorch Intel® Extension for PyTorch — PyTorch Tutorials rahulunair/stable_diffusion_arc — Stable Diffusion inference on
Mon, February 20, 2023
498: Rolling Papercuts
Sometimes running the latest and greatest means you have to pave your own path. This week two examples from living on the edge. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup, Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PM — Come celebrate episode 500 with some brews the night before! BorgBase — Hosting for Borg and Restic Repositories Vorta for BorgBackup — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. BorgBackup — Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption Why should I switch from Restic to Borg? - r/BorgBackup Moonlight Game Streaming — Play Your PC Games Remotely LizardByte/Sunshine — Sunshine is a Gamestream host for Moonlight. Sunshine documentation KRDC — KRDC is a client application that allows you to view or even control the desktop session on another machine that is running a compatible server. VNC and RDP is supported. Krfb — Krfb Desktop Sharing is a server application that allows you to share your current session w
Mon, February 13, 2023
497: More Features? More Problems.
How Chris wasted three months tracking down a Wi-Fi problem, plus we debate if immutable distros need to be simplified. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: FOSDEM 2023 Transcribed by Whisper The Coder Robe — The Coder Robe is back and is a one-size-fits-most robe made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear. 192 Brewing Company — Mt. Vernon is proud to offer strictly Washington-made beers, wines and ciders. We rotate through guest taps from local breweries and feature a variety of red and white wines, as well. power-profiles-daemon Issue: Choppy GNOME animations when using “balanced power” mode on Intel platform krunvm — Create microVMs from OCI images. ViMusic — An Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music. GRC SpinRite Moonlight Game Streaming https://github.com/Wowu/docker-rollout — Zero Downtime Deployment for Docker Compose <a href="https://blubrry.com/support/podcasting-2-0-introduction/" title="Podcasting 2.0 Introduction - Blubrry Podcasting" rel="nofollo
Mon, February 06, 2023
496: Tux in the Hen House
Chris attempts to get Fedora 37 on his M1 Max MacBook Pro, while Wes and Brent try the "every distro at once" desktop. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: blendOS — The Ultimate Distro-Blend. — A seamless blend of all Linux distributions. blendOS on Github distrobox — Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Rudra Saraswat's Homepage Bedrock Linux — Bedrock Linux is a meta Linux distribution which allows users to mix-and-match components from other, typically incompatible distributions. Bedrock integrates these components into one largely cohesive system. Brent's BlendOS PR Fedora on the Apple M1 Max MBP Fedora on Apple Silion: Easy Install Script digint/btrbk — Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes. Podcasting 2.0 Apps elem
Mon, January 30, 2023
495: The Moment of Truth
Are the free software alternatives good enough? The conclusion to our 60-day challenge to drop Google, Apple, and the iPhone. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Jupiter Broadcasting Community Links Jupiter Jobs Matrix Room New JB Contact Page Patreon Problems Thread on Twitter A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal immich — Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone. Donate to GrapheneOS Duplicacy: A new generation cloud backup tool — Duplicacy backs up your files to many cloud storages with client-side encryption and the highest level of deduplication. duplicity — Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm. Podcasting 2.0 Apps Pick: carbonyl — Chromium running insid
Mon, January 23, 2023
494: Updating Our Fiddly Bits
Today we are finally taking on a project months in the making, and we're switching to an entirely new generation of Linux tech in the process. Sponsored By: Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Support LINUX Unplugged Links: This week in KDE: The best Plasma 5 version ever — Plasma 5 has officially branched for the beta version of its 5.27 release. Go check out the announcement and test out the beta! BorgWarehouse — BorgBackup Web UI for your central repository server. Vorta — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty BorgBackup with your desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft. BorgBase — Simple and Secure Offsite Backups borgmatic — Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations. Emborg — Front-End to Borg Backup emborg on GitHub Office Hours 21: Boiling the Frog — If you've noticed something a little off about your favorite podcasts, we might know why. aj-snapshot — Tool for storing/restoring JACK and/or ALSA connections to/from a file. <a href="https://github.com/Spo
Mon, January 16, 2023
493: Network Nirvana
Chris' sticky upgrade situation, and we chat with the developer behind an impressive mesh VPN with new tricks. Special Guest: Ryan Huber. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: NixOS 22.11 Released VERY Simple NixOS NGINX Config NixOS Manual: SSL/TLS Certificates with ACME — NixOS supports automatic domain validation & certificate retrieval and renewal using the ACME protocol. Any provider can be used, but by default NixOS uses Let's Encrypt. The alternative ACME client lego is used under the hood. NixOS Manual: Configuring Nginx for Pleroma go-acme/lego — Let’s Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go. hackclub’s proxyparty Easily Deploy a Mastodon Server with Linode's Marketplace Defined Networking is Open for Business — On behalf of everyone here at Defined Networking, I’m excited to announce that our cloud managed version of Nebula is now available to everyone! <a href="https://docs.defined.net/guides/automating-host-creation/" title="Automating Nebula
Mon, January 09, 2023
492: A New Challenge Approaches
Join us on a journey to true software freedom. We embark on our 30-day challenge and discover a whole new philosophy that will change the way you think about technology. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Mastodon Sees Dip in Active Users After Twitter Exodus Surge SCaLE 20x — The 20th Annual Southern California Linux Expo will take place on March 9-12, 2023 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA. Easily Deploy a Mastodon Server with Linode Marketplace Self-Hosted 87: Jellyfin January — We kick off our Jellyfin January challenge and invite you to join us. Plus, Chris has some new hardware and our thoughts on the trouble at the Matrix foundation. Top 10 Self-Hosted Apps - Perfect Media Server [YouTube] The Definitive Guide to Jellyfin Ubuntu Manpage: intel_gpu_top — Display a top-like summary of Intel GPU usage. jellyfin/Swiftfin — Native Jellyfin Client for iOS and tvOS. <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/intel-gpu-tools
Sun, January 01, 2023
491: 2023 Spoilers
We assemble to predict what will happen in 2023 and score how our 2022 predictions turned out. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: The Matrix Holiday Update 2022 Steam Linux Market Share Ideas on growing the Flathub Community in 2022 Heroic Games Launcher | Flathub Beta Site Flathub-Codethink Collaboration [GNOME Software Mock-up] Patronage by Tobias Bernard How (and why) I minted 314 NFTs To Support Open Source Projects The Log4j security flaw could impact the entire internet. Here’s what you should know <a href="https://securityboulevard.com/2022/12/log4j-vulnerability-detection-one-year-after-log4shell-firms-still-struggle-to-hunt-down-log4j-contrast-security/" title="Log4j Vulnerability Detection: One year after Log
Sun, December 25, 2022
490: 2022 Tuxies
It's the third annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, desktops, and services of 2022. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: VIM Homepage Visual Studio Cod — Code Editing. Redefined. Kate — Get an Edge in Editing. Pop!_OS by System76 — Pop!_OS is an operating system for STEM and creative professionals who use their computer as a tool to discover and create. NixOS — Reproducible builds and deployments. COSMIC by System76 — Computer Operating System Main Interface Components KDE Plasma — Do it all in a beautiful environment that adapts to your needs, and with the safety, privacy-protection and peace of mind that the best Free Open Source Software has to offer. Ubuntu Server Debian — The Universal Operating System Jellyfin — The Free Software Media System Nextcloud — Online collaboration platform Steam Deck HP Dev One Home Assistant — Open source h
Mon, December 19, 2022
489: Brent's Secret Emails
Brent's been hiding your emails; we confront him and expose what he's been keeping from the show. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Linux teams up with partners to overthrow Google Maps’s dominance Tailnet lock white paper — Tailscale implements a novel mechanism, tailnet lock, to prevent a malicious control plane from inserting itself into a network. Tailnet lock requires the verification of a cryptographic signature on all WireGuard® node keys distributed by Tailscale’s control plane. Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History — In "Hardcore History" journalist and broadcaster Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", unorthodox way of thinking and applies it to the past. Knaves Out – Darknet Diaries — This is the story about how someone hacked into JP Morgan Chase, one of the biggest financial institutions in the world. Dana Carvey’s The Weird Place — The Weird Place is an episodic sci-fi comedy adventure that will blow your mind. From manipulative aliens to time-traveling pirates to a power-hungry mad man with a magic globe. Linux Out Loud — Linux Out Loud is a community powered podcast. We take conversations from the DLN Community from places like the DLN Discourse Forums, Telegram group, Discord server and more. <a href="https://keyboard12345.eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com/20221215_225037.jpg" title="Picture of De
Mon, December 12, 2022
488: Revenge of the Lizard People
We complete a year-long journey and discover some unspoken truths about a great Linux distro. Plus one small, and one major update on our GrapheneOS adventure. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 2022 Tuxies — GO VOTE! Tasks.org — Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders nolooking — Joining the lightning network is daunting. Join the Podverse beta GrapheneOS Update Nextcloud Notes Three Tumbleweed Temptations | LINUX Unplugged 432 wipegpt wipefs OpenSUSE Build Service opi: openSUSE Package Installer (CLI) — Search and install almost all packages available for openSUSE and SLE tumbleweed-cli — Command line interface for interacting with Tumbleweed snapshots. twups — Tumbleweed Update Scruti
Mon, December 05, 2022
487: The Debian Debate
After nearly half a year of woe, Brent is ready to give Linux the go. Join us as we compare and contrast two Linux distros and end up with one going on Brent's machine. Plus, follow-up on Chris' GrapheneOS adventures and more. Sponsored By: Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Apple Limits iPhone AirDrop Function Used for Protests in China Magic Earth — Free Maps & Navigation App Top 10 reasons to use Debian as your Linux distro Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of ‘move fast and break things’, and version 11 is no different ProtonPlus — A simple Wine and Proton-based compatiblity tools manager for GNOME. ProtonUp-Qt — Install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda & more for Steam and Wine-GE & more for Lutris with this graphical user interface. Why openSUSE - openSUSE Wiki The Nobara Project — The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it. <a
Mon, November 28, 2022
486: Goodbye, Google
Chris ditches the iPhone and switches to GrapheneOS, a security and privacy-focused project that lets you take control back from Google. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Computer Chronicles - Intel 486 — In 1992, the big issue was - is it worth the money to upgrade my 386 PC to the new 486 chip? This program looks at the performance of the new Intel 486 and helps users decide. GrapheneOS — The private and secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility. Developed as a non-profit open source project. GrapheneOS: Supported Phones GrapheneOS: Features Overview Sandboxed Google Play overview for GrapheneOS Lockscreen bypass fixed in November’s update - discovered by GrapheneOS in June GrapheneOS on Twitter — We independently discovered the Android lockscreen bypass fixed in Android's November security update while working on features like a duress PIN/password. A week with GrapheneOS exposed my over-reliance on Google <a href="https://mobil
Mon, November 21, 2022
485: Mystery Box
We dig into Shufflecake, a tool that lets Linux users hide data with plausible deniability, then let our live stream SSH into our server and see if they can discover our secret data. Plus, we follow up on Brent's never-ending desktop distro search and Chris' new Linux rig. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Just a bunch of idiots having fun—a photo history of the LAN party Introducing Shufflecake — Shufflecake is a tool for Linux that allows creation of multiple hidden volumes on a storage device in such a way that it is very difficult, even under forensic inspection, to prove the existence of such volumes. Each volume is encrypted with a different secret key, scrambled across the empty space of an underlying existing storage medium, and indistinguishable from random noise when not decrypted. Hidden Filesystem Design and Improvement - Elia Anzuoni — We propose a novel design, a scheme called Shufflecake, which targets a more balanced compromise between performance and security. The level of deniability it offers, while not protecting against attacks in the most stringent threat model, is sufficient in many practical scenarios. Tommaso Gagliardoni’s Homepage Linux kernel module for Shufflecake <a href="https://codeberg.org/shufflecake/s
Mon, November 14, 2022
484: Fedora Falls Flat
Why this latest release of Fedora misses the mark, and Ubuntu's quiet backing away from ZFS. Sponsored By: Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Support LINUX Unplugged Links: SteamOS Has Finally Been Rebased to the Latest Version of Arch Linux! Fedora 37 is GO — The Fedora Linux 37 Final RC 1.7 compose is GO and will be shipped live on Tuesday, 15 November. Fedora 37 ChangeSet Announcing the release of Fedora Linux 37 Beta NixOS on Fedora Is it true that mesa-freeworld hasn't been published on RPM Fusion yet? Schedules/Plasma 5 - KDE Community Wiki Fedora 37 Plasma Login Fuzzzz How to Install a Mastodon Server on Ubuntu 20.04 on Linode <a href="https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys/issues/230" title="Don’s use ZSYS · Issue #230
Mon, November 07, 2022
483: Chris Is Done With Raspberry Pi
We surprise each other with three different topics, and Chris has a big update on the ODROID H3+. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Support LINUX Unplugged Links: The Steam Linux Beta Begins… Steam Linux Use Tips Up In October Thanks To The Steam Deck — The growth of Steam Deck adoption also now bumps AMD's CPU marketshare among Steam on Linux gamers to 56% against Intel, an increase in October alone of +4.37%. GitHub Issue: Geocatching details on site ODROID-H3+ – ODROID — Great compatibility, a brand new x86 64-bit single board computer with large memory capacity and advanced IO ports. ODROID-H3 Case Type 2 – ODROID ODROID-H3 Case Type 3 – ODROID plex - LinuxServer.io Jellyfin intro-skipper Plugin Tuxies Board Room Ubuntu Summit 2022 — An opportunity for the broader Ubuntu community to learn and speak about the amazing work and success stories happenin
Mon, October 31, 2022
482: Legacy Gets the Boot
Are the long-timers holding Linux back? Lennart Poettering argues we are and proposes a new Microsoft-blessed way to secure Linux. Plus, our thoughts on the slow decline of mailing lists in open-source development. Special Guest: Neal Gompa. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: “Old/weird laptops” sought to help test Linux kernel backlight drivers — You could help smooth out a long-needed overhaul of Linux's backlight systems. The GNOME Project is closing all its mailing lists — The GNOME Project is preparing to shut down its mailing lists due to problems maintaining the project's GNU Mailman instance - which relies on Python 2 - and a lack of moderators. [Evolution] Announcement: this mailing list will be retired Re: Moving final mailman lists over to discourse Issues · jupiterbroadcasting.com Office Hours 15: One PR At a Time — We recap a busy night after a studio power outage, then dig into what makes an open-source project worth contributing to. Why do some fail while others grow and prosper? <a href="https://awes
Mon, October 24, 2022
481: Just a Prompt Away
The Internet is going crazy with AI-generated media. What's the open-source story, and is Linux being left out? Plus, we try out the new Ubuntu release on the ODROID H3+. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: KDE neon on Twitter: "KDE neon Rebased on Jammy… Ubuntu 22.10 - Kinetic Kudu — Ubuntu Desktop 22.10 users will benefit from the refinements in GNOME 43, including GTK4 theming for improved performance and consistency. Quick Settings now provide faster access to commonly used options such as wifi, bluetooth, dark mode and power settings. ODROID-H3+ — Intel® Quad-Core Jasper Lake N6005, Up to 64GB Dual-channel Memory DDR4, PCIe 3.0 x 4 lanes, 2 x 2.5Gbit Ethernet ports, 2 x SATA 3.0 ports, and more! AI is taking over the iconic voice of Darth Vader, with the blessing of James Earl Jones | TechCrunch Why the Future of Open Source AI is So Much Bigger Than Stable Diffusion 1.5 and Why It Matters to You — In the absence of news from us, rumors started swirling about why we didn't release the next version yet. Some folks in the community worry that Stability AI has gone closed source and that we'll never release a model again. It's simply not true. We are
Mon, October 17, 2022
480: Taming the Beast
Linus Tech Tips blows it again, and we clean up. Plus, we push System76's updated Thelio Workstation to the breaking point. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Intel Arc GPUs NOT supporting Linux any time soon Please Buy Intel GPUs. - LTT Intel Arc Graphics Running On Fully Open-Source Linux Driver - Phoronix — A common misconception or confusion I've heard many times over the past number of months has been questioning whether Intel's discrete GPU driver support on Linux is open-source or is closed-source, etc. Well, it's fully open-source aside from the usual firmware caveat and running on Linux. The new Thelio — We believed that we could make an open hardware desktop that’s powerful, compact, quiet, beautiful, upgradable, backed by lifetime support, and manufactured in the United States—so we did. Customize your components, your software, even your aesthetic with swappable accents made for any mindset. System76 Thelio AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 24, X250-kernel, Devone-kernel Benchmark Comparison System76 Thelio vs Dev One - Workstation Benchmark</a
Mon, October 10, 2022
479: Good Software, Bad Blood
What the heck is going on? Fedora is dropping features, GNOME is getting Iced, and the mistake we'll never make again. We've got a lot to sort out. Sponsored By: Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Tasks - Nextcloud Apps — Tasks can be shared between users. Tasks can be synchronized using CalDAV (each task list is linked to an Nextcloud calendar, to sync it to your local client: Thunderbird, Evolution, KDE Kontact, iCal … - just add the calendar as a remote calendar in your client). You can download your tasks as ICS files using the download button for each calendar. Home Assistant Yellow — Home Assistant Yellow integrates 1,000+ different devices and services, allowing you to create powerful automations and get insight into your energy usage. All from an easy-to-use interface that runs 100% locally without anything in the cloud. Oh No!😱Fedora is Dropping Support for Popular Video Codecs — Primarily, it will affect AMD GPU users using open-source drivers, preventing them using GPU acceleration to play video content that requires using these codecs. Additionally, it also affects any user who uses open-source graphics drivers, even if they run iGPUs on Intel chips. recent commit to Mesa on Fedora Tom Callaway on Twitter <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Desktop-Iced-Toolkit" title="System76’s Pop!_OS COSMIC Desktop To Make Use Of Iced Rust Toolkit" rel
Mon, October 03, 2022
478: The Best of Both Worlds
We go hands-on at NASA's JPL and learn why Linux is the best OS for Earth and Mars. Special Guest: Tim Canham. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 412Linux on Twitter — Sadly, @ChrisLAS is the first person I thought about after reading the Stadia update. He really did believe in it. Can't wait to hear his t A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy — A few years ago, we also launched a consumer gaming service, Stadia. And while Stadia's approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong technology foundation, it hasn't gained the traction with users that we expected so we’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming service. The Verge blames Linux — Google spent millions convincing publishers like Ubisoft and Take-Two to bring their biggest games to Stadia. Google had to pay such large sums because the work to port games over wasn’t particularly easy given Stadia runs on Linux, a platform game developers haven’t paid enough attention to. Stadia died because no one trusts Google Grants Pass Geocache Location Sacramento Geocache Location <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/34%C2%B008'33.
Sun, September 25, 2022
477: The Feeling of Fast
We finally give Brent his new laptop and get his reaction. Plus our best pick for replacing stock Android with something private. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: GrapheneOS — The private and secure mobile OS. Nokia 2760 Flip feature mobile phone KaiOS Devices Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups West Coast Crew Matrix Room LUP 462: One Cosmic Collaboration — From skeptic to buyer, why the HP Dev One is the best Linux laptop yet. HP Dev One — From preinstalled Linux Pop!_OS to a tuned Linux keyboard with a Super key, HP Dev One is designed with powerful features and tools to help you code your way. Pop!_OS Tutorials Phoronix Test Suite for Docker Workstation Test Suite - OpenBenchmarking.org Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Benchmark - OpenBenchmarking.org <a href="https://openbenchm
Mon, September 19, 2022
476: Canary in the Photo Mine
We've gone deep to find our perfect Google Photos replacement. This week we'll share our setup that we think works great, is easy to use, and is fully backed up. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: OsmAnd — Carry highly detailed, fully offline maps of any region world wide on your device! Garmin RV 780 & Traffic Office Hours 12 — Don’t Clip and Drive JB Meetups West Coast Crew Matrix Room Möbius Sync — Bringing Syncthing to iOS. Sync files between all your devices. PhotoSync — Photo Transfer and Backup App. For iOS & Android PhotoPrism — PhotoPrism® is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web. Storj — Fast, secure cloud storage at a fraction of the cost. Storj Warrant Canary How Decentralized Storage Works Duplicati — Free backup software to store encrypted backups online. Backup With Duplicati | Storj Docs
Mon, September 12, 2022
475: Brent's Bug Battle
Brent has been on a bug-finding marathon. We review what he's discovered and share some hard-learned lessons. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Pull Request #378 by DECbot — "JB is live!" indicator - on page load, call the script to highlight the #livebutton red if jupiter.tube is live NASA Selects SiFive and Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions — SiFive X280 delivers 100x increase in computational capability with leading power efficiency, fault tolerance, and compute flexibility to propel next-generation planetary and surface missions. Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup West Coast Crew Matrix Room Submit Your Baller Boost Jingles Fountain 0.4.8 - Referrals, Search Editorial and Other Improvements Fountain.fm Charts KDE Official Response to creation of GNOME Foundation (2000) <a href="https://eylenburg.github.io/de_default_2022old.htm" title="Report: Default Desktop Environments for
Mon, September 05, 2022
474: Linux's Malware Inevitability
Can Linux do better? Apple is scrambling to build always-on malware protection into the next macOS as its market share grows. A precautionary tale for Linux users. Plus we take a look at Ubuntu Unity as it becomes an official flavor. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Canonical Accepts Ubuntu Unity as Official Ubuntu Flavor Starting with Ubuntu 22.10 — The Ubuntu Unity 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) release is expected to see the light of day as an official Ubuntu flavor on October 20th, 2022. [vote] Re: Ubuntu Unity as an official flavor Ubuntu Unity Office Hours 11 — We're pushing our new website to production live on the show today. We have no idea how things will turn out - but we're taking you along for the ride either way! JB Meetups JB Matrix West Coast Crew Baller Boost Jingles — Send us your feedback via GitHub Mac vs. PC Ad macOS malwar
Mon, August 29, 2022
473: End of the Road
We've reached the end of the road in our immutable Linux series, and an old friend stops by to give us the inside scoop on Endless OS. Plus, we announce who will be joining us at JPL in September. Special Guest: Cassidy James Blaede. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: GNOME launches a new “telemetry” program to improve GNOME gnome-info-collect repository — gnome-info-collect is a simple client-server application used for collecting information on GNOME systems. The data will be used to improve GNOME, specifically by informing design decisions, influencing where resources are invested, and generally helping us to understand users better. Self contained flake for gnome-info-collect courtesy of kenji Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups JB Matrix westcoastcrew Meetup Room Hot on Fountain Mobilizon — Mobilizon is a tool that helps you find, create and organize events. Endless OS — Comes preloaded with over 100 apps and essential tools so you have all you need, even when there's no internet access. Keybase <a href="https:
Mon, August 22, 2022
472: 5 Problems With NixOS
The five most common problems when trying out an immutable Linux distro like NixOS. Plus, why one Linux dev says just target WINE. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: New Flathub Site in Beta - Big Things Coming — [...] next steps are to flesh out the donation infrastructure with the aim to allow app pages to have their own link to donation/purchase. Win32 Is The Only Stable ABI on Linux — I think this whole situation shows why creating native games for Linux is challenging. It’s hard to blame developers for targeting Windows and relying on Wine + friends. It’s just much more stable and much less likely to break and stay broken. The Offending glibc Commit A glibc Bug The ABI status of ELF hash tables — If EAC were free software, of course, chances are there would already be a patch circulating to deal with the problem. As it is, only its owner can deal with this problem directly. Meanwhile, though, there is another workaround available: distributors can easily patch the glibc build to restore the DT_HASH section and make the problem go away for now. Jupiter JPL Meetup Form JB Meetups West
Mon, August 15, 2022
471: The Cottonwood Disaster
Our garage Linux server has died, and this time we’re looking at data loss. We attempt to revive our zombie box and reflect on what went wrong. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Microsoft open-sources over 1,500 of its cute 3D emoji designs for anyone to use The NEW Jupiter Broadcasting Website Upcoming Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups Get your name in the hat for our JPL tour LINUX Unplugged 468: The Read Only Scenario Operating System development tutorials in Rust on the Raspberry Pi — Learn to write an embedded OS in Rust. Podverse — V4V is now available in Podverse F-Droid beta 🥳 FluffyChat — Open. Nonprofit. Cute. Easy to use (matrix) messenger. Secure and decentralized. FluffyChat on Flathub <a href="https://gitlab.com/famedly/fluffychat/-/blob/main/docs/fdroid_repo.md" title="FluffyChat in F-
Mon, August 08, 2022
470: Let's Call It an Upgrade
We present a buffet of budget Linux boxes. From $40 to $400 you'll be surprised by what we found. Then we attempt to find the perfect distro for them. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar. Sponsored By: Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Support LINUX Unplugged Links: NASA greenlights two new Mars helicopters and lengthens Perseverance’s resume — Perseverance’s high-flying robotic companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, has inspired the design of two future rotorcraft that would swerve over the Martian terrain to pick up other samples. Get your name in the hat for our JPL tour — Join the JB Crew at JPL! We only have 15 spots. Please enter your info, and our happy little python script might just pick your name from the virtual hat. Upcoming Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups remembertoremember on Twitter — I haven’t really had major Linux woes in a long time and I use new hardware with 4k but always shop with Linux in mind. New $160: Beelink MiniS Mini Pc with 11th Gen Processor N5095,8GB DDR4 128GB SSD Mini Desktop Computers Acer Switch One SW1-011 Intel Atom x5-Z8300 @ 1.44 GHz 2GB Ram 32GB Storage <a href="https://www.ebay.com/p/24039563830" titl
Sun, July 31, 2022
469: Tough Linux Love
Is the Linux desktop hard to love? A long-time user experience developer argues it is, and we respond to his criticisms. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: JPL Lottery — Join the JB Crew at JPL! We only have 15 spots. Please enter your info, and our happy little python script might just pick your name from the virtual hat. - If you don't get picked, don't worry. We're having another meetup while we are in town! Jupiter Broadcasting - Meetup.com London Meetup, Fri, Aug 5, 2022 - Meetup.com Google’s in-house desktop Linux - Computerworld — The best-known Google operating system is Chrome OS, but inside Google itself, the company also uses its own Linux desktop distro — gLinux. X220 - ThinkWiki — An overview of the ThinkPad X220 The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love — I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But I’ve come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. But I just can’t stick with it. I always end up back on macOS. And I’m starting to understand why. Run Chrome in Toolbox on Silverblue <a href="https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox" title="Distrobox" re
Mon, July 25, 2022
468: The Read Only Scenario
A fundamental change is coming to desktop Linux, and Silverblue might be our hint at where things are going. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Pre-show: PSATA HATs support up to four drives on Raspberry Pi 4 or Rock Pi 4 — Radxa’s Dual ($25) and Quad ($35) SATA HATs work on the Raspberry Pi 4 or Rock Pi 4 at up to 400 MB/s via USB 3.0. JPL Lottery — Join the JB Crew at JPL! We only have 15 spots. Please enter your info, and our happy little python script might just pick your name from the virtual hat. - If you don't get picked, don't worry. We're having another meetup while we are in town! Fedora Silverblue User Guide — Unlike other operating systems, Silverblue is immutable. This means that every installation is identical to every other installation of the same version. The operating system that is on disk is exactly the same from one machine to the next, and it never changes as it is used. Fedora 34 Silverblue on Raspberry Pi 4 / 400de RPi4: Raspberry Pi 4 UEFI Firmware Images — This repository contains installable builds of the official EDK2 Raspberry Pi 4 UEFI firmware. Self-Hosted 67: The No Container Theory Ventoy <a href="https://endl
Mon, July 18, 2022
467: All Hands on Deck
We try and bust a common Linux distro myth. Then what surprised Chris about his new Steam Deck. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Pre-show: Microsoft is selling tech pants for $150. — Wait, what are tech pants? London Meetup on August 5th at 6pm GMT Southern Oregon Meet Up, Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 6:00 PM Sacramento Meet Up!, Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 6:00 PM Southern California Meet Up, Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 6:00 PM Portland Meet Up, Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 6:00 PM Steam Deck Tech Specs (Video) Steam Deck Teardown — Everything Valve Said Not to Do! Chris' Known Good USB C Docking Station Boost Pick: Furtherance — Track your time without being tracked. <a hre
Mon, July 11, 2022
466: The Night of a Thousand Errors
We were fixing servers all night, but at least we have a great story. A special guest joins us to help make a big show announcement. Special Guest: Tim Canham. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft Brunch with Brent: Quentin Stafford-Fraser Brunch With Brent: Tim Canham — Brent sits down with Tim Canham, Senior Software Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We explore topics including the hardware and software powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter; JPL's switch from Solaris to Linux; the open source projects, tools, and philosophy at JPL, ...and more. JPL Free Public Tours West Coast Crew Matrix Room Jupiter.party - The JB Network Membership ptpython — A better Python REPL. IPython — A powerful interactive shell. bpython Jupyter Notebooks Nextjournal Joe’s minimal implementation of Git ~300 LOC Podcasting 2.0 Apps <a href="https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli" title="Pick: dua-cli
Mon, July 04, 2022
465: Too Nixy for My Shirt
The one shared secret behind some of the world's most powerful open-source projects. Brent's Node : 03cf7e9b79a3230749db642ad690889065ec35b9ded184266d4fce424ab75470fc Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Git from the inside out — The essay focuses on the graph structure that underpins Git and the way the properties of this graph dictate Git’s behavior. gitk — The Git repository browser ungit — The easiest way to use git. On any platform. Anywhere. Trustix — Distributed trust and reproducibility tracking for binary caches Kexec and Kdump on Raspberry Pi Install NixOS on Oracle Cloud Kexec and Kdump on arm64 An update to Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye — So with this latest release, the default “pi” user is being removed, and instead you will create a user the first time you boot a newly-flashed Raspberry Pi OS image. Build a Raspberry Pi Linux System the Hard Way — The instructions below will explain how to build a Linux environment for a Raspberry Pi 3B from scratch, focusing on extreme minimalism. I will build most components from source code and use BusyBox as the only user application on the target. <a href="https://nixos.wiki
Mon, June 27, 2022
464: Git Happens
We're going back in time to witness the early days of a critical tool to build Linux, then jump forward 15 years and join our buddy Brent on his journey to learn that very tooling. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: WSL 2 distros are now supported on Windows Server Ten SpaceX Starlink Updates Dish calls out Elon Musk for tweets about Starlink and RVs, planes Dish begs FCC to deactivate Starlink setups used in moving vehicles SpaceX: Starlink Risks Becoming ‘Unusable’ If Dish Gets 12GHz Spectrum JB London Meetup - Aug 5 “6pm London time” London Colony Meetup - Matrix chat room Linode Guides — Migrate a PostgreSQL Database to a Managed Database <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8" title="Tech Talk: 2007 Linus Torvalds on git" rel=
Mon, June 20, 2022
463: Humble Beginnings
One of the pioneers of the web, VNC, Webcams, and more joins us; plus we'll update you on a few projects we love. Special Guest: Quentin Stafford-Fraser. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Brunch with Brent: Quentin Stafford-Fraser - Jupiter Extras — Brent sits down with Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser, computer scientist, serial-entrepreneur, inventor (perhaps) of the webcam, Augmented Reality Ph.D. who ran the very first web server at the University of Cambridge, among much more. We explore topics including computer science as an art-form, the origins of the Raspberry Pi and T9 predictive text, philosophies around innovation and invention, challenging the patent system, and more. JB London Meetup DNS Toys — A DNS server that takes creative liberties with the DNS protocol to offer handy utilities and services that are easily accessible via the command line. Mars helicopter needs patch to work around failed sensor — The patch inserts a small code snippet into the software running on Ingenuity's flight computer, intercepting incoming garbage packets from the inclinometer and injecting replacement packets constructed from IMU data. Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying Umbrel 0.5 — Umbrel 0.5 brings the very first redesign of Umbrel’s UI since we launched. We went back to the drawing board to design a completely new homepage, a refreshed UI with beautifully crafted glass-like elements, a new dock-based layout, and the option to pick and choose from one of the 16 gorgeous, hand-c
Mon, June 13, 2022
462: One Cosmic Collaboration
From skeptic to buyer, why the HP Dev One is the best Linux laptop yet. This is the one review you don't want to miss. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Starlink RV Mounting & Storage Options HP Dev One — From preinstalled Linux Pop!_OS to a tuned Linux keyboard with a Super key, HP Dev One is designed with powerful features and tools to help you code your way. AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U Processor HP Dev One CPU Bench Benchmarks Blender Test On HP DEV One Benchmarks Podverse — Podcasting 2.0 certified player for Android, F-Droid, iOS, and the web. Share created clips, highlights, playlists, and chapters, sync your queue and more! Office Hours 6 — Peer to Peer Future Office Hours on Podverse LINUX Unplugged on Podverse Podverse on Twitter Podverse on GitHub
Mon, June 06, 2022
461: Deep in the Tumbleweeds
Three tails of tech tribulations, and how Brent saved his openSUSE Tumbleweed box from the brink. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Markuss Broks 🦆 on Twitter: "iPad Air 2 running Linux 5.18" Konrad Dybcio on Twitter: "It’s spreading quickly 😎" #46 Going Mobile · This Week in GNOME JB’s London Meetup Jupiter Tube WWDC 2022 Live - JupiterTube NixOS 22.05 released — NixOS is already known as the most up to date distribution and is the distribution with the most packages. This release saw 9345 new packages and 10666 updated packages. Removal of unmaintained packages is also important to keep the package set working and secure. This release removed 5874 packages that were available in 21.11. Install and Configure NixOS on a Linode NixOS On Linode.md — This tutorial is written for people who want to run NixOS on a Linode instance. The installation is pretty straightforward, but it involves some bootstrapping using Linode's tools. Declarative Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform</a
Mon, May 30, 2022
460: CPU as a Service
A new Linux update allows Intel to control features in your CPU using hardware-level DRM. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: London Meetup — Sat, Aug 6, 2022, 2:00 PM GMT Newest Version of Systemd Includes Experimental Feature for A/B-Style Updating — "Let's popularize image-based OSes," writes Lennart Poettering, "with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, uniformity — built from traditional distribution packages, but deployed via images." Fitting Everything Together — In this blog story I hope to provide that from my personal perspective, i.e. explain how I personally would build an OS and where I personally think OS development with Linux should go. systemd-sysupdate — This tool implements file, directory, or partition based update schemes, supporting multiple parallel installed versions of specific resources in an A/B (or even: A/B/C, A/B/C/D/, …) style. A/B updating means that when one version of a resource is currently being used, the next version can be downloaded, unpacked, and prepared in an entirely separate location, independently of the first, and — once complete — be activated, swapping the roles so that it becomes the used one and the previously used one becomes the one that is replaced by the next update, and so on. Thoughts on software-defined silicon — The benefits to Intel are clear. The company can do price differentiation among its customers in an attempt to extract the maximum revenue from each while simultaneously reducing the number of different hardware
Mon, May 23, 2022
459: Better than Butter
We take a sneak peek at some future tech coming to Linux, and share details on HP's new laptop that runs POP! Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: London Meetup — Alex from Self-Hosted will be in the UK in August and is proposing a meetup in London on August 6th at 2pm GMT (meetup.com is based off JBs Pacific Time). HP Dev One — Get ready for a laptop that’s customized for the way you code. Featuring preinstalled Pop!_OS Linux and a tuned Linux keyboard with a Super key, HP Dev One was designed with developers in mind. HP Preparing An AMD-Powered Linux Laptop Powered By Pop!_OS HP teamed up with System76 for the HP Dev One laptop with Pop!_OS Linux Bringing bcachefs to the mainline — Bcachefs is a longstanding out-of-tree filesystem that grew out of the bcache caching layer that has been in the kernel for nearly ten years. Based on a session led by Kent Overstreet at the 2022 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM), though, it would seem that bcachefs is likely to be heading upstream soon. He intends to start the process toward mainline inclusion over the next six months or so. Bcachefs Principles of Operation Tow-Boot — Tow-Boot a user-friendly, opinionated distribution of U-Boot, where there is as few differences in features possible between boards, and a "familiar" user interface for an early boot process tool. <a href="https://opensats.org/" title="OpenSats"
Mon, May 16, 2022
458: NVIDIA's New View
NVIDIA is open-sourcing their GPU drivers, but there are a few things you need to know. Plus, we get some exclusive insights into Tailscale from one of its co-founders. Special Guests: Avery Pennarun and Christian F.K. Schaller. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: After losing contact with its helicopter, NASA put the entire Mars mission on hold — Mars is only going to get colder and darker for the next 10 weeks as winter deepens. Why the open source driver release from NVIDIA is so important for Linux? — Today NVIDIA announced that they are releasing an open source kernel driver for their GPUs, so I want to share with you some background information and how I think this will impact Linux graphics and compute going forward. NVIDIA Releases Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules — NVIDIA is now publishing Linux GPU kernel modules as open source with dual GPL/MIT license, starting with the R515 driver release. Hector Martin on Twitter — So NVIDIA "released" their kernel driver as open source. By which they mean, they moved most of it to firmware and made the open source driver call into it. There are almost 900 functions implemented in the 34MB firmware, give or take, from what I can see. Broadcom vibes... Longhorn on Twitter — Note that the 30MB+ firmware supports multiple GPU generations, and that’s an important factor. (If you see the elf sections, there’s ones for Turing, Ampere DC, Ampere customer and Gnext
Mon, May 09, 2022
457: Automated Chaos
Each of us brings a secret topic to the show, and we discover a common theme about using the wrong tool for the right job. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: New NASA Black Hole Sonifications with a Remix — In some ways, this sonification is unlike any other done before because it revisits the actual sound waves discovered in data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The popular misconception that there is no sound in space originates with the fact that most of space is essentially a vacuum, providing no medium for sound waves to propagate through. A galaxy cluster, on the other hand, has copious amounts of gas that envelop the hundreds or even thousands of galaxies within it, providing a medium for the sound waves to travel. LXD vs Docker — System containers (as run by LXD) are similar to virtual or physical machines. They run a full operating system inside them, you can run any type of workload, and you manage them exactly as you would a virtual or a physical machine. LXD 5.0 LTS is now available LXD 5.1 has been released pylxd — Python module for LXD Manage LXD instances — Ansible Documentation Try Infrastructure as Code eBook from Linode <a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/automation/learning-ansible-tuto
Mon, May 02, 2022
456: Our Linux Regrets
If we could change just one mistake in our Linux journey, what would it be? Open a channel to our node: 037d284d2d7e6cec7623 Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Office Hours 3: New Website Energy — It's a summer of projects, we get into our plans to totally rebuild our website, some new Podcasting 2.0 features and, Brent takes his first bite of the Raspberry Pi. Website Rebuild Ideas & Explorations Introducing early access to the Steam snap! — It’s time to do a call for testing on a new Steam snap which brings along everything you need to run Steam games via proton or, of course, native Linux games. Since this is an early access snap, expect there to be bugs and gaps, which we need assistance in identifying. We will iterate quickly, and respond to this feedback. It looks like the trigger was pulled too fast on this. Running the latest snapd, and the steam-support socket is missing. interfaces: add a steam-support interface by jhenstridge · Pull Request #11708 · snapcore/snapd Level up your Linux gaming with the new Steam Snap! <a href="https://www.linode.com/content/try-infrastructure-as-code-ebook-series/" title="Try Infrastructure as
Mon, April 25, 2022
455: I run NixOS BTW
We've hit a bump in the road with the NixOS challenge, and share what it might not be great at. Plus, what we didn't cover in our Ubuntu 22.04 review. The one where we don't talk about Ubuntu 22.04 at all. Open a channel to our Lightning Node: 037d284d2d7e6cec7623adbe600450a73b42fb90800989f05a862464b05408df39 Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Martin Wimpress. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Dark Style Changes — Now in GNOME 42, it is officially supported, expanding on a concept from elementary OS 6 7. A toggle switch in the new Appearance panel in the core Settings app enables and disables the feature. A lot of work was done in GNOME apps to fix visual dark style bugs. A new transition effect was added (also inspired by elementary) to more elegantly crossfade when the style is switched. Dark Style Preference · Wiki · GNOME / Initiatives · GitLab Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Eyes More Industrial Usage By Offering Up Real-Time Kernel Beta — Currently in beta with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the linux-realtime kernel unsnap: Quickly migrate from using snap packages to flatpaks deb-get — apt-get functionality for .debs published in 3rd party repositories or via direct download Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS Release Notes — Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS is the culmination of 2 years of continual improvement 😅 to Ubuntu and MATE Desktop. As is tradition, the LTS development cycle has a keen focus
Mon, April 18, 2022
454: Double Distro Details
Has Fedora pulled ahead of Ubuntu? We take a look at the new Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04 releases. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Office Hours — Join ChrisLAS for an update on all things Jupiter Broadcasting. What’s New in Fedora 36 — In a blog post introducing the Fedora 36 beta in late March, Red Hat said Fedora 36 continues the project’s “emphasis on delivering leading-edge open source technologies.” Fedora 36 ChangeSet Fedora 36 Release Date and New Features LXQt 1.1 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New Podman 4.0 — Podman 4.0 is one of our most significant releases ever, featuring over 60 new features. Headlining this release is a complete rewrite of the network stack for improved functionality and performance. The Best New Features in GNOME 42 — GNOME 42 features a plethora of GTK4/libawaita app ports, intros a retooled screenshot experience, and makes several notable performance upticks. Relocate RPM database to /usr Wayland By Default with NVIDIA proprietary Driver <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
Mon, April 11, 2022
453: Raleigh Action Show
We just wrapped up our East Coast meetup and have a bunch of great stories to share. Plus some Nix ups and downs, and more. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar. Sponsored By: Bitwarden : Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data. Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Microsoft Working On AMD GPU Hotplug Support For Linux Driver — Here is a combination not normally expected... Microsoft engineers have submitted patches for review enabling AMD GPU hot-plugging support with the Radeon "AMDGPU" Linux kernel driver. webtop — Alpine, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch based containers containing full desktop environments in officially supported flavors accessible via any modern web browser. Tea — The tools that build the Internet have steeped too long. It’s time for a fresh brew. FreeRDP — FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. Rust Pick: bore — a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost.
Mon, April 04, 2022
452: Synapse Collapse
How we nearly crashed our Matrix server; what we did wrong and how we're fixing it. Plus an update on elementary OS, GNOME's next chapter, and we kick off the NixOS Challenge. NixOS Challenge Goals: Study the Nix Expression Language Setup at least one Nix/NixOS system . Install htop . Join the Nix Nerds Matrix channel . Post a screenshot in the NixOS Challenge GitHub . Complete all the above before the end of April. Special Guest: Danielle Foré. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: I made this bash script to build Linux from Scratch automatically. JB Meetup Farewell, elementary Livestream with Danielle Foré Plans for GNOME 43 and Beyond – Chris’s Design & Development — Since we’re right on the heels of a release, I want to keep some momentum going and share my plans for features I want to implement during the upcoming release cycles. Fractal GNOME Weather Various things in the GNOME ecosystem <a href="https://github.com/matrix-org/syna
Mon, March 28, 2022
451: The NixOS Challenge
We explore what makes NixOS so powerful, and why it might be the future of all Linux distributions. Plus we announce a community-wide NixOS challenge for the month of April. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: JB Meetups NixOS Wiki NixOS Manual Nix - Introduction Cheatsheet - NixOS Wiki What Is Nix — Developer Tooling Nix Pills NixOS and the changing face of Linux operating systems NixOS Package Search Consolidation in podcasting: happening fast BeardedTek-com/fEVR — frigate Event Video Recorder.
Mon, March 21, 2022
450: It Went Real Bad
Why GNOME 42 is the release we’ve all been waiting for. Plus, we attempt to install Linux on an M1 MacBook live on the show. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Jupiter Broadcasting East Coast Meetup The first Asahi Linux Alpha Release is here! — It’s been a long while since we updated the blog! Truth be told, we wanted to write a couple more progress reports, but there was always “one more thing”… So, instead, we decided to take the plunge and publish the first public alpha release of the Asahi Linux reference distribution! Introduction to Apple Silicon · AsahiLinux/docs Wiki OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems — It has taken a while, but I'm pleased to announce that OpenBSD/arm64 works well enough on Apple M1 systems for some wider testing. The Best New Features in GNOME 42 — GNOME 42 features a plethora of GTK4/libawaita app ports, intros a retooled screenshot experience, and makes several notable performance upticks. A look at what’s new in GNOME 42 GNOME MR - Dynamic triple/double buffering (v4) — Use triple buffering if and when the previous frame is running late. This means the next frame will be dispatched on time instead of also starting late. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS To Carry GNOME Triple Buffering Support <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-Triple-Buffering-2x" title="GNOME Dynamic Triple Buffering Can 2x The Desktop
Mon, March 14, 2022
449: Bugfix and Chill
How each of us asks for features and help from free software projects, and one of our most prescient soapboxes in a while. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Jupiter Broadcasting East Coast Meetup — Saturday, Apr 9, 2022 · 3:00 PM EDT Obsidian — Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. How To ADHD — Those of us with ADHD have brains that work differently, which means we need to work differently. Onion Share — OnionShare is an open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network. OnionShare on Flathub Kevin Rooke on Twitter — 5,000 podcasts are now on the Lightning Network. 4.2 million to go.⚡️ Heroic Games Launcher on Flathub — An Open Source GOG and Epic Games Launcher. Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish testing week Ubuntu ISO Testing Tracker New Podcast Apps — The Podcast Index is here to preserve, protect and extend the open, independent podcasting ecosystem. The Pomp Podcast — What is the Lightning Network? What’s in a Boostagram? <a href="https://blog.voltage.cloud/how-the-lightning-network-is-innovating-podcasting/" title="How the Lightnin
Mon, March 07, 2022
448: A Mystery in Plain Sight
We surprise each other with three different topics, hidden away by encryption in our show notes - we literally have no idea what we're talking about this week. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Jupiter Broadcasting East Coast Meetup trilium — Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes. pytest-asyncio — Pytest support for asyncio. hypothesis — Hypothesis is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use library for property-based testing. brainfuck Brainfuck Interpreter Brainfuck text generator youtube-dl-server — Web / REST interface for downloading youtube videos onto a server. alltube — Web GUI for youtube-dl BookStack linuxserver/bookstack - Docker Image Raneto — A free, open, simple Markdown powered Knowledgebase for Nodejs Plex-Meta-Manager — Python script to update metadata information for items in plex as well as automatically build collections and playlists. The Wiki Documentation is linked below. linuxserver/plex-meta-manager - Docker Image Heimdall Application Dashboard <
Mon, February 28, 2022
447: An Umbrel for Everything
We look at two new options that enable ANYONE to run a personal server at home or a small business. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Jupiter Broadcasting East Coast Meetup — Saturday, April 9, 2022 Self-Hosted 65: Failing at Scale — Alex gives the new TrueNAS SCALE a go and hits a snag. Plus the future Home Assistant update that has Chris so concerned he might stop updating forever. Umbrel — a personal server for everyone — Run your personal server with a Bitcoin and Lightning node in your home, self-host open source apps like Nextcloud and Matrix to break away from big tech, and take full control of your data. For free. Ukraine / Україна on Twitter — Stand with the people of Ukraine. Now accepting cryptocurrency donations. Ukraine Solicits BTC, ETH, USDT Crypto Donations After Russian Invasion Tutorial — Change Umbrel docker compose to point to block storage. Writeup of Umbrel Security Tradeoffs Node hardening Umbrel troubleshooting Everything you need to know about Umbrel’s new license Value 4 Value Calculator
Mon, February 21, 2022
446: Kudu Cores and Cloud Wars
We put the sports car of Linux laptops to the test. Is it the multi-tasking machine it claims to be? And an essential update on the show. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Kudu from System76 — Enjoy fast, steady progression with the Kudu’s powerful H-class AMD processor. The Kudu laptop is equipped to handle longer sessions so you can taste the victory of beating your schedule. Kudu (kudu6) - System76 Technical Documentation Internal Overview - System76 Technical Documentation MBP M1 Max Machine Learning, Sys76-kudu-ML Benchmark Comparison Sys76-kudu-amd, Sys76-kudu-nv Benchmark Comparison Value 4 Value Calculator Pick: Spodcast — Spodcast is a caching Spotify podcast to RSS proxy. Using Spodcast you can follow Spotify-hosted netcasts/podcasts using any player which supports RSS, thus enabling the use of older hardware which is not compatible with the Spotify (web) app. Pick: hwatch — A modern alternative to the watch command, that records the result of command execution and can display history and diffs. Pick: rnote — A simple drawing application to create handwritten notes. Pick: dog dns client — dog is an open-source DNS client for the command-line. It has colourful output, supports the DoT and DoH protocols, and can emit JSON.
Mon, February 14, 2022
445: Brent's Betrayal
Linux is the master of small computers, and this week it’s going to the next level. We chat with the creator of the $15 Linux box and share some significant updates for the Raspberry Pi. Special Guest: Brian Benchoff. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Raspberry Pi Locator — It's a website to track Raspberry Pi 4 model B, Compute Module 4, Pi Zero 2 W, and Pico availability across multiple retailers in different countries. It’s dire: Raspberry Pi availability tracker is launched Ubuntu Unity Remix on Twitter — A new Raspberry Pi testing image is now available for Ubuntu Unity 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish”. No PC Needed: How to Install Raspberry Pi OS Over the Internet — A new version of the Raspberry Pi bootloader, which is now available in beta, allows you to download and write the OS onto a microSD card, using the BIOS and an Ethernet connection. Raspberry Pi OS Finally Going 64bit 🔥 — For those curious, here are some benchmarks looking at the performance improvement by switching from Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit to 64-bit. Self-Hosted 3: Home Network Under $200 — How far can you get with a Raspberry Pi 4? We go all in and find out. Self-Hosted 38: Crouching Pi, Hidden Server — Alex shocks Chris with his latest project, then lays down some quick-fire picks. A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15 — This is a ‘Linux Swiss Army Knife’, offering maximum utility while still being able to fit in your pocket. Is it fast? No. Can it
Mon, February 07, 2022
444: Much Ado About Ubuntu
There's just something off about Ubuntu these days, this week we put it all together. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Ubuntu MATE 22.04 Will Include Flatpak Support by Default — Ubuntu MATE isn’t shipping the Flathub repo (like Flathub) preconfigured, or bundling in any Flatpak apps by default. There are also no plans at present to add or expose Flatpak-friendly features in the distro’s homegrown tools like Software Boutique. Ubuntu 22.04 Dailies Show an Ubuntu Pro Notification on Login — The blurb mentions that Ubuntu Pro is free for personal use on up to 3 machines. Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager Kismet — A wireless network and device detector, sniffer, wardriving tool, and WIDS (wireless intrusion detection) framework. Slackware Release Announcement — Well folks, in spite of the dire predictions of YouTube pundits, this morning the Slackhog emerged from its development den, did *not* see its shadow, and Slackware 15.0 has been officially released. Slackware 15.0 Officially Released, Powered by Linux Kernel 5.15 LTS Grub Init Tune: Mario Bros. Mushroom Powerup Grub tune tester v0.5.0 A collection of GRUB init tunes
Mon, January 31, 2022
443: Linux Did This First
We all take it for granted, but it is one of the best things about Linux. We share the history of the live CD, how it all got started, and the times it saved our bacon. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Linux Live Kit is a set of shell scripts which allows you to create your own Live Linux! K3b — K3b was created to be a feature-rich and easy to handle CD burning application. Finnix — Finnix is the original utility live Linux distribution. Write it to a USB flash drive or burn it to a CD, boot it, and you're seconds from a root prompt with hundreds of utilities available for recovery, maintenance, testing and more. Finnix 123 released Cluster Knoppix Richard Brown on Twitter — Rebrand and rescope; Old expanded support was just RHEL and just for purpose of holding customers over until they migrated to SLE; Liberty includes CentOS and Leap, and doesn’t require customers to move to SLE. sc-im — Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised – An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal.
Mon, January 24, 2022
442: Liberty Leaks and Lies
SUSE had an awkward week; we breakdown the very mixed launch of SUSE Liberty Linux. Plus, we've cracked what's driving Linux Distribution adoption these days. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Pictures of Brent's Server Cabinet Built — Some pics of the sweet server cabinet @brentgervais built this last weekend at the @jupitersignal studio. Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup Flathub to verify first-party apps and allow developers to collect monies — Flathub is going to gain a way to process and verify apps from first-party teams. As in, developers who directly publish their app and manage the Flatpak package process for Flathub. SUSE Liberty Linux Announced For Mixed Linux Environments — SUSE Liberty Linux is a new technology and support offering that provides customers a unified support experience for managing their heterogeneous IT environments. SUSE announces something for those who miss the old CentOS: Liberty Linux — SUSE Liberty Linux is a new technology and support offering that provides customers a unified support experience for managing their heterogeneous IT environments. Consistent-Lab-5595 comments on Suse Liberty Linux announcement - Is this a RHEL or CentOS clone ? New Features in Linux Mint 20.3 ‘Una’ Cinnamon Edition — Linux Mint 20.3 is a long term support release which will be sup
Mon, January 17, 2022
441: Planet Incinerating Technology
We make some last-minute changes to our server setup and catch up on a bunch of thought-provoking feedback. Special Guests: Martin Wimpress and Neal Gompa. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Do You Put Linux/Distro Stickers On Your Machine? ChrisLAS Birthday Party Hang and Chow Jupiter Extras — Why Linux Will Win in 20 Years Denver Road Trip Memories — During our summer road trip to Denver we had the microphone's recording and captured some great moments. Denver Road Trip Tech — Our road trip machine is loaded up from solar to networking, the tech that made working, living, and recording from the road possible for 44 days and over 2,200 miles. Dev corrupts NPM libs ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ breaking thousands of apps Crypto Theses for 2022 Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index ZFS has a history of not handling 15+ drive vdevs well. bismuth — KDE Plasma extension, that lets you tile your windows automatically and manage them via keyboard, just like in classical tiling window managers (i3, dwm or XMonad). Ideas
Mon, January 10, 2022
440: Saving Podcasting from Centralization
A new initiative uses open source to keep podcasting decentralized and add new features. We chatted with Dave Jones behind the Podcast Index. Special Guest: Dave Jones. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Core Contributor Membership : Use promo code summer - Support the show, and take $1 off the lifetime of your membership! Promo Code: Summer Support LINUX Unplugged Links: ClockworkPi DevTerm ChrisLAS Birthday Party Hang and Chow | Meetup Jupiter Extras — Surprise podcasts from your friends at Jupiter Broadcasting Jupiter Extras: Why Linux Will Win in 20 Years Podcast Index Podping — Distributed notification system for new podcast episodes No Agenda Show Podcast Index - GitHub Podcasting 2.0 Podcast lightning-keysend — Send funds to a node without an invoice Hive Blockchain Castamatic Fountain — Share podcast clips and support your favourite creators directly with Bitcoin Podcast Index - Apps <a href="https://podcastindex-org.github.io/docs-api/#overview" title="Podcast Index
Mon, January 03, 2022
439: Double Server Jeopardy
Our new server setup is bonkers, but we love it. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Canonical Careers - Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager — We are excited to create the role of Desktop Gaming Product Manager, to make Ubuntu the best Linux desktop for gaming. Arch Wiki - ZFS Kindle Comic Converter — Kindle Comic Converter is an app that allows you to transform your PNG, JPG, GIF, CBZ, CBR and CB7 files into EPUB or MOBI format e-books. Preparing comics and manga for your E-Ink device was never easier. Kindle Comic Converter on Flathub Linux Action Show Season 2 preview… Kindle Oops — Bryan and Chris give you a preview on Season 2's first episode of The Linux Action Show! Watch a take that you won't see in the final episode.
Wed, December 29, 2021
438: Million-Dollar Predictions
We do our best to predict what will happen in 2022, and own up to what we thought might happen in 2021. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Drew DeVore, and Joe Ressington. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Updated Rust Code For Linux Kernel Patches Posted Dell Technologies Announces Completion of VMware Spin-off Pop!_OS's GNOME Shell Repo Steam Tracker
Wed, December 22, 2021
437: The 2021 Tuxies
It's the second annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, desktops, and services of 2021. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, December 15, 2021
436: Hop on Pop
We each try out the new Pop_OS! and Carl Richell from System76 joins us to get into the details. Plus why we feel Pop might be the new Ubuntu. Special Guest: Carl Richell. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Amazon Is Hiring DXVK, Mesa & Proton Linux Developers For Luna Cloud Gaming - Phoronix — As part of the work on Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service, the company has put out job openings of great match to our audience... An Amazon engineer did confirm that this indeed is for genuine Linux gaming engineers. New Server Christening Get Together — Lets get together, share some foods, and power up the new Jupiter Broadcasting local server. Then stick around and listen in to a live recording of LINUX Unplugged from the studio. System76 Blog — Pop!_OS 21.10 has landed! Pop!_OS 21.10 Introduces Mini Application Menu Jeremy Soller on Twitter — Pop switched the build system and repositories away from http://launchpad.net to our own system http://apt.pop-os.org/release for 21.10 in order to improve our control of package updates and reduce the time to build, test, and release them. It is not related to changing bases. Linode Security Digest December 12-19, 2021 Pop!_OS Auto Tiling Tutorial Recovery Partition - System76 Support — The Recovery Partition is a full copy of the Pop!_OS installation disk. It can be used exactly the same as if
Wed, December 08, 2021
435: Desktop Burnout
This was not the year of the Linux Desktop. We’ve been slacking on the mailbag, so we go on a feedback frenzy and answer some hard questions about desktop Linux. Special Guests: Carl George and Martin Wimpress. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Jupiter Signal Network Membership : Support all the shows, get all the perks, and save a bit for the holidays. Use promo code: thesignal Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Jupiter Extras: Cryptocurrency Chat with Chris Introducing CentOS Stream 9 — CentOS Stream is a continuous-delivery distribution providing each point-release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) EPEL 9 is now available! — This is the culmination of five months of work between the EPEL Steering Committee, the Fedora Infrastructure and Release Engineering team, and other contributors. Linux Action News 218 Linux Action News 064 LINUX Unplugged 387: Tumbling Into the New Year! Changes/Switch RPMs to zstd compression - Fedora Project Wiki Search through all the show notes of all the shows! Pick: audapolis — An editor for spoken-word audio with automatic transcription.
Wed, December 01, 2021
434: Endlessly Flat
The Director of EndlessOS joins us to respond to recent Flatpak criticism. We take the opportunity to expand on the overall effort to solve Linux fragmentation. Special Guests: Martin Wimpress, Neal Gompa, and Will Thompson. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Pocket Popcorn Computer — Finally, a handheld Linux device with a high-definition 1080p display and large battery life. Pocket P.C. is your hacker terminal on-the-go. On Flatpak disk usage and deduplication – Will Thompson’s GNOME-ish blog — There is a blog post doing the rounds asserting that Flatpak Is Not The Future. The post is really long, and it seems unlikely that I and the author will ever agree on this topic, so I’m only going to talk about a couple of paragraphs about disk usage and sharing of runtimes between apps which caught my eye. Bustle — Graphical D-Bus message analyser and profiler. Gnome Initial Setup Endless OS Foundation — Our mission is to help all people and communities connect with technology. Will sometimes does other stuff and writes about it Flatpak Is Not the Future - Ludocode — Flatpak calls itself “the future of application distribution”. I am not a fan. I’m going to outline here some of the technical, security and usability problems with Flatpak and others. I’ll try to avoid addressing “fixable” problems (like theming) and instead focus on fundamental problems inherent in their design. I aim to convince you that these are not the future of desktop Linux apps. docker-slim — Don’t change anything in your Docker container image and minify it by up to 30x <a href="https://flathub
Wed, November 24, 2021
433: The Lessons of Jellyfin
We revisit some old assumptions about the open-source Plex-alternative, Jellyfin. We each try it out, and along the way, gain a few insights about open source. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Register for Ohio LinuxFest 2021 Kodi “Matrix” 19.3 Release — Okay, we know that we've only just released 19.2, and some of you are probably even still waiting for that, but that's a big part of the reason we need to push out a new build. We still had some challenges with the Xbox release, and some other issues came to light that we didn't want to ignore - so, rather than get into platform-specific point releases, we thought we'd just nudge up to 19.3 and go for it. Jellyfin — Jellyfin is the volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached. Your media, your server, your way. Plex — Plex brings together all the media that matters to you. Your personal collection will look beautiful alongside stellar streaming content. Dual Gigabit Ethernet Carrier Board for Raspberry Pi CM4 4 with 4GB RAM/ 32GB eMMC — It features a variety of I/O peripherals such as MIPI CSI, MIPI DSI, micro-HDMI to connect displays/ cameras, a standard 9-pin USB 3.0 header for more USB expansion, a micro-SD card slot, and an FPC connector while maintaining a compact form factor! This board is ideal for HTPC makers, Linux developers, software router enthusiasts, and the majority of regular Raspberry Pi users. <a href="https://j
Wed, November 17, 2021
432: Three Tumbleweed Temptations
Can we live with openSUSE Tumbleweed? We try three different builds and prepare ourselves for our journey into SUSE land. Our setups, what we liked, and what we still need to figure out. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 2021 Tuxie Nominations are Open! SteamOS 3.0 will have an immutable filesystem - a first for arch? — During the Steam Deck Development live steam, Valve finally gave us some good news and said that SteamOS 3.0 will be generally available for everyone to install on their computers. They also revealed that SteamOS 3.0 will have an immutable root file system to prevent unauthorized access and use PipeWire for audio. Greg’s Company Buys Ads openSUSE Search Results — "Hey, @openSUSE have you been seeing a drop in downloads recently? I might know why..." They did this to AlmaLinux at the end of July. AlmaLinux AMA Setting up a containerized environment - openSUSE User Documentation Project Using the Linode Graphical Shell (Glish) How to switch from OpenSUSE Leap to Tumbleweed? Transactional Updates | Administration Guide | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 The Transactional Update Guide <a href="https://kubic.opensuse.org/documentation/man-pages/transactional-update.8.html" title="Manpage for
Wed, November 10, 2021
431: Command Line Love
Is the true path to mastering Linux fully embracing the command line? Why it's time to change our mindset about the terminal. Special Guests: Martin Wimpress and Neal Gompa. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 15th Red Planet flight 2021 Tuxie Nominations are Open System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based On GNOME — Word of System76 making their "own" desktop not based on GNOME does follow some recent friction between Pop!_OS and GNOME developers over their approach to theming and customizations. System76 Engineer Confirms Work on New Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based on GNOME Carl Richell on Twitter — We celebrated 16 years of @system76 today. It was a nice surprise. This is about a third of the team. While we’ve adapted to remote work well, I miss full-company events and hope we can get back to those soon. It’s Been 9 Years Since Valve Rolled Out The Steam Linux Beta — Over the past nine years Valve has done an incredible job advancing gaming for Linux and allowing it to reach heights never once imagined. As we move into 2022 and ten year
Wed, November 03, 2021
430: The Real Beefy Miracle
We check-in with Fedora Project lead Matthew Miller on the state of the project, then conduct our exit interview with Fedora 34, and review Fedora 35. What's new, what's changed, and what's broken. It's a Fedora special. Special Guests: Matthew Miller and Neal Gompa. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Core Contributor Membership : Use promo code summer - Support the show, and take $1 off the lifetime of your membership! Promo Code: Summer A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust — I've been working on a new operating system kernel Kerla, written from scratch in Rust which aims to be Linux-compatible at the ABI level. In other words, support running unmodified Linux binaries! Roving With Perseverance - NASA Mars — Displays including full-scale models of Perseverance and the Ingenuity Mars helicopter will be on exhibit in museums across the country The Museum of Flight – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program — NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter models will be on display, October 30, 2021 - April 3, 2022 Remote desktop and screen casting in Wayland - GNOME Wiki! — Remote desktop functionality is not implemented in mutter but in GNOME Remote Desktop. GNOME Remote Desktop currently supports "screen share", also known as "remote assistance" mode through VNC or RDP. VNC support is provided via LibVNCServer and RDP support is provided via FreeRDP.</
Wed, October 27, 2021
429: Starlink's Linux Secrets
We attempt a live production over Starlink, and dig into the secrets of this giant Linux network in space. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Some users experienced data loss on 21.10 Ubuntu Makes Firefox Snap Default in 21.10 How to Remove Firefox Snap from Ubuntu (21.10 +) And Alternatives Element One — Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place. Space Exploration Technologies on GitHub U-Boot Changes by SpaceX Linux Kernel Changes by SpaceX SpaceX openWRT Pull Requests PTP Changes by SpaceX <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/lw6yk1/notes_from_a_talk_given_by_then_head_of_software/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf" title="Notes from a talk given by then head o
Wed, October 20, 2021
428: Pi for the People
We try out POP!_OS on the Raspberry Pi 4, and chat with its creator Jeremy Soller from System76. Plus our thoughts on the perfect Linux laptop right now, and the clever initiative Valve just launched for the Deck. Special Guests: Jack Aboutboul, Jeremy Soller, and Neal Gompa. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: SpaceCadetPinball — Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows Pop!_OS Raspberry Pi 4 Beta — THIS IS A BETA. Bugs are expected and re-installs are likely. Pop!_OS Software Engineer Job Opening (Rust) Valve Launches “Steam Deck Verified” Program For Games That Run Well On The Steam Deck — Valve says they are reviewing the entire Steam catalog of games and will be categorizing each game for its level of compatibility with the Steam Deck. These ratings in turn will show up within the Steam Store and for users own game libraries. Apple Announces The M1 Pro / M1 Max, Asahi Linux Starts Eyeing Their Bring-Up — Meanwhile the Asahi Linux crew is preparing for their eventual bring-up of the new hardware. They have pre-ordered the M1 Pro MacBook Pro model and will be procuring the M1 Max model too. Hector Martin on Twitter — Asahi Linux on M1 Pro bring-up stream ~next week. Thanks to all my Patreon supporters for making this kind of
Wed, October 13, 2021
427: Life Changing Virtualization
Wimpy stops by with a new tool that will change your virtualization game, and we share our thoughts on Ubuntu 21.10 and take the flavor challenge. Special Guest: Martin Wimpress. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Carl George on Twitter — "I’ve been playing around with matplotlib to chart this data over time. Due to the difference in scale it’s necessary to split into different ranges. The “Liberty” systems started showing up in August, with a high of 79 systems the week of 2021-09-06 to 2021-09-12." Microsoft transforms the Windows Subsystem for Linux into a Windows 11 app — “Our goals are to make WSL in the Microsoft Store the best way to install and use WSL, as you’ll be able to get the latest updates fastest through that route, and in the long term we’d like to move WSL users to use the store version.” A preview of WSL in the Microsoft Store is now available! Craig Loewen on Twitter — "A preview of WSL inside of the Microsoft Store is now available for Windows 11 machines!" Hayden Barnes on Twitter — "So many new goodies today! WSL in the Store, WSLg bundled with WSL, new WSL2 kernel version, a bunch of fixes for ARM64 👀, wsl.exe --mount, and a handful of nice refinements and fixes." <a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/07/ubuntu-21-10-release-features" title="Ubuntu 21.10 Release Dat
Wed, October 06, 2021
426: This Old Linux PC
It's the worst time ever to upgrade or buy a new PC, so we cover our favorite tips for getting the most out of your current hardware. Then we pit a 2014 desktop against a 2021 laptop and find out if our old clunker can beat the Thinkpad. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Christian F.K. Schaller, Jack Aboutboul, and Martin Wimpress. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: It Seems Pop OS Linux Will Soon be Available on Raspberry Pi and Other ARM Devices — System76’s Principal Engineer and maintainer of Pop!_OS, Jeremy Soller shared a teaser photo on Twitter recently. PipeWire and fixing the Linux Video Capture stack — With PipeWire having stabilized a lot for audio now we feel the time has come to go back to the video side of PipeWire and work to improve the state-of-art for video capture handling under Linux. PipeWire Linux Action News 209 — Why Linus believes keeping Linux fun is critical, the massive investment Fedora is about to make in video, and why we suspect Cloudflare's R2 service will make Amazon squirm. AlmaLinux OS Foundation Membership Opens to the Public — An individual can qualify for membership as anyone who uses AlmaLinux OS, contributes to AlmaLinux OS, provides services to the AlmaLinux OS community or otherwise supports the AlmaLinux OS. All past and present contributors or mirror maintainers would qualify as Contributor members. <a href="https://a
Wed, September 29, 2021
425: Sad Server Stories
Sometimes things go wrong; this week, we admit we've got a problem. Plus new details about the Steam Deck everyone has missed, and an old friend stops by the show with an update. Special Guest: Danielle Foré. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Amazon’s Astro home robot is like having Alexa on wheels — Amazon claims the Astro can do a wide variety of things you might want from a home robot. It can map out your floor plan and obey commands to go to a specific room. It can recognize faces and deliver items to a specific person. “Intel Software Defined Silicon” Coming To Linux For Activating Extra Licensed Hardware Features — The Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) driver is for supporting the "post-manufacturing mechanism for activating additional silicon features." One of the Steam Deck’s biggest hurdles just disappeared: EAC has come to Linux and BattlEye is inbound — While developers would still need to patch their games, this immediately means some of the most popular games on Steam are now theoretically within reach, including Apex Legends, Dead by Daylight, and War Thunder, which are all among the top 25 games on Steam. Syscall User Dispatch — The Linux Kernel documentation — Compatibility layers like Wine need a way to efficiently em
Wed, September 22, 2021
424: Space for Theming
A serious problem is brewing in Desktop Linux that hasn't impacted end users yet, but will soon. We break down why distribution makers are getting upset and explain what's next. Plus, an update on Matrix and the recent upgrades we made to our server. Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Joshua Strobl. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Building an Alternative Ecosystem | Joshua Strobl — While we have been consistent in this vision, though certainly not without flaws in its execution, we have seen a significant shift from GNOME’s development efforts and vision being focused from their desktop experience, to a heavier focus on mobile-to-desktop application scalability and a more touch-oriented, almost iPadOS like user experience that does not (in our opinion) provide the most optimized experience for laptop and desktop users. The Truth they are not telling you about “Themes” – Rust in Peace — There seems to be some confusion when it comes to libadwaita’s stylesheet and coloring APIs. Red Hat’s Upstream Contributions Are Making For A Great Fedora Workstation 35 - Phoronix — Fedora Workstation 35 will hopefully be out at the end of October (currently the beta is running behind schedule) and when it does ship it's once again at the bleeding-edge of Linux features. GNOME 41 has new multitasking settings! <a href="https://seagl.org/" title="SeaGL is coming up
Wed, September 15, 2021
423: What Makes a Linux User?
Why it might be time to re-think who is and who is not a Linux user, plus we do a reality check on the state of Linux phones. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Email from Purism — As previously announced, we will be increasing prices for all new orders of the Librem 5 in stages (the phone will be priced at $1199 from all orders received on or after Nov 1st, 2021 and we expect this price to go upward to $1299 in March 2022) as component prices change and as we deliver greater quantities of product. Linux Phones | Madaidan’s Insecurities — Linux phones lack any significant security model and the points from the Linux article apply to Linux phones fully. There is not yet a single Linux phone with a sane security model. Linux kernel needs more phones and tablets, says developer — "Especially for guys even running upstream kernel on RPI CM4 like me, more ARM devices with upstream kernel support will just be more happiness. Not to mention this also means super long time support, way longer than the lifespan of those devices." Steam Deck dev-kits are on the move Valve say, as some already have it — "All packaged up and ready for devs! This is one of the limited batches of Steam Deck dev-kits heading out today for partners to test their games." POKE 756,224 on Twitter — @ChrisLAS I admire your quest to get
Wed, September 08, 2021
422: The Fun Distro
We try out what might be the most fun Linux distribution around. It started as a laugh, but now we’re in love. Plus, the reunion road trip hits a bump, some community news, feedback, picks, and more. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : Students will install and configure various use cases for Apache, Squid, and NGINX, including virtual hosts, proxy and reverse proxy servers, HTTPS/SSL, and load balancing. We’ll also discuss how to collect Apache metrics, as well as the differences between Apache and NGINX. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: The Light Phone — The Light Phone II is a premium, minimal phone. It will never have social media, clickbait news, email, an internet browser, or any other anxiety-inducing infinite feed. Ingenuity Is So Good, NASA’s Mars Helicopter Mission Just Got an Exciting Update — Given its stunning and unexpected success, NASA has extended Ingenuity's mission indefinitely. KDE’s Plasma Wayland Session Is “Finally Reaching Stability” Following Many Fixes — "Gazillions of bugfixes...Including many for the Plasma Wayland session! It’s finally reaching stability. I know it’s taken a while, but I think we’re very nearly there!" This week in KDE: gazillions of bugfixes Nftables reaches 1.0 — The release of nftables 1.0.0 can be seen as a signal that it is time for the laggards to get more serious about making the switch. While it is hard to imagine iptables support being removed anytime soon, it's rather easier to foresee that enthusi
Tue, August 31, 2021
421: Server Savior Squad
A surprise server outage at the studio requires we jump into action with a few last-minute solutions and deploy one of our favorite open-source tools. Plus some community news, handy picks, emails, and more. It's a special edition of the Unplugged show. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. New JB Stickers : Own a bit of Jupiter Broadcasting history, while making way for the new! A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: SCO v. IBM settlement deal is done — Documents filed in the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware last week suggest a settlement payment of just $14.25 million will see the matter closed. ChrisLAS on Twitter — "My spot to record in Arizona today." Ventoy Adds a Web GUI — Ventoy now ships with a web-based graphical user interface since version 1.0.36. Ventoy — Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. “Apps For GNOME” Launches To Highlight GNOME Apps — There hasn't been a comprehensive, modern, user-friendly web-site for outlining all of the GNOME apps and inviting participation until now with this Apps for GNOME. Apps for GNOME — Discover the best Apps for GNOME. nebula — A scalable overlay networking tool with
Wed, August 25, 2021
420: Real People Are Out There
We share some stories from our Denver meetup, the strange reason we found ourselves at a golf course, and some news you should know. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. New JB Stickers : Own a bit of Jupiter Broadcasting history, while making way for the new! A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Brent Gervais on Twitter Stickers | Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale JB Telegram Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse jonhat on Twitter — Need local admin and have physical access? Plug a Razer mouse (or the dongle), windows Update will download and execute RazerInstaller as SYSTEM, then abuse elevated Explorer to open Powershell with Shift+Right click. Join us for dinner 4:30 local time at TheViewHouse in Colorado Springs Btrfs Set To Land Support For IDMAPPED Mounts In Linux 5.15 — Back when IDMAPPED mounts functionality was added to the Linux kernel, the initial implementation came for FAT and EXT4. XFS support has also been in th
Wed, August 18, 2021
419: What's Cookin' at System76
Live from Denver, we chat with old friends and new. We get the inside scope on what has been going on at System76, and what's coming up next. Plus we catch up with a few members of our crew, and find out what Linux tech they're loving these days. Special Guests: Aaron Honeycutt, Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Carl Richell, Cassidy James Blaede, chzbacon, and Ian Santopietro. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Gadgetbridge for android — Gadgetbridge is an Android (4.4+) application which will allow you to use your Pebble, Mi Band, Amazfit Bip and HPlus device (and more) without the vendor's closed source application and without the need to create an account and transmit any of your data to the vendor's servers. tldr: Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands — The tldr-pages project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools, that aims to be a simpler, more approachable complement to traditional man pages. Energy Management in Home Assistant — Today’s release of Home Assistant Core 2021.8 contains a new energy dashboard. The goal is to make it super easy for users to get insight into their energy usage. Death of man pages? — "I'm seeing a sad pattern lately. Software for Linux is being distributed for Linux as containers such as flatpaks, appimages, etc. or as straight binaries but the documentation that come with these formats in very limited or non-existent. I've also not seen any applications distributed this way contain man pages." <a href="https://www.jupitergarage.com/category/stickers" title="Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale Stickers" rel="nofollow"
Wed, August 11, 2021
418: What's up with WireGuard
Big things are happening in the world of WireGuard, Jim Salter joins to catch us up. Plus we chat with Daniel Foré and Cassidy James Blaede about the just released elementary OS 6. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, and Jim Salter. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Denver Meetup Jupiter Garage Stickers JB Telegram Group Principal Software Engineer in Redmond, Washington, United States elementary OS 6 Odin Available Now — It’s been a long road to elementary OS 6 but it’s finally here. elementary OS 6 Odin is available to download now. And it’s the biggest update to the platform yet! Valve working with AMD to support Windows 11 on Steam Deck — “There’s work looking at TPM just now. We’ve focused so much on Windows 10, so far, that we haven’t really gotten that far into it. Our expectation is that we can meet that.” Valve dumped Debian Linux for Arch Linux with SteamOS 3 because surprise - faster updates — "We were making a bunch of updates and changes to specifically make sure that things work well for
Wed, August 04, 2021
417: Run Every Distro At Once
Yabba Dabba Distro! Run every major distribution on one native host. How we hijacked a Fedora install and turned it into the ultimate meta Linux box. Plus Valve and AMD team up to improve Linux performance and the duct-tape solution holding our server together. Special Guests: Brent Gervais and paradigm. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. New JB Stickers : We've got new high-res stickers in the Garage, grab more than one and the shipping savings is NICE. A Cloud Guru : This course is designed to be a deep dive into the topic of systemd, the most widely used service management scheme in Linux today. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale Stickers Salt Lake City Meetup Denver Meetup Meetup AMD + Valve Working On New Linux CPU Performance Scaling Design — Along with other optimizations to benefit the Steam Deck, AMD and Valve have been jointly working on CPU frequency/power scaling improvements to enhance the Steam Play gaming experience on modern AMD platforms running Linux. Linux has finally hit that almost mythical 1% user share on Steam again — If we take how many monthly active users Steam has which Valve reported at over 120 million at the start of this year, that would give us an estimated 1,204,000 monthly active Linux users on Steam. <a href="https://www.space.com/amp/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-raised-ridges-video" title="Wat
Wed, July 28, 2021
416: Server Meltdown
We try to pull off a show while recovering from an epic server crash. Then we build the ultimate remote Linux desktop—in the cloud! Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Entropy : 15% off your first project a mobile app, a web app, a Linux app, anything! Promo Code: LUP13 A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Live Starlink Satellite Map Salt Lake City Meetup Denver Meetup Meetup Framework Laptop review: pick your ports — In other words, upgradability is the reason to buy the Framework laptop. Latest Framework Laptop DIY Edition/Linux topics — Setup guides, advice, troubleshooting, and more, for those of us who use Linux-based Operating Systems on our Framework Laptops. Which Linux distribution do you want to use on your Framework Laptop? [Video] A COMPLETELY Upgradeable Laptop? Framework: The Touchpad and Fingerprint Reader — If you’re a Linux user, we’ve got you covered too! Our firmware lead Kieran
Wed, July 21, 2021
415: Something Sinister Below Deck
Could the Steam Deck mean fewer native Linux games? We chat with prolific game developer Ethan Lee and get his perspective on the negative impacts of the Deck. Plus, our thoughts on how Valve might successfully ship Arch to consumers, a batch of feedback, and more. Special Guest: Ethan Lee. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Entropy : 15% off your first project a mobile app, a web app, a Linux app, anything! Promo Code: LUP13 A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: CBL-Mariner Stories microsoft/CBL-Mariner — Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances Linux Action News 186 Ethan Lee on Twitter — "If you have released a Linux version of your game on Steam and are directly approached by Valve about using Proton instead, please get in touch (DMs open). They’ve already done this a few times, but I would like to see how aggressive they’re planning to be going forward." Ethan “flibitijibibo” Lee May Retire from Programming Due to Valve’s Proton Destination Linux 235 — Valve’s Steam Deck & Right To Repair Goes Mainstream Rocky and Gred Spin BS to avoid coming on LUP <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AlmaLinux
Wed, July 14, 2021
414: Linux's Awkward News Phase
Have you noticed the Linux news has gotten a little weird? Michael Tunnell joins us to break down the changes we've observed over the last year. Plus, we set up private and secure location tracking and tell you how and why. Special Guest: Michael Tunnell. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Entropy : 15% off your first project a mobile app, a web app, a Linux app, anything! Promo Code: LUP13 A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: NASA is mapping out plans for bigger, more capable Mars helicopters — One concept is the Mars Science Helicopter, advocated as a way to greatly expand the exploration zone on Mars — including possible deep dives into Red Planet caves. This Week in Linux - TuxDigital — This Week in Linux is a weekly news show that covers the latest news in the world of Linux. We cover a wide variety of topics from application / distro releases to Linux Gaming and even news about core system items like the Linux kernel itself. Destination Linux Network — DLN is a media network powered by Linux & Open Source designed to bring passionate creators together to spread our love of open-source, technology, and Linux. Salt Lake City Meetup Denver Meetup Meetup Colony Tracker . LIVE — Track the Colony and join us for Micro Meetups! <a href="https://owntracks.org/" title="OwnTracks" rel="
Wed, July 07, 2021
413: Community of Enterprise Linux
Linux server admins don't know where to turn next; how the cult of personality might be shaping Linux's most important market. Special Guest: Jack Aboutboul. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Entropy : 15% off your first project a mobile app, a web app, a Linux app, anything! Promo Code: LUP13 A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: name cannot be blank on Twitter — "The Linux Foundation announced a game engine, the build instructions are only for Windows 🤦♂️🤦♂️” Linux Foundation to Form New Open 3D Foundation IBM President and former Red Hat boss Jim Whitehurst quits — The CEO said Whitehurst had "played a pivotal role in the IBM and Red Hat integration" and was "instrumental in articulating IBM’s strategy" but alas "Jim has decided to step down". (YouTube) What I learned from giving up everything I knew as a leader | Jim Whitehurst | TED Institute Salt Lake City Meetup Denver Meetup Meetup Rocky Linux Community Update — After seven months of long, hard work, we are beyo
Wed, June 30, 2021
412: Going Deepin on Fuchsia
Is Fuchsia a risk to Linux? We try out a cutting-edge Fuchsia desktop and determine if it is a long-term threat to Linux. Plus, have we all been missing the best new Linux distribution? We give this fresh distro a spin and report. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Core Contributor Membership : Use promo code summer - Support the show, and take $1 off the lifetime of your membership! Promo Code: Summer A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Linux 5.13 Released With Apple M1 Bringup, Landlock, FreeSync HDMI + Much More — There are also new Linux 5.13 security features like the Landlock LSM, Clang CFI support, and optionally randomizing the kernel stack offset at each system call. The 5.13 kernel has been released PipeWire 0.3.31 Released — JACK has seen massive stability improvements. Locking and correctness wrt to callbacks and has been reworked. Also thread priorities have improved. PipeWire Project on Twitter — Important change in PipeWire 0.3.31 is that we now have a database of weird Bluetooth hardware. This allows us to apply device specific tweaks to work around issues. This database is from Android and should let us support more devices seamlessly. Real-time audio streaming with ROC <a href="https://9to5linux.com/deepin-linux-20-2-2-introduces-a-brand-new-app-st
Wed, June 23, 2021
411: The Best of Both OSs
Is it possible to have Arch’s best feature on other Linux distros? We attempt it and report our findings. Plus our reaction to NVIDIA’s beta Wayland support–is this the milestone we’ve been waiting for? Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Core Contributor Membership : Use promo code summer - Support the show, and take $1 off the lifetime of your membership! Promo Code: Summer A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Salt Lake City Meetup Denver Meetup Christian Schaller on Twitter — We been working closely with NVidia over the last year to prepare the ground for full NVidia driver Wayland support, including XWayland. Today NVidia released the first beta driver of that work. Xwayland support in Fedora with the NVIDIA 470 series driver — Please help us test this support for hardware acceleration with the NVIDIA proprietary driver in Xwayland, and report issues for Xwayland in Fedora bugzilla. NVIDIA DRIVERS Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver BETA Fedora Cloud Btrfs By Default - Fedora Project Wiki — For cloud installs of Fedora, we wa
Wed, June 16, 2021
410: Ye Olde Linux Distro
We revisit the seminal distros that shaped Linux’s past. Find out if these classics still hold up. Plus the outrageous bounty on a beloved Linux desktop app. Special Guest: Gary Kramlich. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Core Contributor Membership : Use promo code summer - Support the show, and take $1 off the lifetime of your membership! Promo Code: Summer A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web’s inventor is selling its original code as an NFT — Comprising over 9.500 lines of code, the files contain the basis of the languages and protocols underpinning the internet as we know it: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Universal Document Identified (URI). Meetup: Salt Lake City — Saturday, August 7, 2021, 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM PDT. Meetup: Denver — Friday, August 20, 2021, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM PDT. Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup Page Pidgin: the universal chat client — Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on XMPP and sitting in an IRC channel at the same time. Pidgin contributors: grim — Long time contrib
Wed, June 09, 2021
409: Launch Your Memories Into the Future
We discuss old and new ways to manage, organize, index, and search your photo collection. It's our favorite Google Photo's alternatives. Plus Chris' hands-on review of System76's customizable Launch keyboard. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. New JB Stickers : Own a bit of Jupiter Broadcasting history, while making way for the new! A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Google Photos is so 2020—welcome to the world of self-hosted photo management | Ars Technica — Alex's comprehensive write-up for Ars. rclone Google Photos — The rclone backend for Google Photos is a specialized backend for transferring photos and videos to and from Google Photos. Launch keyboard — The Launch Configurable Keyboard is engineered to be comfortable, fully customizable, and make your workflow more efficient. Updated storage policy for Google Photos Plans & Pricing - Google One Install Google Photos Sync on Linux with a Snap How To Backup Google Photos To Your Computer With gphotos-sync <a href="https://github.
Tue, June 01, 2021
408: Linux Road Warrior
We’re joined by a special guest who’s built his very own Linux battle bus. We get the technical details on how Linux is at the core of this open road machine. Special Guest: Aaron Bockelie. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Aaron Bockelie on LinkedIn Broccolibus6 on Instagram Aaron Bockelie on GitHub Home Assistant Conference – broccolibus.com — Today I will be presenting a short talk about our bus’s Home Assistant development. [YouTube] High Tech School Bus Conversion - Nissan Leaf Powered Tiny House For Family Of 6 — Aaron and his family of 6 live in their 40ft. Bluebird bus, which serves as an amazing home and gives them the ability to see the country. Aaron works full-time from the bus as a way to fund their adventures and they homeschool their 4 children. Pepwave MAX Transit DUO “PrimeCare Edition” Dual Modem LTE-A — The Peplink Pepwave Max Transit LTE-Advanced DUO PrimeCare Edition is a serious mobile router for the advanced user. Venus GX - Victron Energy — The Venus GX is the communication-centre of your installation. Venus allows you to talk to all components in your
Tue, May 25, 2021
407: And the Answer is...
From our origins with Linux to preparing your home LAN for a solar storm, it’s an Ask us Anything special edition! Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. MailRoute : Try out MailRoute today and get 10% off the lifetime of your account and start with a 30-day free trial, no credit card required. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Pick: termbin.com — Netcat-based command line pastebin.
Wed, May 19, 2021
406: Mars Goes to Shell
Tim Canham, Mars Helicopter Operations Lead at NASA’s JPL joins us again to share technical details you've never heard about the Ingenuity Linux Copter on Mars. And the challenges they had to work around to achieve their five successful flights. Special Guest: Tim Canham. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. MailRoute : Try out MailRoute today and get 10% off the lifetime of your account and start with a 30-day free trial, no credit card required. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight — NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Completes First One-Way Trip NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity lands at new airfield after 5th flight NASA’s Perseverance Captures Video, Audio of Fourth Ingenuity Flight Ingenuity Helicopter Operational History — Ingenuity's fifth flight succeeded on May 7, 2021, 19:26 UTC, lasting 108 seconds. Ingenuity went 5 meters (16 ft) high, just like the last three flights, a
Wed, May 12, 2021
405: Distro in the Rough
We’re taking a look at an underdog distro. We may have found a diamond in the rough with a few tricks up its filesystem. Plus our review of the ODROID-Go Super an Ubuntu-powered handheld, and our tools for laptop battery health. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. MailRoute : Try out MailRoute today and get 10% off the lifetime of your account and start with a 30-day free trial, no credit card required. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Sensory’s custom voice assistant debuts on a Linux-based microwave — Sensory announced that its 100 percent locally processed TrulyHandsfree technology can be used to create custom voice assistants without sacrificing privacy, as demonstrated in a new Linux-based Farberware FM11VABK microwave. Ask LUP Anything - AskLUP.COM ODROID-GO Super ODROID-GO Super Dim Gray EmulationStation — A graphical and themeable emulator front-end that allows you to access all your favorite games in one place, even without a keyboard! ODROID Image for ES SegaCD missing BIOS (linked) - ODROID JB Telegram <li
Wed, May 05, 2021
404: You've Got Mail
It's episode III, Return of the Email. Everyone says never host your own email, so we're doin it. We just have one last job to complete. Special Guest: Danielle Foré. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. MailRoute : Try out MailRoute today and get 10% off the lifetime of your account and start with a 30-day free trial, no credit card required. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: elementary OS 6 Beta Available Today — Developers and testers, it’s the day you’ve been waiting for: elementary OS 6 Beta is available now! elementary Builds Get Involved with elementary OS — Everything that we make is 100% open source and developed collaboratively by people from all over the world. Even if you're not a programmer, you can get involved and make a difference. Audacity & MuseScore Announcement! — Audacity has just joined Muse Group, a collection of brands that includes another popular open source music app called MuseScore. (Video) I’m now in charge of Audacity. Seriously. Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale RainLoop docker-compose YAML roundcubemail-docker —
Wed, April 28, 2021
403: Hidden Features of Fedora 34
The new release of Fedora has more under the hood than you might know. It's a technology-packed release, and nearly all of it is coming to a distro near you. Plus the questions we think the University of Minnesota kernel ban raises, and more. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. MailRoute : Try out MailRoute today and get 10% off the lifetime of your account and start with a 30-day free trial, no credit card required. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Thoughts on The University of Minnesota Kernel Ban Some 5.12 development statistics — By the time the 5.12 kernel was finally released, some 13,015 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline repository for this development cycle. That makes 5.12 the slowest development cycle since 5.6, which was released at the end of March 2020. Still, there was plenty of work done for 5.12. Linux 5.12 Release Announcement As Linux 5.12 released, Linus Torvalds warns next version will probably be rather large — "'Despite the extra week, this was actually a fairly small release overall. Judging by Linux-next, 5.13 will be making up for it." Flatpak 1.11.1 Brings Changes For Steam, Better Support For Command Line Programs — One of the changes with Flatpak 1.11.1 worth mentioning is allowing sub-sandboxes to have a different /usr and/or /app. <a hr
Wed, April 21, 2021
402: Our Worst Idea Yet
You should never host your own email, so we’ve gone and done just that. What we learned trying to build an email server in 2021. Plus our take on Ubuntu 21.04, become a master of your schedule with our pick, and a Garage Sale update. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. MailRoute : Try out MailRoute today and get 10% off the lifetime of your account and start with a 30-day free trial, no credit card required. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Hirsute Hippo Release Notes — These release notes for Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) provide an overview of the release and document the known issues with Ubuntu and its flavours. Ubuntu 21.04 Release Date & New Features - OMG! Ubuntu! Announcing the Ubuntu Desktop Team Indaba (AMA) - April 23, 2021 @ 3PM UTC — This will be a live stream featuring members of the Ubuntu Desktop Team and members of the community. We will include special guests from the community as well as take questions from via live chat. LINUX Unplugged 396: How Linux Got to Mars — Tim Canham, the Mars Helicopter Operations Lead, shares Linux’s origins at JPL and how it ended up running on multiple boxes on Mars. Nasa successfully flies small helicopter on Mars — The drone, called Ingenuity, was airborne for less than a minute, but Nasa is c
Wed, April 14, 2021
401: Own Your Mailbox
Do as we say, not as we do. This week we're setting off to host our own email. We'll cover the basics, what's we're using, and why. Plus an update on Jupiter Broadcasting going independent, community news, and more. Special Guest: Martin Wimpress. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. New JB Stickers : Own a bit of Jupiter Broadcasting history, while making way for the new! A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Google Online Security Blog: Rust in the Android platform — We're excited to announce that the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) now supports the Rust programming language for developing the OS itself. Mike Kelly on Twitter — I’ve been curious to try out @rustlang and wanted to celebrate @LinuxUnplugged episode 400… so I combined both in a silly fun little project. Check it out… a mini-website powered by Rust… @ChrisLAS and @wespayne would be proud! Mars Helicopter Flight Delayed — During a high-speed spin test of the rotors on Friday, the command sequence controlling the test ended early due to a “watchdog” timer expiration. Work Progresses Toward Ingenuity’s First Flight on Mars — Over the weekend, the team considered and tested multiple potential solutions to this issue, concluding that minor modification and reinstallation of Ingenuity’s flight control software is the most robust path forward. All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows Mailcow.email — The mailserver suite with the ‘mo
Wed, April 07, 2021
400: The See Ya Next Tuesday
Old friends and new join us on a quest to celebrate four hundred episodes. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Corry Clinton, Drew DeVore, and Graham Morrison. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : This is the Exam Prep and Final Exam course for the SUSE Certified Administrator in Enterprise Linux 15 exam, 050-754. LUP LUG Beer Stein : Share a brew with the Virtual LUG! Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Too Much Choice | LINUX Unplugged — Does the Linux community lean on the age old excuse of choice, to brush of the real limitations of desktop Linux environments? We debate that, and then discuss the growing reasons to roll your own email server. Still Minty Fresh | LINUX Unplugged 100 — We reflect on 100 episodes of LINUX Unplugged, the themes from episodes past & then review Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon edition. Gallaghers’ Where U Brew — We are a family (and dog!) friendly tap room and brewery, working to make your DIY brewing experience a successful, positive, uplifting and rewarding pursuit of fabulously great beer, extraordinarily fine wine or cider, and even root beer! Cloudron Solution for Self-Hosting Web Appplications — Cloudron is a turnkey solution for running apps like WordPress, Rocket.Chat, NextCloud, GitLab, OpenVPN & many more. LINUX Unplugged Beer Stein Name the LUP 400 Beer - Straw Poll
Wed, March 31, 2021
399: No PRs Please
Lutris developer Mathieu Comandon joins us to share his perspective on the uncomfortable issues facing Linux desktop developers. Plus the tech behind Shells.com, community news, feedback, and more. Special Guests: Mathieu Comandon and Zlatan Todorić. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 68k.news — Headlines From the Future Linux Action News 182 — GNOME 40 is out and we chat with the project’s Executive Director about the technical and visual improvements in the new release. Plus the facts around RMS’s return to the FSF board, and our analysis of the situation. Episode 118 — Stallman is back and ruffling feathers, PHP moves to GitHub, AMP might be on its way out, Audacity’s latest update gives us pause, Fairphone delivers an unlikely update, online events, and more. AlmaLinux OS Stable Release is live! — We are very happy to announce that today we are releasing the first AlmaLinux OS stable version. That's right, you can go right ahead and download the stable version and use it everywhere you need a stable, reliable, Linux distribution. Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week — Ubuntu and its flavors will be participating in another ‘Ubuntu Testing Week’ from April 1st to April 7th. Shells — Personal Workspaces Powered by Cloud Computers. An Interview With Zlatan Todoric, Open-Source Developer & Former Purism CTO Diversity
Wed, March 24, 2021
398: Back in the Freedom Dimension
We share our favorite networking trick of all time, and then chat with the blokes behind a new WireGuard-powered service. Plus our reaction to RMS's return to the FSF, some big project updates, picks, and more! Special Guests: Dalton Durst and Danielle Foré. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Microsoft Said to Discuss Discord Bid for Over $10 Billion — “Microsoft possibly acquiring Discord makes a lot of sense as it continues to reshape its gaming business more toward software and services”. [Video] Richard Stallman is Back edw · elementary Developer Weekend — This conference is our way of reaching out to app developers, sharing the knowledge we’ve all collected over the years, and providing a space to ask questions and provide feedback. Ubuntu Touch OTA-16 Release — Today we are happy to announce the release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-16, our sixteenth stable update to the system! Linux Action News 181 Forthcoming OpenSSL release — OpenSSL 1.1.1k is a security-fix release. The highest severity issue fixed in this release is HIGH. Initial Support For The Rust Language Lands In Linux-Next — While no fully-baked Rust kernel driver is ready yet, the initial merge to Linux-Next does include an example kernel module written in Rust. <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/linus-torvalds-on-where-rust-will-fit-into-linux/" title="Linus Torvalds
Wed, March 17, 2021
397: Linux Desktop Levels Up
We break down the next-level features coming to a Linux near you in just a few weeks. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Virtual x86 — v86 emulates an x86-compatible CPU and hardware. Machine code is translated to WebAssembly modules at runtime in order to achieve decent performance. The Linux desktop is boring again — Where I was once a constant "fiddler" with my desktop, I now want the interface to work how I want it to work, but still look the way I want it to look. I'm more of a minimalist now, so GNOME suits my needs on both levels quite well. However, I find myself rather bored with the Linux desktop. What to look for in Fedora Workstation 34 — Christian F.K. Schaller — The big ticket item we have wanted to close off on was Wayland, because while Wayland has been production ready for most of us for a while, there was still some cases it didn’t cover as well as X.org. Christian Schaller on Twitter — 2020 was a year where we focused a lot on polishing what we had and getting things past the finish line and Fedora Workstation 34 is going to be the culmination of that effort in many ways. GNOME 40 Introducing Headless Native Backend, Virtual Monitors — As part of this headless native back-end is also the ability to create virtual monitors via command-line options for debugging and other purposes. This also allows creating virtual monitor PipeWire streams. What’s New in Libhandy 1.2 <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/alexm/2021/03/13/reinventing-tabs/" title="Reinventing
Wed, March 10, 2021
396: How Linux Got to Mars
Tim Canham, the Mars Helicopter Operations Lead, shares Linux’s origins at JPL and how it ended up running on multiple boxes on Mars. Plus the challenges Linux still faces before its ready for mission-critical space exploration. Special Guest: Tim Canham. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Debian running on Rust coreutils — tldr: uutils/coreutils is now available in Debian, good enough to boot a Debian with GNOME, install the top 1000 packages, build Firefox, the Linux Kernel and LLVM/Clang. uutils/coreutils — An attempt at writing universal (as in cross-platform) CLI utilities in Rust. Steam Link now available on Linux — Special thanks to Collabora for helping make this possible. Steamlink Repo Steam Link on Flathub Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games to Run on Linux — Proton has been receiving many updates in the past few months as well, with the introduction of the Soldier Linux runtime container and Proton Experimental on top of the regular Proton releases. Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer | Linode JB Telegram All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/press-re
Wed, March 03, 2021
395: The Waybig Machine
It's our worst idea yet. We share the password to our brand-new server and see who can own the box first. Whoever wins gets a special prize. Plus how Archive.org uses Linux, and more. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Carl George, and Neal Gompa. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: tsukae — Show off your most used shell commands GNOME Shell X11Gestures Wxtension — Enable GNOME Shell multi-touch gestures on X11 with this extension. TouchEgg — Touchégg is an app that runs in the background and transform the gestures you make on your touchpad or touchscreen into visible actions in your desktop. Apple Touch Bar Linux Driver Hopes For Upstream In 2021 — Sent out on Saturday by independent developer Ronald Tschalär was the latest reverse-engineered, open-source driver code that gets the Touch Bar and ALS support working for MacBook Pro 13,* / 14,* / 15,* models. Internet Archive Infrastructure — Jonah Edwards breaks down how the Internet Archive works, behind the scenes. jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows liamg/traitor — Automatic Linux privesc via exploitation of low-hanging fruit e.g. gtfobins. Don't expose the Docker socket (not even to a container) — Docker primarily works as a client that communicates with a daemon process (dockerd). Typically that socket is a UNIX domain socket called /var/run/docker.sock. That daemon is highly privileged; effectively having root acc
Wed, February 24, 2021
394: Tempted But the Truth is Discovered
After all these years, what's made us stick with Linux? Plus the commitment just made by the GNOME team, and some new tools that are changing our game. Special Guest: Drew DeVore. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : The Cloud is growing, and so is the demand for skilled cloud professionals. Grow your skills — and your career. Get 20% off access to the most effective, hands-on cloud learning. Promo Code: springintocloud21 Datadog : Datadog - the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Nvidia is nerfing its new RTX 3060 for Ethereum cryptocurrency mining — Nvidia is purposefully making its new RTX 3060 graphics cards less efficient to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency. New drivers that will accompany the release of the GPUs later this month will reduce the hash rate of Ethereum mining by around 50 percent, using software detection for cryptocurrency mining. Linux has made it to Mars — “It’s kind of an open-source victory, because we’re flying an open-source operating system and an open-source flight software framework and flying commercial parts that you can buy off the shelf if you wanted to do this yourself someday.” Linux Action News 177 — We share some exclusive details about the Linux-powered gear that just landed on Mars, and the open-source frameworks that make it possible. [Video] NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sends New Video and Images of the Red Planet <a href="https://openbuil
Wed, February 17, 2021
393: Perfecting Our Plasma
Something special has been achieved this week, a new benchmark in the desktop experience. We dig in. And why everyone will be looking for an open-source LastPass alternative. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Datadog : Datadog - the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: AmpliPi - Home Audio System — Kickstarter — One thing that sets apart the AmpliPi design is that we have made it open source, from the software, to the firmware, to the schematics. The REST API and Web App are written in Python and run on a Raspberry Pi 3+ Compute Module. The Coder — The Coder is made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear. Embroidered on the left chest with a classic white on black Coder Radio logo. Windows Refund Day — For those who hadn't heard the story, February 15th 1999 was windows refund day. It was a worldwide day when open source OS users went to microsoft's offices to return their unused licenses of windows that they were forced to acquire since they were bundled with the machine they bought. VLC 4.0 is coming later this year with a new UI, focus on online video and security — The new version will also focus more on playing videos from the Internet, relying on extensions to find third-party content. The team is also worki
Wed, February 10, 2021
392: Dad's Deployments
Which distro is best for friends and family? We have a unique take on this common question. Plus new insights into the future of CentOS, and Chris falls in love with a 14-inch screamer. Special Guest: Carl George. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Datadog : Datadog - the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. A Cloud Guru : By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: The unanswered question at CentOS community Q&A: How can we trust you now? — The CentOS board conducted a public Q&A just ahead of last week's FOSDEM 2021 open source conference – and there was an awkward silence when someone asked whether changing the end-of-life (EOL) date for a released project is something that might happen again. Events/Dojo/FOSDEM2021 - CentOS Wiki CentOS Dojo 2021: Board of Directors - YouTube Ubuntu Backports a Major App Update to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS — Ubuntu 20.04 LTS shipped with Thunderbird 68.x but this version is no longer supported upstream. This leaves Ubuntu developers will a problem: backport individual security fixes to Thunderbird 68, or port the newer (and still-supported) Thunderbird 78 to LTS users? Subscribe to Coder Radio Jupiter Broadcasting
Wed, February 03, 2021
391: GNOME 40ified
We try out GNOME 40 and its new workspace layout. Who we think this works well for, and who might want to avoid it. Plus Wimpy, Ubuntu's Desktop lead, chats with us about his future after Canonical. Special Guests: Carl George and Martin Wimpress. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Oh Dear : Oh Dear monitors uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, scheduled tasks, and more. We send out notifications when something's wrong. All that paired with a developer-friendly API and kick-ass documentation. Promo Code: LINUX A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: VideoLAN is 20 years old! Refreshing the Ubuntu Desktop Installer — We have started working on the new desktop installer, and plan to have a preliminary version ready for testing in the 21.10 release; due in October 2021. This paves the way to transitioning to the new installer for the next LTS release, which will be 22.04, due for release in April 2022. Martin 🙂 Wimpress on Twitter — I’ll soon⏳be leaving Canonical. I’m very excited to be joining the fine people @SlimDevOps😃Despite the change, I’ll continue to lead @ubuntu_mate; it’s my passion💖project. Naturally, I’ll remain an enthusiastic #Ubuntu & Snapcraft community contributor💪 Slim.ai OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T seeing work for mainline Linux kernel support — Thanks to the existing minimal mainline support for the platform, features like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and 3D Acceleration are already working at the current stage of development. All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows <a href="https://jupiter.tube/videos/w
Tue, January 26, 2021
390: Eating the License Cake
Successful open-source projects all seem to struggle with one major gorilla. Who it is, and what their options are now. Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Jonathan Corbet. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Oh Dear : Oh Dear monitors uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, scheduled tasks, and more. We send out notifications when something's wrong. All that paired with a developer-friendly API and kick-ass documentation. Promo Code: LINUX A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Security Disclosure 2: vulnerabilities in custom integrations HACS, Font Awesome and others - Home Assistant — Multiple custom integrations were found that allowed an attacker to steal any file without logging in. Previously implemented fixes were not sufficient. FEDORA-2021-48866282e5 — security update for chromium — Fedora Updates System — I gave a lot of thought to whether I wanted to continue to maintain the Chromium package in Fedora, given that many (most?) users will be confused/annoyed when API functionality like sync and geolocation stops working for no good reason. Ultimately, I decided to continue for now, because there were at least some users who didn't mind, and if I stopped, someone else would start over and run blindly into this problem. Introduction to Elasticsearch - YouTube Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | AWS Open Source Blog — In order to ensure open source versions of both packages remain available and well supported, including in our own offerings, we are announcing today that AWS will step up to create and maintain a ALv2-licensed fork of o
Wed, January 20, 2021
389: Harder Butter Faster Stronger
We showcase a tool that will change your Linux game. Plus our thoughts on the recent Btrfs FUD, a bunch of feedback, and a handy pick. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Oh Dear : Oh Dear monitors uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, scheduled tasks, and more. We send out notifications when something's wrong. All that paired with a developer-friendly API and kick-ass documentation. Promo Code: LINUX A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: [ANNOUNCE] nano-5.5 is released Ubuntu 21.04 Will Finally Stop Making New Home Directories World-Readable — Ubuntu 21.04 will do away with the existing practice on Ubuntu Linux systems of making new user home directories world-readable. Linux 5.10.8 Kernel Released - Finally Fixes That Btrfs Performance Regression — Linux 5.10.8 is out today as the latest stable release for the Linux 5.10 LTS series. Making this point release notable is that it finally addresses the 5.10 Btrfs performance regression. All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows Ventoy — An open-source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. Ventoy on GitHub Feedback: openSUSE and FOSS Adventures Feedback: Neon Success Story Feedba
Wed, January 13, 2021
388: Waxing On With Wendell
Wendell joins the show to cover the state of graphics on Linux, and what Intel has in store for the future. Plus why we're excited about PeerTube again, some feedback, and more. Special Guest: Wendell Wilson. Sponsored By: Oh Dear : Oh Dear monitors uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, scheduled tasks, and more. We send out notifications when something's wrong. All that paired with a developer-friendly API and kick-ass documentation. Promo Code: LINUX Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : In this course, ACG covers the skills and concepts necessary to pass the Red Hat RHCSA exam, using a mix of lessons and hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Linux Action News 171 — We explain the recent Qt upset, and then go hands-on with the new PeerTube release. Plus Wendell from Level1Techs joins us to discuss his thoughts on porting Linux to the Apple M1. Our new PeerTube instance Coder Radio 395 — Their lives change forever when they meet a handsome, tormented, laptop. Level1Linux: We’re ready for One GPU – Two OSs. Intel Xe, SR-IOV and thoughts on VMs Intel Xe MAX Needs Two Linux Kernels For Now - Meaning You Need To Use A GPU-Accelerated VM — The good news is the Xe MAX graphics can be used for a GPU-accelerated Linux virtual machine. The bad news is the Xe MAX support doesn't yet allow for dGPU usage by the host outside of a virtual machine context as it needs "two different [Linux] kernels" for operation in conjunction with the integrated graphics. <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/
Wed, January 06, 2021
387: Tumbling Into the New Year!
We have some strong opinions about the state of openSUSE Tumbleweed. We've secretly been running it for the past week, and share our experience. Plus Microsoft's path to dominating the Linux desktop becomes clear. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: bucklespring — This project emulates the sound of my old faithful IBM Model-M space saver bucklespring keyboard. Valve’s Steam Data For December Points To A Huge Dip For Linux Gaming Marketshare Valve Revises Steam’s December 2020 Linux Marketshare To 0.74% — Valve has updated their numbers and point to Linux still regressing percentage-wise but not as bad as originally reported. Linus Torvalds On The Importance Of ECC RAM, Calls Out Intel’s “Bad Policies” Over ECC — "The arguments against ECC were always complete and utter garbage... Now even the memory manufacturers are starting to do ECC internally because they finally owned up to the fact that they absolutely have to." Microsoft is building a new Outlook app for Windows and Mac powered by the web — Project Monarch is the end-goal for Microsoft's "One Outlook" vision, which aims to build a single Outlook client that works across PC, Mac, and the Web. Bug: Mailspring is an abandoned project. · Issue #2231 · Foundry376/Mailspring · GitHub <a href="h
Wed, December 30, 2020
386: Perilously Precocious Predictions
Friends join us for a special edition of the show to review last year's predictions, and forecast the future. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Joe Ressington, and Neal Gompa. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: LINUX Unplugged 281: 2019 Predictions LINUX Unplugged 334: Particularly Poor Predictions LINUX Unplugged 335: Practically Perfect Predictions
Wed, December 23, 2020
385: The 2020 Tuxies
We reveal the winners of the 2020 Tuxies. We've tallied the audience votes for the best open source projects, desktops, distros, editors, games, and much much more. Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Nate Graham. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Adventures in Linux and KDE DS920+ — Scalable NAS with SSD cache acceleration capability. find.synology.com Synology QuickConnect — Synology QuickConnect allows you to access your Synology NAS anytime, anywhere, from any device and browser, without having to set up port forwarding. All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
Wed, December 16, 2020
384: Born To Run Fedora
It's light as a feather, fast as hell, and everything is upstream. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon ships with Fedora, and this week we put it to the test. Plus community news, feedback, and a great pick. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Cast Your Nominations for the 2020 Tuxies CloudLinux to invest more than a million dollars a year into CentOS clone — Project Lenix will be a free, open-source, community-driven, 1:1 binary compatible fork of RHEL 8 (and future releases). Feedback: Mike’s Stream Struggles Matrix Client: Fractal — Fractal is a Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust. Its interface is optimized for collaboration in large groups, such as free software projects. Matrix Client: nheko — The motivation behind the project is to provide a native desktop app for Matrix that feels more like a mainstream chat app. This Week in Matrix Lenovo begins rollout of Fedora Linux on their laptops, Ubuntu systems due soon — As the Fedora team mentioned in the original announcement, it's coming without any bloat as they said Lenovo "respects our open source principles". The only software they will have is from the included repositories, no extra fluff. <a href="https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_Gen_8/ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_Gen_8_Spec.PDF" title="ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 Sp
Wed, December 09, 2020
383: Murder of a Distro
Red Hat just made big changes to how CentOS works, we breakdown the good, and the bad. Plus how you can DIY a cheap IP KVM using a Raspberry Pi. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Hector Martin. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Cast Your Nominations for the 2020 Tuxies — Nominate your favorite projects (the term used loosely here) and devices for the 2020 Tuxies. CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream — The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release. FAQ - CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream CentOS Stream: Building an innovative future for enterprise Linux — Since its introduction, we’ve seen great enthusiasm from partners and contributors around CentOS Stream and the continuous stream of innovation that the project provides. Given this, we’ve informed the CentOS Project Governing Board that we are shifting our investment fully from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream. When Red Hat bought CentOS in 2014 they said… CentOS Git server OG CentOS Founder Wants to build another CentOS — I am considering creating another rebuild of RHEL and may even be able to hire some people for this effort. If you are interested in helping, please join the HPCng slack (
Wed, December 02, 2020
382: A New Endeavour
A problem that just kept getting worse and worse. What it was, and why it led us to "check in" on EndeavourOS. Plus some important community news, handy picks, feedback, and more! Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Cast Your Nominations for the 2020 Tuxies — Nominate your favorite projects (the term used loosely here) and devices for the 2020 Tuxies. ZaReason is Done. The Store is Closed. — As many have noticed, our product line has been getting smaller and our tech support has been slowing down to a crawl. Unfortunately, the pandemic has been the final KO blow. It has hit our little town hard and we have not been able to recover from it. As of Tuesday, 11/24/20 17:00 EST ZaReason is no longer in business. Hector Martin on Twitter — Help make Linux on Apple Silicon Macs a reality! Patreon is up! I’m pausing billing until I get $4k/mo of commitment, so you won’t be charged until there is enough momentum to make the project viable. marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs | Patreon OpenZFS 2.0 Released With Unified FreeBSD/Linux Support, Many New Features — OpenZFS 2.0 has been officially released! OpenZFS 2.0 marks a major step forward for open-source ZFS file-system support for what started out as ZFSOnLinux but is now OpenZFS with unified FreeBSD and Linux support. GNOME 40 Mutter Moves Input Work To A Separate Thread — An exciting addition for GNOME 40 is that the Mutter compositor will be punting the input work off to a separate CPU thread. <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.ph
Wed, November 25, 2020
381: Secret Modem Sounds
We have the coolest new retro tool of the year, that will turn you into a Linux powered spy. Plus the changes coming to Fedora, and what GNOME is focusing on next year. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Rust Watch: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive — Utilizing an in-development Flash emulator called Ruffle, we have added Flash support to the Internet Archive’s Emularity system, letting a subset of Flash items play in the browser as if you had a Flash plugin installed. Ruffle — Flash Player emulator written in the Rust programming language Ubuntu Web Remix Wants to Be a Chrome OS Alternative, Beta Available Now - 9to5Linux — Ubuntu Web Remix uses Mozilla’s Firefox web browser, offers support for Web apps, and you can also install regular Linux applications from Ubuntu’s software repositories. FydeOS beta brings Chromium OS to the PineBook Pro (Android app support too) - Liliputing — The developers say they plan to add support for more ARM-based systems in the future. We’re Building the Future of GNOME — Our plans for 2021 are even more ambitious and involve sustaining our ongoing work while building up new initiatives and support for the growing GNOME project and community. GNOME Foundation Planning For More Initiatives In 2021 - Phoronix <a href="https://w
Tue, November 17, 2020
380: No Sur, No Thank You
We review the Dell Precision 5750, a born and bred MacBook killer that runs Linux. Plus a nasty reminder of how closely Apple monitors its users, and their fatal flaw that we think is outrageous. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: New device puts music in your head — no headphones required Greg K-H at Linux app Summit 2020: What Linux kernel developers wish application developers would do better — In this talk, a Linux kernel developer gets to complain how his normal "test case" i.e. userspace code, could do better when it comes to a whole range of different things that have been learned over time by maintaining a stable interface to the kernel for 20+ years. Linux App Summit 2020 Videos Now Available From Steam/Valve To GNOME Circle - Phoronix Seattle GNU/Linux Conference Why Linux: Your Mac Isn’t Yours — On modern versions of macOS, you simply can’t power on your computer, launch a text editor or eBook reader, and write or read, without a log of your activity being transmitted and stored. macOS Big Sur launch appears to cause temporary slowdown in even non-Big Sur Macs | Ars Technica Apple apps on macOS Big Sur bypass firewall and VPN connections Macs are a privacy nightmare – OSnews <a href="https://www.security-embedded.com/blog/2020/11/14/application-trust-is-hard-but-apple-does-it-well" title="Application Trust is Hard, but Apple does it We
Tue, November 10, 2020
379: Favorite Linux Tweaks
We round up our favorite tweaks to the desktop, and apps that make it great. Plus some highlights from Arch Conf, and our reaction to Mint finally fixing their Chromium problem. Special Guest: Drew DeVore. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Arch Conf 2020 Videos media.ccc.de - Arch Linux: Past, Present and Future Project X - Pure Open-Source Coreboot Support On AMD Zen - Phoronix — Project X is about "eXcising binary blobs from the x86 part of Zen CPUs." OSFC 2020 - Open Source Firmware Conference Linux Mint pre-loads Chromium and Brings New IPTV Player — The package is available Linux Mint repository as “chromium” which you can install using standard “apt-get” or via the package manager. This is pure native Chromium and not a snap version. Monthly News – October 2020 – The Linux Mint Blog LINUX Unplugged 360: The Hard Work of Hardware Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US SpaceX Starlink users provide first i
Wed, November 04, 2020
378: All in One Pi
Why we think the new Raspberry Pi 400 is just the beginning. And we chat with the CTO of the Uno Platform, a new way to bring native apps to Linux. Chapters: 00:00:00 Pre-show 00:01:01 Intro 00:02:23 Meet the Raspberry Pi 400 00:11:21 Manjaro Update 00:16:59 State of Linux Gaming 00:23:11 GNOME 40 00:27:36 Building Native Apps on Linux 00:48:16 Housekeeping 00:50:05 Feedback 00:58:47 Pick 01:04:23 Post-show Special Guest: Jérôme Laban. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Happy birthday VIM! — 29 years ago the very first version of Vim was built and distributed. vim-mario: Mario on Vim Meet the Raspberry Pi 400, a $70 Linux PC Hiding Inside a Keyboard - OMG! Ubuntu! — At the heart of the Raspberry Pi 400 is a 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A72. This quad-core chip is similar to last year’s Raspberry Pi 4 but clocked to run slightly faster. The Raspberry Pi 400 - Teardown and Review | Jeff Geerling Collabora expect their Linux Kernel work for Windows game emulation in Kernel 5.11 | GamingOnLinux — One of the key points that Gabriel Krisman Bertazi went over is their work on system call emulation, which is now required because DRM and anti-cheat tech "are issuing system calls directly from the Windows game code and that bypasses Wine." GNOME 40 Desktop Environment Slated
Wed, October 28, 2020
377: Buttered-Up Fedora
Fedora 33 is a bold release, and we’ve put it through the wringer. We tell you what’s great, and what you should know before diving in. Plus our thoughts on the bigger problem exposed by the youtube-dl takedown. Chapters: 00:00:00 Pre-show 00:03:12 Intro 00:04:40 New LTS Kernel 00:07:16 Pop!_OS 20.10 00:08:47 The youtube-dl Problem 00:29:00 Why 1Password Matters 00:34:52 Housekeeping 00:37:09 Fedora 33 Review 00:56:44 Feedback 01:05:04 Picks 01:08:21 Post-show Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Neal Gompa. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: XFS File-System With Linux 5.10 Punts Year 2038 Problem To The Year 2486 - Phoronix Linux 5.10 Is The Next LTS Kernel - Phoronix Thorsten ‘the Linux kernel logger’ Leemhuis on Twitter — #Linux 5.10 will be the next Longterm (aka LTS) #kernel (and thus supported for at least two years, but in the end it often are six). That’s what @gregkh said a few minutes ago in a “Ask the Expert Session” on #OSSummit Europe System76 Blog: What’s New in Pop!_OS 20.10 A Look At The Performance Improvements With System76 Pop!_OS 20.10 - Phoronix YouTube-DL Removed From GitHub After DMCA Notice <a href="https://thenextweb.com/dd/2020/10/27/github-took-down-youtube-dl-so-devs-made-more-copies/" title="GitHub took down popular YouTube downloader" rel="nofollow"
Wed, October 21, 2020
376: From The Factory Floor
We put the new Ubuntu 20.10 to the test, and chat with System76's Mechanical Engineer to get the secrets of the new Thelio Mega. Plus some important community news, feedback, picks, and more. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-show 1:37 Intro 2:55 Edge for Linux 7:29 Thelio Mega 16:00 NVIDIA's 5.9 Problem 21:02 PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition 25:44 Housekeeping 30:17 Ubuntu 20.10: Groovy Gorilla 49:33 Feedback 54:11 Picks 57:37 Post-show Special Guests: Lindsey Cross and Philip Muller. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Microsoft Edge Insider Introducing Microsoft Edge preview builds for Linux - Microsoft Edge Blog — Today’s release supports Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE distributions. System76 unleash a quad-GPU Linux monster with the ‘Thelio Mega’ — System76 say that the Thelio Mega is the world's smallest quad-GPU workstation primarily made for deep learning and scientific computing. Thelio Mega - System76 NVIDIA Doesn’t Expect To Have Linux 5.9 Driver Support For Another Month — Linux Kernel 5.9+ is incompatible with current and previous NVIDIA Linux GPU drivers. We advise customers to defer updating to Linux Kernel 5.9+ until mid-November when an NVIDIA Linux GPU driver update with Kernel 5.9+ support is expected to be available. You may want to avoi
Wed, October 14, 2020
375: Wrong About Pop!
We're reminded that you can't judge a distro by its screenshots. We use Pop!_OS for a few weeks and share our embarrassing discovery. Plus our thoughts on the new Plasma release, a super handy pick, and more. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-Show 0:44 Intro 0:50 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru 2:39 Plasma 5.20 7:50 Kernel 5.9 8:05 VMware Flirts with Arm 15:28 SPONSOR: Linode 18:54 Big News for Nebula 22:10 Code-Shaming the Kernel 27:40 Housekeeping 29:31 Pop!_OS Exit Interview 31:44 Pop!_OS Full-Time Staff 34:49 Pop!_OS: The Last Ten Percent 37:46 Pop!_OS: A Very Unique Distribution 43:13 Pop!_OS: Driving Hardware Sales 47:40 Pop!_OS: Strengthening the System76 Brand 49:51 Manjaro Arm 20.10 Released 50:48 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru 51:48 Feedback: TLP Magic 53:23 Feedback: Chromebooks and Education 56:16 Pick: Autotier 59:09 Pick: Antennapod 2.0.1 1:00:30 SPONSOR: Core Contributors 1:01:10 Outro 1:03:18 Post-Show Special Guest: Neal Gompa. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : This course is designed to be a deep dive into the topic of systemd, the most widely used service management scheme in Linux today. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Linux_5.9 - Linux Kernel Newbies Plasma 5.20 — One absolutely massive release! ESXi on Arm Fling is LIVE! — The ESXi-Arm Fling supports a number of different Arm platforms ranging from a traditional Datacenter form-factor to both Near and Far Edge systems including the highly requested Raspberry Pi. ESXi Arm Edition | VMware Flings Great News for Nebula <a href="https://medium.com/definednet/mobile-nebula-ios-android-mesh-vpn-1088a7c536ee" title="Nebul
Wed, October 07, 2020
374: Perfect Nextcloud Setup
Our secrets for a low-cost bulletproof Nextcloud server that we figured out the hard way. We take you into the "server garage" and share our lessons learned. Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: KDE Begins Landing “Breeze Evolution” Refresh For Default Theme - Phoronix This week in KDE: Breeze Evolution work starts landing – Adventures in Linux and KDE Getting KDE onto commercial hardware [LWN.net] NVIDIA Unveils $59 USD Raspberry Pi Competitor With Jetson Nano 2GB All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows Check out Coder Radio Unfilter.show LINUX Unplugged 362: The Hidden Cost of Nextcloud Nextcloud 20: One private cloud to rule them all | ZDNet New in Nextcloud 20 Rclone — Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage <a href="https://slexy.org/view/s2W5z6OAvk" title="Feedback: The Last Text Editor You’ll Ever Us
Wed, September 30, 2020
373: Your New Tools
We embrace new tools to upgrade your backup game, securely move files around the network, and debunk the idea that Windows will ever be based on Linux. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-Show 0:29 Intro 0:46 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru 2:31 LVFS Hits 20 Million Downloads 4:10 Dell Precision 5750 Review Unit Coming Soon 6:27 LVFS Continued 7:29 Xen Hypervisor is Porting to Raspberry Pi 4 12:09 New Dell XPS 13 Developer Editions 14:56 Lenovo Expands its Linux-Loaded Selection 16:48 SPONSOR: Linode 19:31 WSL to Support GUI Apps 24:09 Will Microsoft Switch to Linux? 33:18 Fedora 33 Beta is Live 35:13 Housekeeping 36:13 Exploring Send and Receive 38:06 Send and Receive: Backups 39:37 Send and Receive: Setting Up the Volumes 41:00 Send and Receive: Rsync Comparison 43:40 Send and Receive: Data Retention Tests 48:10 Send and Receive: Comparing Performance 50:09 Send and Receive: Right Tool for the Job 55:29 Send and Receive: Rivaling NTFS and APFS 57:39 Feedback: Todo Apps 1:01:33 SPONSOR: Unplugged Core Contributors 1:02:30 Outro 1:04:17 Post-Show Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 20 Million Downloads from the LVFS — Technical Blog of Richard Hughes Xen Project officially ports its hypervisor to Raspberry Pi 4 • The Register Lenovo Expands Its Range of Ubuntu Laptops - OMG! Ubuntu! WSLG Overview WSLG Slide Deck <a href="https://xdc2020.x.org/event/9/contributions/611/" title="X.Org Developers Conference 2020 (16-18 September 2020): X11
Wed, September 23, 2020
372: Distro Triforce
What would it really take to get you to switch Linux distributions? We debate the practical reasons more and more people are sticking with the big three. Plus Carl from System76 stops by to surprise us with some firmware news. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-Show 2:22 Intro 2:36 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru 4:24 USB Booting the Pi 4 10:10 System76 Open Firmware Update 23:14 SPONSOR: Linode 25:28 OpenPOWER Summit 2020 29:23 EndeavourOS ARM 30:14 Housekeeping 30:53 SPONSOR: Unplugged Core Contributors 32:59 It's Really Just a Three Distro World 46:37 Feedback: systemd Skepticism 50:50 Feedback: EmacsConf2020 51:40 Picks 52:12 Pick: Cloud Hypervisor 53:51 Pick: SongRec 54:45 Pick: tmpmail 55:55 Pick: MyPaas 57:16 Outro 59:11 Post-Show Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Carl Richell, and Neal Gompa. Sponsored By: Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Second-hand TV wipes out broadband for entire village Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB | Hacker News Raspberry Pi USB Boot - UASP, TRIM, and performance | Jeff Geerling Switching Between Proprietary Firmware and System76 Open Firmware - System76 Support — System76 Open Firmware is designed to be lightweight and performant with a simple and straightforward user interface. OpenPOWER Summit 2020 Was This Week With Many Interesting Hardware/Software Talks - Phoronix — Roberto Innocenti provided an update on the POWER6
Tue, September 15, 2020
371: Cabin Fever
Friends join us to discuss Cabin, a proposal that encourages more Linux apps and fewer distros. Plus, we debate the value that the Ubuntu community brings to Canonical, and share a pick for audiobook fans. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-Show 0:48 Intro 0:54 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru 2:25 Future of Ubuntu Community 6:51 Ubuntu Community: Popey Responds 9:31 Ubuntu Community: Stuart Langridge Responds 16:26 Ubuntu Community: Mark Shuttleworth Responds 17:30 BTRFS Workflow Developments 19:09 Linux Kernel 5.9 Performance Regression 24:48 SPONSOR: Linode 27:34 Cabin 29:48 Cabin: More Apps, Fewer Distros 33:41 Cabin: Building Small Apps 36:40 Cabin: What is a Cabin App? 44:34 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru 45:20 Feedback: Fedora 33 Bug-A-Thon 47:53 Goin' Indy Update 49:40 Submit Your Linux Prepper Ideas 50:11 Feedback: Dev IDEs 54:15 Feedback: Nextcloud 58:20 Picks: Cozy 1:00:25 Outro 1:01:38 Post-Show Special Guests: Alan Pope, Drew DeVore, and Stuart Langridge. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Amiga Fast File System Return to the Linux Kernel – CubicleNate’s Techpad Future of Ubuntu Community - Community Council - Ubuntu Community Hub Mark Shuttleworth Now Plans To Restore Ubuntu’s Community Council - Phoronix — Mark Shuttleworth announced now that in cooperation with Ubuntu member (and former Community Council member) Walter Lapchynski, they are working to restore the Community Council. Btrfs development update | Josef Bacik’s Blog <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7gXR2L05IU" title="Deploying Btrfs at Facebook
Wed, September 09, 2020
370: PipeWire Progress
We get an update from PipeWire developer Wim Taymans on the status of Linux's new audio and video subsystem. Plus Alexi Pol joins us for two big updates from the KDE community. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-Show 1:30 Intro 1:49 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru 2:56 Linux Action News Returns! 4:17 Ubuntu 20.10 Embraces Active Directory 7:26 DebConf 2020 12:58 Pipewire Progress with Wim Tayman 23:26 SPONSOR: Linode 25:28 Akademy 2020 33:41 Housekeeping 36:19 SPONSOR: Unplugged Core Contributors 38:08 Jono Bacon's Book Club 39:05 Feedback: Alpine Server Challenge 40:15 Feedback: Remote Office 44:05 Picks: SC-IM 45:11 Picks: Present 47:30 Outro 48:49 Post-Show Special Guests: Aleix Pol, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Neal Gompa, and Wim Taymans. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: YARH.IO MKI: Raspberry Pi 3B+ Hackable Linux Handheld Linux Action News is BACK: Linux Action News 153 Ubuntu 20.10 Adding Active Directory Support To The Installer The Problems Debian Is Facing In 2020 PipeWire Is In Increasingly Great Shape - Ready For More User Testing PipeWire Late Summer Update 2020 — Christian F.K. Schaller Launching Pipewire! — Christian F.K. Schaller <a href="https://gitlab.fr
Wed, September 02, 2020
369: Double Data Rate Trouble
The Raspberry Pi might be getting a small software fix that makes a big performance improvement. Plus, we attempt to combine two internet connections with Linux live from the woods! Chapters: 0:00 Pre-Show 1:07 Intro 1:55 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru 2:35 Lenovo Linux Laptops 11:21 Raspberry Pi Storage Speedup 13:31 SPONSOR: Linode 17:45 Linux Unplugged Core Contributors 18:58 Fedora 33 Bug-a-Thon 20:55 Using Two Internet Connections in Linux 25:11 Policy Routing 28:32 Net-ISP-Balance 31:46 Diving into Policy Routing 33:42 Speedify 39:35 Feedback 40:32 Pick: tunshell 43:16 Outro 45:46 Post-Show Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Linode Cloud Hosting : A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Lenovo begins rollout of Fedora Linux on their laptops, Ubuntu systems due soon | GamingOnLinux Linux Patch Proposed To Double Raspberry Pi 4 Transfer Speed To eMMC/SD Storage - Phoronix Unplugged Core Contributors (Test Week) Fedora 33 Btrfs Test Day" - Fedocal Dual 4G LTE Router for Public Transportation MAX Transit Duo- Peplink Bonding internet connections VPN Bonding - Simon Mott <a href="https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020
Wed, August 26, 2020
368: The Best is Yet to Come
It's a new day for Jupiter Broadcasting and the show, we share our big news. Plus our plan to help make a difference in free software, and we reunite with some old friends. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-Show 0:42 Intro 1:08 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru 2:59 Arch Update 4:13 Big News for Jupiter Broadcasting 6:58 Coder Radio Returns 8:08 Linux Action News Returns 9:45 The Future of Jupiter Broadcasting 10:23 Unplugged Core Contributors 15:01 Arch Update Part 2 16:49 Housekeeping 18:20 Arch Update Part 3 19:05 Bug Squashers Assemble 24:11 Fedora 33 Test Week 28:27 Fedora IoT 33:51 Pick: FetchCord 34:50 Wimpy's Discord Plea 37:14 Arch Update Part 4 38:16 Pick: Chowdown 40:59 Catching Up with Mike 52:21 Catching Up with Joe 54:30 Catching Up with Wimpy 1:01:19 Outro 1:03:34 Post-Show Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Drew DeVore, Joe Ressington, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: nixCraft on Twitter: "On 25 August 1991, Linus at age 21 announced Linux project/system in a Usenet posting to the newsgroup. Here is original email that changed IT world forever." Coder Radio Linux Action News The New Show 10: The Smell of Arm Demerger FAQ Unplugged Core Contributors Founder discount Drew DeVore on Twitter: “Anyone looking for a talented full time audio editor/mixer/masterer? Or for a sysadmin with 20 years experience in Linux? Please DM me. L
Wed, August 19, 2020
367: Podcatcher Play-off
We round up the best podcast clients for your Linux desktop, mobile, and the web. Plus we announce the official Jupiter Broadcasting Matrix server, share some great picks, and a thought-provoking email. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-Show 0:35 Intro 2:03 Debian Requests Artwork 3:04 Google Kernel Code Dump 8:07 The Future of Rust 14:15 Manjaro Forum Meltdown 20:11 Matrix Server Migration 27:38 Housekeeping 28:44 Podcatcher Play-Off 29:08 Podcatcher Play-Off: Honorable Mentions 31:33 Podcatcher Play-Off: Winds 33:36 Podcatcher Play-Off: Cpod 35:33 Podcatcher Play-Off: Airsonic 38:16 Podcatcher Play-Off: Shellcaster 40:15 Podcatcher Play-Off: Castero 40:42 Podcatcher Play-Off: Castget 42:27 Podcatcher Play-Off: Pocketcasts 44:22 Podcatcher Play-Off: Antennapod 45:09 Podcatcher Play-Off: Overcast 47:22 Feedback: Mac Pro as a Daily Driver 48:38 Feedback: Internet Apocalypse 57:22 Pick: Quad SATA Kit for Raspberry Pi 1:00:01 Pick: Outrun 1:02:50 Outro 1:04:30 Post-Show Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Debian turns 27! - Bits from Debian r/linux: Debian turns 27! Debian Bullseye artwork call for proposals - entries must be submitted by October 15 Google Finally Begins Their Open-Source Dance Around Linux User-Space Threading - Phoronix [PATCH for 5.9 0/3] FUTEX_SWAP (tip/locking/core) - Peter Laying the foundation for Rust’s future | Rust Blog Manjaro’s new Forum LINUX Unplugged Matrix Community <a href=
Wed, August 12, 2020
366: Linux Server Salvage
We refurbish a special machine from the Jupiter Broadcasting Hardware Archive and try out Matrix, the one chat platform to rule them all. Plus Dan and Cassidy from elementary OS join us to discuss version 6.0. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-Show 0:45 Intro 2:25 KDE Neon 20.04 4:17 Mozilla Resturcturing 8:21 elementary OS 6 18:29 Housekeeping 20:00 Matrix 22:33 Silver Salvage 29:43 Matrix Server Punishment Test 33:04 Clients Galore 35:06 Secure By Default 43:56 Outro 45:08 Post-Show Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks KDE neon rebased on 20.04 Mozilla is laying off 25% of their employees Large part of Mozilla’s Sec Team Laid Off Let’s Talk elementary OS 6 ⋅ elementary Blog Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! LUP LUG Mumble Server Info Fullscreen JB IRC Chat Chris Fisher on Twitter: "Pulled an old Mac Pro out of storage for today’s @LinuxUnplugged live test. 2009 Mac Pro | eBay apple-history.com / Mac Pro (Early 2009, Dual CPU) </li
Wed, August 05, 2020
365: There's a Hole in my Boot!
We explain why BootHole is getting so much attention and break down the key issues. Then we review our favorite Linux-compatible headsets. Plus community news, feedback, and more. Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Eight Great Features Of Linux 5.8 - Phoronix Feedback from David: Trackball for RSI Standing Desks from Autonomous MX Vertical Advanced Ergonomic Mouse Debian: GRUB2 UEFI SecureBoot vulnerability - ‘BootHole’ A long list of GRUB2 secure-boot holes There’s a Hole in the Boot Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole patches Valve Hires Former Emulator Developer To Work On Open-Source Graphics For Linux Nvidia-Arm Deal Would Be a Technology ‘Disaster’ Invitation to Play Along | PINE64 Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! LUP LUG Mumble Server Info <a href="https://bit.ly/jupiterchat" titl
Wed, July 29, 2020
364: Linux Arm Wrestling
The past, present and future of Linux on Arm. The major challenges still facing full Linux support, and why ServerReady might be a solution to unify Arm systems. Plus we chat with the Manjaro team about recent changes. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-Show 0:58 Intro 2:01 Terminal 2.0 in ChromeOS 4:41 Manjaro's Process Problems 13:49 Manjaro Sneak Peaks 15:41 Weekend Manjaro Journey 21:02 Housekeeping 22:09 ARM on Linux 24:01 The History of ARM 28:16 Single Board Computing Revolution 31:47 ARM Reaching into the Present 33:17 The Future of ARM 36:42 Not Everyone Loves ARM 43:01 Wants and What Ifs 48:30 App Pick: tuptime 49:48 App Pick: s-tui 50:21 Outro 51:36 Post-Show Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Dalton Durst, Drew DeVore, Jeremy Soller, Marius Gripsgard, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Say hello to the Linux Terminal 2.0 for Chrome OS Change in manjaro team composition - Manjaro Linux Forum Phil’s version of the story Notebook for Package Building · Expense #22477 - Open Collective Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! LUP LUG Mumble Server Info Fullscreen JB IRC Chat - bit.ly/jupiterchat Intel’s 7nm is busted, chips delayed, may have to use rival foundries to get GPUs out for US govt exascale super • The Register <a href="https://wccftech.com/intel-restructuring-murthy-leaves-ann-kelleher-takes-over-7nm-and-5nm-development/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter" title="Intel Restructuring: Murthy Leaves, Ann Kelleher Takes Over 7nm And 5nm Development" rel="n
Wed, July 22, 2020
363: Return of the Terminal Server
Fedora makes a bold move and Microsoft seems to be working on their ideal "Cloud PC", we ponder what Linux has to offer. Plus an easy way to remotely watch movies with others, and a bunch of your feedback. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-Show 0:29 Intro 2:34 RSI Woes 7:21 Jellyfin 13:12 Proxmox Backup Server 16:22 ProcMon for Linux 20:16 Fedora 33 Defaults to Btrfs 24:27 systemd-oomd 26:38 Housekeeping 28:41 Riot Becomes Element 32:36 Mysterious Microsoft Job Posting 39:19 Picks: Polybar 40:57 Picks: ytop 42:43 Feedback 48:50 Outro 50:06 Post-Show Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: GNOME Opens an Official Merch Shop Selling T-Shirts, More GNOME Shop – GNOME’s very own merch shop! Jellyfin Release - v10.6.0 - Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System Proxmox Backup Server (beta) | Proxmox Support Forum GitHub - microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux: Approved: Fedora 33 Desktop Variants Defaulting To Btrfs File-System Feedback: Stephen uses Btrfs to ensure safe upgrades on openSUSE Issue #2429: F33 System-Wide Change: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants systemd-oomd Looks Like It Will Come Together For systemd 247 Welcome to Element! <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/us/e
Tue, July 14, 2020
362: The Hidden Cost of Nextcloud
Our team has been using Nextcloud to replace Dropbox for over a year, we report back on what has worked great, and what's not so great. Plus why Linus Torvalds has become the master of saying no. Special Guest: Drew DeVore. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Linus Torvalds Says He’s No Longer a Programmer: My Job Is to Say No Keynote: Linus Torvalds in conversation with Dirk Hohndel List of Linux kernel names - Wikipedia Implementing S3 Compatible Primary Storage for NextCloud Alone (TV series) - Wikipedia Feedback: LVFS fwupdmgr updates on Thinkpads Feedback: Chas wonders if we would change anything about our Thinkpad configuration DPL elections 2020, congratulations Jonathan Carter! - Bits from Debian Debian Mailing Lists -- Complete Index Free Software Activities for 2020-05 – Jonathan Carter DebConf20 Moves Online Chris Tries i3 for the First Time... LIVE
Wed, July 08, 2020
361: Buttery Smooth Fedora
Fedora's getting to work and reconsidering some long held-assumptions. Plus the best tool for getting things done on Linux, we take a look at openSUSE Leap 15.2, and breathe new life into an old Pebble. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Jeff Fortin Tam, and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Show & Tell: A steampunk desktop background radiation monitor Getting Things GNOME 0.4 released! Getting Things GNOME - GNOME Wiki Getting Things GNOME on Flathub Stirring things up for Fedora 33 Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! openSUSE Leap 15.2 Release Notes Leap 15.2 - openSUSE Wiki openSUSE Leap 15.2 Released With Focus on Containers and AI Rebble.io: Bring life back to your Pebble Zettlr: A Markdown Editor for the 21st century. Roam Research: A note-taking tool for networked thought. Athens Research: An open source take on Roam Org-roam: a Roam replica built on top of the all-powerful Org-mode. <a href="https://github.com/hlissn
Wed, July 01, 2020
360: The Hard Work of Hardware
We're joined by two guests who share their insights into building modern Linux hardware products. Plus we try out Mint 20, cover some big Gnome fixes, and a very handy open source noise suppression pick! Special Guests: Alfred Neumayer, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Jeremy Soller. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: CutiePi Tablet - Raspberry Pi, Untethered by Phoebus Torralba — Kickstarter CutiePi Is World’s Thinnest, Hackable Raspberry Pi Tablet, Available for Pre-Order Now CutiePi Shell - The UI for the CutiePi tablet GNOME’s Window Rendering Culling Was Broken Leading To Wasted Performance Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon RELEASED linuxmint/warpinator: Share files across the LAN Snap Store — Linux Mint User Guide documentation Monthly News – May 2020 – The Linux Mint Blog The Hunt for the Oryx Pro [Video] System76 Blog — Things We Love About the New Oryx Pro Oryx Pro - System76 Store New high-end Linux
Wed, June 24, 2020
359: Death of the Mac
Why we think Apple just handed market share to Desktop Linux, and why you can kiss running Linux on the Mac goodbye forever. Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Generating cooking recipes using TensorFlow and a LSTM Recurrent Neural Network ARM-based Japanese supercomputer is now the fastest in the world Ampere donates Arm64 server hardware to Debian to fortify the Arm ecosystem Google’s Bringing Its Apple AirDrop Rival to Linux, Windows, and Mac Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions Apple is switching Macs to its own processors starting later this year Tim Cook says first Mac with Apple Silicon shipping to consumers by end of this year r/linux: How will Apple’s ARM announcement affecting Linux going forward? <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/hedo9j/lets_suppose_apple_goes_arm_ms_follows_its/" title="r/linux: Let’s suppose Apple goes ARM, MS follows its footsteps and does the same. What will happen to Linux then? Will we go back to “unlocki
Wed, June 17, 2020
358: Our Fragmented Favorite
It's time to challenge some long-held assumptions. Today's Btrfs is not yesterday's hot mess, but a modern battle-tested filesystem, and we'll prove it. Plus our thoughts on GitHub dropping the term "master", and the changes Linux should make NOW to compete with commercial desktops. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: SpaceX: We’ve launched 32,000 Linux computers into space for Starlink internet Issue #54: Default disk partitioning layout for Workstation - fedora-workstation - Pagure.io 16 Jun, MEETING AGENDA - desktop - Fedora Mailing-Lists [Discussion] What do we think about Github’s decision to start using main instead of master as a branch name? ZFS co-creator boots ‘slave’ out of OpenZFS codebase, says ‘casual use’ of term is ‘unnecessary reference to a painful experience’ OpenZFS: Remove unnecessary references to slavery GitHub will no longer use the term ‘master’ as default branch because of negative association - r/programming Community Central: Welcoming Nomenclature - YouTube <a href="https://postmarketos.org/blog/2020/06/15/pinephone-postmarketos-community-edition/" title="PinePhone: postmarketOS communi
Tue, June 09, 2020
357: The Little Distro That Could
The lightweight distro that stole our hearts, the four of us each try out a different contender and come away with what we think will be the leanest and meanest distribution for your PC. Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Jill Bryant Ryniker. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: BunsenLabs Linux Puppy Linux Home The FreeBSD Project SparkyLinux KolibriOS official site antiX Linux
Wed, June 03, 2020
356: Linux Hardware Love
From the low-end to the high-end we try out both ends of the Linux hardware spectrum. Wes reviews the latest XPS 13, and Chris shares his thoughts on the Pinebook Pro. Plus a really cool new feature in Linux 5.7, and we get some answers to the recent GNOME patent settlement from the source. Special Guests: Dan Johansen and Drew DeVore. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: snakeware: A free Linux distro with a fully Python userspace GNOME gets big open-source patent win GNOME Patent Suite Update GNOME Foundation post about patent suit resolution Thermal Pressure in the task scheduler A New Kernel Patch Is Being Discussed That’s Needed For Newer Windows Games On Wine PINE64 on Twitter: “Everyone receiving their #PinebookPro laptops. Appears that the factory has left the WiFi privacy switches turned ON. To enable WiFi you’ll need to disengage the privacy switch" Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions Introducing the 2020 XPS 13 Developer Edition — (this one goes to 32!) <a href="https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/
Wed, May 27, 2020
355: Chris' Data Crisis
Chris' tale of woe after a recent data loss, and Wes' adventure after he finds a rogue device on his network. Special Guest: Drew DeVore. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: VIMKiller: Exiting VIM is hard; sometimes we need to take drastic measures How to Boot Raspberry Pi 4 From a USB SSD or Flash Drive USB Boot Forum post announcement rpi-eeprom-update usage The default boot mode is now 0xf41 which means continuously try SD then USB mass storage. Raspberry Pi’s firmware master branch on Github Put Btrfs in my Pi Last Night... Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions netdiscover nmap MAC Address Lookup Tool WiFi Analyzer (open-source) - Apps on Google Play WiFiAnalyzer on F-Droid <a href="https://help.ncf.ca/WiFi_Analyzer_for_Linux" title="LinSSID - WiFi Analyzer for Linux" rel="nofollow
Wed, May 20, 2020
354: Microsoft FINALLY Gets It
Windows is getting more competitive by adopting core Linux features, so we cover the latest Linux-inspired additions to Windows. Then review the new release of Pi-hole, sort through recent PINE64 updates, and read your feedback. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Drew DeVore, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: WireGuard patchset for OpenBSD Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source Craig Loewen on Twitter: "@satyanadella has just announced that WSL will include GPU compute support, and GUI application support! Get ready for more WSL announces and details today Craig Loewen on Twitter: “@Kiview @thezigpc @cinnamon_msft @satyanadella Our initial prototypes use Wayland” Hayden Barnes on Twitter: “WSL2 is getting GUI support, pass-through GPU support, and a new way to easily install.” Hayden Barnes on Twitter: "More glimpses of GUI support for WSL 2 from @shanselman and @cinnamon_msft DirectX ❤ Linux | DirectX Developer Blog Windows Terminal 1.0 Windows 10 Is Getting Its Own Built-In Package Manager <a href="https://www.pine64.org/
Wed, May 13, 2020
353: Feeling Elive
We're blown away by the Enlightenment desktop, and its little known features, and we share a quick way for you to try it out yourself. Plus our experience with Pop!_OS 20.04, Telegram's recent embarrassment, and some feedback. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Jill Bryant Ryniker. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: | (gotta have pipes) awk sed”" rel="nofollow">Jessie Frazelle on Twitter: “You are stranded in a weird shell and you are only allowed to bring three commands, which ones do you choose: Mine -> | (gotta have pipes) awk sed” Ubuntu’s Server Installer Leaked Encrypted Storage Passphrase to Its Log Gnome is Not the Default Telegram annoucnes the discontinuation of blockchain project ELF Libs Updates Check out eLive Beta Elive info from Founder Elive Beta With Enlightenment Is Brilliant, but Don’t Get Lost in the Maze Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar Infinite Escape Room Podcast Infinite Escape Room Podcast on Twitter System76 Blog — What’s New with Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS
Wed, May 06, 2020
352: Three Course Battery
Manjaro has a new hardware partner so Phillip joins to share the details, and we have the Lemur Pro in house for a battery endurance test like no other. Plus an Arch server update, and Chris orders the new Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Jeremy Soller, and Philip Muller. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Inkscape 1.0 Promo video: Inkscape 1.0 is here! - YouTube Return of the Lite - an impressively powerful, lightweight and compact 11” Linux laptop - Manjaro Linux Forum Compare Laptops - Find the best Linux Laptop – Star Labs® Buy a Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera – Raspberry Pi Cloud Playground now supports Ubuntu 20.04! Cloud Playground comes to ACG for Business Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! Televised Table Reads Promo Televised Table Reads Twitter Lemur Pro Pictures on @instachrislas Lemur Pro Speakers Question from Eddie <a href="https://tech-docs.system76.com/models/lemp9/internal-overview.html" title="Internal Overview - System76 Technical Documentation"
Wed, April 29, 2020
351: Lenovo Loves Linux
Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller joins us to discuss Lenovo shipping ThinkPads loaded with Fedora, and our review of the new 32 release. Plus Ubuntu's Director of Desktop Martin Wimpress covers the details everyone missed in 20.04. Special Guests: Martin Wimpress, Matthew Miller, and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Red Hat Summit 2020 Virtual Experience Wimpy on Twitter: There are new ✨ features in #Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 that no one is aware of or talking 🙊 about, so here they are; straight from the horses mouth 🐴 Also, a little peek behind the curtain 👀 regarding how OEM requirements help shape desktop #Linux 🐧 What’s new in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS? LINUX Unplugged 350: Focal Focus Lenovo is Bringing Fedora Linux to its ThinkPad Laptops Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram ACG launches Cloud Playgrounds for B2B Fedora 32 Officially Released With EarlyOOM, SSD TRIM Finally Flipped On, GNOME 3.36 Fedora 32 Schedule: All Tasks Fedora Release Life Cycle <a href="https://pho
Wed, April 22, 2020
350: Focal Focus
The latest Ubuntu LTS is here, but does it live up to the hype? And how practical are the new ZFS features? We dig into the performance, security, and stability of Focal Fossa. Plus our thoughts on the new KWin fork, if Bleachbit is safe, and a quick Fedora update. Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Logging Into Linux With A 1930s Teletype TUXEDO Computers Launches A Power/Thermal Control Center For Their Linux Systems System76 Lemur Pro KDE’s window manager KWin gets forked with ‘KWinFT’ to accelerate the development and better Wayland BleachBit 4.0.0 Fedora 32 Final is NO-GO Brunch with Brent: Sri Ramkrishna Linux Spotlight EP44 - Drew DeVore of Jupiter Broadcasting Linux Spotlight EP43 - An Interview with Tyler Brown longtime JB fan Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Ubuntu 20.04 Flavours Hit Beta, But What’s New? <a href="https://imgur.com/a/
Wed, April 15, 2020
349: Arm: A New Hope
We build the server you never should, a tricked out Arm box, and push it to the limit with a telnet torture test. Plus what we're playing recently, community news, a handy self-hosted music pick, and more. Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run? AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Amassing Improvements For Linux 5.8 NVIDIA released the 440.82 stable ‘Long Lived’ Linux driver - helps DOOM Eternal on Steam Play Proton Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition Risk of Rain 2 Raft Raft on Steam GitHub is now free for teams - The GitHub Blog Nat’s comment on HN Road to 20.04 ZFS/Zsys Code Seeing Important Performance Fix Ahead Of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS The Resilience of the Voyagers Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram <
Wed, April 08, 2020
348: OK OOMer
Today we make nice with a killer, an early out-of-memory daemon, and one of the new features in Fedora 32. We put EarlyOOM to the test in a real-world workload and are shocked by the results. Plus we debate if OpenWrt is still the best router solution, and chew on Microsoft's new SELinux competitor. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Window Maker Version 0.95.9 Released Microsoft announces IPE, a new code integrity feature for Linux — Microsoft says that IPE is not intended for general-purpose computing. The IPE LSM was designed for very specific use cases where security is paramount, and administrators need to be in full control of what runs on their systems. Examples include embedded systems, such as network firewall devices running in a data center, or Linux servers running strict and immutable configurations and applications. OpenWrt - Opkg susceptible to MITM Brent sits down with Daniel Foré, founder of elementary OS Know when we're going to be live. Check out the calendar! Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Fedora nightly compose finder Fedora 32 Looking At Using EarlyOOM By Default To Better Deal With Low Memory Situations — The oom-killer generally has a bad reputation among Linux users. This may be part of the reason Linux invokes it only when it has absolutely no other choice. It will swap out the desktop environment, drop the whole page cache and empty every buffer before it will ultimately kill a process. At least that's what I think that it will do. I have yet to be patient enough to wait for it, sitting in front of an unresponsive system. <a href="https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom" t
Wed, April 01, 2020
347: Arm is Here
We discover a few simple Raspberry Pi tricks that unlock incredible performance and make us re-think the capabilities of Arm systems. Plus we celebrate Wireguard finally landing in Linux, catch up on feedback, and check out the new Manjaro laptop. Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Philip Muller. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Raspberry Pi Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) Daily Build WireGuard 1.0.0 for Linux 5.6 Released LUP Started Covering WireGuard in June of 2016 Manjaro InfinityBook Pro 15 Manjaro Linux on Twitter — "Our #Intel based @ManjaroLinux by @TUXEDOComputers is now available for pre-orders. Linux 5.6 Ships With Broken Intel WiFi Driver After Network Security Fixes Go Awry Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features Btrfs Ready For Linux 5.6 With Async Discard For Better Efficiency + Performance EXT4 Gets Performance Work While XFS Gets 32-Bit Fixes For Linux 5.6 F2FS Experimental Compression Is Ready For Extending Flash Storage Life <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Li
Wed, March 25, 2020
346: The One-Click Trap
We debate the dangers and advantages of one-click deployments. Then Dan from elementary OS shares an AppCenter for Everyone update. Plus a big batch of feedback that kicks off some wide-ranging discussions. Special Guests: Danielle Foré and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: FOSS Responders — COVID-19 is impacting the open source industry in many ways. If you or your community has been impacted, please let us know Seems that NVIDIA silently axed their GTC talk about Nouveau? Update: NVIDIA GTC 2020 Announcements Postponed Entirely Lemur Pro - System76 Brunch with Brent: Stuart Langridge Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram FOSS Talk Live 2020 has been cancelled. — It seems very unlikely that London will be functioning by June so I have made this difficult call. I'm very sorry to anyone who has made travel and accommodation arrangements but I trust that everyone will understand why this had to be done. TXLF 2020 Rescheduled — Given the recommendations by public health officials, we have decided to not have Texas Linux Fest on May 2020 at the Palmer Events Center in Austin, TX. We are currently investigating opportunities to bring parts of Texas Linux Fest online. Unfilter is Back TurnKey GNU/Linux — a free Debian based library of system images that pre-integrates and polishes the best free software components into secure, easy to use solutions. <a
Wed, March 18, 2020
345: Don't Go Viral, Go Virtual
It was the first of its kind, and the first forced to go virtual. We get the behind the scenes story of WSL Conf from the organizers. Plus our impressions of the latest GNOME release, community news, app picks, and more. Special Guests: Hayden Barnes, Neal Gompa, and Sohini Bianka Roy. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Linux Kernel’s Floppy Disk Code Is Seeing Improvements In 2020 elementary #AppCenterForEveryone on Twitter — Due to travel restrictions and for the safety and well-being of our contributors, we are postponing the AppCenter for Everyone sprint that was planned to take place March 12–19. We are coordinating making alternate arrangements with attendees and will provide more info soon Daniel Foré on Twitter — I’m really bummed that we had to postpone an in-person sprint, but we still hit the ground running today and got a lot done. Eager Beavers vs the Winter Storm — Work, Life, and RV Podcast Manjaro KDE will be factory-default of PinebookPro - Manjaro ARM / Announcements - Manjaro Linux Forum npm is joining GitHub - The GitHub Blog — Looking further ahead, we’ll integrate GitHub and npm to improve the security of the open source software supply chain, and enable you to trace a change from a GitHub pull request to the npm package version that fixed it. Protect our Speech and Security Online: Reject the Graham-Blumenthal Bill — The so-called EARN IT Act (S. 3398) is anti-speech, anti-security, anti-innovation, and unnecessary. Let’s tell Congress to reject it. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/fjs43h/government_ist_trying_to_ban_encryption_again/fkp1pv3/?utm_name=iossmf" title="Government ist trying to ban encryption again
Wed, March 11, 2020
344: Our Week with Windows
We load up Windows 10 with WSL2, the new Terminal, and give it a go to see what it does better than Linux. Then we dive into the deep end and attend the first-ever WSLConf. Plus the big new feature coming to Ubuntu, why Chris is going to Denver, and more. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: OpenSilver: a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplementation of Silverlight, that runs on current browsers via WebAssembly. Ubuntu 20.04’s zsys adds ZFS snapshots to package management Didier Roche on Twitter: “@jrssnet Thanks for your great article on zsys. Just one little precision: you can actually revert system state (with/without user states) in grub, which is the main UI for now. Hope you will love the feature and how we present them :)” Chris is going to Denver #AppCenterForEveryone AppCenter for Everyone | Indiegogo Some AppCenter for Everyone stats! Chris Fisher on Twitter: “We’ll never beat the Mac if developers can’t eat. @elementary’s #appcenterforeveryone is our best shot in years. Why I’m driving to Denver to cover it, and my @lfnw backup plans” Chz’s markdown pick:
Wed, March 04, 2020
343: What Linux is Best At
We try the Mac desktop for 30 days, find out what we think it does best, and where Linux will always have it beat. This episode kicks off the start of a bigger conversation series. Plus community news, very handy picks, and more. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Maria Komarova, and Michael Aaron Murphy . Support LINUX Unplugged Links: GNOME Shell 3.36 release Looking Great Firefox 75 On Wayland Now To Have Full WebGL, Working VA-API Acceleration - Phoronix Don’t forget about DST! FOSS Talk Live - June 20th at The Harrison near King’s Cross in London Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Late Night Linux – Episode 84 – Late Night Linux How Docker Makes All Linux Distros Look Alike - Container Journal Docker Desktop for Mac - Docker Hub Docker Desktop for Windows Simon Ferquel on Twitter: “We just updated @docker desktop edge channel with a build supporting Windows 10 Home Insider (you need WSL2 to run it on Home). So happy to see this at last!” / Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/ystan_/status/1233650086728437761?s=12" title="Yong Sheng on Twitter: “running #docker on #wsl2 from a fresh reboot of #windows10
Wed, February 26, 2020
342: Shrimps have SSHells
A radical new way to do SSH authentication, special guest Jeremy Stott joins us to discuss Zero Trust SSH. Plus community news, a concerning issue for makers, an Arch server follow up, and more. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Jeremy Stott, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: The makers of Jif peanut butter team up with Giphy to try to settle the GIF/Jif debate once and for all Manjaro Linux on Twitter: After several months of development we are happy to announce Manjaro Linux 19.0 release, named Kyria! Get in the C: Raspberry Pi 4 can handle a wider range of USB adapters thanks to revised design’s silent arrival Brunch with Brent: Heather Ellsworth Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Alex’s Blog: FAA Remote ID Proposal FPVFC FAQ on FAA Remote ID NPRM - December 2019 Proposed Rule: Remote Identification of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Introducing the Uber SSH Certificate Authority - Uber Security + Privacy - Medium bless: Repository for BLESS, an SSH Certificate Authority that runs as a AWS
Tue, February 18, 2020
341: Long Term Rolling
We question the very nature of Linux development, and debate if a new approach is needed. Plus an easy way to snapshot any workstation, some great feedback, and an extra nerdy command-line pick. Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Google slams Samsung for making changes to Linux kernel code Mitigations are attack surface, too Regular Release Distributions Are Wrong (archive.org cache) Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Timeshift: system restore tool for Linux Timeshift 19.08.1 does not apply file/folder exclude/include settings New Users and Linux Mint T480 Fingerprint Reader? Cockpit and ZFS Bcachefs prediction feedback jc: This tool serializes the output of popular gnu linux command line tools and file types to structured JSON output. This allows piping of output to tools like jq. Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century | Brazil’s Blog <a href="https://rootco.de/2020-02-10-regular-releases-are-wr
Wed, February 12, 2020
340: IRC is Dead
The difficult and fascinating conversations from FOSDEM 2020. Plus how elementary OS does coopertition right. And a bunch of community news, app picks, and much more. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, and Dusty Mabe. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: KDE Plasma 5.18: More Convenient and with Long Term Stability - KDE.org What’s New in KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS? - OMG! Ubuntu! System76 Launches Impressive Line Of Thelio Major Linux Workstations Powered By AMD Ryzen Threadripper - Including The 3990X - Phoronix oreboot: oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust. Rust's Freedom Flaws FS#736 - [rust][cargo] trademark agreement affects user freedom AppCenter for Everyone | Indiegogo Work, Life, and RV Podcast Our Accidental Home Base — Work, Life, and RV Podcast Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram PDP-7 FOSDEM 2020 - Events FOSDEM 2020 - Interview with James Bottomley - The Selfish Cont
Wed, February 05, 2020
339: The Mint Mindset
We get into the Linux Mint mindset after years away and share our take on Cinnamon's many improvements. Plus news that'll have knock-on effects for the rest of the year, and more. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Bosch Gets Smartglasses Right With Tiny Eyeball Lasers Google opens its latest Google Glass AR headset for direct purchase - The Verge Ginni Rometty to Step Down as C.E.O. of IBM - The New York Times Who is Arvind Krishna, the new IBM CEO replacing Ginni Rometty? | Fortune 2013 Red Hat Summit: Arvind Krishna, IBM Keynote - YouTube Systemd-Homed Merged As A Fundamental Change To Linux Home Directories The CUPS Printing System Lead Developer Has Left Apple, Begins Developing “LPrint” - Phoronix How the Glorification of Busyness Impacts Our Well-Being Creating the Habit of Not Being Busy : zen habits ChrisLAS.com - Chris W. Fisher Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram <a href="htt
Tue, January 28, 2020
338: Success Through Vulnerability
How did we get from shareware to free software? We jump in the Linux powered time machine and revisit software past. Plus a new Plasma focused laptop, and two powerful command-line picks. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: MarsCat is a Bionic Cat Powered by Raspberry Pi 3 (Crowdfunding) Kubuntu Focus Offers The Most Polished KDE Laptop Experience We’ve Seen Yet - Phoronix Kubuntu Focus Windows Terminal Preview v0.8 Release | Windows Command Line The happinesses and stresses of full-time FOSS work | Drew DeVault’s Blog Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Shareware on Wikipedia The Origin of Shareware Computer Chronicles: Shareware Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution Play DOOM Online PC-SIG Library (12th Edition) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Revolution OS:
Wed, January 22, 2020
337: Mystical Users
We make an appeal to keep Linux powerful and avoid the Macification of the desktop, and review the latest developer-focused XPS 13. Plus some community news that's getting missed, picks, and more. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: PinePhone started shipping January 17th Fedora CoreOS out of preview - Fedora Magazine Flatcar Container Linux | Linux for containers Doing Things That Scale – Space and Meaning We Ditched Mac Pro for THIS… New Ubuntu Theme in Development for 20.04 Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Use your Terminal like a Desktop now on YouTube Terminal like a desktop LUP article Home Assistant Podcast with Alex Brent sits down with Jim Salter of TechSNAP in the latest episode of Brunch with Brent Dell XPS 13 7390 Review: The Best Laptop For Desktop Linux Users - Linux.com Phoronix Test Suite Results <a href="https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=232150&p=2" title
Wed, January 15, 2020
336: Linus' Filesystem Fluster
Linus Torvalds says don't use ZFS, but we think he got a few of the facts wrong. Jim Salter joins us to help us explain what Linus got right, and what he got wrong. Plus some really handy Linux picks, some community news, and a live broadcast from Seattle's Snowpocalypse! Special Guest: Jim Salter. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Windows 7 support ended on January 14, 2020 Chris Snowed in WSDOT Traffic on Twitter: "Five cars and a semi on this collision SB I-5 north of SR 530. Back up with only one lane going through. Automotive Grade Linux Has Large Presence At CES 2020 Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram LFNW CFP closes Wednesday 1/15! Texas Linux Fest CFP closes Saturday 1/18! Home Assistant Podcast Linus Torvalds says “Don’t use ZFS”—but doesn’t seem to understand it | Ars Technica Linus Torvalds on ZFS A Quick Look At EXT4 vs. ZFS Performance On Ubuntu 19.10 With An NVMe SSD ZFS Isn’t the Only Option <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.ph
Tue, January 07, 2020
335: Practically Perfect Predictions
Find out what's happening in 2020 before it happens. Our crew returns from the future with predictions so perfect you could bet some Dogecoin on it. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Why you should replace Windows 7 with Linux | Vivaldi Browser Pacman Candy Easter Egg Cheap DIY LED Light Strip | Self-Hosted Live Hack - YouTube Boston Dynamics Parkour Robot
Tue, December 31, 2019
334: Particularly Poor Predictions
We review our predictions and own up to what we got wrong, and what we got right in 2019. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Q&A with Sam K - Acquisition Announcement Follow Up Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram My recent Plasma Basic to Brilliant video is out Mac Pro case clone No More Secrets - This project provides a command line tool called nms that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen on screen in the 1992 hacker movie Sneakers. hollywood - launch Byobu, open a random number of splits with random sizes, in each split run a noisy text app cool-retro-term: A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display
Tue, December 24, 2019
333: Linux Wayback Machine
Open source won the last decade, but what if it hadn’t? We look back at some major milestones and reflect on a world where they never existed. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Introducing netboot.xyz Docker Network Boot Server Image (PXE) Tails - Celebrating 10 years of Tails! Ten Years Past GNOME’s 10x10 Goal, The Linux Desktop Is Still Far From Having A 10% Marketshare - Phoronix Linux Headlines Jupiter Extras - NOW ON YouTube Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram! Container History in an Image Shuttleworth’s grand vision for Ubuntu on phones, tablets, TV’s and smart screens everywhere in October 2011 Ubuntu Touch 1.0 in October 2013 BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition in April 2015 Ubuntu phone killed in April 2017 UBports released first stable OTA in June 2017 <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/29979/librem-5-a-security-and-privacy-focused-gnulinux-smartp
Wed, December 18, 2019
332: The WSL Secrets
Big things are coming to Microsoft's WSL so we get the inside scoop on what's just around the corner. Plus a few new GNOME features, some Arch server follow up, and more! Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Hayden Barnes. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: New Gnome Extensions Tool GNOME 3.36 Bringing Better Multi-GPU Handling With Switcheroo-Control, NVIDIA Support Jonathon F in Launchpad Pocket Popcorn Computer Old Pocket C.H.I.P. Better Together: A Cloud Guru and Linux Academy Join Forces – Linux Academy Brunch w/Jason PT1 Linux Headlines Jupiter Extras - NOW ON YouTube Leadership Transition at Whitewater Foundry Canonical co-sponsors Windows Subsystem for Linux conference https://github.com/sirredbeard/unofficial-webapp-office#how-this-works <a href="https://twitter.com/unixterminal/status/1204522751974891526" title="Hayden Barnes on Twitter: “Fixes inbound in a few days for @nim_lang snaps (stable, LTS & nightly) that will allow access to system libraries and non-gcc compilers. Also added bash completion for nim & nimble. Made w/ #UbuntuWSL & @ubuntu Hyper-V & @code,
Wed, December 11, 2019
331: apt install arch-linux
We're myth-busting this week as we take a perfectly functioning production server and switch it to Arch. Is this rolling distro too dangerous to run in production, or can the right approach unlock the perfect server? We try it so you don't have to. Plus some big community news, feedback, and more. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux Microsoft Teams is the first Office app for Linux | VentureBeat Black Friday Sale is almost done! NVIDIA Looks To Have Some Sort Of Open-Source Driver Announcement For 2020 WireGuard VPN is a step closer to mainstream adoption How to setup your own VPN server using WireGuard on Ubuntu Chris Noticed his Manjaro mirrors were REALLY slow this AM Christmas Student Contest! | The Mad Botter — We are running a contest for High-School students to win a System76 Thelio Linux PC on us. To qualify you must be a US high-school student with your parents permission to participate and write a small FOSS project and publish it on GitHub. Perfect Plasma Setup - From Basic to Brilliant - YouTube Jupiter Extras: Brunch with Brent: Alan Pope <a href="https://jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram" title="Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Jupiterbr
Wed, December 04, 2019
330: 'Tis the SSHession
Give the gift of remote support with our neat SSH trick. Also, Cassidy from elementary OS joins us to discuss what's great about their new release. Plus we'll share some gadget gift ideas, and what we're building for the holidays. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Cassidy James Blaede. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Thermal testing Raspberry Pi 4 - Raspberry Pi Black Friday Sale is almost done! Librem 5 backers have begun receiving their Linux phones Richi’s Blog - ZeroNet Here’s An Early Look at the PinePhone Developer Edition (Video) - OMG! Ubuntu! Introducing elementary OS 5.1 Hera ⋅ elementary Blog Linux App Summit 2019 Linux Headlines Get Together | Distros and Drinks Jupiter Extras - NOW ON YouTube Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram Giving the Gift of Linux. The gift of network backups backuppc - Docker Hub <a href="https://pi-hole.net/" title="Pi-hol
Wed, November 27, 2019
329: Flat Network Truthers
Build one flat network across cloud providers, personal networks, with even thousands of nodes. We feature two amazing open source solutions, and the creators behind them. Plus community news, first impressions of Google Stadia, listener feedback, and some great picks. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Guus Sliepen, and Ryan Huber. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Chris Fisher on Twitter: “Trying out @GoogleStadia before today’s @LinuxUnplugged. Google is Working to Bring Mainline Linux Kernel to Android Linux 5.5 Crypto Code Has The Changes To Usher In WireGuard - Phoronix System76 Superfan 3 Article Photo Gallery for System76 Superfan 3 Pinebook Pro Article Jupiter Extras: popey on ThinkPads Jupiter Extras - NOW ON YouTube Tinc VPN Tinc - ArchWiki Install tinc VPN for Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft Introducing Nebula, the open source global overlay network from Slack Slack’s open source Neb
Wed, November 20, 2019
328: My Mighty Fine Pine
The Pinebook Pro gets put through the travel test, while we get an update on Pine64 projects straight from the source. Plus a few surpises from the System76 Super Fan event. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Lukasz Erecinski. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: PinePhone “BraveHeart” Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone for early adopters MacBook Pro 2013 | eBay Apple MacBook Pro 2013 15.4" RETINA Laptop - ME294LL/A i7 16GB 512GB GT 750M | eBay KDE is looking for an experienced project manager to help guide the community’s goals to completion. GNOME Shell & Mutter Dev – Development blog for GNOME Shell and Mutter System76 Superfan event https://github.com/system76 Jupiter Extras: Brunch with Brent: Emma Marshall Keyboard firmware updater Manjaro ARM Preview3 for Pinebook Pro - Manjaro ARM / Announcements - Manjaro Linux Forum Brunch with Brent feed link. Lakka - The
Tue, November 12, 2019
327: Distro Disco
Get to know our Linux Users Group a little better and learn why they love their Linux distros of choice, and the one thing they'd change to make them perfect. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Neal’s DNF-on-Tumbleweed Hack New LA free course for November Yellow Dog Linux - Wikipedia APT-RPM — APT-RPM is a port of Debian's APT tools to a RPM based distribution. URPMI - Mageia wiki — urpmi is Mageia's command line tool for managing packages and repositories Linux Millionaire Question Form — Jupiter Broadcasting wants to create a fun game for Linux enthusiasts to test their knowledge on the depths of technology and Linux history. Please help by providing us your thoughtful questions and suggested answers!
Wed, November 06, 2019
326: Dell, elementary, Fedora, oh my!
Dell expands their linux hardware lineup, why elementary OS's Flatpak support sets the bar, and we chat with Christian Schaller of Red Hat about Fedora 31 and what's around the corner. Plus an update on Ubuntu on the Raspberry Pi 4 and a pick that's just for Wes. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Christian F.K. Schaller, Danielle Foré, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Dell bets large on Ubuntu Linux laptops for builders - Mash Viral XPS 13 Inch 10th Gen 4K Laptop | Dell USA Roadmap for Ubuntu official support for the Raspberry Pi 4 | Ubuntu elementary Updates for October, 2019 Cassidy on Twitter: "elementary: spends a ton of time and energy going out of our way to make the sideloading experience for users clear, accurate, and easy. Implements Flatpak, making it easier for users to get apps from anywhere. Random YouTube commenters: LOL SO APPLE, HELLO WALLED GARDEN" JB Extras - Brunch with Brent w/Wimpy JB Extras - Threat hunting 101 1753295 – Pango no longer supports bitmap fonts Better Looking fonts For fedora : Fedora <a href="https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode" title="GitHub - tonsky/FiraCode: Monospaced font with program
Wed, October 30, 2019
325: DNF or Die
Fedora 31 strikes the right balance, we get the latest on the Librem 5 situation, and an easy graphics boost for laptops. Plus the best way to share your terminal yet, and more. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Drew DeVore. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Hey dude. Quick question. What is the device you’re using as external GPU for your laptop. Is it called a breakaway box? Can you add any GPU and PCIe you want through Type C USB?”" rel="nofollow">srslol on Twitter: “@ChrisLAS --> Hey dude. Quick question. What is the device you’re using as external GPU for your laptop. Is it called a breakaway box? Can you add any GPU and PCIe you want through Type C USB?” Mantiz Venus MZ-02 External Graphic Enclosure eGPU Using the Razer Core eGPU with Fedora Linux — I set launch options to DRI_PRIME=1 %command% to run the game on the eGPU Supplying the Demand – Purism First Librem 5 Smartphones are Shipping – Purism Jay Little - Software Obsessionist - The Sad Saga of Purism and the Librem 5 : Part 1 Purism’s Librem 5 phone starts shipping—a fully open GNU/Linux phone | Ars Technica Why Librem 5 will never succeed (in my opinion) Purism Librem 5 Linux phone delayed a bit due to CPU thermal problems - SlashGear <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/dnoyh0/an_
Wed, October 23, 2019
324: RAMburglars
Is the ZFS tax too high? We pit ZFS on root against ext4 in our laptop pressure cooker and see how they perform when RAM gets tight. Plus we take a look at Pop!_OS 19.10, complete our Ubuntu 19.10 review, cover community news, and lots more. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Unix Turns 50 Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie Explain UNIX (Bell Labs) - YouTube Fedora at 15: Why Matthew Miller sees a bright future for the Linux distribution How a business was built on podcasts for Linux: The story of Jupiter Broadcasting Introducing Steam Remote Play Together Donate to the Gnome Foundation Patent Troll Defense Fund Texas Cyber Summit - Extras 24 Texas Cyber Summit - Blog Post Texas Cyber Summit - Photo Gallery Bug #1848790 “USB not working under arm64 on Pi4” EXT4 Stock Benchmarks ZFS on Root Benchmarks EXT vs ZFS Comparison <a href="https://openbenchmarking.org/re
Wed, October 16, 2019
323: It's Pronounced 19.10
We risk it all and try ZFS on root with Ubuntu 19.10, and share our first impressions and what improvements we can't live without. Plus, exciting news for both Plasma and GNOME, coreboot laptops from System76, and too many picks. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: KDE Plasma 5.17 System76 launches two Linux with Comet Lake chips and Coreboot GNOME Shell & Mutter 3.34.1 Deliver On Their Prominent Fixes Jupiter Extras: Brunch with Brent: A Chat with Angela Fisher Jupiter Extras: Operation Safe Escape Jupiter Extras: Self-Hosted: Reverse Proxy Basics October Free Courses at Linux Academy Ermine: a stoat, especially when in its white winter coat. Ubuntu 19.10 Daily images Eoan Ermine Release Notes Ubuntu ZFS support in 19.10: introduction · ~DidRocks Ubuntu ZFS support in 19.10: ZFS on root · ~DidRocks Should you skip ZFS on root? Skip the installer?
Wed, October 09, 2019
322: Just Enough VPN
We reveal our secrets for bridging networks with WireGuard and Linux-powered networking. Plus the future of OpenPGP in Thunderbird, a disappointing update for the Atari VCS, and a shiny new Spotify client for your terminal. Special Guest: Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Linus Torvalds Shares His Thoughts on Microsoft’s New-Found Love for Linux - OMG! Ubuntu! Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird Game over: Atari VCS architect quits project, claims he hasn’t been paid for six months • The Register Jupiter Extras: Self-Hosted: Reverse Proxy Basics September Free Courses Texas Cyber Summit Birthday Party at Two Brothers BBQ subspace: A simple WireGuard VPN server GUI RaspberryPiWireguard: Install and configure WireGuard on Raspberry Pi (and others) wireguard: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout on raspberry pi 4 : WireGuard vpnac.org Rigellute/spotify-tui: Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀 <a href="https://cmus.github.io/" title="C* Music
Wed, October 02, 2019
321: Fresh Install Feels
What makes a fresh install of Linux perfect? We ask our panel and share a few tools, tips, and habits that make our Linux installs perfect. Plus the big little updates coming to Ubuntu MATE, some Pi pontification, and some significant changes for Wireguard. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: openSUSE Election Commitie Set to Open Vote on Project Name Ubuntu MATE 19.10 Release Notes Fedora Workstation 31 – Whats new — Christian F.K. Schaller GameMode improvements for GNOME 3.34 and Fedora 31 by Christian Kellner WireGuard to port to existing Crypto API Oggcamp 19 - Panel questions needed October Free Courses Texas Cyber Summit Birthday Party at Two Brothers BBQ How old is the #Linux install on your current computer? What I do after a fresh install of Fedora Workstation : Fedora GitHub - e-minguez/laptop_install: Utils to reinstall a new laptop easily <a href="htt
Wed, September 25, 2019
320: RHELhide
CentOS goes rolling and announces version 8. Find out why we're excited to take a dip in this stream. Plus we review what might just be your next Linux laptop, and explain why systemd is coming for your /home. Special Guest: Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Ubuntu Touch on the Pinebook CentOS 8.1905 — Hello and welcome to the first CentOS-8 release. The CentOS Linux distribution is a stable, predictable, manageable and reproducible platform derived from the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). CentOS Stream — CentOS Stream will be a rolling-release Linux distro that exists as a midstream between the upstream development in Fedora Linux and the downstream development for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It is a cleared-path to contributing into future minor releases of RHEL while interacting with Red Hat and other open source developers. This pairs nicely with the existing contribution path in Fedora for future major releases of RHEL. Transforming the development experience within CentOS — The CentOS Stream project sits between the Fedora Project and RHEL in the RHEL Development process, providing a "rolling preview" of future RHEL kernels and features. This enables developers to stay one or two steps ahead of what’s coming in RHEL, which was not previously possible with traditional CentOS releases Reinventing Home Directories — The concept of home directories on Linux/UNIX has little changed in the last 39 years. It's time to have a closer look, and bring them up to today's standards, regarding encryption, storage, authentication, user records, and more. Twitch Becomes Premiere Sponsor of the OBS Project | OBS — We are excited to announce that Twitch is now officially sponsoring my work on the OBS Project! Since 2012 we've maintained a great relationship with Twitch and their engineers. They've always been good to us, and we've always helped each other whenever needed. Twitch has always been one of the biggest supp
Wed, September 18, 2019
319: Positive in the Freedom Dimension
Richard Stallman has resigned as president and director of the Free Software Foundation, and that's just one of the major shifts this week. Also what makes Manjaro unique? We chat with one of the founders and find out why it's much more than a desktop environment. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Bernhard Landauer, Brent Gervais, and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Richard Stallman Resigns — On September 16, 2019, Richard M. Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation, resigned as president and from its board of directors. GNOME relationship with GNU and the FSF – Liberal Murmurs — In my capacity as the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, I have also written to the FSF. One of the most important parts of my role is to think of the well being of our community and the GNOME mission. One of the GNOME Foundation’s strategic goals is to be an exemplary community in terms of diversity and inclusion. I feel we can’t continue to have a formal association with the FSF or the GNU project when its main voice in the world is saying things that hurt this aim. balena releases first fully functional 64-bit OS for the Raspberry Pi 4 — Today, we are excited to announce the release of 64-bit balenaOS for the Raspberry Pi 4, providing support for the full 4GB of memory and allowing the simultaneous, side-by-side running of 32-bit and 64-bit Docker containers - a first for the Raspberry Pi 4! Nextcloud 17 scales up and improves data protection with Remote Wipe, collaborative text editor, 2FA updates, IBM Spectrum Scale support and Global Scale improvements – Nextcloud — Fresh from the Nextcloud conference stage, we are proud to announce a major release of Nextcloud, the easiest solution for secure, on-premises collaboration on documents, calendars and communication! Nextcloud 17 will introduce a series of secure collaboration features including a collaborative text editor, remote wipe, updated secur
Wed, September 11, 2019
318: Manjaro Levels Up
It’s official, Manjaro is a legitimate business; so what happens next? We chat with Phil from the project about the huge news. Plus we share some big news of our own and the strange feels we get from Chrome OS. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Ell Marquez, and Philip Muller. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Kate Planning — Whereas Kate already works well as a general purpose editor, the competition in the text editor space got more intense in the last years. For example Sublime, Atom and Visual Studio Code are things to keep an eye on feature & polishing wise. Free software advocate Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week | ZDNet — Stallman gave a "mostly standard talk," covering the importance of free software, GPL v3, GNU vs. Linux. He added that "he had a list of 'small requests': make Github push users to better software license hygiene, make hardware manufacturers to publish their hardware specs, make it easier to workaround Secure Boot." Microsoft hosts first Windows Subsystem for Linux conference | ZDNet — Hayden Barnes, founder of Whitewater Foundry, a startup focusing on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) announced WSLconf 1, the first community conference for WSL. Manjaro is taking the next step - Announcements - Manjaro Linux Forum — On July 8th, Philip and Bernhard met together with the CEO of Blue Systems to officially found this business entity. As a result, Bernhard and Philip will now be able to commit full-time to Manjaro, while Blue Systems will take a role as an advisor. Manjaro CommunityBridge Self-Hosted — Discover new software and hardware to get the best out of your network, control smart devices, and secure your data on cloud services. Self-Hosted is a chat show between Chris and Alex two long-time "self-hosters" who share their lessons and take you on the journey of their new ones. <a href="https://linuxheadlines.show/" title="Li
Wed, September 04, 2019
317: Performance Picks for Kicks
We take a trip to visit Level1Tech's Wendell Wilson and come back with some of his performance tips for a smoother Linux desktop. Plus the story behind exFAT coming to Linux, and the big desktop performance improvements landing next week. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Drew DeVore, and Ell Marquez. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: XKCD Forum Hacked — The security breach occurred two months ago, according to security researcher Troy Hunt who alerted the company of the incident, with unknown hackers stealing around 562,000 usernames, email and IP addresses, as well as hashed passwords. Examining exFAT — Linux kernel developers like to get support for new features — such as filesystem types — merged quickly. In the case of the exFAT filesystem, that didn't happen; exFAT was created by Microsoft in 2006 for use in larger flash-storage cards, but there has never been support in the kernel for this filesystem. Microsoft's recent announcement that it wanted to get exFAT support into the mainline kernel would appear to have removed the largest obstacle to Linux exFAT support. But, as is so often the case, it seems that some challenges remain. Waypipe Is Successfully Working For This Network-Transparent Wayland Apps/Games Proxy — Waypipe development was successful this summer by student developer Manuel Stoeckl who was working on the effort as part of this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Waypipe is successfully working now for running Wayland games/applications over the network using this proxy mechanism and supports features like compression, multi-threading optimizations, and hardware-accelerated VA-API for video encode/decode across the network. GSOC 2019 - M. Stoeckl's website — Waypipe supports many quality of life features, including a user-friendly command line wrapper for ssh, hardware accelerated video encoding, transfer compression with either LZ4 or Zstd, and a method to reconnect applications when the ssh connection breaks. With more recent kernels and versions of Mesa that support DMABUFs (GPU-side buffers), it can proxy programs that render images using OpenGL. What to Expect in GNOME 3.
Wed, August 28, 2019
316: Self-Hosted Secrets
Safely host your own password database using totally open source software. We cover BitWarden, our top choice to solve this problem. Plus we announce a new show we're super proud of, and chat with Dan Lynch from OggCamp. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Dan Lynch, and Ell Marquez. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: low-memory-monitor: new project announcement — low-memory-monitor, as its name implies, monitors the amount of free physical memory on the system and will shoot off signals to interested user-space applications, usually session managers, or sandboxing helpers, when that memory runs low, making it possible for applications to shrink their memory footprints before it's too late either to recover a usable system, or avoid taking a performance hit. Fedora Switching To The BFQ I/O Scheduler For Better Responsiveness & Throughput - Phoronix — Following Chromebooks switching to BFQ and other distributions weighing this I/O scheduler for better responsiveness while maintaining good throughput capabilities, beginning with Fedora 31 there will be BFQ used as well. Pinebook Preorders — Public #Pinebook Pro pre-orders start in the morning PDT (California, USA Time) August 25. The NEXT pre-order window will be mid-September; so don't worry if you won't get a pre-order now, it won't be a long wait for the next pre-order window. LINUX Unplugged - Blog - Summer Sprint 2019 — Working remotely certainly has its advantages and I love the ability to sit in the comfort of my own home doing work I’m passionate about. That being said, I think it’s equally important to spend time together in meat space. There really is nothing like looking across the table at your co-workers while you try to flush out new ideas, make important decisions, or just share a meal. Not to mention, Washington is beautiful this time of the year... Subscribe to Self Hosted — Discover new software and hardware to get the best out of your network, control smart devices, and secure your data on cloud services. Self Hosted is a chat show between Chris and Alex two long-time "self hosters" who share their lessons and take you
Wed, August 21, 2019
315: Wayland Buddies
We spend our weekend with Wayland, discover new apps to try, tricks to share, and dig into the state of the project. Plus System76's new software release, and Fedora's big decision. Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: System76 Blog — The New Firmware Manager — we’re excited to announce that you can now check and update firmware through Settings on Pop!_OS, and through the firmware manager GTK application on System76 hardware running other Debian-based distributions. pop-os/firmware-manager — Generic framework and GTK UI for firmware updates from system76-firmware and fwupd, written in Rust. Richard Brown on Twitter — Today I’m stepping down as openSUSE Chairman, leaving the Project in the fine hands of the openSUSE board and it’s new Chair, @GeraldPfeifer. Approved: Fedora 31 To Drop i686 Everything/Modular Repositories - Phoronix — The FESCo group gave their formal approval today for permitting these i686 repositories to be removed beginning with Fedora 31 Jupiter Extras: Chris and Wes React to LINUX Unplugged — Nothing is worse than your past self. So we play old clips of LINUX Unplugged and react. Scan for network vulnerabilities w/ Nmap - Linux Academy YouTube — With data breaches becoming so common, it's vital to be proactive in finding and patching severe vulnerabilities on our system. One of the free/open-source ways you can scan for these vulnerabilities is by using Nmap. How to copy directories with SCP recursively tutorial - Linux AcademyYouTube — When working with servers you will often find yourself in a situation where you need to copy files from one machine to another. You can package them into a tarball and then copy a tarball over to a remote machine and then unpack it there. This is not a bad option but you can also use SCP to
Wed, August 14, 2019
314: Bigger. Faster. Harder to Maintain.
It's huge, and it's getting bigger every month. How do you test the Linux Kernel? Major Hayden from Red Hat joins us to discuss their efforts to automate Kernel bug hunting. Plus our honest conversation about which Linux works best for us. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Ell Marquez, Major Hayden, and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Unpatched KDE vulnerability disclosed on Twitter — When a user opens the KDE file viewer to access the directory where these files are stored, the malicious code contained within the .desktop or .directory files executes without user interaction. KDE rips out ability for KConfig to run shell code — KDE responded on Wednesday by removing the feature to have shell commands as values in the KConfig files, which was described as an intentional feature that allowed for flexibility. First modern coreboot server platform — This platform is the first modern upstream coreboot server platform on the market with an Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 processor also known as Kabylake-DT. Open-source firmware is the future - Blog | Mullvad VPN — This is the first time a modern off-the-shelf server platform gains coreboot support, and it is an integral part of realizing our vision of transparent and independently auditable VPN servers. Adder WS - System76 System76 Preparing To Roll Out Their First Coreboot-Enabled Laptop - Phoronix — Ahead of this year's Open-Source Firmware Conference (OSFC) being held from 3 to 6 September at the Google and Facebook offices in Mountain View, System76 announced the Darter Pro OSFC Edition that ships with Coreboot. System76 Granted A Thunderbolt License To Integrate Into Their Open Firmware - Pho
Wed, August 07, 2019
313: I Spy With My Little Pi
We put the Raspberry Pi 4 to the desktop test, and try it as our daily driver. Plus some neat and powerful uses for recent Pis, and our thoughts on Manjaro's change of heart. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, and Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain. You Can Download Them Free — Prior to 1964, books had a 28-year copyright term. Extending it required authors or publishers to send in a separate form, and lots of people didn't end up doing that. Thanks to the efforts of the New York Public Library, many of those public domain books are now free online. About FreeOffice - it's not being installed by default - Announcements - Manjaro Linux Forum — Manjaro will not be installing FreeOffice by default. This isn't happening. Join the new Minimization Team - devel-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists — I'm starting a Minimization Objective focusing on minimising the installation size of some of the popular apps, runtimes, and other pieces of software in Fedora. Google Engineers Get Windows Booting When Kexec'ed Under Linux - Phoronix — An interesting summer internship at Google has led to an experimental effort to get Microsoft Windows running via Kexec from Linux. The engineers involved have been implementing enough of the EFI Boot Services to be able to kexec Windows from Linux. Roy Hopkins on Twitter — That's a coincidence. Today I managed to boot Windows 10 directly from Linux on a real platform using a kernel module to emulate UEFI. I hate to say it but achieving ExitBootServices is only the beginning... LinuxBoot — LinuxBoot is a firmware for modern servers that replaces specific firmware functionality like the UEFI
Wed, July 31, 2019
312: What Modern Linux Looks Like
Manjaro takes significant steps to stand out, and the shared problem major distributions are trying to solve, and why it will shape the future of Linux. Plus macOS apps on Linux, and our first impressions of the Raspberry Pi 4. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Drew DeVore, Martin Wimpress, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: ThinkTiny — The ThinkTiny is a miniature laptop computer with a 0.96 inch display and a design that’s heavily inspired by Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad style. There’s even a TrackPoint-like pointing nub. Darling Picks Up New Contributors For Its macOS Compatibility Layer On Linux — Darling is the long-standing (albeit for some years idling) effort to allow macOS binaries to run on Linux that is akin to Wine but focused on an Apple macOS layer rather than Windows. This summer it's been moving along and seeing some new developer contributions. Darling Progress Report Q2 2019 — We are very excited to say that in Q2 2019 (April 1 to June 30) we saw more community involvement than ever before. Many pull requests were submitted that spanned from bug fixes for our low level assembly to higher level modules such as the AppKit framework. Thanks to everyone for your contributions and we hope for this level of engagement to continue. Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit — Full desktop computer kit - just connect to HDMI display(s) Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35 — A 1.5GHz quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A72 CPU (~3× performance) Raspberry Pi 4 Ubuntu Server 18.04.2 Install / Config Guide — Right now there is a memory limitation of 1 GB in 64 bit mode on the Raspberry Pi 4. This is apparently due to the SD card driver breaking when more than 1 GB of RAM is present. This will all be solved eventually but until then I recommend using the 32 bit version of Ubuntu or waiting until the Raspberry Pi 4 support catches up. If you want to run the 64 bit on
Wed, July 24, 2019
311: 32 Hours of Outrage
Keynote presenter from Texas LinuxFest and established industry expert Thomas Cameron joins us to discuss the end of the distro wars, the future of Linux jobs, his personal take on IBM's acquisition of Red Hat, some really great Linux job tips, and much more. Plus we catch up on some community news from old friends, complain about a few Linux bugs, and share a "magical" app pick. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Martin Wimpress, and Thomas Cameron. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Hiding Data In Music Might Be The Key To Ditching Coffee Shop WiFi Passwords | Hackaday — By encoding data into the audible range of music, coffee shops could broadcast their WiFi passwords inside their Sia-heavy playlists. (Why is it always Sia?) Cell phones could then detect the password and automatically connect. Dropbox added support for zfs, eCryptFS, xfs, and btrfs filesystems — The latest version 77.3.127 Dropbox added support for zfs (on 64-bit systems only), eCryptFS, xfs (on 64-bit systems only), and btrfs filesystems. Fedora To Stop Providing i686 Kernels, Might Also Drop 32-Bit Modular/Everything Repos - Phoronix — Under this secondary proposal, Fedora 31 would stop producing and distributing Modular and Everything i686 repositories. Changes/Noi686Repositories - Fedora Project Wiki — Stop producing and distributing the Modular and Everything i686 repositories. Kernel 5.2 KVM VFIO Bug LinuxServer Joins Open Collective Download – Endeavour OS — We’re proud to present you our very first stable release Passing the AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam — Whether you need the Cloud Practitioner certi
Tue, July 16, 2019
310: All Roads Lead to Linux
What’s surprised us, what we got wrong, right, and what the biggest game changers have been in 2019 so far. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Jim Salter. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection Mozilla: Want ad-free news on Firefox? That'll cost you $5 Google's Manifest V3 will change how ad blocking Chrome extensions work End of Scientific Linux End of Antergos Linux End of Korora Project LibreOffice 6.3 Drops 32-bit Linux Builds Intel 32bit packages on Ubuntu from 19.10 onwards Announcing WSL 2 Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35 Google Stadia announced Subscriptions Are About to Swallow Gaming Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time AV1 Codec <a href="https://www.phoro
Wed, July 10, 2019
309: The Future is Open
Open Source has taken over the world, as IBM's purchase of Red Hat closes. We reflect on this historic moment. Plus Mozilla's been labeled an Internet Villian, we deep dive into the tech behind all the controversy and how you can self-host secure DNS. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Drew DeVore. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Red Hat, Inc. on Twitter — As #RedHat's acquisition by @IBM closes, Red Hat will maintain independence and neutrality to give customers freedom, choice and flexibility. IBM Closes Landmark Acquisition of Red Hat for $34 Billion; Defines Open, Hybrid Cloud Future — Joining forces with IBM gives Red Hat the opportunity to bring more open source innovation to an even broader range of organizations and will enable us to scale to meet the need for hybrid cloud solutions that deliver true choice and agility. Ubuntu-Maker Canonical’s GitHub Account Gets Hacked — An unknown hacker yesterday successfully managed to hack into the official GitHub account of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux project and created 11 new empty repositories. Ubuntu Security on Twitter — We can confirm that on 2019-07-06 there was a Canonical owned account on GitHub whose credentials were compromised and used to create repositories and issues among other activities. Raspberry Pi admits to faulty USB-C design on the Pi 4 — After reports started popping up on the Internet, Raspberry Pi cofounder Eben Upton admitted to TechRepublic that "A smart charger with an e-marked cable will incorrectly identify the Raspberry Pi 4 as an audio adapter accessory and refuse to provide power." Upton went on to say, "I expect this will be fixed in a future board revision, but for now users will need to apply one of the suggested workarounds. It's surprising this didn't show up in our (quite extensive) field testing program." <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/68.0/releasenotes/" title="Firefox 68.0, See All New Features, Up
Tue, July 02, 2019
308: The One About GPU Passthrough
Our crew walks you through their PCI Passthrough setups that let them run Windows, macOS, and distro-hop all from one Linux machine. Forget multiple partitions, dual booting, and Hackintoshes; you can do it all with Linux and KVM. Near-native VM performance doesn't have to be painful. You only need a few prerequisites and a little help. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Windows VirtIO Drivers — 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and newer require the drivers to be digitally signed. Alex's arch-vfio-ovmf scripts — Arch Linux installation and VFIO setup scripts Looking Glass - Quickstart Guide — These guides are designed to help you get Looking Glass up and running on an already configured QEMU KVM Virtual Machine that has a VGA PCI Passthrough device. duncanthrax/scream — Scream is a virtual device driver for Windows that provides a discrete sound device. Audio played through this device is published on your local network as a PCM multicast stream. ACS patch COPR — Fedora kernels with add-acs-overrides patch from Arch AUR ACS Override Kernel Builds — This page contains links to the latest kernel builds with the ACS override patch applied for PCI devices. natalie-/fedora-acs-override — Using the ACS override patch for Fedora VFIO tips and tricks: IOMMU Groups, inside and out — Sometimes VFIO users are befuddled that they aren't able to separate devices between host and guest or multiple guests due to IOMMU grouping and revert to using legacy KVM device assignment, or as is the case with may VFIO-VGA users, apply the PCIe ACS override patch to avoid the problem. Let's take a moment to look at what this is really doing. <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#%22Error_43:_Driver_failed_to_load%22_on_Nvidia_GPUs_
Wed, June 26, 2019
307: What's your NextCloud?
Go full self-hosted with our team’s tips, and we share our setups from simple to complex. Plus what really happens on a 64-bit Linux box when you run 32-bit software, some very handy picks, our reaction to the new Raspberry Pi 4 and more. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: These 5D Glass Discs Store 360 TB Of Data For 13.8 Billion Years — Researchers at the University of Southampton have showcased their new nanostructured glass discs that have the ability to store digital data for billions of years. The university announced that they've managed to build a device that can store huge amounts of data on small glass discs using laser writing The Raspberry Pi 4 launch site runs on a Pi 4 cluster | Ars Technica — The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B has launched. It's a pretty big upgrade from the Raspberry Pi 3, with the company claiming that the device can provide "desktop performance comparable to entry-level x86 PC systems." Is 4 GB The Limit For The Raspberry Pi 4? | Hackaday — It’s not the lack of an Oxford comma that caught his eye, but the tantalising mention of an 8 GB Raspberry Pi 4. Could we one day see an extra model in the range with twice the memory? It would be nice to think so. Buy a Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit – Raspberry Pi — Full desktop computer kit - just connect to HDMI display(s) Steam is dropping support for Ubuntu, but not Linux entirely | PC Gamer — Last Friday, a developer at Valve announced that Ubuntu Linux 19.10—which is due to come out this October—won't be supported by Steam. Valve is still supporting Linux, just not future versions of the Ubuntu operating system. Pierre-Loup Griffais on Twitter — Ubuntu 19.10 and future releases will not be officially supported by Steam or recommended to our use
Wed, June 19, 2019
306: Flipping FreeNAS for Fedora
We attempt something you never should, we live flip our FreeNAS ZFS install to a Fedora server. Plus a REALLY weird PC, and our command line picks. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Netflix Uncovers TCP Bugs Within The Linux & FreeBSD Kernels - Phoronix — As Netflix's first security bulletin for 2019, they warned of TCP-based remote denial of service vulnerabilities affecting both Linux and FreeBSD. These vulnerabilities are rated "critical" but already being corrected within the latest Git code. Initial Benchmarks Of Microsoft's WSL2 - Phoronix — Since the release of WSL2 as a Windows 10 Insider Preview update this week, we've been putting the new Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 under some benchmarks compared to WSL1 and bare metal Linux. While WSL2 has improved the I/O performance thanks to the new Hyper-V-based virtualization approach employed by WSL2, the performance has regressed in other areas for running Linux binaries on Windows 10. The Future of Docker Desktop for Windows - Docker Engineering Blog — ith WSL 2 integration, you will still experience the same seamless integration with Windows, but Linux programs running inside WSL will also be able to do the same. This has a huge impact for developers working on projects targeting a Linux environment, or with a build process tailored for Linux. No need for maintaining both Linux and Windows build scripts anymore! As an example, a developer at Docker can now work on the Linux Docker daemon on Windows, using the same set of tools and scripts as a developer on a Linux machine Check Out the Snap Store's New Distro Install Pages - OMG! Ubuntu! — In an effort to improve the experience for users wishing to install Snap apps on non-Ubuntu distributions, the Snapcraft team have launched distro-specific store pages for Snap apps. Call for testing: chromium-browser deb to snap transition - De
Wed, June 12, 2019
305: Resilience Is Futile
Is Resilient Linux truly an indestructible distro? Or is this our toughest distro challenge yet? Plus why openSUSE is looking at a renaming, and if we’d pay for Firefox Premium. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: VLC 3.0.7 and security - Yet another blog for JBKempf — We just released VLC 3.0.7, a minor update of VLC branch 3.0.x. This release is a bit special, because it has more security issues fixed than any other version of VLC. Renaming openSUSE — The primary motivation for a name change is, as described by openSUSE board chair Richard Brown, trademarks. Since "openSUSE" contains "SUSE", the company will have to retain a significant amount of control over what the foundation can do with its own name, which "makes such things rather complicated". openSUSE:Board election rules - openSUSE Wiki — The openSUSE board has currently six seats: Five members get elected by the community and an appointed chairperson. Introducing Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation — This means that after just over 5 years since the initial work on Matrix began, we are proud to have finally exited beta! Firefox Premium Coming Later This Year, But Will You Pay for It? — “We will probably launch some new services first and then we will think carefully about which model makes the most sense, while ensuring the best user safety. Firefox and many security features and services, like ETP [Enhanced Tracking Protection], will still be free.” Mozilla working on Firefox premium subscription offering — Mozilla is looking into options that would result in the launch of a paid-for version of Firefox this autumn. It has been reported that Mozilla CEO, Chris Beard, said that the company is aiming to launch the premium offering by October, with features like a VPN and secure cloud storage built-in - justifying a subscription fee. <a href="https://linuxunplugged
Wed, June 05, 2019
304: Losing My Religion
Adopting a distro like it’s a religion is stupid. That’s one of many hard lessons we take away from Texas Linux Fest this week; we’ll share some of the best. Plus some old friends visit the show, reading eBooks on Linux, and a new Ryzen handheld. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Ctrl Shift Face - YouTube — Now, here’s another reminder that the tools to craft deepfakes are widely available for just about anyone with the right skills to use: the manipulated videos posted on YouTuber Ctrl Shift Face are particularly creepy. The Smach Z AMD+Linux Gaming Handheld Might Actually Ship This Year - Phoronix — Smach Z is expected to make its formal debut next week at the E3 gaming conference next week. The Smach Z in its current form is using an AMD Ryzen Embedded V1605B SoC with Vega graphics and still appears to be running Linux. The base model has 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage for $629~699 USD but goes up to around $989~1099 for 16GB RAM / 256GB storage. PeerTube Release v1.3.0 — Be part of a network of multiple small federated, interoperable video hosting providers. Follow video creators and create videos. No vendor lock-in. All on a platform that is community-owned and ad-free. Phoronix Turns 15 Years Old Next Week So Here's Something Special — The 5th of June marks 15 years since the start of Phoronix.com and 11 years since the Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 release, so let's celebrate! Jim Kopps on Twitter — I would be interested in @ChrisLAS and the Jupiter crew's opinion of this. For the record, it has been my opinion since the first "year of the Linux desktop" what seems like fifty years ago: "The current situation with dozens of distributions, each with different rules, each with different versions of different libraries, some with certain libraries missing, each with different packaging tools and packaging formats ... that basically tells app developers "go away, focus on platforms that care about applications." <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-linux-desktops-last-best-shot/" titl
Wed, May 29, 2019
303: Stateless and Dateless
We visit Intel to figure out what Clear Linux is all about and explain a few tricks that make it unique. Plus Wes and Ell are back from KubeCon in Barcelona and return with some great news for open source. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Assigning GPU Devices - Red Hat Customer Portal — To assign a GPU to a guest virtual machine, you must enable the I/O Memory Management Unit (IOMMU) on the host machine, identify the GPU device by using the lspci command Ubuntu 19.10 To Bundle NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver — The open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" drivers will remain the default for NVIDIA graphics on new Ubuntu installations, but this change is positioning the mainline and legacy NVIDIA proprietary drivers onto the Ubuntu ISO so that they can be easily obtained locally post-install. ZFS On Linux 0.8 Released With Native Encryption and TRIM — ZFS On Linux 0.8 adds native encryption support as well as raw encrypted ZFS send/receive support. Please don’t theme our apps — An open letter from independent app developers to the wider GNOME community Leave the themes alone — If you don't like our themes, create your own Linux distribution, where Adwaita theme will be installed, which cannot be changed, or close source code of GNOME. Texas Linux Fest 2019 — Texas Linux Fest is an annual Linux and open source software event for Texas and the surrounding region. We are excited to bring you two days of general sessions and vendor sessions this year along with two full days of expo floor! Texas Linux Fest is for the business and home Linux user, and for the experienced developer and newcomer alike. The Friday Stream Episode 5: Junk Yard Sale — Chris and Brent are back from their buddies trip to Portland and share a few stories, but the big surprise comes w
Wed, May 22, 2019
302: Dark Style Rises
Can the Free Desktop avoid being left behind in the going dark revolution? Cassidy from elementary OS joins us to discuss their proposal. Plus we complete our Red Hat arc by giving Silverblue the full workstation shakedown, Drew shares his complete review, and we discuss the loss of Antergros. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Cassidy James Blaede, and Drew DeVore. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Antergos Linux Project Ends — Today, we are announcing the end of this project. As many of you probably noticed over the past several months, we no longer have enough free time to properly maintain Antergos. The Need for a FreeDesktop Dark Style Preference — OS-wide dark styles are hard. For ages you’ve been able to forcibly change out the system style on GTK, KDE, Android and Windows with something that’s dark by default instead of light, but this causes issues when apps don’t expect it WireGuard in NetworkManager — NetworkManager 1.16 got native support for WireGuard VPN tunnels GDC 2019 Developer Session: First Light - Bringing DOOM to Stadia — The inside story of how DOOM came to life on Stadia. System Builder - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6 GHz 6-Core, Radeon RX 580 8 GB ARMOR OC, P300 ATX Mid Tower User Error The Friday Stream Episode 4: The Techxorcist — Chris tries to convince Brent to take a buddies trip, we try to get the audience a discount chicken deal, and Ell’s trying to get out of a locked server room. Texas Linux Fest 2019 — Texas Linux Fest is an annual Linux and open source software event for Texas and the surrounding region. Mobile Apps Now Open to Community Edition studen
Wed, May 15, 2019
301: Peak Red Hat
We scale the Red Hat Summit and come back with a few stories to share. Plus some big community news, finding threats on the command line, and our reaction to Microsoft shipping the Linux kernel in Windows. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Ell Marquez, and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Scientists Develop Software That Simulates Sound Of Stars — A team of astronomers from University of Wisconsin-Madison successfully developed a software called GYRE that can simulate the complex vibrations that stars produce. GitHub Package Registry: Your packages, at home with their code — Discover and publish public and private packages in one place. Then seamlessly use and reuse any package as a dependency in a project by downloading it straight from GitHub. About GitHub Package Registry — GitHub Package Registry is a software package hosting service, similar to npmjs.org, rubygems.org, or hub.docker.com, that allows you to host your packages and code in one place. Package hello-world-npm — This is a simple npm package that demonstrates the GitHub Package Registry. Lenovo adds AMD Ryzen Pro-powered laptops to its ThinkPad family — The biggest differences between these laptops and Intel-powered ThinkPads are performance and ports. According to Lenovo, the second-gen AMD Ryzen 7 Pro processors combined with integrated Vega graphics should provide an 18-percent improvement in performance over previous generations Clear Linux Further Enhances Its Desktop Installer, Launches Help Forums — This week I was pleased to find they have further improved the graphical interface for making their desktop Linux installation on-par with other Linux installers. If you recall, it was only towards the end of last year that they rolled out a new desktop installer an
Tue, May 07, 2019
300: Ultimate Fedora Test
Is Fedora 30 the peak release of this distribution? We put it through the ultimate test, live on the air, and put everything on the line. Plus Red Hat’s new logo, Dell’s new Linux workstations, and meet a new member of our crew. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: I made a smart watch from scratch — I decided sometime last year that I wanted to make a smart watch from scratch. I am an electrical engineer and product designer by day, so this was a fun side project that had been rolling around in my head for a while now. smarchWatch_PUBLIC on GitHub We’ve launched new corporate brand and logo system - Red Hat New hat, same vision video — We are Red Hat. We believe that transparency, sharing, and collaboration are the best ways to create better technology..and logos. See the transformation of the Red Hat logo. Canonical Releases "WLCS" Wayland Conformance Suite 1.0 — As part of their Wayland interests and namely as part of developing Mir now with Wayland support, for a while they have been working on the "Wayland Conformance Suite" for testing the Wayland protocols for conformance to the specifications. This is for ensuring Wayland compositors behave correctly against the intentions of the protocols. Wayland Conformance Test Suite on GitHub — wlcs aspires to be a protocol-conformance-verifying test suite usable by Wayland compositor implementors. L4T Ubuntu - A fully featured linux on your switch — L4T Ubuntu is a version of Linux based on nvidia's linux for tegra project. It uses a different kernel compared to previous releases which allows it to use features not yet in mainline. Such as audio, docking support and vulkan. JoyCon Jig on Amazon </
Wed, May 01, 2019
299: Shame as a Service
Fresh back from LinuxFest Northwest we share a few of our favorite stories and memories. Plus our concerns with Purism's new subscription services, Fedora 30 is released, and we spin up the Distro Hoppers. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Ell Marquez. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: What's new in Fedora 30 Workstation — Fedora 30 Workstation includes the latest release of the simple, beautiful GNOME 3.32 desktop environment. Librem One by Purism — A growing bundle of ethical services. Librem One Campaign Wants to Help De-Google Your Life — Purism, perhaps best known for the Librem 5 Linux phone crowdfunding campaign, has launched a new initiative offering “privacy protecting, no-track, no-ads” apps and services for mobile users. Apps/Geary - GNOME Wiki Android Apps by Purism on Google Play Red Hat Summit 2019 — Red Hat Summit 2019 will feature executives, open source leaders, and some of our most innovative customers discussing trends, telling stories, and anticipating the future. DockerCon San Francisco 2019 — Whether you’re just getting started with containers or consider yourself an expert, DockerCon enables you to advance your technical expertise with hands-on learning and expert-led sessions. Linux Academy Sale! — Last chance to get the #1 Cloud Training Platform for 33% OFF! LinuxFest Northwest 2019 Reflections — As the mountains shrink in the distance the realization that LinuxFest Northwest (LFNW) has actually come to a close begins to sink in. I don’t think anyone would argue that this year’s LFNW was a fantastic success. Being that this was my first LFNW to attend I was pleasantly surprised how this event felt more like a large family reunion than a Linux conference. With friends traveling from as far away as the United Kingdom
Wed, April 24, 2019
298: Blame Joe
This week we discover the good word of Xfce and admit Joe was right all along. And share our tips for making Xfce more modern. Plus a new Debian leader, the end of Scientific Linux, and behind the scenes of Librem 5 apps. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Ell Marquez. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Pepsi drops plans to use orbital billboard — “This was a one-time event; we have no further plans to test or commercially use this technology at this time.” Ataris VCS Delayed, But Does Anyone Even Care? — There’s no prototype (yet). There’s no Ubuntu-based OS (yet). There’s not even a convincing demo of any of the games which will run on it (yet). Announcing my Contract with Purism for an Adaptive Fractal UI — Overall, I’m very excited that Purism accepted my proposal and that I get to work on this. I have been looking forward to the day where I can run Fractal on my phone, and I’m glad to be bringing that closer. Scientific Linux Discontinued — Fermilab will continue to support Scientific Linux 6 and 7 through the remainder of their respective lifecycles. Thank you to all who have contributed to Scientific Linux and who continue to do so. Debian Project Leader Elections 2019 DPL Platform for Sam Hartman — One of my key roles as DPL will be to make sure Debian is a community where we can be heard, and where we have the opportunity to reach understanding regardless of whether our ideas are chosen. I will do this by personally participating in such mediation and recruiting others to these mediation efforts. Eventually, I hope many of us will get better at seeking to understand and avoiding escalating discussions on our own. Red Hat Summit 2019 DockerCon San Francisco 2019 <a hre
Wed, April 17, 2019
297: Release the Dingo
Ubuntu's new release is here, and this one might be one of the most important in a while. But is it worth upgrading from an LTS? We review and debate just that. Plus some great picks, community news, and more. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Ell Marquez, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Announcing the evolution of the Red Hat Certified Engineer program — In the updated program, we are shifting the focus to automation of Linux system administration tasks using Red Hat Ansible Automation and will be changing the requirements for achieving an RHCE credential. Linux for Chromebooks: Secure Development - Google I/O 2019 — Learn how Chrome OS gives you a secure, safe sandbox for the Web, Android, and Linux through Chrome OS design principles, Sandboxing Chrome, ARC++, and Linux (Crostini). This session will also cover ways to handle challenges to high performance and tradeoffs with safety. Pop!_OS featured on Linus Tech Tips Linux gaming episode as preferred Linux distribution The first Devuan Conference - report, videos and interviews — The submarine looking building gave home to an event gathering open source super heroes and all sorts of magical creatures because to quote the first Devuan docsprint in December 2016 from a booklet called ‘Software freedom your way’ : “We must apply thought and attention to software development and we share responsibility, as users and developers of software systems, to foster values of cooperation in the spirit of science, human cultures, and the diversity of life.” Ubuntu Still Working On ZFS Install Support, But Not In Time For 19.04 — For the past number of months we've seen Canonical developers working on ZFS support in the Ubuntu desktop and ZFS root partition support so that the Ubuntu desktop could (optionally) be installed to a ZFS On Linux partition. <a href="https://techsnap.systems/401" title="TechSNAP Episod
Wed, April 10, 2019
296: Defining Desktop Linux
The way we’ve been thinking about Desktop Linux is all wrong. We start by defining Desktop Linux, and where it might be going in the future. Plus we throw a studio party for our new look, and the text editor that’s taking the crew by storm. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Ell Marquez, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Cross-Technology Communications for Heterogeneous IoT Devices Through Artificial Doppler Shifts Happy 14th anniversary: What do you love about Git? Proton: One Graph To Sum It All — Don’t we all feel that the world of Linux gaming is in a better spot right now than let’s say, 7-8 months ago? Thanks to Valve, Codeweavers, DXVK and all the gang we can now enjoy a lot more games coming from the Windows world than ever before. I decided to take some time to show what kind of progress we are talking about Lutris Release v0.5.2 Lutris 0.5.2 Released With Various Improvements For Linux Gaming — Lutris 0.5.2 adds the Vulkan ICD (installable client driver) loaders to the system options, adds a sample count option to Wine for enabling MSAA anti-aliasing in older games, a warning is now displayed if Vulkan is not properly setup, and various other bug fixes and enhancements. Visual Studio Code is now available as a snap on Ubuntu — Launched in 2015 by Microsoft, Visual Studio Code has imposed itself as one of the preferred code editors in the developer community. Install Visual Studio Code for Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft What do WLinux and Benedict Cumberbatch have in common? They're both fond of Pengwin — Hayden Barnes, of
Wed, April 03, 2019
295: Stay and Compile a While
Is there really any advantage to building your software vs installing the package? We discuss when and why you might want to consider building it yourself. Plus some useful things Mozilla is working on and Cassidy joins us to tell us about elementary OS' big choice. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Office Depot rigged PC malware scans to sell unneeded $300 tech support — Office Depot and a partner company tricked customers into buying unneeded tech support services by offering PC scans that gave fake results. Bye Bye vi: GNU/Linux Distros Drop Support The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 20 Years of Community-led Development "The Apache Way" Reducing Notification Permission Prompt Spam in Firefox — According to our telemetry data, the notifications prompt is by far the most frequently shown permission prompt, with about 18 million prompts shown on Firefox Beta in the month from Dec 25 2018 to Jan 24 2019. Not even 3% of these prompts got accepted by users. Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web — Today, we announce the start of a new standardization effort — WASI, the WebAssembly system interface. A Real-Time Wideband Neural Vocoder at 1.6 kb/s Using LPCNet — It’s the first time a neural vocoder is able to run in real-time using just one CPU core on a phone (as opposed to a high-end GPU) with quality that is much better than existing very low bitrate vocoders and comparable to that of more traditional codecs using a higher bitrate. <a href="https://medium.com/elementaryos/elementary-appcenter-flatpak-b1f970a33861" title="elementary AppCenter + Flatpak" re
Wed, March 27, 2019
294: Tainted Love
Why we sometimes go too far with our Linux advocacy, and a few humble strategies to switch people to Linux. Plus an update to the most important text editor in the world, the new distro causing controversy, and what is a tainted kernel. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Ell Marquez, and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Could ‘alcosynth’ provide all the joy of booze – without the dangers? — David Nutt has long been developing a holy grail of molecules – also referred to as “alcarelle” – that will provide the relaxing and socially lubricating qualities of alcohol, but without the hangovers, health issues and the risk of getting paralytic. Happy 21st, curl — We estimate that there are now roughly 6 billion curl installations world-wide. In phones, computers, TVs, cars, video games etc. With 4 billion internet users, that’s like 1.5 curl installation per Internet connected human on earth. nano 4.0 has been released — An overlong line is no longer automatically hard-wrapped, smooth scrolling (one line at a time) has become the default, and more! Hackers Hijacked ASUS Software Updates to Install Backdoors on Thousands of Computers - Motherboard — The researchers estimate half a million Windows machines received the malicious backdoor through the ASUS update server, although the attackers appear to have been targeting only about 600 of those systems. Malicious updates for ASUS laptops — The trojanized utility was signed with a legitimate certificate and was hosted on the official ASUS server dedicated to updates, and that allowed it to stay undetected for a long time. The criminals even made sure the file size of the malicious utility stayed the same as that of the original one. Shadow Hammer APT MAC Check — Check if your device has been targeted by the ShadowHammer cyberattack <a href="https://www.rtl-sdr.com/sigi
Wed, March 20, 2019
293: Netflix's Gift to Linux
Developers at Netflix are creating the next set of super powers for Linux, we'll get the details straight from the source. Plus some good Debian news, our tips for better battery life, and we play a little Hot SUSE Potato. Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Ell Marquez. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Google Stadia announced, a game streaming service for Chrome, Android, and TVs — Powered by Linux, it supports the Vulkan graphics API and Google partnered with Unreal to fully support the Stadia platform. Chris on Instagram — We found a great spot to work for the day, great signal. Just one problem. We sorta got taken hostage for a few hours. Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Candidates — We're now into the campaigning period. We have 5 candidates. Linux Laptop Battery Optimization Tool TLP 1.2 Released — TLP 1.2 was released today after being in development for more than a year, and it brings support for NVMe, and removable drives like USB and IEEE1394 devices, support for multi queue I/O schedulers (blk-mq), and other significant enhancements. TLP – Configuration Suse is once again an independent company — Few companies have changed hands as often as Suse and yet remained strong players in their business. Suse was first acquired by Novell in 2004. Novell was then acquired by Attachmate in 2010, which Micro Focus acquired in 2014. The company then turned Suse into an independent division, only to then announce its sale to EQT in the middle of 2018. SUSE is now an independent company after being acquired by EQT for $2.5 billion | Packt Hub — As the company has been owned by EQT, so according to few users it’s still not independent. One of the users commented on HackerNews, “Being owned by
Wed, March 13, 2019
292: Cheese on the SCaLE
A new voice joins the show, and we share stories from our recent adventures at SCaLE 17x. Plus we look at the Debian project's recent struggles, NGINX's sale, and Mozilla's new service. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Ell Marquez. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: On 30th anniversary of web, Amazon shares first homepage, Google keeps doodling and more – GeekWire The Web Foundation on Twitter — In 1989, @timberners_lee submitted a proposal that would change the world. To celebrate #Web30, for the next 30 hours we're asking everyone to contribute to a crowdsourced timeline of web milestones. Introducing Firefox Send, Providing Free File Transfers while Keeping your Personal Information Private - The Mozilla Blog — Send makes it easy for your recipient, too. No hoops to jump through. They simply receive a link to click and download the file. They don’t need to have a Firefox account to access your file. F5 Acquires NGINX to Bridge NetOps & DevOps, Providing Customers with Consistent Application Services Across Every Environment - NGINX — F5 is committed to continued innovation and increasing investment in the NGINX open source project to empower NGINX’s widespread user communities. NGINX to Join F5: Proud to Finish One Chapter and Excited to Start the Next Announcing the release of sway 1.0 | Drew DeVault’s Blog — 1,315 days after I started the sway project, it’s fina
Tue, March 05, 2019
291: Dirty Home Directories
We reveal all and look at the mess that is our home directories. How we keep them clean, back them up, and organize our most important files. Plus Gnome lands a long awaited feature, Firefox gets a bit more clever, and the big money being made on Open Source. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Anthony James, Brent Gervais, Danielle Foré, Dustin Krysak, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: systemd-nspawn - ArchWiki — systemd-nspawn may be used to run a command or OS in a light-weight namespace container. Transparently running binaries from any architecture in Linux with QEMU and binfmt_misc QemuUserEmulation - Debian Wiki — This page describes how to setup and use QEMU user emulation in a "transparent" fashion, allowing execution of non-native target executables just like native ones. Firefox 67: automatically unload unused tabs to improve memory — If things go as planned, Firefox 67 will introduce a new feature to unload unused tabs to improve memory. The initial bug report dates back eight years but work on the feature began in earnest just a short while ago. Chrome OS 74 dev channel brings Linux app improvements (Crostini) — There’s now support for audio playback when using Linux apps. Up until now if you wanted to use Linux software to watch videos, listen to music, or do anything else that requires sound, you were out of luck. GNOME 3.32 Lands Long-Awaited Fractional Scaling Support — Fractional scaling allows for greater control over the UI scaling than the previous integer based scaling of 2, 3, etc, to instead support fractions like 3/2 (1.5) increase in user-interfaces. Fractional scaling is primarily to improve the user experience with modern HiDPI displays. <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Devuan-Conf
Wed, February 27, 2019
290: Proper Pi Pedigree
We head to the Raspberry Pi corner and pick the very best open source home automation system. Plus some great news for Gnome users, OBS studio has a new funding model, and a nostalgic chat with our study buddy Kenny. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: More GNOME Shell / Mutter Performance Optimizations & Latency Reductions Still Coming - Phoronix — Specifically on the Ubuntu front, Daniel has released a fix for Ubuntu 19.04 Disco and Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic to deal with 144/120Hz displays where GNOME's Mutter caps the rendering to 60 FPS. The fix for Ubuntu 18.10 is still being in the process of SRU'ed. OBS Studio 23.0 Released With VA-API Video Encoding, New Audio Filters - Phoronix — OBS Studio 23.0 also has several new audio filters, batch remuxing support, multi-track audio support to FFmpeg output, and a variety of other alterations. Open Broadcaster Software | New Ways to Support OBS Development — It’s amazing to think that the first version of OBS was publicly released over six years ago. What started out as a small side project by Hugh “Jim” Bailey to make a free and open source program to stream StarCraft 2 has grown into a powerful force in the streaming and video production industry. Hundreds of thousands of people use OBS Studio every day not just for video gaming, but also for broadcasting everything from conferences to sports competitions to school announcements. It’s a tool that can be used freely by anyone, from large studios with big budget productions to individuals who just want to engage with a community online. Available Now: New GeForce-Optimized OBS — We have collaborated with OBS, the industry-leading streaming application, to help them release a new version with improved support for NVIDIA GPUs. The new OBS Studio, version 23.0, reduces the FPS impact of streaming by up to 66% compared to the previous version, meaning higher FPS for your games. Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup <a href="https
Wed, February 20, 2019
289: The Meat Factor
Will there ever be another "big" Linux distro, or has that time passed? Plus two popular Linux desktop apps see a big upgrade, and Wes explains to Chris why he should care a lot more about cgroups. Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: MX-18.1 Continuum Official Release — MX-18.1 is a refresh of our MX-18 release, consisting of bugfixes and application updates since our original release of MX-18. Bootstrap Your Snap | Snapcraft — The goal of Snapcraft Live is to bootstrap developers in building snaps and publishing them in the Snap Store Shoreline Firewall Maintainer Retires — Shorewall 5.2.3 will be my last Shorewall release. If you find problems with that release, I will attempt to resolve them. But, I am now departing on an extended trip to visit some of the places in the world that I have always dreamed of seeing. Shoreline Firewall — Shorewall is a gateway/firewall configuration tool for GNU/Linux. Geary 0.13.0 released! — This is a major new release, featuring a number of new features — including a new user interface for creating and managing email accounts, integration with GNOME Online Accounts (which also provides OAuth login support for some services), improvements in displaying conversations, composing new messages, interacting with other email apps, reporting problems as they occur, and number of important bug fixes, server compatibility fixes, and security fixes. digiKam 6.0.0 is released — Dear digiKam fans and users, following the long stage of integrating a lots of work from students during the Summer of Code, and after 2 years of intensive developement, we hare proud to announce the new digiKam 6.0.0. Fedora 31 Planning To Use Cgroups V2 By Default - Phoronix — Enabling Cgroups V2 by default will allow systemd and the various Linux container technologies along with libvirt and friends to make use of the new features an
Wed, February 13, 2019
288: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Repo
The hype around a new security flaw hits new levels. Fedora has a bunch of news, and we discover what's new in the latest Plasma release. Plus we fall down the openSUSE rabbit hole when Ell updates us on her desktop challenge. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Danielle Foré, Ell Marquez, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: KDE Plasma 5.15: Lightweight, Usable and Productive — Discover, Plasma's software and add-on installer, has received tonnes of improvements to help you stay up-to-date and find the tools you need to get your tasks done. CVE-2019-5736: runc container breakout (all versions) — However, it *is* blocked through correct use of user namespaces (where the host root is not mapped into the container's user namespace). Container Bug Allows Attackers to Gain Root Access on Host Machine — The container bug, CVE-2019-5736, affects runc, the underlying container runtime for Docker, containerd, Kubernetes, cri-o and other container software, which means that nearly everyone running containers is affected. Doomsday Docker security hole uncovered | ZDNet Linux Coin Miner Removes All Other Malware and Miners Fedora logo redesign — The current Fedora Logo has been used by Fedora and the Fedora Community since 2005. However, over the past few months, Máirín Duffy and the Fedora Design team, along with the wider Fedora community have been working on redesigning the Fedora logo. Fedora's FESCo Approves Of A "Sane" Approach For Counting Fedora Users Via DNF — Baked over the past month was a new privacy-minded plan for counting users via DNF that relies upon a "countme" bit that will be incremented
Wed, February 06, 2019
287: Clean up After Yourself
Why FOSDEM might be the quintessential community event, and our thoughts after playing with Pi-Hole. Plus community news for everyone’s favorite video player, GNOME Shell gets a major speed boost, and why cryptocurrency might truly be dead. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Danielle Foré, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Rename some references to GTK+ to GTK VLC 4.0 Plans — VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf talked about their plans for version 4.0, codenamed Otto Chriek. For VLC 4.0 they want a new playlist, a redone user-interface, a new video output architecture that supports VR/3D content, and removal of old platforms. GNOME Shell Gets a Major Speed Boost — Anyone who’s tried the latest GNOME builds on the bleeding edge can attest: these are real, perceptible improvements that give GNOME Shell the peppiness and responsiveness that users have been longing for. Crypto Exchanges Experience Lowest Trading Since 2017 — The Bitcoin market reduced by more than 40 percent in comparison to December 2018. JupiterDev Telegram Group JupiterBroadcasting/fm — Simple script to receive an RTMP stream and re-stream to Icecast. Linux Academy Study Group Survey — What course should our next study group cover? Fifty years of Unix and Linux advances - Jon 'maddog' Hall at FOSDEM — 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Unix, but it is also the fiftieth anniversary of the ArpaNet/Internet, and people walking on the moon. Good Will Snapping - Alan Pope at FOSDEM — Thousands of users, millions
Wed, January 30, 2019
286: Ell is for Linux
We're playing Robin Hood with the content, and a new member of our team joins to tell you all about it. Plus some hard details on the Librem 5, we visit the Canonical Corner, and a big batch of great Linux picks. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Ell Marquez, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Choose Linux Episode 1: elementary OS and OpenMediaVault — The show that captures the excitement of discovering Linux. Firefox 65.0 — Simplified content blocking settings give users standard, strict, and custom options to control online trackers. What are the phone specs? – Purism Purism's PureOS Store To Be Based Around Flatpaks — The very first application to the PureOS Store is Lollypop. Kodi 18.0 — The Kodi team is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Kodi 18.0 "Leia" for all supported platforms. Canonical Outs Major Linux Kernel Update for Ubuntu 18.04 — These vulnerabilities could allow attackers to either execute arbitrary code or crash the system via a denial of service attack by utilizing a maliciously crafted EXT4 image that could be mounted on the vulnerable machine. Ubuntu Users Can Now Keep PPAs And Third Party Repositories Enabled When Upgrading To A Newer Ubuntu Version — Another recent change makes sure third party repositories support the release to which the user is trying to upgrade. SCALE 17x — Pasadena Convention Center March 7 - 10, 2019 Privacy Could Be The Next Big Thing — Upcoming talk by Stuart Langridge at SCALE 17x <a href="https://www.socallinu
Wed, January 23, 2019
285: Pain the APT
An embarrassing vulnerability has been found in the apt package manager, we’ll break it all down. Plus Alessandro Castellani tells us about his plans to build a professional design tool for Linux. We also have a batch of big community news, and the case for the cloud killing Open Source. Special Guests: Alessandro Castellani and Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: OggCamp 19 — OggCamp is an unconference celebrating Free Culture, Free and Open Source Software, hardware hacking, digital rights, and all manner of collaborative cultural activities. OggCamp on Twitter Remote Code Execution in apt-get — A vulnerability in apt allows a network man-in-the-middle (or a malicious package mirror) to execute arbitrary code as root on a machine installing any package. The bug has been fixed in the latest versions of apt. Why does APT not use HTTPS? Turkish ISP Swapped Downloads of Popular Software with Spyware-Infected Apps Which block I/O scheduler is the best? We asked eBPF. — I set out expecting to see differing distributions of latencies for each block scheduler, but ultimately found that I didn’t understand low-level systems behavior to the degree I thought I did. Want to spin up Ubuntu VMs from Windows 10's command line, eh? We'll need to see a Multipass. — Windows 10 developers have been gifted yet another way of running Linux on their desktop in the form of Canonical's Multipass. Microsoft Employee Hints at Windows Core OS Open Source Components TechSNAP Episode 395: The ACME Era <a href="ht
Wed, January 16, 2019
284: Free as in Get Out
ZFS on Linux is becoming the official upstream project of all major ZFS implementations, even the BSDs. But recent kernel changes prevent ZFS from even building on Linux. Neal Gompa joins us to discuss why it all matters. Plus some surprising community news, and a few great picks! Special Guests: Dalton Durst and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: This Guy Made a Computer Mouse That Is Itself a Computer Apple’s FoundationDB open sources CloudKit database layer — The FoundationDB Record Layer is an open source library that provides a record-oriented datastore with semantics similar to a relational database, implemented on top of FoundationDB. FoundationDB Record Layer: A Multi-Tenant Structured Datastore 'Celluloid' is the new name of GNOME MPV — “The current name is a bit unelegant, and doesn’t really fit in with other apps on the GNOME platform. Good app names are usually a single noun that’s related to the app’s domain (e.g. “Fragments” for a torrent app, or “Peek” for a screen recorder).” Google is Adding 'Apt Search' to the ChromeOS App Launcher — Now, based on a code commit uncovered by Chrome Story, users of the Linux (beta) for Chromebooks will also be able to search for and install Linux apps from the Chrome OS launcher. Chrome OS to let companies use other Linux distros for apps — Device administrators will be able to designate a URL for Chrome OS to download the Linux distro, and a hash to ensure the download was successful. Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Release — OTA-7 is the release where we take a breath and focus on getting the launch just right. <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ZFS-On-Linux-5.0-Problem" tit
Wed, January 09, 2019
283: The Premiere Shell
Joe joins Wes to discuss the state of Adobe's Creative Cloud on Linux and why the Fish shell might be your favorite new tool. Plus community news, a reality check on Linux gaming, and some shiny new hardware. Special Guests: Jason Evangelho and Peter Ammon. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Pretty much every recent Windows Phone is now hackable Fedora 31 Isn't Expected To Be Delayed After All — Since November the developers behind Fedora Linux had been discussing whether to significantly delay or even cancel Fedora 31 so they could spend around one year working on re-tooling how the distribution is crafted and work on other fundamental changes. But it turns out now they have decided against this big shake-up delay Fedora Planning A Per-System Unique Identifier For DNF — The proposal is quick to acknowledge the intent isn't for tracking users but only counting and this UUID wouldn't be re-used by other systems. Linux 5.0 is on the way — The numbering change is not indicative of anything special. If you want to have an official reason, it's that I ran out of fingers and toes to count on, so 4.21 became 5.0 Track Chris and Lady Jups GNU ed 1.15 released Bash 5.0 release available Fish Shell 3.0.0 — Fish 3 is a major release, which introduces some breaking changes alongside improved functionality. Peter (@ridiculous_fish) | Twitter "Would totally skip Linux." — We shipped Planetary Annihilation on Win, Mac, and Linux. Linux uses we're a big v
Thu, January 03, 2019
282: Wishing Upon a Kernel
We start off the new year with our hopes and dreams for Linux and open source in 2019 and beyond. Plus Clear Linux aims to build the ultimate Linux desktop based on Xfce, and it looks like GNOME is closing the performance gap. Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Clarity in the Desktop | Clear Linux* Project — Clear Linux* recently introduced a series of updates that incorporate a developer-optimized desktop experience. This experience is built upon Xfce 4.12, created with the goal of enabling you to get what you need perform your work quickly and efficiently. Reiser4 File-System Port To The Linux 4.20 Kernel — Edward Shishkin, the last main Reiser4 developer involved and former employee of Hans Reiser's Namesys company, has updated his Reiser4 kernel tree where there is now the few code changes necessary to get the file-system kernel module building for Linux 4.20 along with a patch containing a fix. Chrome OS to test early GPU support for Linux apps The Many Features Coming To The Wine 4.0 GNOME Shell Desktop Gaming Benchmarks
Thu, December 27, 2018
281: 2019 Predictions
We get serious and bring in a special referee to help us lock in our Linux predictions for 2019. Special Guest: Alan Pope. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Predicting 2015 | LUP 73 Ghost of Predictions Past | LAS 453 2015 Linux Predictions | Linux Action Show 345
Tue, December 18, 2018
280: Handmade Desktop Linux
We’re just back from touring System76’s new factory, and getting the inside scoop on how they build their Thelio desktop. This is our story about walking in as skeptics, and walking out as believers. Plus some surprising community news, a few great picks, and more! Support LINUX Unplugged Links: ProtonMail is auctioning a Lifetime Account to support WireGuard Mir 1.1 Released With EGLStreams Support To Work With NVIDIA's Binary Driver ASUS is releasing encrypted kernel sources for the ZenFone Max Pro M1, Max Pro M2 and Max M2 Keyboardio: A Startling Discovery — On the one hand, there's a lot of money missing. We think there's a decent chance that money has vanished never to be seen again. Products that we said we sent you...simply never existed. We're genuinely sorry about that. User Error Linux Academy supports St. Jude's — For each Learning Activity that you complete between 12/16 and 12/26, Linux Academy will donate $1 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital this holiday season. LinuxFest Northwest — 20th Anniversary! Past, Present & Future LINUX Unplugged Blog - System76 Factory Tour Meet the New Linux Desktop Champion: System76 Thelio Feedback: Xrandr tip for wimpy Feedback: Try minidlna
Wed, December 12, 2018
279: WireGuardians of the Galaxy
We have a WireGuard success story to share, and it's probably not what you're expecting. Plus we check in on Ubuntu 19.04, start the search for an Emby replacement, and how to use Reddit on the commandline. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Fire effect for the Keyboardio Model 01 keyboard Keyboardio: heirloom-grade keyboards for serious typists chrimbus_'s self hosted streaming questions — Yo @ChrisLAS / @ubuntupodcast I'm tired of depending on our internet to play movies for the kiddo. I was trying to rip some dvds tonight using VLC and AcidRip in hopes to run them off a home server. Either the video ends up glitchy af or no audio. Any suggestions? Beta source code missing · Issue #3479 · MediaBrowser/Emby Annoucing Jellyfin - a free software fork of Emby — After the announcement of Emby transitioning to a proprietary model, a number of us decided to fork it to focus on delivering a free software media solution Streama: Self hosted streaming media server. Ubuntu 19.04 Release Date & Planned Features — The Ubuntu 19.04 release date is scheduled for April 18, 2019. GNOME Shell In Ubuntu 19.04 Should Be Faster Ubuntu Desktop 19.04 Cycle | Trello Canonical makes Kubernetes moves — Canonical wants to make it darn clear that, besides being the leading cloud Linux distributor, it's also a ma
Wed, December 05, 2018
278: Shell in a Handbasket
We chat with a developer who's gotten Linux running on iOS devices, do a deep dive into Clear Linux, and discuss Xubuntu ending 32bit support. Plus why Android in the cloud, and a bunch of community news. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Martin Wimpress, and Theodore Dubois. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: One Raspberry Pi 3 not powerful enough? Try this five Pi cluster for computing on the edge Xubuntu Will Stop Producing 32-bit ISOs Beginning With Xubuntu 19.04 — The Xubuntu development team has now decided to go ahead and eliminate their 32-bit builds moving forward. Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser — Microsoft is throwing in the towel with Edge and is building a new web browser for Windows 10, this time powered by Chromium. Steam Link now in BETA on Raspberry Pi — The Steam Link app is now available in beta on the Raspberry Pi 3 and 3 B+ running Raspbian Stretch Sputnik turns 6: Presenting the folks behind it — Thanks to the interest and support of the community, eight months later, the project became a product. On November 29, 2012 the Dell XPS 13 developer edition was born. Running Android in the Cloud with Amazon EC2 A1 instances — W demonstrated a fully automated solution deployed by Juju to run Android within LXD containers in the cloud and stream out the display of a gaming app from an Amazon EC2 A1 instance to a mobile phone over the internet Amazon's homegrown 2.3GHz 64-bit Graviton processor was very nearly an AMD Arm CPU <a href="https:
Wed, November 28, 2018
Episode 277: Skipping Fedora 31
Fedora might take a year off, to focus on it self. Project Lead and Council Chair Matthew Miller joins us to explain this major proposal. Plus Wimpy shares his open source Drobo alternative, and our final Dropbox XFS hack. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Martin Wimpress, and Matthew Miller. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: NASA runs KDE Are people forgetting what open source is? — There is a responsibility for the dev to make sure they vet what is being put into, but also a larger responsibility for large company's to vet dependency themselves, such as this package event-stream International Space Station switches from Windows to Linux — “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable.” LinuxFest Northwest 2019 — LinuxFest Northwest is an annual Open Source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group and the Information Technology department at Bellingham Technical College SnapRAID — SnapRAID is a backup program for disk arrays. It stores parity information of your data and it recovers from up to six disk failures. mergerfs — A featureful union filesystem. Fedora 31 Will Likely Be Cancelled Or Significantly Delayed — It's about trying to re-tool the distribution and restructure the way its developed to rely more upon automated testing, improving the release processes, and related infrastructure to make it more scalable and better for the longer-term. Fedora Mailing-Lists: Lifecycle objective - problems, solutions, and proposal <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives/Lifecycle/Problem_statements" title="Fedora Wiki: Objec
Wed, November 21, 2018
Episode 276: Very Long Term Support
Android and Ubuntu are working exceptionally hard to create longer support cycles. We’ll highlight the work that makes this possible, and what’s motivating these two different projects to strive for Very Long Term Support. Plus Chris reviews how his new Thunderbolt 3 GPU docking station works under Linux, and why he’ll never be undocking again. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Pioneers — Pioneers, the wonderfully addicting game based on "The Settlers of Catan" XPRA — multi-platform screen and application forwarding system or "screen for X11" Valve discontinues the Steam Link — Farewell to the Steam Link, the best wireless HDMI gadget ever made Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline — Android devices are based on the Linux kernel but, since the beginning, those devices have not run mainline kernels. Linux Deepin 15.8 Released with Various Neat Improvements Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is getting 10-Year Support Ubuntu Security Podcast LINUX Unplugged Feedback: Docking Stations? Lenovo G0A10170UL Thunderbolt 3 Graphics Dock Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 Dock on Debian Linux | The Blog of Juho Thunderbolt 3 device manager prime-select: A fork of FedoraPrime enhanced for all linux distributions <a href="ht
Wed, November 14, 2018
Episode 275: Year of the Relevant Desktop
Christian F.K. Schaller from Red Hat joins us to discuss seamless Linux upgrades, replacing PulseAudio, some of the recent desktop Projects Red Hat’s been working on... And the value they get from them. Plus a big batch of important community news, Wimpy’s Thunderbolt Dock experiments, and way to run pacman on any Linux distribution. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Christian F.K. Schaller, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Radio Garden PlayStation Classic relies on open source emulator for its 20 games - SlashGear — Kotaku got some early hands-on time with the PlayStation Classic and discovered that it uses the PCSX ReARMed emulator. snes9x — For those packaging the GTK+ port, note that building with GTK+ 3 is now highly recommended over GTK+ 2 and should have no regressions. Also note that Wayland compatibility is implemented, which, if enabled, also requires GTK+ to have been compiled with Wayland support. Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth says he has no plans to sell anytime soon — “I value my independence,” he told me during a brief chat on the outskirts of the OpenStack Summit in Berlin today. In part, that’s because he simply doesn’t personally need the money but also because he’d like to see through to the end his vision for Canonical and Ubuntu Open Invention Network Expands Linux Definition — The expansion includes 151 new packages, bringing the total number of protected packages to 2,873. “With this update to the Linux System definition, OIN continues with its well-established process of carefully maintaining a balance between stability and innovative core open source technology,” stated Mirko Boehm, OIN’s director for the Linux System definition. “While the majority of the new additions are widely used and found in most devices, the update includes a number of key open source innovations such as Kubernetes, Apache Cassandra and packages for Automotive Grade Linux.” <a href="https://blog.bitwarden.com/bitwarden-completes-third-party-security-audit-c1cc81b6d33" title="Bitwarden Completes Third-party
Wed, November 07, 2018
Episode 274: Open Source by Default
Have the revolutionaries won the war against proprietary software? That’s the argument being made. And we argue, what else did you expect? Plus some performance improvements inbound to Linux, and the perfectly proportioned open source project we’ve recently discovered. Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Celebrate Fifteen Years of Fedora — On November 6, 2003, Red Hat announced Fedora Core 1 KDE Connect — Today we released version 1.10 of the KDE Connect Android app. Therefore it’s time again to share what we’ve been working on. Apple's New Hardware With The T2 Security Chip Will Currently Block Linux From Booting — At least until further notice, these new Apple systems sporting the T2 chip will not be able to boot Linux operating systems ProcDump-for-Linux: A Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals tool — A Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals tool The Faster FUSE Has Been Fused Into Linux 4.20 — Performance work for FUSE in this next version of the Linux kernel includes symlink caching, a hash table optimization, and copy file range support. The Open Source Revolution Is Over - the Revolutionaries Won — What happens when the revolutionaries win? After they've stormed the castle, tried on the king's clothes, slept in his bed and drunk the royal wine, then what? Hybrid Cloud Architecture: What Is It and Why You Should Care Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. — Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!
Wed, October 31, 2018
Episode 273: International Hat Machines
We speculate about a future where IBM owns Red Hat, and review the latest Fedora 29 release that promises a new game changing feature. Plus Chris returns from MeetBSD with his review, and we get the inside scope on System76’s Thelio hardware. Special Guests: Alan Pope and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: LKML: Greg KH: Linux 4.19 — These past few months has been a tough one for our community, as it is our community that is fighting from within itself, with prodding from others outside of it. Don't fall into the cycle of arguing about those "others" in the "Judean People's Front" when we are the "We're the People's Front of Judea!" That is the trap that countless communities have fallen into over the centuries. We all share the same goal, let us never loose sight of that. Samsung Open-Source Group Reportedly Shuts Down - Phoronix — Samsung has apparently shut down the Samsung Open-Source Group (Samsung OSG) as a blow to the wider free software ecosystem considering the group's prolific contributions over the years from low-level open-source projects to desktop/user-facing code-bases. You Can Play Over 2,600 Windows Games on Linux Via Steam Play ProtonDB ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 Workstation Dock — The ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 WorkStation Dock is a pioneering docking solution powered by Intel Thunderbolt technology and is designed exclusively for ThinkPad Mobile Workstations, delivering up to 230W power to charge both notebook and a full range of productivity and connectivity peripherals. System76 Shares With Us More Details On Thelio Open Hardware, Pricing Starts At $1,100 USD System76 on US Manufacturing and Open Hardware — To further our open computer ambition, we’re
Tue, October 23, 2018
Episode 272: Prepare for Pipewire
The lead developer of PipeWire Wim Taymans joins us to discuss Linux’s multimedia past, and its exciting future. They promise to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. Plus we review the professional grade Precision 5530, tour our new studio in a box, and release one of our first production tools as free software! Special Guest: Wim Taymans. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: JACK Audio Connection Kit|Home GetJacked · GitHub — Some simple scripts to build a "Studio in a Box" with JACK. PipeWire — PipeWire is a project that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. PipeWire Wiki Launching Pipewire! Precision 15 Inch 5530 Developer Edition — Dell’s thinnest, lightest and smallest 15" mobile workstation is more powerful than ever. Precision 5530 Benchmarks — JB1 Reaper Custom Build vs Dell Precision 5300 TechSNAP Episode 385: 3 Things to Know About Kubernetes — Kubernetes expert Will Boyd joins us to explain the top 3 things to know about Kubernetes TechSNAP Episode 386: What Makes Google Cloud Different — We bring on our Google Cloud expert and explore the fundamentals, demystify some of the magic, and ask what makes Google Cloud different. TechSNAP Episode 387: Private Cloud Building Blocks — We bring in Amy Marrich to break down the building blocks of OpenStack.
Wed, October 17, 2018
Episode 271: Juno Jubilation
elementary OS’ latest and greatest released today, and we talk with Dan and Cassidy from the project about their biggest release yet. Then community news, a preview of upcoming Ubuntu 18.10, and we announce our own free software project. Plus a chat with Dalton about the new Ubuntu Touch release and we find a real Photoshop replacement for Linux. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Dalton Durst, Danielle Foré, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Tiny Palm smartphone baffles gadget fans - BBC News — A tiny Android smartphone designed to be a "companion phone". KDE e.V. receives a sizeable donation from Handshake Foundation | KDE.news — We are excited to announce that the KDE e.V. received a donation of 300,000 USD from the Handshake Foundation. elementary OS 5 Juno is Here — Refinement, Productivity, & an Improved Developer Platform. Allen questions the Flatpak FUD - Pastebin.com Flatpaks, sandboxes and security — What Flatpak brings to this is understanding of the specific desktop app problem space Should GNOME Drop Support for GTK3 Themes? — It seems that our love of customisation is merely an illusion Restyling apps at scale — tl;dr: If you want to change how an app looks, you need a designer in the loop. DXVK 0.90 released : linux Pumpkin Carving Contest #JackOLinux — Submission deadline is October 24, 2018, and the top 3 winners will be announced on October 31st! <a href="https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/chrome-os-stable-channel-gets-linux-apps" title="Chrome
Wed, October 10, 2018
Episode 270: Stratis Pulls it All Together
Red Hat developer Andy Grover joins us to discuss Stratis Storage, an alternative to ZFS on Linux and its recent milestone. Also Google subtracts Plus, some KDE and GNOME news, and a bit of forgotten Linux history. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Andy Grover, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: IRL Glasses Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public — Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social network and then opted not to disclose the issue this past spring, in part because of fears that doing so would draw regulatory scrutiny and cause reputational damage, according to people briefed on the incident and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Project Strobe — The consumer version of Google+ currently has low usage and engagement: 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds. Google Has 'No Plans' to Enable Chrome Hardware Acceleration on Linux KDE Plasma 5.14 — A lot of work has gone into improving Discover, Plasma's software manager, and, among other things, we have added a Firmware Update feature and many subtle user interface improvements to give it a smoother feel. Farewell, application menus! — These menus have been with us since the beginning of the GNOME 3.0 series, but we’re planning on retiring them for the next GNOME release (version 3.32). Creative Selection (Audiobook) by Ken Kocienda Eazel - Wikipedia — Eazel was founded by Andy Hertzfeld in August 1999 in Mountain View, California. It had 22 initial employees and raised $12 million from a number of venture capital investment companies <a href="https://ww
Wed, October 03, 2018
Episode 269: Alternate Desktop Universe
What if desktop computing went a very different direction in the late 90s? Deeply multithreaded from the start, fast, intuitive, and extremely stable. This is the world of Haiku, and we go for a visit. Plus the latest community news, true flicker freedom comes to Fedora, and our favorite tools for easy virtual machines on our laptops. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: System76 To Release A "New Open-Source Computer" Fedora 29 Succeeds At Flicker-Free Boot Experience On Intel Hardware Google gets into game streaming with Project Stream and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey in Chrome Halloween Documents BeOS R5 R1/beta1 – Release Notes | Haiku Project — It’s been just about a month less than six years since Haiku’s last release in November 2012 Ars spends too much time trying to work in Haiku, the BeOS successor — What starts as a joke Turned into a fool's errand "I'll work in Haiku." The Be Book - The Application Kit s-tui: Terminal based CPU stress and monitoring utility — Terminal based CPU stress and monitoring utility Lenovo-throttling-fix — Workaround for Intel throttling issues in Linux. fwupd - ArchWiki — fwupd is
Wed, September 26, 2018
Episode 268: Elementary, My Dear Plasma
We chat with Nate Graham who’s pushing to make Plasma the best desktop on the planet. We discuss his contributions to this effort, and others. Plus we get the scope on a new Juno feature from the source, and the creator of WSLinux a distro built specifically for Windows 10’s Windows Subsystem for Linux joins us. Also some community news, some old friends stop by, and more! Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Hayden Barnes, Martin Wimpress, and Nate Graham. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: ytdl-webserver: 📻 Webserver for downloading youtube videos. Ready for docker. Google Secretly Logs Users Into Chrome Whenever They Log Into a Google Site — Starting with Chrome 69, whenever a Chrome user would access a Google-owned site, the browser would take that user's Google identity and log the user into the Chrome in-browser account system Christoph Tavan on Twitter — "Clear all Cookies except Google Cookies", thanks Chrome." PlayOnLinux 5.0 Alpha Released With Redesigned UI, Phoenicis — PlayOnLinux 5.0 Alpha has a completely redesigned user-interface and rolls out their new "Phoenicis" platform. This new platform is decentralized, Git-based, and improves POL's script engine. The current PlayOnLinux 5.0 Alpha release has support for about 135 different games. AppCenter and Content Ratings — Starting with Juno, we’ll display a content warning when a user goes to download an app that meets or exceeds a certain level of OARS data—think nudity, violence, or language content. Getting the team together to revolutionize Linux audio — With the video part of PipeWire already in production we decided the time has come to try to accelerate the development of the audio bits. So PipeWire creator Wim Taymans, PulseAudio developer Arun Raghavan and myself decided to try t
Wed, September 19, 2018
Episode 267: People Patches
Linus takes a break and the Linux kernel adopts a new Code of Conduct. We work through these major watershed moments, and discuss what it means for the community. Plus our review of our brand new ThinkPad T480’s running Linux, the bug you need to know about, and why this might be one of the greatest Linux laptops of all time. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Danielle Foré, and Eric Hendricks. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Cloudflare goes InterPlanetary Linux 4.19-rc4 released, an apology, and a maintainership note Code of Conduct: Let's revamp it. Code of conduct - Gentoo Wiki NCoC: No Code of Conduct: A Code of Conduct for Adults in Open Source Software Richard M. Stallman on the Linux CoC Code of Conduct: Let's revamp it. Lenovo ThinkPad T480 Ubuntu on Lenovo ThinkPad T480 Lenovo ThinkPad T480 - ArchWiki T480s Linux throttling bug Workaround for Intel throttling issues in Linux. <a href="https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T480" title="ThinkWiki"
Wed, September 12, 2018
Episode 266: From Jupiter to Beyond
We announce our big news, Jupiter Broadcasting is joining Linux Academy and what we have planned for the future is huge! Plus a new NextCloud lands, concerns are brewing for the Solus project, and a report from the recent Libre Application Summit. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Anthony James, Brent Gervais, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Jupiter Broadcasting Joins Linux Academy — Jupiter Broadcasting has been creating the world’s favorite podcasts on Linux, open source, and free software since before they were even called podcasts. By teaming up, we’re bringing together two industry-leading companies that develop and deliver the content that our community really wants. Nextcloud 14 now available Supercharging Solus Infrastructure — Because of the timing of these upgrades and our lack of access to the solus-project.com domain, Bryan and I are going to be shifting Solus services over to the getsol.us domain.
Wed, September 05, 2018
Episode 265: Privacy Priorities
Intel has disappointed the kernel community with its latest security disclosures but there’s still hope for a better future. That’s more than can be said for the state of privacy on Android, so we discuss some alternatives. Plus the latest community updates, a new timeline for the Librem 5, tempting new Chromebooks, and some top picks. Special Guests: Alan Pope and Eric Hendricks. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Airplane Mode: A box designed to seduce you into digital disconnection LMDE 3 “Cindy” Cinnamon released! GNOME Tweaks 3.30 Purism Pushes Back The Librem 5 Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department ZeroPhone: $50 open source smartphone Google won’t patch flaw in old versions of Android Android collecting 10 times more data than iOS, claims study $600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft Linux Kernel Developer Criticizes Intel's Meltdown Disclosure Linus Torvalds talks frankly about Intel security bugs | ZDNet <a href="https://www.theregist
Wed, August 29, 2018
Episode 264: Proton, Electron for Games!
Steam Play rocks the Linux world as it promises new levels of compatibility with AAA Windows games. But the story of how Valve is doing it might be just as fascinating. Plus community news, our thoughts on building a market for Linux apps, the latest from UBPorts, and more good news from LVFS! Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Marius Gripsgard, and Martin Wimpress. Sponsored By: DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Realtek on the LVFS! Fedora Moves Ahead With Plans To Drop Packages Having Bad Security Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Release KDE Itinerary Updated: Intel Answers Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking Ban Benchmarks Of Intel's Latest Linux Microcode Update Organizing a Market for Applications Libre Application Summit Origin of the name Proton —
Wed, August 22, 2018
Episode 263: Updates from the Source
Docker controversy is brewing, but it's probably not what you think. We get around of community updates directly from the source, and why Debian an Intel are playing the game of he said, she said. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, and Martin Wimpress. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Download Docker CE without logging in Flatpak 1.0 Flatpack Release 1.0.0 Kick-starting the revolution 1.0 PulseEffects Akademy KDE.news: dot.kde.org OggCamp 18 fosscon.us intel-microcode: Update intel-microcode to 20180807 Imad Sousou: "This is not true." Um: Create and maintain your own man pages so you can remember how to do stuff
Wed, August 15, 2018
Episode 262: Tribes of Init
The FreeBSD community shares the hard lessons learned from systemd, we play some great clips from a recent event. Plus our work-arounds for Dropbox dropping support for anything but vanilla ext4, the return of an old friend, and a ton of community news and updates. Special Guests: Eric Hendricks and Martin Wimpress. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Barnard is a terminal-based client for the Mumble voice chat software LKML: Linus Torvalds: Linux 4.18 Introducing the new lead for Android Open Source Project KDE Neon Powered By Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Now Available For Testing XDG Shell Stable Supported by Mir Introducing Blender Benchmark OpenBenchmarking.org Libre Application Summit The Tragedy of systemd - BSDCan2018 MeetBSD California 2018 - www.m
Wed, August 08, 2018
Episode 261: GNOME, GNOME on the Range
GNOME is discussing big changes, Elementary OS has big news, and a big bug has been found in Linux. Plus an update on our PeerTube efforts, our take Android P, and Lenovo’s big commitment to ThinkPad’s running Linux. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, and Eric Hendricks. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: July ended with 3.97M startups of #PowerShell Core 6!. ~82% of it on #Linux! Linux Kernel TCP implementation vulnerable to Denial of Service Common Fedora Workstation Crashes Traced Back to GNOME JavaScript Extensions GNOME Might Need To Crack Down On Their JavaScript Extensions Moving Beyond Themes Daniel Foré on Twitter A New Chapter – Cassidy James Blaede Please welcome Lenovo to the LVFS Recently added PeerTube videos Android 9 Pie Install Transitions DJ for Linux, Linux apps in seconds GPG Sync v0.2
Wed, August 01, 2018
Episode 260: Thinkpad as a Service
We get an update from Dell’s Barton George on their Linux initiative Sputnik, cover some important community news, and the uncomfortable questions raised by Krita’s new financial boost. And some simple tips to improve your security at the edge. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Barton George, Brent Gervais, and Eric Hendricks. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Bootable CD + retro game in a tweet KDE neon Bionic Update – Jonathan Riddell's Diary With DaaS Windows coming, say goodbye to your PC as you know it | Computerworld Microsoft's got a new plan for managing Windows 10 devices for a monthly fee | ZDNet Security Begins at the Home Router OpenWRT 18.06 Released, Their First Update Since Merging With LEDE - Phoronix Krita in the Windows Store: an update | Krita <a hr
Wed, July 25, 2018
Episode 259: Proprietary Action News
Another potential desktop Linux app is scared away by an aggressive free software community, and we struggle to find the balance between our moral ideals, and getting work done. Plus some community news, old friends return, and much more. Special Guest: Martin Wimpress. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Support LINUX Unplugged Links: YouTube page load is 5x slower in Firefox and Edge YouTube Classic – Add-ons for Firefox ReactOS 0.4.9 released Introducing New AppCenter Sharing URLs New SteamOS Stable Release Project Crostini progressing towards GPU acceleration Desktop team report from GUADEC 2018 PowerShell launches as a snap Open The Cosmic Gate <a href="https://www.linuxqu
Wed, July 18, 2018
Episode 258: The Future of Retro
Atari has released details about its upcoming Linux powered console, some of us are sold… And some of us are rather skeptical. Plus how SSH got its port, Mir goes to the farm, and what happens when Linus retires? Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Support LINUX Unplugged Links: The oldest active Linux distro, Slackware turns 25 | Opensource.com SSH Port | SSH.COM Humble Book Bundle: Linux Geek by No Starch Press (pay what you want and help charity) Yum Won't Be Dropped For Fedora 29 - Phoronix Mir 0.32.1 Released With Launcher For Internal Wayland Clients, Fixes - Phoronix Graphical environments in the world of IoT | Ubuntu blog Monitoring a Greenhouse with Ubuntu · LinuxUK <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mutter-Additional-Opts-3.30" title="More Mutter Performance Tuning Work Landing For GN
Wed, July 11, 2018
Episode 257: Security Amateur Hour
We reflect on recent FOSS security screw ups and ponder a solution powered by community. Plus get you caught up on community news, Firefox changes, and poke the new minimal Ubuntu. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Slack client for Commodore 64 Kdenlive's Significantly Refactored Video Editor Is Now Ready For Testing The Purpose of things – New Share Menu Arch Linux AUR Repository Found to Contain Malware Firefox for Android enters maintenance phase as team prepares new browser Firefox Test Pilot - Firefox Lockbox Mozilla Firefox 61 "Quantum" Web Browser Is Now Available for Ubuntu Linux Users Minimal Ubuntu Meet the A
Wed, July 04, 2018
Episode 256: Peering Into the Future
A major Internet monopoly might just be on the edge of cracking thanks to free software, a bit of initiative, and a lot of gumption. We'll follow up on a major experiment we kicked off last week. Plus SUSE is sold again, Linux on the Nintendo Switch just got way better, Mint has a new release, we look at elementary OS Juno's first beta, and we cover a ton of community news. Special Guest: Eric Hendricks. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Every question we have about Sony uploading an entire movie to YouTube instead of the trailer - The Verge Breaking News! SUSE Linux Sold for $2.5 Billion Developer Preview: Juno Beta 1 Is Here Hackers Discover Cause Of Linux Battery Desync Issue In Nintendo Switch Yum Set To Be Retired In Fedora 29 Linux Mint 19 “Tara” Cinnamon released! New features in Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon <a href="https://fit-iot.com/web/product/mbm2-pro/"
Wed, June 27, 2018
Episode 255: Fedora to the Core
Big changes are coming to Fedora with the merger of CoreOS. We chat with a couple project members to get the inside scope about what the future of Fedora looks like. Plus the big feature of the new GitLab release, how Pocket might be Firefox's secret sauce, and why Chris is really excited by PeerTube. Special Guests: Dusty Mabe and Eric Hendricks. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Support LINUX Unplugged Links: YouTube UNBLOCKS Belnder Videos... But now what? Framasoft presents PeerTube, a free and federated — KissKissBankBank Report from the GNOME Software design sprint | Ubuntu blog Flatpak – a history – Alexander Larsson Welcome to Fedora CoreOS - Fedora Magazine Hello from your new Fedora Program Manager - Fedora Community Blog A GTK+ 3 update – GTK+ Development Blog Neon testing 18.04 <a href="https://itsfoss.com/vr180-creator/" title="Google Ignores W
Wed, June 20, 2018
Episode 254: Don’t Link to This
Free Software projects concerned about Article 13 are claiming it could destroy free software as we know it. We debate this controversial copyright law about to be voted on in the EU. Plus a big batch of community news, some exciting hardware updates, and a bit of retro gaming. Plus Chris shares what got done at Linux Academy, and more! Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Support LINUX Unplugged Links: YouTube's Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More (Updated) YouTube Blocks Blender Videos Worldwide #DeleteArt13 | UBports Free software is at risk in the EU -- take action now — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software Tex Update Deepin 15.6 Released with New App Launcher + More - OMG! Ubuntu Librem 5 Continues Working On Its Wayland Software Stack, Testing Vibration Motors, Chargers <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=L
Wed, June 13, 2018
Episode 253: Personalities Happen
There is trouble at CopperheadOS, Plasma has a shiny new release, and we share the story of how Linux has powered the curiosity rover for 17 years. Plus our stories from a weekend of Linux parties, Texas LinuxFest, SouthEast LinuxFest, and FOSS Talk Live. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Creepy, fascinating demo gets inside a cat Trouble at CopperheadOS KDE Plasma 5.13: Fast, Lightweight and Full Featured. Winepak Could Make it Easier to Install Windows Apps on Linux Acer Chromebook 13 & Chromebook Spin 13 will apparently support Linux apps at launch Mars Opportunity rover is in danger of dying from a dust storm Driving the Mars Rovers | Linux Journal July Content Launch is COMING SOON! <a href="https://ting.com/blog/refer-a-friend-amazon/" title="Refer a friend contest starts today, June 11 and ends J
Wed, June 06, 2018
Episode 252: Github Hubbub
Microsoft has purchased GitHub, sending shock-waves through the free software community. We discuss the bidding war that took place, and it leaves us questioning what the future of Electron might be. Plus we’ve found a great batch of Linux apps you're going to want to try, NextCloud turns two, big changes to the KWin project, and the details on Samsung’s Chromebook Plus landing Linux app support. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Facebook made an AI that convincingly turns one style of music into another Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion GitHub: Interest from Google and others, revenue about $300 million Moving the pfSense® Documentation to GitHub Hello, GitHub | @natfriedman Seem like Atom will stay alive The Cost of Developers – Stratechery by Ben Thompson <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-gitlab-one-click-inst
Wed, May 30, 2018
Episode 251: The Qt and the Ugly
After we make ourselves at Gnome, we look at some future open source goodies coming your way, look at how Canonical’s upstream pitch, and get excited about the next great Linux filesystem hope. Plus Chris’ first wreck on the road to Texas, Thunderbolt networking, and our results from the best Linux laptop for 2018. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Anonymous Donor Pledges $1M Donation Over Two Years – GNOME Thunderbolt Networking on Linux Major Release Endless OS 3.4 JB Telegram Texas Group JB Texas Shirt! — For the first time JB will be present at Texas Linux Fest June 8 & 9. (Event info: https://2018.texaslinuxfest.org/) We'd love to see as many of these shirts (or any other JB shirt) at the fest! Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth pulls no punches on Red Hat and VMware in OpenStack cloud 2018 KDE Connect Development Sprint Bcachefs File-System
Wed, May 23, 2018
Episode 250: Only The Best
What is the best laptop for Linux in 2018? How about the best Evernote killer, and production setup? We cover the best of the best this week. Plus Gnome’s performance hackfest, Mycroft goes Blockchain, and what’s behind Tesla’s big GPL dump. Sponsored By: Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Support LINUX Unplugged Links: JB Texas Shirt Tennibot is a really cool Ubuntu Linux-powered tennis ball collecting robot Tennibot: The World’s First Robotic Tennis Ball Collector by Tennibot — Kickstarter Congratulations to Tesla on Their First Public Step Toward GPL Compliance - Conservancy Blog - Software Freedom Conservancy Retro-inspired arcade racer Slipstream to release May 21st, developed on Linux | GamingOnLinux Blockchain for Mycroft: Following up on our token discussion <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/21/dont-expect
Tue, May 15, 2018
Episode 249: Home Grown FUD
The Linux community is eating its own this week, as attention seeking plucky YouTuber’s trade on free software’s good name for clicks. We learn the real story behind some of the Internet’s recent free software freak-out. Plus a fantastic batch of community news and updates, some cool tools, and we discuss if it’s time to give up the Qt or GTK purist lifestyle. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Support LINUX Unplugged Links: ArchiveOS GNOME Is Removing the Ability to Launch Binary Apps from Nautilus general: Don't allow launching binaries or programs in general Deep Dive: New bookmark sync in Nightly System76 and the LVFS – Technical Blog of Richard Hughes — tl;dr: Don’t buy System76 hardware and expect to get firmware updates from the LVFS System76 Blog — System76 and LVFS - What Really Happened — Wednesday there was an unfortunate message posted from Richard Hughes regarding his firmware service. GS Connect as part of 18.10 <a href="https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/05/15/trust-and-security-in-the-snap-store" title="T
Wed, May 09, 2018
Episode 248: Contain All The Things
Chrome OS is officially getting full-fledged Linux apps, and we ponder if this is truly a win for Linux. Plus a ton of app picks this week, community news, and more. Sponsored By: Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Wave-share: Serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound — A proof-of-concept for WebRTC signaling using sound. Works with all devices that have microphone + speakers. Runs in the browser. Chrome OS is getting full-fledged Linux apps — Chrome, Android, and now Linux all together in one place Who controls glibc? [LWN.net] — Toward the end of April, Raymond Nicholson posted a patch to the glibc manual removing a joke that he didn't think was useful to readers. The joke played on the documentation for abort() to make a statement about US government policy on providing information about abortions. As Nicholson noted: "The joke does not provide any useful information about the abort() function so removing it will not hinder use of glibc". On April 30, Zack Weinberg applied the patch to the glibc repository. Microsoft's most popular SQL Server product of all time runs on Linux • The Register — SQL Server running on Linux, with embedded R and Python, is Microsoft's most successful server product ever, Windows2usb: Windows 7/8/8.1/10 ISO to
Tue, May 01, 2018
Episode 247: Year of the Linux Desktop 😎
Ubuntu and Fedora have new releases, and our early impressions are great. We’ll share the features that we think make these distros some of the best Linux desktop releases ever. Plus some important community news, some Darktable tips for beginners, and some select clips from this year’s LinuxFest Northwest. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Announcing the release of Fedora 28 — Fedora 28 Workstation has big news too. For the first time, we’re making it easy for users to enable certain third-party software sources, including proprietary Nvidia drivers. Fedora Atomic Host — This is our first release of Fedora 28 Atomic Host! What's New in Fedora 28 Workstation — Battery life on laptops running Fedora Workstation is improved with various hardware power-saving features now enabled by default. Google Just Forked a Popular GTK Theme — Not just any GTK theme but one forked from the Material Design inspired Adapta GTK theme. Why is the kernel community replacing iptables with BPF? — The Linux kernel community recently announced bpfilter, which will replace the long-standing in-kernel implementation of iptables with high-performance network filtering powered by Linux BPF VoidLinux Serious Issues
Wed, April 25, 2018
Episode 246: The Bionic Bet
We get the inside scope from the Ubuntu flavors prepping for the 18.04 release, and then we finally make good on a long running threat. Plus the quiet shuttering of the Windows division inside Microsoft, and how they could help save Linux from Apple. Sponsored By: Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support LINUX Unplugged Links: A Modular and Open Source Router is Being Crowdfunded — A company from the Czech Republic is trying to raise money to bring a modular and open source router to the public. It has a number of features that can’t be found in the current line up of routers available for purchase. Terminal app appears in Chrome OS Dev, hints at future Linux application support — More evidence of this feature has appeared in the Chrome OS Dev channel, as reported by several Reddit users. A new Terminal app has been added to the app drawer, and clicking it opens a dialog explaining the feature. T Blloc | Back to the root — Blloc is a plain and minimalistic smartphone combining a power saving operating system with efficient hardware and an easy to use messaging platform, it’s built to be the perfect communication and productivity tool that you can rely on every day. The state of Thunderbolt 3 in Fedora 28 — The GNOME shell bits to enable Thunderbolt 3 support were merged some time ago and made it into 3.28. This means that the GNOME shell will act as authorization agent and will automatically authorize new thunderbolt 3 devices — if the user has administrator rights, is currently logged in and the session is unlock
Wed, April 18, 2018
Episode 245: Microsoft of Things
Azure Sphere is Microsoft making silicon as a service with Linux at its core. We’ve chatted with the folks behind Azure Sphere and breakdown this huge announcement. Plus a bunch of community news, a string of app picks, and maybe even a concerned rant. Sponsored By: Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Utopian - Rewarding Open Source Contributors Linus Buzzkills 5.0 — But v5.0 will happen some day. And it should be meaningless. You have been warned. gotop — A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop Clonezilla Live Disk Cloning OS Gets New Massive Deployment BitTorrent Mechanism — However, one of the most interesting feature of the Clonezilla Live 2.5.5-38 release is a new massive deployment mechanism based on the BitTorrent technology. fontfinder — A Google font browser for your GTK desktop, written in Rust Kdenlive in Paris — Our team will dedicate this time to discuss near and long term goals, review the application workflow with professional editors, work on the major 18.08 release and much more. Microsoft's Next OS is Based on Linux, Not Windows — Microsoft is creating here is Azure Sphere OS, a new operating system aimed at tiny MCU-based IoT devices
Wed, April 11, 2018
Episode 244: Plasma Predicament
We have some Plasma problems this week, but we’re sticking with it and still putting it into production in our most ambitious event yet. But we start with a bunch of important community news, including what looks like ZFS on Linux’s first major bug, the future of Elementary OS apps, and a proposal to revamp Ubuntu’s betas. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: LinuxFest Northwest 2018 — LinuxFest Northwest, an annual Open Source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group and the Information Technology department at BTC. LFNW features presentations and exhibits on free and open source topics, as well as Linux distributions & applications, InfoSec, and privacy; something for everyone from the novice to the professional! Disappearing files ZFS On Linux Bug — Data loss when copying a directory with large-ish number of files. For example, cp -r SRC DST with 10000 files in SRC is likely to result in a couple of "cp: cannot create regular file `DST/XXX': No space left on device" error messages, and a few thousand files missing from the listing of the DST directory. The offending commit — Trying to solve an issue for case insensitive filesystems They limited the attempts to expand the ZAP to 2, which is not enough. Valve's Pipe Has Something Linux in it... — We also have other Linux initiatives in the pipe that we're not quite ready to talk about yet NVIDIA will end 32-bit OS GeForce support t
Wed, April 04, 2018
Episode 243: The Stallman Directive
Richard Stallman has some practical steps society could take to roll back the rampant and expanding invasion of our privacy. But his suggestions leave us asking some larger questions. Plus the latest on the march to Juno, some fun app picks, a quick look at Qubes OS 4.0, community news, and more. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Valve has removed the Steam Machine section from Steam — In a move that's not exactly surprising, Valve has quietly removed the Steam Machine section from Steam. Apple Is Looking For Linux Kernel Developers — For reasons unknown, Apple is looking to hire Linux kernel developers in both Texas and California. Canonical's Snappy Now Supports Latest Nvidia Drivers on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS — Snapd 2.32.2 is now available to download and should be coming soon to the stable software repositories of your favorite, Snappy-enabled GNU/Linux distribution. What's exciting about this release is that it enables Snappy the use Nvidia's most recent proprietary graphics drivers in Snap apps on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and similar operating systems. lsof to graphviz — A small utility to convert Unix lsof output to a graph showing FIFO and UNIX interprocess communication. Old CPUs losing support in Linux, cutting size by 500,000 lines of code — The architectures which will become deprecated are Blackfin, CRIS, FRV, M32R, Metag, MN10300, Score and Tile. Although not being deprecated, the Unicore32 and Hexagon architectures are also at risk but their maintainers are working on improving the situation so their support can be continued. Juno Progress for March – elementary OS — You get more features, and you get more features, and you get more features! <a href="https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-April/075866.html" title="GnuCash 3.0 Released" rel="nofollow
Wed, March 28, 2018
Episode 242: Debian on the Fly
A new version of Slax is out this week, and they might just be onto something really unique. We take this Debian powered, Fluxbox running, net bootin distro for a test drive. Plus Google moves to block GApps on “uncertified devices”, Red Hat turns 25, a new Wayland contender, a few app picks, and much more. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Red Hat at 25 — A lot has changed since 1993 Red Hat Summit 2018 — The Grammy Award-winning band Weezer will be performing at this year’s Red Hat Summit party. Join us for a night of food, drinks, and music, at the San Francisco Armory at 7:00 p.m. Google now blocks GApps on uncertified devices, but lets custom ROM users be whitelisted — arlier this week, we received an anonymous tip from a person claiming to be within the industry. This person, who said they worked for an OEM/ODM, notified us that Google has started entirely locking out newly built firmware from accessing Gapps. Microsoft Open-Sources WSL Sample To Let More Linux Distributions Run On Windows — The WSL-DistroLauncher is what is now open-source and is a C++ code-base offering a launcher that can be customized for particular distributions for the steps to get to a log-in shell, running commands, and setting configuration values. Wayfire — 3D wayland compositor <a href="https://futurism.com/people-are-using-old-laptop-bat
Wed, March 21, 2018
Episode 241: Snitching on SCaLE
We’re playing just one interview from SCaLE this year, tons of community news, and two handy app picks. Plus webOS returns, some fundamental Linux plumbing upgrades, and Private Internet Access goes Open Source. Special Guest: Ilan Rabinovitch. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: LG Announces webOS Open-Source Edition — LG in cooperation with South Korea's NIPA government agency are working on making webOS suitable as a more open platform with open connectivity. They are still looking to commercialize it as an open-source platform, LG announced this morning. GNOME 3.28 Release Notes — In total, the release incorporates 25832 changes, made by approximately 838 contributors. Bolt Will Tackle Thunderbolt 3 Security on Linux — “[Bolt] provides a D-Bus API to list devices, enroll them (authorize and store them in the local database) and forget them again (remove previously enrolled devices). It also emits signals if new devices are connected (or removed). During enrollment devices can be set to be automatically authorized as soon as they are connected.” GStreamer: news — The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new major feature release of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! Firefox 59 released, these are the key changes — The built-in Firefox screenshot tool lets you copy an image to the clipboard, ready for you to paste elsehwhere. <a href=
Wed, March 14, 2018
Episode 240: Why This Theme Won’t Work | LUP 240
This week Noah fills in for Chris while he's on his return journey from SCaLE! The guys get down deep on a variety of topics from screen sharing in Plasma under Wayland to the status of the GTK 'CommuniTheme' for ubuntu 18.04 and more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, March 07, 2018
Episode 239: Selling Out for Open Source | LUP 239
We chip away at a larger meta topic this week, but before we get there we share a batch of community news, live technical feats & a random post show. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, February 28, 2018
Episode 238: It's All Wimpy's Fault | LUP 238
Linux apps are coming to ChromeOS via containers, Fedora is going for better battery life & what is going on with Xfce? Plus Ubuntu MATE’s cool new tick & we take a look at crankshaft: raspberry pi + android auto + free software + love. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, February 21, 2018
Episode 237: One Ping Only | LUP 237
Canonical’s Ubuntu desktop head and their VP of Product Development join us to chat about the new proposed data collection system they want to build into Ubuntu 18.04 & Cassidy from System76 and Elementary OS join us to talk about their efforts to turn drive encryption on by default. Plus a BIG announcement at the end of the show! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, February 14, 2018
Episode 236: Microsoft’s Big Secret | LUP 236
Chris goes to Microsoft & gets the inside scoop on the awkward situation Microsoft finds themselves in with Windows & why they’ve been releasing more code as open source. Plus we check in and & wrap up the Plasma Desktop challenge, Daniel Foré sets the record straight on the week’s Elementary OS news & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, February 07, 2018
Episode 235: Atomic Neon Kool-Aid | LUP 235
We’re joined by two Project Atomic members from Red Hat to learn what it’s all about, how Fedora Atomic Workstation works & the problems it solves. Plus we launch the biggest desktop Linux challenge in the history of this show & it’s going to have long lasting ramifications. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 31, 2018
Episode 234: Behind Canonical’s Curtain | LUP 234
How does a SNAP really get created & why would companies like Microsoft, JetBrains & Plex want to be involved? We’re live from Canonical’s Seattle Snapcraft Summit with the inside scoop of where things are going. Plus the major concerns we have about the future of Gnome Shell, why the Client Side Decoration debate is hot again & how Wayland is putting pressure on all the things. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 24, 2018
Episode 233: Living Inside the Shell | LUP 233
Everyone’s Linux desktop is getting better this week, well… Almost everyone. Plus why Linux users should be using Firefox, some Gnome and MATE news, communIty, why the Linux desktop isn't seeing as many native apps these days & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 17, 2018
Episode 232: The Secret to Future Linux Success | LUP 232
A big week of community updates, events & news, including great news for Plasma Desktop users, MATE users & Wayland fans. Then Barton George from Dell joins us to discuss the new XPS 13’s shipping Ubuntu, where Linux could see its next big success & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 10, 2018
Episode 231: Most Expensive Linux Distro Ever | LUP 231
We slay the Gentoo challenge monster & give you our first take of the most expensive Linux distro we’ve ever tried. What does nearly $100 of Linux get you? We find out! Plus tons of community news, the perfect Linux workstation coming soon & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 03, 2018
Episode 230: Invest In Popcorn | LUP 230
Wes & the Beard kick Chris out to share their top tips for starting 2018 out right, plus a holiday surprise from Linux Journal, a new device for Google’s Fuchsia & an unfortunate new flaw in a processor near you. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, December 27, 2017
Episode 229: Taste of Linux 2017 | LUP 229
We break from the unformat of the show for a special holiday chat about the top moments in the world of Linux this year that impacted us the most. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, December 20, 2017
Episode 228: rm -rf 2017 | LUP 228
We debate the best distros of 2017, get into some community news, and a bcachefs and Gentoo challenge update & also learn a bit about Canonical’s new Multipass project. Plus a few Linux commands that are guaranteed to destroy your install. Support LINUX Unplugged
Thu, December 14, 2017
Episode 227: Peer Pressure | LUP 227
It’s time to replace Patreon, YouTube, Twitter/Facebook & all the other centralized platforms of the web. But can open source answer the call? This week we look at a few projects that could replace today’s information silos if Linux users just step up. Plus community news, some big updates & a lot more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, December 06, 2017
Episode 226: Bitcoin for Linux Users | LUP 226
Why Bitcoin is the next Linux, the Gentoo Challenge is in full swing, and we catch you up on the latest community news, a throwback app pick & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 29, 2017
Episode 225: Hacking the Community | LUP 225
Red Hat, Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, and others come together to push common sense GPL enforcement & a whole batch of community news. Plus we call out the Register, DRM’s dirty little secret & how Linux users can make a difference. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 22, 2017
Episode 224: No Escape from Google | LUP 224
Google gets caught red handed, we find lots of goodies in the new Linux kernel & we have three great new app picks this week. But the meat of the show is Lynis a tool to audit your Linux box, create reports & teach you how to better secure your system. Plus we officially lay the groundwork for the Gentoo Challenge. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 15, 2017
Episode 223: Fedora’s New Trick | LUP 223
A new version of Fedora hits the web and we share our thoughts & chat with a member of the project, Noah joins us to answer your live calls & we’re all excited about Firefox’s new quantum release. Plus Gnome 4’s ambitious goals, a new Linux Kernel that really matters, OpenShot woes & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 08, 2017
Episode 222: A Community Divided | LUP 222
Community news & app picks this week before we get into a bizarre story that could rip up parts of the open source community. Plus Elementary OS’s secret weapon to get more native apps, our tips for great High-DPI under Linux & some Enlightenment love. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 01, 2017
Episode 221: Ubuntu A-Team | LUP 221
Two of Ubuntu’s top contributors join us to chat a bit about the 17.10 release, working upstream with Gnome, the future of SNAPS in Ubuntu & goals for 18.04. Plus the public beating Kodi is taking for an open source problem, Flatpak gets mature & the Linux Foundation is working on open source AI. Then we share some recent distro reload anecdote & a bunch of community news. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 25, 2017
Episode 220: Remotely Useful | LUP 220
An easy solution to get high performance remote Linux desktop up and going, some tips on how to interact with an open source project or community & looking back at some of Fedora’s recent accomplishments. Plus Canonical is on the path to an IPO, pirates embrace Flatpack & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 18, 2017
Episode 219: Ubuntu’s New Era | LUP 219
We review Ubuntu 17.10 & discuss some of the major achievements this release represents. Plus we break down an important Linux kernel news story, get updates from the community & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 11, 2017
Episode 218: The Purism Redemption | LUP 218
We review Purism’s Librem 15, the high performance 15.6″ laptop built for Linux with physical radio kill switches. Plus the snap coming to a desktop near you, we report back from SeaGL & discuss some future changes to your humble weekly Linux talk show. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 04, 2017
Episode 217: That One Time, At Ubuntu Camp | LUP 217
How does Ubuntu get built? Chris is back from the Ubuntu Rally in NYC and has a full report, some interviews & stories to share. Plus Jos Poortvliet & Frank Karlitschek join us to talk about NextCloud’s new End-to-end Encryption. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 27, 2017
Episode 216: Open Source Is Hard | LUP 216
It’s Wes & the Beard this week as we cover tons of stories. TopIcons is officially unmaintained, KDE launches the XFree kwin project in an attempt to rid themselves of XWayland, Synergy goes closed source, Microsoft & Canonical build a custom linux kernel & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 20, 2017
Episode 215: Pulse of PipeWire | LUP 215
A game changing project for Linux multimedia has been officially announced today, so we chat with the brilliance behind PipeWire, Wim Taymans. Plus community news of the week & why the rapid decline of the “open source media” matters more than ever. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 13, 2017
Episode 214: Hacking Devices with Kali Linux | LUP 214
Audit your network with a couple of easy commands on Kali Linux. Chris decides to blow off a little steam by attacking his IoT devices, Wes has the scope on Equifax blaming open source & the Beard just saved the show. It’s a really packed episode! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 06, 2017
Episode 213: Gnome Does it Again | LUP 213
The Gnome project is about to solve one of our audience's biggest Wayland’s concerns. But as the project takes on a new level of relevance, decisions for the next version of Gnome have us worried about the future. Plus we chat with Wimpy about the Ubuntu Rally in NYC, Microsoft’s sneaky move to turn Windows 10 into the “ULTIMATE LINUX RUNTIME”, community news & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, August 30, 2017
Episode 212: The Free Phone Nightmare | LUP 212
We reflect on the communities appetites for another GNU/Linux phone fundraiser & pontificate if the Librem 5 might be our last hope. Plus a live unboxing of some new shiny surprise hardware. We also cover a batch of community updates, a cryptocoin you’re going to want & discuss additional options for offsite backup. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, August 23, 2017
Episode 211: Forks Done Right | LUP 211
We get fired up about the bigger message behind Ubuntu’s new fork, debate Mozilla’s plans to collect data on Firefox users & come up with solutions for Linux users fleeing from CrashPlan. Plus a geeky project so cool it might consume your life, Google’s clever plans to push ChromeOS into the Enterprise & the one thing Electron should never be used for. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, August 16, 2017
Episode 210: Total Solus Eclipse | LUP 210
A new version of Solus is out and Ikey joins us to chat about whats new, building in Snap support & a peek at the future. Wimpy sets us on the straight and narrow about confinement & we have some follow up thoughts on Slackware. Plus some great desktop app picks, community news, Gnome’s birthday & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, August 09, 2017
Episode 209: LILO and Slack(ware) | LUP 209
We conclude our Slackware challenge & share the lessons and results. Plus why you really need to give Firefox another try, easy sandboxing of any Linux app, GTK4’s blockers, the official anti-systemd resource... And we announce another meetup! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, August 02, 2017
Episode 208: The Stallman Line | LUP 208
We get philosophical about open source’s most modern problem & debate where we draw our own personal “Stallman Line”. Plus a we briefly discuss today’s big Bitcoin fork, Mozilla’s new Firefox experiments, Krita’s woes, Gnome’s moves & the groundwork for the Slackware Challenge. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, July 26, 2017
Episode 207: Return Of The Distrohopper | LUP 207
We get down to distros in today’s episode. Distro news, modular distros, some reviews & major new developments. Plus Chris talks about leaving Arch and returning to his distro-hopping roots & the major news that broke today. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, July 19, 2017
Episode 206: Beardy McBeardface | LUP 206
We've chased Chris out of the studio and invented some new segments: First up Wes, in true TechSNAP style, highlights a few complicated ideas explained well, then it's on to updates from a few of our favorite projects, including some exciting news for WireGuard & a great collection of new stuff from around the internet. Plus special guest host Rikai & Wes geek out about gaming, we celebrate Slackware & pose the question: Just what is Mageia & why does it exist? Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, July 12, 2017
Episode 205: A Fitting Fedora | LUP 205
Fedora 26 is here & so is Matthew Miller, the project leader, to chat all about the new release, big future projects, important changes to Rawhide & how they’re taking advantage of openSUSE’s openQA. Plus our hands on experience with the new release, the ultimate upgrade test results & community news. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, July 05, 2017
Episode 204: Awkward Distro Puberty | LUP 204
TUXEDO Computers & System76 have announced their own Linux distributions, but both these new efforts betray a much larger issue that no one is discussion. We’ll have that awkward conversation. Plus OutlawCountry is getting a bunch of attention, BFQ scheduler finally gets its day, XDA Forum is going to give Phoronix some competition & some important info for Fedora users. The an update from the recent SNAP sprint, community news & a lot more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, June 28, 2017
Episode 203: MATEs Wayland MIR-acle | LUP 203
Ubuntu’s skunkworks project, Mir, might be back with a vengeance to save the Linux desktop. Or at least prove quite useful for MATE. Plus one of the most well built Linux PC’s ever tested, the Dell Precision 5720 with Ubuntu gets tested in the lab. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, June 21, 2017
Episode 202: Halls of Endless Linux | LUP 202
Michael Hall from Endless joins us to discuss his new role, Endless’ involvement with Gnome & the unique approach they are taking with EndlessOS. Plus Fedora shares some future plans that have us really excited & we try to grok casync, Lennart Poettering’s new project for distributing file system images. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, June 14, 2017
Episode 201: Turbo Mode Ikey | LUP 201
Desktop Linux is about to get a lot more competitive, one of its recent biggest disruptors is going full time. Ikey, founder of the Solus project, joins us to discuss where this is going. Plus A dive into Fedora 26 beta, the security of Cockpit, Ubuntu Gnome survey results & opening some Windows gaming tech to all of us. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, June 07, 2017
Episode 200: Gnome in the Shell | LUP 200
It’s a Gnome lovefest this week, with a special look at the next release of Gnome 3, special features we’re looking forward to & new extensions that make Gnome even better. Then we chat about Google’s solution to old Linux kernel’s in Android, the differences between Chrome & Chromium on Linux, a killer Plasma desktop feature & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, May 31, 2017
Episode 199: No Samba No Cry | LUP 199
Why the big Samba vulnerability is no WannaCry, Wimpy gives us his take on e-gpus under Linux, our first take on Plasma 5.10 & a tool that will finally get you to use Docker! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, May 24, 2017
Episode 198: Magic Device Cloud | LUP 198
NextCloud 12 is out & Jos joins us to chat about the highlights, Marius Quabeck joins us to discuss Magic Device Tool’s secrets. Plus we cover a bunch of project updates & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, May 17, 2017
Episode 197: That New User Smell | LUP 197
We review System76’s Galago Pro, have a crisis of faith about the future of desktop Linux, get completely blown away by our community, help you BASH better & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, May 10, 2017
Episode 196: Orange is the new Red (Hat) | LUP 196
Canonical is going for the IPO & that means some big changes. In a recent interview Mark Shuttleworth gives us a hint at the new purpose of the Ubuntu desktop. Plus Thunderbird’s future is uncertain, we get our hands on System76’s Galago Pro & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, May 03, 2017
Episode 195: Rub a Dub Grub | LUP 195
Big improvements are coming to a grub near you, Wes has a batch of really useful new open source projects & we consider the “threat” posed by Windows 10 S. Plus the dirty secret about Linux’s battery life, some of our LinuxFest Northwest plans & a lot more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, April 26, 2017
Episode 194: Internet of Troubles | LUP 194
Linux Foundation thinks they have the solution to the Internet of Terrible & they might actually be right. We’ll share the exclusive interview that has us excited for the future. Plus the bad, horrible, no good week that Docker had & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, April 19, 2017
Episode 193: Ubuntu's Bare Gnome | LUP 193
Community efforts to port Unity 8 or recreate the Unity 7 desktop are popping up all over & one of them is showing some real promise. Plus why Ubuntu Gnome left us feeling a little underwhelmed. Then, Solus has a Gnome edition now. Ikey stops by to tell us about it & other new things coming out from the project. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, April 12, 2017
Episode 192: Home Sweet Gnome | LUP 192
OpenELEC’s latest release, Snaps on Fedora, plus Wes’ Picks, Pinterest’s support for Open Source & the controversial use of Slack for Open Source projects. Then Wes, Noah & the Mumble room have a wide-ranging discussion about Ubuntu’s big desktop change, what it means for the Linux Desktop, Linux Vendors & you! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, April 05, 2017
Episode 191: What’s a Distro? | LUP 191
Joe Ressington of Late Night Linux joins Wes to discuss just what makes a “Proper” distribution. Then the latest news about Libreboot and the Free Software Foundation, Containers explained in pictures & our complaints about the latest Telegram release. Plus Fedora has the perfect desktop for Hacker News & Android is now king of the internet. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, March 29, 2017
Episode 190: Boot Free or Die Tryin’ | LUP 190
We dig deep into the LibreBoot project, how the Intel ME problem impacts open source & limits badass free laptops. Then we spend Wes’ money and shop for his next perfect Linux rig. Plus we discuss the big changeup at FreeNAS & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, March 22, 2017
Episode 189: Das Boot Manager | LUP 189
Bulletproof Linux Kernel upgrades might be near, Kodi gets a real Netflix Plugin & the dirty, stinky, no good, obvious, elephant in the room around desktop Linux. Plus why Bcachefs might be Linux’s next hit filesystem, Mozilla's Obsidian & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, March 15, 2017
Episode 188: Celebrating Linux on Pi Day | LUP 188
We celebrate Pi Day by loading Mycroft & Alexa onto a Raspberry Pi 3, look at the actual use cases for VR & AR under Linux today, flash back to Linux in the 90s & update on our favorite projects. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, March 08, 2017
Episode 187: CIA's Dank Trojans | LUP 187
It’s the year of the CIA linux desktop, with multiplatform malware & boot environments designed to attack Macs, Popey & Wimpy share their Mobile World Congress adventures & Bryan joins us to discuss the last Linux Sucks talk ever. Plus we chat with Gnome at SCALE, take a look at Endless OS & ponder the Litebook. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, March 01, 2017
Episode 186: AWS Loses Its ShIOT | LUP 186
The worst smart device hack we’ve ever heard of, dreams of the Pi Zero W, the AWS outage that savaged the Internet of Things & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, February 22, 2017
Episode 185: Plasma Injection | LUP 185
Austrian schools are switching, Wes is trying & Chris is reviewing the Plasma desktop this week. Why the heck we keep talking about it & what’s really bugging us about it. Plus the 7-Inch Ubuntu Laptop that might be legit & Linus reflects on what he really hates after 25 years of Linux. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, February 15, 2017
Episode 184: Chilling with Kylin | LUP 184
A surprising new desktop environment, the latest on cross-distro snappy support & how to get the most out of Android without Play Services. Plus a script to take over a running server and replacement it with FreeBSD, a fresh take on VPNs coming to a kernel near you & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, February 08, 2017
Episode 183: Niche Distros Need Not Apply | LUP 183
Is software ever really finished? Should we avoid boutique or niche Linux distributions? We have a spirited discussion & attempt to finally answer both of those questions. We also chat about what's new in Kodi 17, why open source on our TV’s is critical & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, February 01, 2017
Episode 182: Death by Download | LUP 182
Remotely bricking Android devices, the new Plasma is looking great, first hands on with the new XPS 13 Sputnik, more btrfs woes & hacking Popey’s system. Plus Kernel.org’s big change, building your own local Steam repository & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 25, 2017
Episode 181: A Brisk MATE for Solus | LUP 181
It’s a huge show with a bonanza of updates, big future plans & cross project collaboration. Michael Hall from Canonical join us to discuss UbunCon, SCALE15x plans & much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 18, 2017
Episode 180: The Theory of Liri | LUP 180
We take a look at a material design influenced distribution, the FSF’s new high priority list & much more this week! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 11, 2017
Episode 179: Project Sputnik Interview | LUP 179
Project Sputnik’s Barton George joins us to discuss the new Dell hardware running Linux & the history of the Sputnik project. Plus the KillDisk hype is high, The Pi’s PIXEL is taking on MATE, another Mac dev switches to Linux & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 04, 2017
Episode 178: Big Sister is Watching | LUP 178
Robots take over the show while we go around the table & get our 2017 predictions in for Linux. Plus updates from projects we love & the great Mac migration continues! Support LINUX Unplugged
Tue, December 27, 2016
Episode 177: The Many Faces of Linux | LUP 177
While the guys are hibernating over this holiday week, We look back on some of the most interesting topics the virtual LUG covered this year. Everything from snap packages & ubuntu reviews to LXD & Arch MacBook installs, plus a whole lot more. So kick back, settle in & enjoy the show! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, December 21, 2016
Episode 176: Shell-Shocked 2016 | LUP 176
We review the very worst moments in Linux during 2016, look ahead to what might be big in 2017 and toss out the rules for our last live episode of the year! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, December 14, 2016
Episode 175: Best of MATEs | LUP 175
We get the inside scoop about some fantastic collaboration happening between three Linux distributions that are supposedly big competitors. Plus Google’s response to Ubuntu Core & the big NextCloud news! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, December 07, 2016
Episode 174: Mesh of Thoughts | LUP 174
We ponder the implications of Fedora possibly going rolling & LTS, get schooled by the mumble room about the state of linux on the Raspberry Pi & debate about the effectiveness of mesh networking Plus we talk about Clonezilla, one of our favorite backup tools & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 30, 2016
Episode 173: Upgrade vs Nuke 'n Pave | LUP 173
After a slew of open source updates we contrast upgrades vs fresh install, get an update on the state of snaps & get geeky about performance monitoring our Linux rigs. Plus the fake VLC story, a live install of Plasma Desktop & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 23, 2016
Episode 172: It's Not X, It's Wayland | LUP 172
Fedora 25 is out & project leader Matthew Miller joins us to chat about what’s new. Plus Wimpy & Popey are back from UbuCon and share their experience, Ryan shares some tweaks Sytstem76 made to jump to 4k & Solus OS founder Ikey Doherty joins us to discuss benchmarking the “feel” of the Linux desktop. Plus community updates & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 16, 2016
Episode 171: Uncontained Human Error | LUP 171
This week we take a deep dive into the IOT & the Cloud. Noah isn’t quite dead yet as he gives us an earful on the future of MacOS. Plus our thoughts on Signal, Telegram, Wire, IRC & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 09, 2016
Episode 170: Nano Users Unite | LUP 170
Nano users come out of the closet, we demystify NFS a bit & discuss the top 5 commands new Linux users should learn. Plus a NUC killer with a GPU, new Cinnamon & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 02, 2016
Episode 169: Apple's Out Of Touch Bar | LUP 169
Swaths of Apple users are trying out Linux for the first time this week, with varying results. We discuss why & how it's going. Then, we play some great clips by long time Kernel guru GregKH, dream about a future Linux living room, update you on a ton of great projects & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 26, 2016
Episode 168: Linux Shadow Force | LUP 168
We get the inside scoop on what happens when Canonical gets a bunch of employees & community members in the same room, discuss the cool open hardware project Chris just ordered for the studio & update you on the big community highlights of the week! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 19, 2016
Episode 167: Livepatch Bait & Switch | LUP 167
Canonical is not first to the live patching game, but they could have the best take on it. VeraCrypt, the successor to TrueCrypt, audit results are out & KDE shares their long term plans for the Plasma Desktop. Then we bust some brewing Linux FUD and misconceptions & ponder the role of Free Software in a world that doesn't care. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 12, 2016
Episode 166: Linux Winter Developments | LUP 166
Serendipity this week as a beautiful theme reveals itself throughout the episode. Plus we get updates from some of our favorite projects, discuss the historic shift happening in Linux desktop & wrap it all up with some macOS shade. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 05, 2016
Episode 165: In OpenDaylight | LUP 165
We connect with the communities & hardware projects using Software Defined Networking, update you on some of our favorite open source projects, share some anecdotes from a recent trip & update you on our trails with OpenMediaVault. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 28, 2016
Episode 164: Dial Up Linux | LUP 164
In this special edition of Unplugged we do away with the traditional format & take calls LIVE on the air for free. Some say the advice is worth what you pay for it! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 21, 2016
Episode 163: Games of Linux Future | LUP 163
In a special edition of Unplugged that looks towards the future of Gnome & KDE, The Linux Gamer joins us to discuss creating his content on Linux, game releases he’s looking forward to & answer questions from our virtual LUG. Plus we gush about Canonical hiring Wimpy, if your SSH password revealed when you attempt to connect to the wrong server, gander at the Nextcloud box & much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 14, 2016
Episode 162: Linux Flying High | LUP 162
Ubuntu powered drones that double as a desktop PC, tweaking your Linux desktop vs polish & coreboot’s efforts to bypass Intel ME. Plus our we update you on some of our favorite open source projects, the MySQL 0-day, a batch of emails, why we're excited about the crazy USB/IP Project & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 07, 2016
Episode 161: A Real Pain in the Flash | LUP 161
Wayland by default may finally be nigh & we share what we’re looking forward to the most about a Wayland powered desktop. The ext4 bug that bit Wimpy, Adobe Flash comes crawling back to Linux & our quick review of a well put together Plasma Desktop distro. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, August 31, 2016
Episode 160: Binary Decisions | LUP 160
We officially live in the post systemd word & we take a look around at some of the niftier tricks systemd is pulling off, some of the quirky bugs & quickly touch on some myths around the binary log format. Plus the clever tricks Wimpy employed to get Ubuntu Touch on an Android Meizu Pro 5, some big project updates, the SteamOS problem & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, August 24, 2016
Episode 159: All Wimpy's Vault! | LUP 159
We become masters of our own files this week, chat with the ElementaryOS project about inspiring future development & rolling our own file sync solution. Plus a quick look at the new Android N & why now might be the ideal time to switch to a Linux based phone OS. It’s a packed episode! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, August 17, 2016
Episode 158: Happy Birthday Debian | LUP 158
We throw a birthday party for Debian, discuss the future of the project & the possible awkward moment that might be near. Plus Ryan Sipes stops by to give us a post Mycroft update, we dream of a bcachefs future, challenge Wes to get Linux fully working on a MacBook by the end of the show & lots of community updates! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, August 10, 2016
Episode 157: SSH: Heaven or Shell | LUP 157
Our favorite tricks & hacks for SSH, debunking the Linux botnet rampage myth, the new challenges Solus is taking on & the inside track on how FOSS Talk Live went. Plus getting Ubuntu MATE on the BQ Tablet, benchmarking Ubuntu on Windows & our quick takes on using Zim Wiki and TagSpaces to manage you local, secure notes. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, August 03, 2016
Episode 156: Your Media Just Got Served | LUP 156
Take advantage of the Chromecast without Google, extend Kodi with awesome new backends & cast media around your network with free Linux tools. Our panel covers great tips to fully trick out your Linux media setup. Plus our thoughts on the FCC forcing TP-Link to support open source firmwares, reverse tethering for Android, a quick look at Mint 18 XFCE edition & a lot more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, July 27, 2016
Episode 155: Snappy Collaboration | LUP 155
The devil is in the details & we dive right in when Martin aka Wimpy returns from the Snappy Sprint & shares his experience from his recent trip. And in light of KeepPass getting an audit by the EU, was ask our Virtual LUG to sound off on the projects they’d audit if given the means & why. Plus great updates from all around open source & the Starbound server challenge! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, July 20, 2016
Episode 154: Pragmatic Idealism | LUP 154
Do you use desktop Linux for idealistic or practical reasons? We ask our virtual LUG & share our stories. Plus Chris’s new VPN solution & the hosted vs self hosted debate with a new twist. Plus Canonical’s smart move to push Snap packages forward, tons of updates from our favorite projects & the disturbing news about Chrome. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, July 13, 2016
Episode 153: One NAT to Rule Them | LUP 153
Chris discovers he’s being snooped on by his ISP, we discuss some Linux friendly solutions solve the situation. Is Linux Mint 18 really the best Linux distro every? Or should Ubuntu 16.04 be getting more of the credit? Plus our chat with a Matrix.org developer, Solus goes rolling, Unity on Windows & building a long-term financially sustainable open source product. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, July 06, 2016
Episode 152: To .NET or to .NOT? | LUP 152
Noah joins Wes for the second time this week to talk with the mumble room. Package management for Bash takes it one step too far, Nvidia starts putting GPUs in your containers, we learn some surprising things about open source at Comcast & discuss just what "Microsoft ♥ Linux" really means. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, June 29, 2016
Episode 151: Universal Divide | LUP 151
We go hands on with Linux Mint 18, then discuss the latest batch of desktop killers & Wimpy’s new rig. Plus what makes Mattermost really great, a new new universal package format, the confusing things Red Hat says & we get to know WireGuard! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, June 22, 2016
Episode 150: War of the Packages | LUP 150
We have a spirited discussion from both sides of the universal packaging issue, take a quick look at maru OS that turns a Nexus phone into your desktop, get the inside scoop on the recent Mycroft update & the new Solus release. Plus much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, June 15, 2016
Episode 149: Snaps are Go! | LUP 149
Canonical drops a bombshell by making snap packages available for nearly all Linux distributions, Nextcloud has some serious momentum, Samsung is rumored to drop Android in favor of Tizen across all devices & Wes kicks the tires of elementary OS’ new Beta of Loki. Then we try out Snap packages & discuss needs to happen next to really make them take off as the standard universal Linux installer. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, June 08, 2016
Episode 148: Mind on my Cloud & Cloud on my Mind | LUP 148
After we get through a slew of great open source project achievements, we discuss the slippery slope that online services represent to Linux users. Plus we get all big picture, what can be learned from ownCloud’s recent troubles, what we conclude by reading between the lines & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, June 01, 2016
Episode 147: The Talking Gnome | LUP 147
Open Source artificial intelligence in all the things? Ryan from Mycroft joins us to update us on their recent hard work. Is YubiKey going to hell in a handbasket? The latest from openSUSE, our first impressions of Remix OS & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, May 25, 2016
Episode 146: Snap, Flaps & Package Drops | LUP 146
Package once, run anywhere. It’s always almost here, just around the corner, in the near future. But are we finally about to nail it? We look at Flatpack, Snaps, AppImage, ask what stands out from the pack & which will fall flat. Plus why you're going to want to wait on that systemd upgrade, funding projects with a rocky past, the big thing about Mycroft no one is talking about & we try out Mycroft on the desktop. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, May 18, 2016
Episode 145: BuzzwordFS | LUP 145
You're insecure unless you're running one of Greg’s Kernels & we think he’s right! Plus openSUSE chairman Richard Brown stops by to follow up on not shipping ZFS in openSUSE which leads to a passionate discussion. And the simple thing we could all be doing to improve open source, but maybe we’re all feeling a little too entitled! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, May 11, 2016
Episode 144: Flavorless Mint | LUP 144
Is a new wave of tech savvy Linux users coming? Chris makes his case & why distributions like Linux Mint won’t be ready for it. Plus updates from some of our favorite projects, Linux on the PS4 & a quick look at the Fedora 24 beta. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, May 04, 2016
Episode 143: Can't Contain Linux | LUP 143
Your marvelous container powered future, what happens when your favorite open source project takes its ball and goes closed source? Subsonic is going closed source, we discuss alternative options, how we feel as donors & the bigger picture in all of this. Hands on with the HTC Vive under Linux, DuckDuckGo supporting their favorite open source, the goals for Ubuntu 16.10 & much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, April 27, 2016
Episode 142: Long Term Disappointment | LUP 142
This week LTS has a new meaning as we reflect on a couple of weeks with Ubuntu 16.04 & why we’re dumping it. We pick up the mood with some exclusive LinuxFest Northwest clips, projects updates & another clip that was never meant to air. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, April 20, 2016
Episode 141: 16.04 and Shut Your Face | LUP 141
We get a little rambunctious as we talk about Ubuntu 16.04, why not the openSUSE Build Server & the remarkable problem with Ubuntu that’s just now being solved. Plus some audio never meant for public release, updates on your favorite projects, first hands on with the Bq Ubuntu Tablet & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, April 13, 2016
Episode 140: Blame Popey for ZFS | LUP 140
ZFS on Ubuntu gets new prominent criticism from Richard Stallman & we launch into a wider discussion the underlying message in these recent statements. Leo Laporte gives Linux another go after his previous switch disaster & reports back with some interesting insights. Then we discuss the big updates to XFCE, the HTC Vive's lack of Linux support & Chris finally sets up Traccar, a self hosted location tracking server & discovers it’s surprising limitation. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, April 06, 2016
Episode 139: Virtual Bondage | LUP 139
We look at the state of Virtual Reality under Linux. Richard Brown from openSUSE joins us to discuss making the Plasma Desktop even better & our quick review of Apricity OS “a modern, intuitive operating system for the cloud generation”. Plus a bunch of project updates & much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, March 30, 2016
Episode 138: Better than Linux | LUP 138
Has Linux met its match? That’s the claim several outlets are making this week. We look at the new & innovative operating systems stepping into the public light. The first official Ubuntu tablet goes on sale & we share our thoughts, a little BASH on Windows & a lot more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, March 23, 2016
Episode 137: Kool as Breeze KDE | LUP 137
Plasma Desktop 5.6 is out today & we’ll share of the small things that we simply love. Plus some of our secret LinuxFest Northwest Linux rig build plans are revealed, why gaming on Linux is doing better than you’ve been led to believe & live shootout of open source Skype killers. Also our thoughts on ubuntuBSD, open source GPS tracking, Nvidia shipping Wayland support & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, March 16, 2016
Episode 136: There's a Snap for That | LUP 136
The future of Linux package management is here & there’s a lot of ideas on how to solve it. We discuss some of the more popular ones & how they might be impacting your Linux desktop much sooner than you expect. Plus that awkward moment when a traditional desktop environment adopts a controversial UI modern element, the new generation of “perfect” Linux laptops & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, March 09, 2016
Episode 135: Microsoft's SeQueL to Linux | LUP 135
Our world has forever changed with Microsoft’s announcement of SQL server for Linux. We get a little nostalgic. Plus a look at the new OwnCloud release & updates on some of our favorite projects. Then we take a look at Shashlik which promises to transparently run Android apps on your Linux desktop & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, March 02, 2016
Episode 134: Pi 3: The Next Generation | LUP 134
After some updates about some of your favorite distros, we go hands on with the Raspberry Pi 3. Then we look at the AppImage project and their delivery on the download and run promise. Plus a make good on a recent mistake, looking at a new kind of distro funding model & much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, February 24, 2016
Episode 133: Apollo Has Landed | LUP 133
Entroware’s Apollo laptop has arrived, and we share our first hands on impressions of their ultra Linux laptop, how does it compare to the Purism, and a quick chat with Entroware’s co-founder. Plus we discuss the Mint hack, and solutions we could create as a community to solve the bigger problems, updates from some of our favorite open source projects, and chat about Beep Beep Yarr, and more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, February 17, 2016
Episode 132: Librem 15 is FAN-tastic! | LUP 132
We discuss the official release of Vulkan, look at who has shipping code & why this is much bigger than you might realize. Plus Chris share’s his first hands on impressions of Purism’s Librem 15 laptop, some big Ubuntu Mobile noise, the Linux security bug you need to patch for right away & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, February 10, 2016
Episode 131: Terminal Tackle Box | LUP 131
Upgrade your terminal with Fish & the new Fishery plugin market. We chat about one of the really neat bash replacements on Linux. Then we take a look at Maru, a Debian based image for Nexus 5 devices that sounds a lot like Ubuntu Touch. Plus a quick look at a new app that combines Plex with Popcorn Time & the awesome new features we just all got as Linux users! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, February 03, 2016
Episode 130: The Six Rings of Ubuntu | LUP 130
Why Linux Mint’s X-Apps are a bigger shakeup then you might realize, bricking your laptop with a Linux command & Dell’s new Linux distro. Plus we celebrate 15 years of VLC, a quick look at Tails 2.0 & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 27, 2016
Episode 129: Shaky Linux Foundations | LUP 129
Has the Linux Foundation made moves to cut out the individual from having their voice heard? We discuss the latest controversy brewing this week and the foundations response. Plus why if you're still waiting for Wayland to ship, your doing it wrong, AMD’s plans for the open future, some updates from some of our favorite projects, stories from SCALE14x & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 20, 2016
Episode 128: Is that a server in your pocket? | LUP 128
This week we dive into what the community thinks about putting a server in their pocket, show you some smart tricks with Gimp & some Windows nightmares. Plus some router chat & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 13, 2016
Episode 127: Sorry, I don't do Windows | LUP 127
We react to Remix OS and give it a go on a few of our machines, discuss the surprise feature in KDE 5.6 & chat with some of the folks behind SCALE 14x. Plus how to tell family and friends you're not the Geek Squad, we get our filesystem geek on & using tech support opportunities to be an open source ambassador. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 06, 2016
Episode 126: Mycroft Action Show | LUP 126
Straight from the horse's mouth, we get updates on the code drop coming from the Mycroft project. Plus some details about our SCALE plans & NVIDIA's Linux powered CES demo. Plus Chris owns up to his 2015 predictions & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, December 30, 2015
Episode 125: Slaving for Red Star OS | LUP 125
A distribution of Linux built to survey and track speech, we go into the surveillance marvel that is Red Star OS. Solus hits 1.0 & we bring on some of the team to tell us all about it. Plus Mozilla has a new… Distraction? We debate their merits of rumored new Firefox OS powered hardware. Support LINUX Unplugged
Tue, December 22, 2015
Episode 124: Linux’s Amazing Year | LUP 124
We look back at the big year for Linux, for our show & our virtual LUG. Some of the most interesting projects in open source were discussed first in our LUG, we look at some of the great moments & then give you our fresh take on the big events. It’s a very special edition of LINUX Unplugged. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, December 16, 2015
Episode 123: Mycroft and Chilli | LUP 123
UbuCon is just around the corner, we’re joined by Ubuntu’s community manager & the team on the ground to share the inside scoop on how this Ubuntu conference came to be & how you can get in free. Ryan from Mycroft stops by to give us an update on their open source artificial intelligence project, their new official partnership with Ubuntu & more. Then we discuss the major partnership between LibreOffice & OwnCloud, the cool OwnCloud hardware that could develop into a consumer device. Plus some major project updates, community feedback & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, December 09, 2015
Episode 122: Thunderclouds around Thunderbird | LUP 122
Mozilla wants to spin off Thunderbird & launch an iOS ad blocker that only works with Safari. Is there a master plan at work, or has the Mozilla foundation lost their way? Our virtual LUG debates. Then our best solutions for syncing your Podcasts from your mobile to your Linux desktop & SpiderOak ditches Google. Plus we review the new CrossOver 15 & discuss how this Linux desktop app works like no other. What nice features it offers over PlayOnLinux & standard WINE, why it's not quite like other commercial software for Linux & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, December 02, 2015
Episode 121: Raspberry Pi Does What? | LUP 121
A new trick up Fedora’s sleeve might be worth trying on your own Linux install, the new mini-pc revolution is here & the Raspberry Pi Zero brings it for $5. Adobe announces the death of Flash… Kind of. But we’ll share how to finish the job & truly banish flash from your Linux rig. Plus open source gaming just got an upgrade, GIMP has some fancy & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 25, 2015
Episode 120: Budgie Jumping | LUP 120
A member of the Vivaldi browser project joins to discuss their new release. The man behind Solus comes on to follow up on our review, discuss the big plans for the future, creating a custom distribution & the problem with derivatives. GIMP turns 20 this week and we ask if it’s just time to accept that some OSS projects will never topple their commercial competitor & why that’s just fine by us. We’re still thankful for the GIMP. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 18, 2015
Episode 119: What’s Up Docker? | LUP 119
Have we gone too far with Docker? We channel our inner curmudgeon & discuss the Heartbleed sized elephant hanging out in Docker’s room. Plus why all the bad press around SteamOS might be missing the mark & our virtual LUG shares their hands on experiences with openSUSE LEAP! Plus some important follow up, a few surprises & a dead UPS! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 11, 2015
Episode 118: Leaping Over Tumbleweed | LUP 118
New versions of openSUSE leap and Fedora have hit the web. The chairmen of openSUSE joins us to answer our hard questions & we follow up on Fedora 23. Plus the big upset with Debian this week, ransomware that targets Linux systems & way more than we can fit into this description! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 04, 2015
Episode 117: Does Slack MatterMost? | LUP 117
New Desktop Environment updates grab our attention & the trend to move open source projects towards Slack has us concerned. Plus how the VW emissions issue is great for hackers, an OggCamp recap & we light a candle for Fedora 23. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 28, 2015
Episode 116: What's New MATE | LUP 116
Behind the scenes on Ubuntu MATE’s new features pushing the Ubuntu platform forward for traditional desktops, why Apple’s latest court case proves Richard Stallman was right about owning your own software & there is real debate about Xiaomi's new Linux laptop. Plus the big EFF win that’s great for Linux users, the big problems facing x86 that are a wake up call to distro makers & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 21, 2015
Episode 115: Open Production | LUP 115
OpenStreetMap might just be one of the most important open source projects in the world. We look at some of the amazing tools built around this open & free infrastructure. Then our tips for producing great content & podcasts under Linux, plus a live unboxing & demo of the new Steam Controller. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 14, 2015
Episode 114: KDE Connect All the Things | LUP 114
We take a look at some of the coolest technologies coming out of the Plasma desktop & finally a open source router you and your family can use. Then we share some of our favorite ncurses terminal based applications, you might just be surprised at how modern these terminal apps are! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 07, 2015
Episode 113: Kernel of Truth | LUP 113
Performance tips for keeping your Linux install running like new, some basic tricks & some advanced tips. Why Microsoft’s new Surface Book might be able to run Linux & we reflect on the larger issues behind the recent public exits from the Linux Kernel development team & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 30, 2015
Episode 112: Open Source Power Outlets | LUP 112
Noah hosts again while Chris is in the land of no service, also known as Utah! We talk about LibreOffice, Ubuntu's new Setup wizard, OpenSUSE's leap & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 23, 2015
Episode 111: Completely Unplugged | LUP 111
A special edition of the Unplugged show, Chris joins the Virtual LUG from the road & Noah and Wes host the show. They compare and contrast Fedora and Arch & the nice new features of Fedora 23. Then everyone has their own perspective on home automation, from security to convenience. We have a great discussion about the broader ramifications of home automation. Then we wrap it all up with some closing thoughts on using Linux & open source to live offline, like you're online. Support LINUX Unplugged
Thu, September 17, 2015
Episode 110: Return of the Localhost | LUP 110
We cover some great open source projects that help you live life off-line, as if you were online. We also discuss the upstream contributions from Munich & an awesome block level back up system. Plus some great feedback, a road trip update & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 09, 2015
Episode 109: Who Will Build The Builders | LUP 109
Debian aims for reproducible builds of all packages. We’ll explain what that means & why other distributions might be jumping onboard with the idea. Plus impressive early performance results under Mir & Gnome’s 3.18’s best features you're not hearing about. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 02, 2015
Episode 108: Insecurity by Design | LUP 108
Top law enforcement officials in the US want backdoors in all encryption systems. What would the ramifications to open source around the world be if this became law of the land in the US? Details on the upcoming road show, Kubuntu's new look, saying goodbye to an old friend & some Go powered retro feedback. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, August 26, 2015
Episode 107: Freedom Isn't Free | LUP 107
We celebrate the 24th birthday of Linux by looking back to it’s early days, discuss the new SSD optimized Linux file system, the rather normal things Linux is doing on Mainframes & how the community at large reacts to crowdfunding. Plus some great follow up, some great discussion & much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, August 19, 2015
Episode 106: Connecting the Docks | LUP 106
Live from the floor of LinuxCon 2015 we capture Bruce Schneier’s take on hacking attribution, how HP enthusiastically supports Linux internally & our impressions of the big convention. Plus how Docker is going big this year & which type of Linux event is right for you. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, August 12, 2015
Episode 105: Vulkan the Metal Slayer | LUP 105
We chat with the chief technology officer behind Mycroft, an open source artificial intelligence for everyone. Then discuss Android’s adoption of Vulkan and the major impact it could have on desktop Linux & the nice new Linux exclusive features coming to Firefox. Plus we revisit file syncing under Linux & discuss the really great options that have cropped up recently. Support LINUX Unplugged
Thu, August 06, 2015
Episode 104: Miles of WiFi | LUP 104
Ubuntu publishes their roadmap for the next few releases & we discuss what the future might hold for “Ubuntu Personal”. Plus the major challenges Linux gaming is facing. Then we’ve got insights from the experts on building robust wifi for your home, enterprise or even large events… Powered by Linux! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, July 29, 2015
Episode 103: OSCON Secret Sauce | LUP 103
Great interviews from the floor of OSCON 2015! How FastMail uses Linux, managing thousands of Apache instances, an open source Slack killer, Tizen on all the things & much more. Plus why the Ubuntu MATE project is dropping the Ubuntu Software, their replacement, the vLUG’s thoughts on Plasma Mobile, a Skunkworks project straight out of Las Vegas & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Tue, July 21, 2015
Episode 102: Canonical, Dell & AMD Games | LUP 102
Noah joins us in studio for a fun edition of Unplugged! Updates are landing on Ubuntu Phones, the ridiculous work around for a major performance boost on AMD cards, the real problem with Dell’s latest Ubuntu laptops & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, July 15, 2015
Episode 101: Will Flash Be Trashed? | LUP 101
A renewed push to kill flash hits the web & we discuss the possible advantages for Linux users. A KDE user trying out Gnome for a week & the real issues he touches on. Plus your take on openSUSE’s big changes & follow up to our take on it. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, July 08, 2015
Episode 100: Still Minty Fresh | LUP 100
We reflect on 100 episodes of LINUX Unplugged, the themes from episodes past & then review Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon edition. Then we’ll discuss an exciting new form factor for x86 based Ubuntu PCs & the exciting use cases for them. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, July 01, 2015
Episode 99: Finger on the Pulse of Video | LUP 99
Will Pinos bring to Linux Video What PulseAudio did for audio? We discuss this major development that breaks during the show. Also, a great discussion about the new Linux Mint release that leads to a heated debate about the long-term usefulness of boring distributions & why we Linux advocates might think they are more useful than they truly are. Plus some big follow up, the Mumble room gets unplugged & much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, June 24, 2015
Episode 98: Not OK Google | LUP 98
We look at some tools that make installing Linux on multiple computers a snap, discuss our favorite backup and reload approaches & then debate the merits of Chromium auto-downloading a binary to enable users microphones. Plus a great interview with the Openoid project from SELF2015 & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, June 17, 2015
Episode 97: Better Open Source Options | LUP 97
What makes the Linux awesome? Community. This week we’ve got exclusive clips from SouthEast LinuxFest 2015 & an on the ground report from OpenTech 2015. Plus why open source needs to follow the Apple model and get started with students, creating value around open source & how Red Hat stays connected to the community. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, June 10, 2015
Episode 96: Fedora's Bright Future | LUP 96
The Fedora Project Lead Matthew Miller joins us to discuss what’s coming up in Fedora 23 & reflect on Fedora 22. Plus Mark Shuttleworth unveils another device running Ubuntu, Angela stops by with a switch to Linux update, some quick story updates & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Tue, June 02, 2015
Episode 95: Disjunctive Normal Fedora | LUP 95
A follow up on our Fedora 22 review, including a few areas we missed. How Google’s Cardboard could kickstart open source VR & new features coming to Gnome 3.18. Plus our take on the state of openSUSE, why 2015 might really be the year of the Linux Laptop & much, much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, May 27, 2015
Episode 94: 11 Years of Linux Benchmarking | LUP 94
Michael Larabel joins us to discuss his initiative of daily automated performance benchmarking of some of the world's most important open source projects & reflects on 11 years of running Phoronix.com. Plus our first take on Fedora 22 & how we resolved some rough edges, the best new options for new users that require Microsoft Office under Linux & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, May 20, 2015
Episode 93: Rollback Romanticism | LUP 93
After an Ubuntu update goes really bad Chris reflects on how snappy, a transactionally updated version of Ubuntu, could have avoided this problem. Plus a review of the System76 Meerkat PC, Russia plans to fork Sailfish OS & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, May 13, 2015
Episode 92: Linux Wife, Happy Life. | LUP 92
We get an update on our resident Mac users switch to Linux & the challenges she's run into. Ubuntu makes a deal with Microsoft and promises to ship snappy on the Internet of Things, but what the heck is a Snap package? And is it truly a transactional system? Plus hints on how Debian PPAs might work, the world's first $9 Linux rig & much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, May 06, 2015
Episode 91: Open Source Kollaboration | LUP 91
Aaron Seigo joins us to discuss the Kolab project, open source’s genuine answer to Microsoft Exchange and other groupware solutions. We also discuss the Roundcube project’s fundraiser & possible integration with Kolab. Plus our Virtual LUG reviews Ubuntu 15.04, and we discuss what’s so desktop focused about Ubuntu 15.10 & much, much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, April 29, 2015
Episode 90: How The Fest Was Fun | LUP 90
Exclusive interviews from the floor of LinuxFest Northwest 2015, meet the man who brought Netflix to Linux & changed the WINE project forever, how Intel builds the MinnowBoard for Linux, the state of ZFS on Linux & how we had so much fun it just might be illegal. Plus a quick look at the new KDE Plasma update, Telegram’s surprising popularity & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, April 22, 2015
Episode 89: Oh Deere, RMS was Right | LUP 89
Manufactures claims software integrated with hardware means the end user never truly owns the device, and simply owns a license to use it. Our panel discusses the real world ramifications of this. Plus MacBook Linux woes, the quick look at the ThinkPad Yoga 3 running Linux, the biggest systemd myth busted & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, April 15, 2015
Episode 88: Churning Over Btrfs | LUP 88
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Wed, April 08, 2015
Episode 87: btrfs Meltdown | LUP 87
After yet another gotcha takes down a critical Linux workstation, is it officially time to consider avoiding btrfs when it matters? Plus what happened to the Evolve OS project & why they are now called Solus. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, April 01, 2015
Episode 86: Evolve Your OS | LUP 86
The proprietor of Evolve OS stops by to discuss what makes Evolve OS a unique Linux desktop & the challenges smaller projects face getting coverage and attention. Plus a look at tiny powerful Linux hardware gadget that we think might be worth backing, a debate about “the look” of Linux apps & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, March 25, 2015
Episode 85: Give the Kids Linux | LUP 85
Will Secure Boot hamper boutique Linux distributions and hurt desktop Linux innovation? Our panel debates. Also getting started with Linux the right way. Plus a recap of the first ever Kansas Linux Fest, our errata, your feedback & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, March 18, 2015
Episode 84: On the Verge of Convergence | LUP 84
We get the scoop on how Ubuntu Touch plans to tackle Android’s market share & the challenges involved in moving some of our favorite desktop Linux apps to Ubuntu touch. Plus what makes the perfect laptop for our crew, why the future of Btrfs looks very bright & an Ubuntu MATE Update. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, March 11, 2015
Episode 83: Numixing Fedora | LUP 83
Ozon OS promises to make Fedora approachable for the rest of us, Ubuntu makes the switch to systemd & then we’ll debate the likely effectiveness of the new Linux Kernel development “Code of Conflict”. Plus feedback, story updates & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, March 04, 2015
Episode 82: Ubuntu MATE Gets Legit | LUP 82
We round out our SCALE13x coverage with a few more exclusive interviews, then get an update on the fast growing Ubuntu MATE project. Plus a look back at Gnome 1.0’s release, Firefox OS on a pocket watch, the great wearable debate & much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Tue, February 24, 2015
Episode 81: Unplugging the Past | LUP 81
Join us as we peer into the past and revisit some big topics! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, February 18, 2015
Episode 80: ARMed with Arch | LUP 80
One of the core developers of Arch Linux ARM joins us to chat about this rapidly developing platform, how Arch is used in ARM deployments & their relationship with the main Arch project. Plus an update on Ubuntu Phone & the first fully sandboxed portable Linux desktop app is demoed this week. How is it different than what we’ve seen before? And how far away might it be? We debate. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, February 11, 2015
Episode 79: Ubuntu Calling | LUP 79
The first Ubuntu phone goes on sale tomorrow & we ask all the interesting questions you might have been wondering. The details on the launch of the phone, some of the great apps & what’s still missing. Plus the new Raspberry Pi hates being flashed & we read a quick batch of great emails. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, February 04, 2015
Episode 78: Straight Outta FOSDEM | LUP 78
FOSDEM just wrapped up, where thousands of developers & enthusiasts of free & open source software gather to talk all things Linux. Plus we drool over the new Raspberry Pi 2 & ask if B+ buyers got a little screwed. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 28, 2015
Episode 77: Vivaldi, The Fourth Browser | LUP 77
A new browser called Vivaldi is on the scene with Linux support out of the box. Our virtual lug makes the case why it might be worth giving a try! Plus a quick Linux laptop update, a surprise for Matt, your feedback & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 21, 2015
Episode 76: Building a Better Gnome | LUP 76
Christian Hergert the creator of Gnome Builder joins us to discuss his projects funding campaign, quitting his full time job to work on open source & answering a major concern of developers looking to target Linux. Ubuntu announces their Internet of Things OS, we’re a bit skeptical & Linus takes a firm stance on public disclosure of vulnerabilities and Kernel documentation. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 14, 2015
Episode 75: Obviously Linux's Fault | LUP 75
It’s a new year & a new round of Linux bashing. But are some of the criticism corrects? Can we handle a little tough love as a community for the collective good? We debate. Plus the 4 best new Linux distributions to watch in 2015, a MATE love story & an Arch victory. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 07, 2015
Episode 74: Proprietary Exodus | LUP 74
During a recent passionate speech Richard Stallman said users of proprietary software are victims, we’ll debate of that’s true & play other clips from his speech. Then we’ll look at the recent exodus of Mac developers, ponder if this a trend worth paying attention to & if Linux is ready to take advantage of it. Plus the pants debt comes due, your feedback & much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, December 31, 2014
Episode 73: Predicting 2015 | LUP 73
Our bold predictions for Linux & open source over 2015. Thought provoking, sometimes a bit inspired or maybe just plain wrong, this edition of Unplugged promises to entertain. Plus what goes into making a great & secure messaging system & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Tue, December 23, 2014
Episode 72: Best of LUP 2014 | LUP 72
We look back on some of the rants and events of 2014. Wether it's systemd, mir, tox, ubuntu or anything else, we covered lots of major events this year! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, December 17, 2014
Episode 71: Fedora Takes the Lead | LUP 71
Our virtual LUG reviews Fedora 21 & why we’ve just witnessed one of the most ambitious transformation of any Linux distro of 2014. Plus Dustin Kirkland from Canonical answers if Ubuntu Snappy could be the future of the entire Ubuntu project & what’s coming soon from the Xonotic project. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, December 10, 2014
Episode 70: Next Gen Fedora | LUP 70
Fedora’s project lead joins us to discuss today’s Fedora 21 release, the possibility of the project switching to an Intel style Tick-Tock release & what Fedora 22 might look like. Plus what the Ubuntu Snappy Core announcement means, why it’s a big deal & why it could be amazing for the desktop one day. Then was 2014 the year Roku killed XMBC for us? Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, December 03, 2014
Episode 69: Perfect Linux Laptop | LUP 69
The founder of Purism Librem 15, a laptop that promises to respect your freedom and be the perfect Linux machine joins us to discuss the hardware, software & goals of the project & how he hopes to encourage manufacturers to free the entire stack. But are the goals of this project too ambitions? We’ll ask! Plus CoreOS announces Rocket, a new Docker competitor that we’re very excited about & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 26, 2014
Episode 68: Linux Powered Schools | LUP 68
We’re joined by a classroom full of special guests, we talk with the students from Penn Manor School District, where they’ve given every high school student a Linux laptop & integrated the students into the help desk. We get the inside scope on the challenges, roadblocks & successes of this large desktop Linux deployment. Plus a preview of our upcoming interview with Mark Shuttleworth & his take on the recent criticism and exodus from Debian & getting started in a Linux career. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 19, 2014
Episode 67: Debian Community Divided | LUP 67
We recap the recent mini-exodus in the Debian project & discuss how the tone of discussion around systemd has had some terrible consequences. We follow that with some concrete ideas of what we can do to change that tone. Plus we take a stroll down fantasy lane and wave our magic wands and solve our top three Linux pain points, some great follow up & much more. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 12, 2014
Episode 66: Firefox gets Unplugged | LUP 66
The crew took the Firefox challenge & we follow up, we reflect on 10 years of Firefox, their early Linux support & the growing competition from Webkit. Gnome raised money to defend it’s Trademark from Groupon, which has quickly raised the white flag. Is this instant groundswell of support the dawn of a new community attitude towards Gnome? Plus an exciting first live on the show, tons of great feedback & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 05, 2014
Episode 65: OpenSUSE Followup | LINUX Unplugged 65
We follow up on our review of openSUSE 13.2 & discuss how life on the rolling side has been going for some of our LUG members. Plus the hardware box that promises to replace your password manager & we say goodbye to the Linux Outlaws. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 29, 2014
Episode 64: SeaGL & OLF Roundup | LINUX Unplugged 64
Our interviews from SeaGL 2014, a grassroots technical conference dedicated to spreading awareness and knowledge about the GNU/Linux community and free/libre/open-source. Special guest Angela Fisher joins us to discuss getting women involved with Linux and technology general. Plus our fun stories from Ohio LinuxFest 2014, a few closing thoughts, your feedback & much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 22, 2014
Episode 63: For Forks Sake | LUP 63
Is it time to fork Debian? Some Unix veterans do, and we discuss. The Linux Grandma joins us to discuss Kubuntu, KDE’s outreach, and Google Summer of Code. Plus Microsoft says they really love Linux, Steam’s secret weapon against Windows & much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 15, 2014
Episode 62: Unifying Linux Software | LUP 62
We discuss how one software center for all distributions would work & which existing solutions are the closest. Plus looking forward to some new Ubuntu apps & how Linux bit Lightworks right in the memory manager. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 08, 2014
Episode 61: Don’t Feed the Soap Opera | LUP 61
The Linux community is at each others throats this week, from Lennart Poettering’s well intentioned rant, to the rage quit of GamingOnLinux’s lead writer. You’d think it was high school all over again. But what’s the larger ramifications of this public fight & what causes them? Plus can we put the blame at the feet of Linus Torvalds? Our thoughts on structuring a productive community, your emails & much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 01, 2014
Episode 60: Calm Before the Storm | LINUX Unplugged 60
Today’s show is full of robust discussion as your hosts discuss the recent criticism over our coverage of Ubuntu 14.10, the general reaction to Shellshock & the Netflixification of Photoshop on Chromebooks. Plus picking the best distro for getting a job, a little more XFCE chat & much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 24, 2014
Episode 59: Dead Desktop Walking | LUP 59
Debian moves to make Gnome the default desktop, is XFCE going the way of the Dodo bird? Our living debate will try to get to the bottom of the big elephant in the room. Plus Red Hat announces its refocusing on the very thing Canonical makes all its money from & why we may be on the precipice of a massive new competition between the two companies. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 17, 2014
Episode 58: Cult of Community | LUP 58
Is the role of “Community Manager” a fraud perpetrated by companies trying to exploit the fruits for their community? We debate if things are really that black and white, and how a community advocate can make all the difference. Then we discuss your systemd follow up, the various desktops touch screen features, Microsoft buying Minecraft, and the recent purchase of openSUSE’s parent company Attachmate. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 10, 2014
Episode 57: systemd Haters Busted | LUP 57
The majority of systemd hate appears to be coming from just two sources. At least that’s what we suspect & call them out. Plus a review of OpenMediaVault and how it compares to FreeNAS, a quick look at Tox & what the heck is Fedora’s DNF? Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 03, 2014
Episode 56: One Packager for All | LUP 56
The systemd group has a proposal for universal software management scheme for all Linux distributions. We’ll share the technical details, debate the philosophical impact & explain why it’s all powered by btrfs. Plus some thoughts on the ultimate desktop manager, the true cost of a MacBook, and much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, August 27, 2014
Episode 55: LinuxCon 2014 Unplugged | LUP 55
We’ve got exclusive interviews from LinuxCon 2014, learn about Linux in big networking, what the future holds for SUSE & much more. Plus, are you feeling a bit down? Maybe it’s because Linux users are being told to shut up about Desktop Linux & move on. We’ll discuss why this an absurdly short sighted idea. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, August 20, 2014
Episode 54: Microsoft's Munich Man | LINUX Unplugged 54
Sam from the Moka project stops by to chat about the business of making Linux look better. Then we get into the role open source plays in self driving cars. Plus we bust some of the FUD around Munich’s much reported plan to abandon Linux and switch back to Windows. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, August 13, 2014
Episode 53: Ubuntu with Rodent | LUP 53
The new Beta of ElementaryOS has shipped and we discuss where they are heading, the problems with their community interaction, and the genius move they are taking with some tricky hardware support. Plus the long term cost of Ubuntu Touch becoming successful, using ZFS on Linux successfully, and much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, August 06, 2014
Episode 52: CRUX Interview | LUP 52
Our team reviews the famous CRUX Linux and we discuss this unique distribution with one of its long time developers. Plus details about Fedora COPR and is Desktop Linux stuck in an uncanny valley? We debate. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, July 30, 2014
Episode 51: OSCON Behind The Story | LUP 51
We’ve got more exclusive interviews from OSCON 2014, and then debate if fragmentation is simply the result of winning. Plus why the Linux community needs a reality check about the popularity of Apple’s MacBook, and how poor the solutions are for MacBook owners who want to run Linux. Support LINUX Unplugged
Tue, July 22, 2014
Episode 50: Linux Look-Back | LUP 50
We look back at five years of Linux memories, and reminisce about the bad old days of the Linux desktop. Then the exciting future for PC-BSD, and it’s new unique desktop. Plus our favorite ways to track performance, desktop Linux app containers that are already here and shipping and much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, July 16, 2014
Episode 49: Rapid Fire Journalism | LINUX Unplugged 49
We chat about our time with the new Plasma 5 desktop from KDE, then using the latest situation with Manjaro we discuss the poor state of Linux news, root causes, and what the real solution is that has major ramifications for the open source community. Plus some fantastic feedback, a Command Line challenge update and our big plans for next week! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, July 09, 2014
Episode 48: KaOS Theory | LUP 48
We chat with Jos Poortvliet about the future of KDE, Plasma 5 Desktop, then review a KDE distribution with a direction: KaOS. Plus: The great news for the Blender project, our OSCON plans and much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, July 02, 2014
Episode 47: Desktopaholics Anonymous | LUP 47
We come clean on our struggle with loving every Linux desktop, until we start up the hate. Plus we discuss the huge news for CoreOS and take a closer look at OwnCloud 7’s server-to-server syncing. Plus troubleshooting KDE sound problems, and a new community initiative! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, June 25, 2014
Episode 46: SouthEast LinuxFest Unplugged | LUP 46
We’ve got another round of great exclusive interviews from the floor of SouthEast LinuxFest 2014. Find out why Slackware is still going strong, the BSD kindness brigade & more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Tue, June 17, 2014
Episode 45: The Triple-Boot Phone | LUP 45
Chris shares his experience with triple booting Firefox OS, Ubuntu Touch and Android on his Nexus 5 and the surprising results. Plus some grounded feedback and much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, June 11, 2014
Episode 44: Bedrock: A New Paradigm | LUP 44
The founder of Bedrock Linux joins us to discuss their ambitious distribution that lets you utilize the userland of all your favorite distributions at once Plus Alienware slaps Linux users in the face with a dead fish, your feedback, and more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, June 04, 2014
Episode 43: Mint 17: Fresh or Stagnant? | LUP 43
We’ll take a look at the new features of Linux Mint 17, and discuss the new Cinnamon release. Then we’ll debate if distro derivatives are a bad thing. Plus: Is Red Hat too over controlling of Gnome? Candidates for the Gnome Foundation’s board think so, we’ll discuss. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, May 28, 2014
Episode 42: Fine Wine or Sour Ports | LUP 42
Liam from Gaming on Linux joins us to discuss the Witcher 2 port fiasco, and why Linux’s reputation as a gaming platform could be on the line. Plus a heated Manjaro discussion, your feedback, and a BIG announcement! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, May 21, 2014
Episode 41: Arch’s Uprising | LUP 41
Is this the year of Arch? We dig through the results from our listener home server survey, and compare our audience’s answers with another recent large survey, and find some surprising results. Plus how the “Power Linux User” is underrepresented by developer attention, and we share some Linux switching stories that go horribly wrong! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, May 14, 2014
Episode 40: Developers Get Qt | LUP 40
We chat with two of the LXQt developers, and find out what’s behind this major undertaking. Then we discuss our favorite packages for a Linux home server, and the brand new Ubuntu Orange cluster box. Plus your feedback, our follow up, and much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, May 07, 2014
Episode 39: Fragmentation Timebomb | LUP 39
In the not too distant future the Linux desktop will face a landscape comprised of users running Wayland, Mir, and X11. Ubuntu will be rolling out their first generation Qt based desktop environment, and developers are crying fragmentation. But how would we shape the future if we could wave a magic wand? And is fragmentation a real problem in practice? Plus: Our thoughts on Magea, producing video content on Linux, and much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, April 30, 2014
Episode 38: The Rest of the Fest | LUP 38
We had a chance to chat with folks from Firefox, the EFF, SUSE, and more. Plus we discuss the real benefits to Linux conventions like LinuxFest Northwest. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, April 23, 2014
Episode 37: Client Side Drama | LUP 37
The GTK camp is pushing hard for Client Side Decorations, but there are some major drawbacks on non-Gnome desktops. We discuss the pros and cons, and if this is going to lead to a new kind of desktop Linux fragmentation. Plus our thoughts on the best password managers, your follow up, and more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Tue, April 15, 2014
Episode 36: Beware of Underdog | LUP 36
Are boutique distributions a bag of hurt for new users? We love a good underdog, but sometimes our excitement gets the best of us and we recommend something that’s not appropriate for a switcher to land on. Plus some quick thoughts on the beating open source is taking as fallout from the Heartbleed bug. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, April 09, 2014
Episode 35: Windows eXPired | LUP 35
XP support ends today and we’ll celebrate the occasion by debating what prevents technical users switching to Linux, address some common myths, and set a course for our new howto show. Plus why Chase and Matt are wrong about DS9, blaming choice, your feedback, and more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, April 02, 2014
Episode 34: Drive-By Advice | LUP 34
We debate the validity of recent anti-Linux comments made on a Leo Laporte's nationally syndicated “Tech Guy” radio show, and the more subtle and larger “built-in bias” many in the tech community still hold towards Linux. Plus: Your follow up on the Mir/Wayland topic, Ubuntu’s Amazon lens goes opt-in, and more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, March 26, 2014
Episode 33: Graphical Civil War | LUP 33
Is devastating fragmentation going to doom Desktop Linux, can a case for multiple display servers? Don’t care about the display server? We’ll make the case why you need to care, and why the biggest community confrontation could be brewing. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, March 19, 2014
Episode 32: Do Me a SolydXK | LUP 32
The co-founders of SoyldXK join us to discuss their origins, what they focus on, how they hope to make a profit, and what the future might hold. Plus we have some “solid” AutoCAD replacements for Linux, your emails, and more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, March 12, 2014
Episode 31: Ubuntu Punching Bag | LUP 31
Is the Linux community’s animosity towards Ubuntu turning away new switchers? We’ll analyze what has the community so upset, and how that can color a new Linux users first impressions. Plus Vale promise to make transitioning from DirectX to OpenGL much easier, but we have our doubts, and why Wil Wheaton loves his Mac but plays with his Linux. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, March 05, 2014
Episode 30: Talkin' Tox | LUP 30
Two developers from the TOX project, an open source secure Skype killer join us to discuss their new project, the future, and how they hope to become your new messaging system. Plus getting more battery life out of a Linux laptop, the Steam problem, and your feedback. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, February 26, 2014
Episode 29: The Klementine Squeeze | LUP 29
A cautionary tale for anyone thinking about starting their own Linux distribution, and then we’ll put it all out on the table and discuss our ideas and goals for Howto Linux, and take the live feedback of our virtual LUG. Plus should we trust Valve? Your feedback, and more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, February 19, 2014
Episode 28: Neckbeard Entitlement Factor | LUP 28
Michael Hall from Canonical joins us to discuss his personal views on what he’s coined the new 80/20 rule for open source. Are the consumers of open source the biggest hurdle to projects becoming sustainable? Plus Valve might looking at your DNS history, getting young users to try Linux, and your feedback! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, February 12, 2014
Episode 27: Debian's systemd Decision | LUP 27
One of the bumpier chapters in Debian’s history looks to be drawing to a close, at least for now. But what was all the drama about? And where do things stand now? We’ll dig into the latest developments in the Debian init system debate. Plus inspiring a new generation to use Linux, your emails, and more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, February 05, 2014
Episode 26: MATE Mythbusting | LUP 26
The MATE Desktop is about to see some big improvements, we bring on Martin Wimpress from the MATE project to discuss his new MATE Live CD, and what the future holds for MATE. Plus our renewed commitment to improving the state of Linux news, and the recent mistake that has Chris green with Hulk Rage! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 29, 2014
Episode 25: Culture of Shiny | LUP 25
Aaron Seigo joins us to call out the new and shiny culture that’s pervasive in the free software community. And even your own humble hosts have been afflicted with from time to time. The reality is users want new features, but hate reduced functionality. And often free software developers want to build something new. But what is the cost of this constant form of “progress”? How do we shift value from new and shiny, to tried and true to help enable wider free software adoption? Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 22, 2014
Episode 24: FUD for Thought | LUP 24
The battle lines have been drawn and the assault against upstart is in full force. We’ll discuss the heat being put on Canonical, the CLA, and upstart with our virtual LUG. Then we’ll bust some Linux switching FUD that’s been popping up with more and more Windows users fleeing the sinking ship. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 15, 2014
Episode 23: Google Invades Your Nest | LUP 23
We follow up on some of the most innovative Linux powered devices at CES, and this discuss Google buying Nest Labs. Is the future of the “Internet of Things” locked down to proprietary devices running locked down software? And what are the ramifications for the home? Plus some practical thoughts on Steam OS, 4k Displays coming to Linux, a new way to interface with your PC, and your feedback. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 08, 2014
Episode 22: Hurd Mentality | LUP 22
Does building by group consensus slow down open source innovation? We’ll look at some big choices Debian is facing and debate if some stronger leadership might produce more expedient and practical results. Plus: We’ll discuss the CentOS team joining Red Hat, and drool over some Steam Box hardware, read emails, and much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, January 01, 2014
Episode 21: Unplugging 2013 | LUP 21
In the final moments of 2013 our virtual LUG shares their expectations and predictions for 2014. We’ll debate some of the most anticipated changes. Plus a frank Slackware discussion, rolling Ubuntu is back again, your emails, and more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Tue, December 24, 2013
Episode 20: Fidel Chromecastro | LUP 20
Chromecast has been called the gadget of the year, but are the better options? Or is a simple, low cost, Linux powered gadget the ultimate living room solution? We’ll debate where it stacks up compared to XMBC, Plex, and others. Plus: Some insights into why Canonical might be looking to License their Binary repos to the Mint projects, your feedback, and more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, December 18, 2013
Episode 19: Fixing Linux Support | LUP 19
Experienced Linux users may soon be finding a new call on their talents to help new users switching to Linux. But with services like Stackexchange, Google+ Helpouts, and more is it time to reboot the way we provide support to new Linux users? Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, December 11, 2013
Episode 18: Hugs for LUGs | LUP 18
Have IRC chat rooms, forums, reddit, and Google Hangouts killed the local Linux Users Group? We’ll share our ideas to reboot the LUG and make them relevant for the modern Linux user. PLUS: Your follow up thoughts on the perfect swap setup, feedback, and much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, December 04, 2013
Episode 17: Swap It Outta Here | LUP 17
Do you run without swap? This week we reach into the topic grab bag and debate to swap or not to swap, the reasons long timer Linux users are switching to BSD, and what’s wrong with our Sailfish OS coverage. Plus we’ll some perspective from a new Linux user on what she ran into, your emails, and more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 27, 2013
Episode 16: Meet the Dockers | LUP 16
A new version of Docker was just released, we bring on the CTO and Founder of Docker to chat about the big features all Linux users can look forward to. Plus building the perfect Linux workstation, your feedback, and much more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 20, 2013
Episode 15: Don’t Switch to Linux | LUP 15
Our frank advice for switches to Linux. Despite what what the advocates would have you believe, there are some important consideration a potential Linux switcher should make. Our team of silverback Linux users shares their tips after years of using Linux. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 13, 2013
Episode 14: Negative in the Practical Dimension | LUP 14
This week we’ll use the lens of some recent technical meltdowns to discuss this age old struggle of pragmatism vs idealism. Sometimes the practical choice kicks you in the butt, and you regret ignoring your ideals. And sometimes the free choice can’t do the job. This is a balance Linux users find themselves in more most technology users. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, November 06, 2013
Episode 13: Dark Mail: A New Hope | LINUX Unplugged 13
What is the Dark Mail Alliance? We’ll dig into how it’s more of a protocol, and a hope than an actual product. Now the time to replace email we’ll explain how you can help get the concept kickstarted. Plus your follow up on upstart vs systemd, a brief SteamOS chat, and more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 30, 2013
Episode 12: Debating Debian Decisions | LINUX Unplugged 12
Upstart or systemd which will Debian choose? We’ll discuss the inherent benefits and disadvantages of both, and the larger ramification Debian’s decision will have on the Linux ecosystem. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 23, 2013
Episode 11: Bankrupt Linux News | LINUX Unplugged 11
The recent outburst from Linus Torvalds and Mark Shuttleworth have put the poor state of Linux news coverage into sharp focus. The media’s attention to the cult of personalities damages the Linux community. We’ll discuss what pressures push this trend forward, despite the need of a balanced dialog in an open community. Support LINUX Unplugged
Tue, October 15, 2013
Episode 10: The Ubuntu Hangover | LINUX Unplugged 10
What does a post Ubuntu world look like, which distro would rise to the top? Our specially crafted team of armed and dangerous Linux users weigh in. PLUS: Rise up against your bearded distro gatekeepers! If you’re an experienced Linux user, it might be time to break out of your distro box and help push upstream forward. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 09, 2013
Episode 9: The Ubuntu Situation | LINUX Unplugged 9
Is the traditional release model failing Ubuntu? Perhaps there is a better way to harness the rapid progress of Linux then static releases. With their focus on mobile, and a rather lackluster release around the corner, we debate if Ubuntu’s switch to Unity is costing them now. Plus we chat about Linux usage among kids, and tools to learn more about Linux and technology, and more. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, October 02, 2013
Episode 8: Cloud Guilt | LINUX Unplugged 8
Should Linux users be anti-cloud? Why do so many of us feel guilty for using the”cloud”? This week will dig into this conundrum and maybe even solve this more and more complex question. Plus a little KDE vs Gnome debate, moral pirates, and even RMS’ workflow. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 25, 2013
Episode 7: Full SteamOS Ahead | LUP 7
Valve has announced SteamOS, and we have our analysis of how this will impact the Linux ecosystem at large, the challenge Valve faces, and the reasons Valve is the right company to pull this effort off. Plus the real reason for iTunes, re-thinking Google, and a lot more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 18, 2013
Episode 6: The Android Problem | LINUX Unplugged 6
Is that exploit in your pocket? This week we'll ask if Android is Stallman's worst nightmare, making Tivo look like a quaint abuser of Linux. And how Linux is poised to push past it's current limitations over the next few years. Then it's your feedback, and our follow up! Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 11, 2013
Episode 5: Wrath of Linus | LINUX Unplugged 5
We break down what has Linus so upset, and the Internet in an NSA induced fever. Plus GOG makes a public statement about Linux that has us scratching our heads, and your feedback. Then if we had a format, we’d be breaking it with our review of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s first episode, Emissary. Support LINUX Unplugged
Wed, September 04, 2013
Episode 4: Are Linux Users Cheap? | LINUX Unplugged 4
We crunch the Steam and Ubuntu Software Center numbers and we have to ask: Are Linux users cheap? Or is the answer more complex than that? Plus how we think Microsoft buying Nokia might impact Ubuntu Touch, Firefox OS, and other open mobile startups, replacing Dropbox, and more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Tue, August 27, 2013
Episode 3: Go Dock Yourself | LINUX Unplugged 3
After rebuilding his KDE desktop better and stronger than before, Chris and Matt dig into what really seems to be troubling the Gnome project, what really makes a desktop easy to use, and if the Ubuntu Edge campaign was a sophisticated PR stunt. Plus the live feedback from our Mumble room, your emails, and more! Support LINUX Unplugged
Tue, August 20, 2013
Episode 2: Edge of Failure | LINUX Unplugged 2
As the final hours countdown we chat about the fate of the Ubuntu Edge camping and debate with our live callers about the bigger picture. Plus our thoughts on the new KDE release, Steam, and a few more thoughts on elementary OS. Support LINUX Unplugged
Tue, August 13, 2013
Episode 1: Too Much Choice | LU1
Does the Linux community lean on the age old excuse of choice, to brush of the real limitations of desktop Linux environments? We debate that, and then discuss the growing reasons to roll your own email server. Plus we read a ton of feedback, chat with our live hangout, some tablet troubleshooting, and more! Support LINUX Unplugged
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