Brent Gervais
Special guest
Photography in Sudbury, ON. -- Commercial, Editorial & Documentary Photography -- local food, sustainability, technology, photography on Linux + more!
Brent Gervais has been a guest on 90 episodes.
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424: Space for Theming
September 21st, 2021 | 1 hr 4 mins
arch linux, budgie, compiz, conferences, dark style, denver, devops, docker, element, fedora 35, free culture, free software, gamma, gnome, gnome 41, gtk, homeserver, joshua strobl, jupiter broadcasting, libadwaita, libre, linux podcast, linux unplugged, matrix, nebula, open-source software, postgresql, reunion roadtrip, rolling release, seagl, server maintenance, solus, synapse, sysadmin, theming api, wayfire, wireguard, zfs
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.
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423: What Makes a Linux User?
September 14th, 2021 | 40 mins 10 secs
age of empires, android, apple, apps, arm, baseband, codeweavers, easy anti-cheat, exploit, facepunch, firmware, firmware updates, flathub, flatpak, flatseal, foss, free software, gamingonlinux, garry newman, google, halo, ios, iphone 13, jupiter broadcasting, libre, librem 5, linux gaming, linux on mobile, linux phones, linux podcast, linux unplugged, m1, mac, microsoft, mobile, modem, open-source, osi, permissions, phil spencer, pinephone, proton, purism, re-logic, rust, sandboxing, security, snap, solaris, steam deck, terraria, ubuntu podcast, usb, valve, what makes a linux user, wsl, xbox
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.
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422: The Fun Distro
September 7th, 2021 | 1 hr 4 mins
arch, arizona, btrfs, e ink, firewall, firewalld, gaming on linux, garuda, ingenuity, iptables, jonathan corbet, jpl, jupiter broadcasting, kde plasma 5.23, lady jupes, light phone, linux for fun, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lwn, mars 2020, nasa, nate graham, nftables, nvidia, oom, perseverance, rv, social media, sumo spring, sweet theme, timeshift, tornado, wayland, xwayland, youtube-dl, yt-dlp, ytmdl, zen kernel, zram, zstd
We try out what might be the most fun Linux distribution around. It started as a laugh, but now we’re in love.
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421: Server Savior Squad
August 31st, 2021 | 32 mins 17 secs
apps for gnome, arizona, cellular vortex, firewall, iam, ibm, jupiter broadcasting, lighthouse, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mesh network vpn, nebula, openssh, overlay network, psst, public-key cryptography, rustdesk, sco, security, show low, spotify native client, systemd, ventoy webui, wireguard
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.
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420: Real People Are Out There
August 24th, 2021 | 58 mins 7 secs
30 years of linux, aws, cgroups v2, cheyenne, chown, christian brauner, cloud, colorado, cve, denver, devops, ext, fat, fedora 35, feedback, file permissions, gid, harvest host, idmapped mounts, jupiter broadcasting, kde plasma, kwin-tiling, lady jupes, linux, linux birthday, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lxd, meetup, nebraska, networking, pop!_os, razer, restarting user services, road trip, snapd, sre, sysadmin, system user session, systemd-homed, tiling window manager, ubuntu 21.10, uid, user namespaces, windows 10, xfs
We share some stories from our Denver meetup, the strange reason we found ourselves at a golf course, and some news you should know.
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419: What's Cookin' at System76
August 17th, 2021 | 1 hr 10 mins
documentation, jupiter broadcasting, launch keyboard, linux podcast, linux unplugged, man pages, pebble, pebble watch, pine64, pinetime, rust, system76, thelio, tldr
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.
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418: What's up with WireGuard
August 10th, 2021 | 1 hr 3 mins
10gbps, accent colors, amd, arch linux, cassidy james blaede, daniel fore, dark style preference, debian, drago, dsnet, easy-wg-quick, elementary os 6, ethr, flatpak, home assistant, iperf3, jason donenfeld, jupiter broadcasting, lawrence yang, linux kernel development, linux podcast, linux systems group, linux unplugged, microsoft, networking, nt kernel, odin, steam, steamos 3.0, subspace, tailscale, tpm, valve, wg-easy, wg-manage, wg-ui, wifi, windows, windows 11, wintun, wireguard, wireguard-manager, wireguard-ui, wireguardnt, wireless performance
Big things are happening in the world of WireGuard, Jim Salter joins to catch us up.
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417: Run Every Distro At Once
August 3rd, 2021 | 47 mins 35 secs
acpi, ai, alpine, amd, arch, arch repo on debian, aur on centos, aur on debian, bedrock linux, brl, chroot, cpu frequency scaling, cpufreq, cross-distro, debian, fedora, fuse, gamingonlinux, image deduplication, imgdupes, ingenuity, intel, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxserver.io, machine learning, mars 2020, nasa, netdata, paradigm, perceptual hash, performance, phoronix, pmm, power management, raised ridges, steam, steam deck, steam survey, ubuntu, valve, void linux, webtop, xdc
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.
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409: Launch Your Memories Into the Future
June 8th, 2021 | 1 hr 7 mins
ai, batteries, chevereto, cloud, darktable, ev, exif, face recognition, filerun, foss, google photos, google takeout, gphotos-sync, insync, jupiter broadcasting, keyboards, launch keyboard, lenovo, librephotos, lightroom, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lithium-ion, lvfs, lychee, machine learning, mechanical keyboards, open firmware, open hardware, photo search, photography, photonix, photoprism, photostructure, piwigo, pop!_os, rclone, rust, self-hosted, system76, tags, thinkpad, tlp, x1 carbon
We discuss old and new ways to manage, organize, index, and search your photo collection. It's our favorite Google Photo's alternatives.
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395: The Waybig Machine
March 2nd, 2021 | 48 mins 32 secs
apple, apple light sensor, apple magic trackpad, arch, archive.org, audio, bash, capture the flag, command line, ctf, cve, debian, docker, fedora, fish, geysermc, gnome, gnome 40, gnome shell, go, hacker games, internet archive, jonah edwards, jupiter broadcasting, linux audio, linux podcast, minecraft, multi-touch, ronald tschalar, security, terminal, touch bar, touch gestures, touche, touchegg, traitor, tsukae, unplugged, wayback machine, wayland, x11, zsh
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.
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393: Perfecting Our Plasma
February 16th, 2021 | 56 mins 20 secs
1password, amplipi, arch, bitwarden, breeze twilight, centos stream, chef, coder radio, facebook, fedora, gpl condom, home audio, imdb, jupiter broadcasting, kde, keepass, keepassxc, kickoff menu, krunner, lastpass, linux audio, linux podcast, lts kernel, m.2, manjaro, microsoft, mpv, nvidia, oomd, opus, pass, password managers, philip muller, pi compute module, plasma 5.21, plex, raspberry pi, remote recording, robe, sonobus, ssd, the coder, tmdb, unplugged, ventoy, videolan, vlc 4.0, windows, windows refund day, youtube-dl
Something special has been achieved this week, a new benchmark in the desktop experience. We dig in.
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386: Perilously Precocious Predictions
December 29th, 2020 | 57 mins 45 secs
2020, 2021, amd, apple, arch, arm, best buy, canonical, centos, dnf, drm, endlessos, fedora, fuschia, geekbench, gnome, hector martin, intel xe, jupiter broadcasting, kde, kubernetes, linus, linux, linux podcast, m1, manjaro, microsoft, pinephone, plasma, predictions, rancher, raspberry pi, rhel, risc-v, rocky linux, rust, suse, system76, ubuntu, unplugged, vmware, xfce
Friends join us for a special edition of the show to review last year's predictions, and forecast the future.
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377: Buttered-Up Fedora
October 27th, 2020 | 1 hr 8 mins
annie, btrfs, dmca, fedora 33 review, freeipa, github, gnome 3.38, jupiter broadcasting, linux 5.10 lts, linux podcast, plasma, pop!_os 20.10, unplugged, xfs file-system, youtube-dl, youtube-dl takedown
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.
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374: Perfect Nextcloud Setup
October 6th, 2020 | 1 hr 44 secs
arch zfs, caldav, cloud storage, docker upgrades, docker-compose, jupiter broadcasting, kde breeze evolution, kde os, linux podcast, micro, nano, neon, nextcloud 20, nextcloud upgrade, nextcloudcmd, nvidia jetson nano, object storage, occ, raspberry pi, rclone, studio hardware, texit editors, unplugged
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.
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373: Your New Tools
September 29th, 2020 | 1 hr 5 mins
backup, btrfs, compression, copy-on-write, cow, dell, encryption, fedora, fedora 33, jupiter broadcasting, lenovo, linux podcast, linux vendor firmware service, lvfs, microsoft, raspberry pi 4, replication, richard hughes, rsync, send and receive, thinkpad, thunderbolt 4, unplugged, wayland, weston, windows, wsl, wslg, x11, xen, xps 13, zfs
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.
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372: Distro Triforce
September 22nd, 2020 | 1 hr 41 secs
1secmail, aberhosan, amazon, amd, analytics, arch linux, broadband, bunsen labs, canonical, carl richell, cloud, cloud hypervisor, coreboot, crosvm, deepin 20, desktop environments, devuan, docker, elementary os, emacsconf2020, embedded controller, endeavouros arm, fedora, firecracker, google, graphs, heroku, i3, intel, jupiter broadcasting, kvm, let's encrypt, linux distributions, linux foundation, linux podcast, michael jones, mypaas, niche distros, open firmware, openpower, openreach, paas, power64 laptop, protonmail, raspberry pi 4, raspbian, red hat, roberto innocenti, rust, rust-vmm, scsi, shazam, songrec, system76, systemd, systemd-homed, tmpmail, traefik, trim, tv, uasp, ubuntu, uefi, unplugged, usb, virtualization, window managers
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.