Brent Gervais
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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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340: IRC is Dead
February 11th, 2020 | 1 hr 12 mins
a cloud guru, airplay, amd, appcenter for everyone, burn out, coreboot, crowdfunding, dustin kirkland, dusty mabe, elementaryos, fosdem, fosdem 2020, history, hollywood, irc, james bottemly, jupiter broadcasting, kde, linux podcast, linux smartphone, lts, matthew broberg, mobile, open source, oreboot, pdp-7, pine64 pinephone, plasma, plasma 5.18, robert morris, rust, rust watch, ryzen, shairport-sync, system 76, thelio, thelio major, threadripper 3990x, unix, unplugged, warner losh
The difficult and fascinating conversations from FOSDEM 2020. Plus how elementary OS does coopertition right.
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339: The Mint Mindset
February 4th, 2020 | 57 mins 45 secs
14.04, 20.04, a cloud guru, apple, ar, arvind krishna, bosch, burnout, celluloid, cinnamon, cups, free software, ginni rometty, google glass, ibm, jupiter broadcasting, label printing, linux mint, linux mint 19.3, linux podcast, lprint, mate, michael sweet, open source, printing, red hat, system reports, system tray, systemd, systemd-homed, timeshift, ubuntu, unplugged, xfce
We get into the Linux Mint mindset after years away and share our take on Cinnamon's many improvements.
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338: Success Through Vulnerability
January 28th, 2020 | 1 hr 3 mins
a cloud guru, broot, buttonware, command line, cool retro term, dre devault, foss, freeware, jim button, jim knopf, jupiter broadcasting, kde, kubuntu, kubuntu focus, laptop, linux laptop, linux podcast, marscat, open source, pc-sig, raspberry pi, rust, shareware, stress, stuffit, sustainable development, terminal, time management, tizonia, unplugged, windows terminal, winrar
How did we get from shareware to free software? We jump in the Linux powered time machine and revisit software past.
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337: Mystical Users
January 21st, 2020 | 58 mins 26 secs
a cloud guru, benchmarks, cloud, containers, coreos, dell, dell xps 13, developer laptop, doing things that scale, fedora, fedore coreos, flatcar container linux, focal fossa, free desktop, glow, jupiter broadcasting, kinvolk, linux desktop, linux laptop, linux podcast, mac os, macification, markdown, open source, picks, pine64, pinephone, software development, ubuntu, ubuntu 20.04, uefi, unplugged, wifi 6, xps 13, yaru, yaru theme
We make an appeal to keep Linux powerful and avoid the Macification of the desktop, and review the latest developer-focused XPS 13.
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335: Practically Perfect Predictions
January 7th, 2020 | 55 mins 8 secs
2020, amd, arch, arch linux, arch on the server, arm, bcachefs, emby, hidpi, intel, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, linux, linux podcast, linux powered phones, manjaro, mobile linux, new year, olaris, open-source, oracle, pacman, plex, predictions, robots, unplugged, wireguard, xfce, year-end, zfs
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.
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334: Particularly Poor Predictions
December 31st, 2019 | 48 mins 9 secs
2019, 2020, amd, apple, arm, bcachefs, btrfs, canonical, clear linux, cool-retro-term, dark mode, dark mode preference, dark style, dell, gnome, hollywood, intel, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, macbook, microsoft, new years, no more secrets, plasma, predictions, red hat, suse, ubuntu, unplugged, year-end, zfs
We review our predictions and own up to what we got wrong, and what we got right in 2019.
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333: Linux Wayback Machine
December 24th, 2019 | 1 hr 12 mins
amnesia, canonical, containers, core os, docker, gnome 10x10, iso, jupiter broadcasting, knoppix, kubernetes, linux desktop, linux installer, linux podcast, linuxserver.io, lxc, mate, netboot.xyz, network booting, pxe, red hat, tails, tftp, ubuntu, unity, unplugged
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.
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332: The WSL Secrets
December 17th, 2019 | 1 hr 1 min
btrfs, canonical, desktop linux, gnome, gnome 3.4, gnome 3.6, hayden barnes, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, microsoft, pocket c.h.i.p., pocket popcorn computer, ppa, software packaging, ubuntu, unplugged, wikipedia, wikit, windows subsystem for linux, wsl, zfs
Big things are coming to Microsoft's WSL so we get the inside scoop on what's just around the corner.
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331: apt install arch-linux
December 10th, 2019 | 58 mins 46 secs
arch, arch linux, arch on the server, backups, btrfs, cockpit, containers, copy-on-write, docker, fedora, freebsd, freenas, gpu, graphics, graphics cards, grub-btrfs, gtc, jupiter broadcasting, linux, linux podcast, linux servers, manjaro, microsoft, mythbusting, nouveau, nvidia, office 365, rolling release, snap-pac, snapper, snapshots, system administration, systemd-networkd, teams, ubuntu, unplugged, wireguard, zfs
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.
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328: My Mighty Fine Pine
November 19th, 2019 | 52 mins 55 secs
arch arch linux, braveheart, gnome shell, jupiter broadcasting, kde, lukasz erecinski, macbook pro, manjaro, mutter, pine, pine64, pinebook pro, pinephone, plasma, pop!linux podcast, rockpro64, super fan, system76, thelio, unplugged
The Pinebook Pro gets put through the travel test, while we get an update on Pine64 projects straight from the source.
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327: Distro Disco
November 12th, 2019 | 59 mins 3 secs
apt, arch, btrfs, debian, dnf, fedora, jupiter broadcasting, kde, linux podcast, manjaro, mate, neon, opensuse, openzfs, package managment, plasma, rolling, ubuntu, unplugged, urpmi, yellow dog linux, yum, zfs
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.
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326: Dell, elementary, Fedora, oh my!
November 5th, 2019 | 1 hr 2 mins
alsa, appcenter, christian schaller, dell, elementaryos, fedora 31, firecode, flatpak, fonts, gnome, jack, jupiter broadcasting, kexec, kexecboot, linux audio, linux laptops, linux podcast, pick, pinebook pro, pipewire, pulseaudio, raspberry pi, raspberry pi 4, red hat, sideload, ubuntu, unplugged, xps, xps 13
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.
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325: DNF or Die
October 29th, 2019 | 1 hr 9 mins
32-bit, amd, balena, cgroups, cgroupsv2, containers, docker, egpu, etcher, fedora, fedora 31, fedora toolbox, flathub, flatpak, gnome, gnome software, i686, jay little, jupiter broadcasting, librem 5, linux desktop, linux graphics, linux podcast, mantiz, nvidia, podman, proton, purism, python, python 2, raspberry pi, silverblue, ssh, steam, terminal sharing, tmate, tmux, ubucon, ubucon europe, unplugged
Fedora 31 strikes the right balance, we get the latest on the Librem 5 situation, and an easy graphics boost for laptops.
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323: It's Pronounced 19.10
October 15th, 2019 | 1 hr 12 mins
19.10, appeditor, archive.org, chromium, coreboot, dos, eoan, eoan ermine, flatpak, gnome, gnome 3.34.1, jupiter broadcasting, kde, kde plasma, kismet, linux podcast, menulibre, plasma 5.17, snapcraft, snaps, system76, ubuntu 19.10, ubuntu mate, unplugged, wavemon, zfs, zfs on linux, zfs on root, zol
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.
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321: Fresh Install Feels
October 1st, 2019 | 1 hr 7 mins
ansible, automation, canonical, cpu-x, crypto, cryptography, dconf, direnv, fedora, fedora 31, gnome, installing linux, jupiter broadcasting, kde, linux podcast, opensuse, plasma, red hat, scripting, security, ubuntu, ubuntu 19.10, ubuntu mate, vpn, wireguard, yadm
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.
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319: Positive in the Freedom Dimension
September 17th, 2019 | 58 mins 51 secs
avree, balena, balenaos, bernhard landauer, clipgrab, csail, dm, free software foundation, fsf, gnome, gnu, interview, jupiter broadcasting, linux, linux 5.3, linux podcast, manjaro, mit, nextcloud, nextcloud 17, powershell, powershell on linux, powershellonlinux.com, raspberry pi, raspberry pi 4, richard stallman, rms, unplugged
Richard Stallman has resigned as president and director of the Free Software Foundation, and that's just one of the major shifts this week.