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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318: Manjaro Levels Up
September 10th, 2019 | 56 mins 21 secs
blue systems, chromebooks, chromefy, chromeos, chromium os, cloudready, crostini, crouton, desktop linux, free software, fsf, gnu, jupiter broadcasting, linux headlines, linux podcast, manjaro, microsoft, open source, pengwin, richard stallman, self hosted, unplugged, wsl, wsl conference
It’s official, Manjaro is a legitimate business; so what happens next? We chat with Phil from the project about the huge news.
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317: Performance Picks for Kicks
September 3rd, 2019 | 1 hr 6 mins
adwaita, cpu tuning, cpufreq, dark mode, dark style preference, exfat, freedesktop, game mode, geometric picking, gnome, gnome 3.34, jupiter broadcasting, level1tech, linux podcast, meshroom, microsoft, mutter, network transparency, nvidia, open invention network, performance, photogrammetry, remote desktop, throttling, unplugged, vendor themes, wayland, waypipe, wendell wilson, xkcd
We take a trip to visit Level1Tech's Wendell Wilson and come back with some of his performance tips for a smoother Linux desktop.
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316: Self-Hosted Secrets
August 27th, 2019 | 55 mins 22 secs
bfq, bitwarden, cloud, dan lynch, docker, fedora, foss, io scheduler, jupiter broadcasting, lastpass, linux podcast, linux unplugged, low-memory-monitor, memory pressure, oggcamp, oom, oomd, password managers, passwords, pine64, pinebook pro, podman, rust, self hosted, self hosted show, systemd, usb, usbtop, wayland
Safely host your own password database using totally open source software. We cover BitWarden, our top choice to solve this problem.
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315: Wayland Buddies
August 20th, 2019 | 56 mins 51 secs
backups, fedora, fedora 31, firmware, firmware manager, flameshot, gnome, i686, jupiter broadcasting, jupiter extras, linux podcast, linux unplugged, modularity, nvidia, opendrop, opensuse, plasma, process-wallpaper, rclone, restic, richard brown, rust, suse, system76, wlroots, xorg x11
We spend our weekend with Wayland, discover new apps to try, tricks to share, and dig into the state of the project.
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314: Bigger. Faster. Harder to Maintain.
August 13th, 2019 | 56 mins 20 secs
4k, adder, arch linux, centos, cki, continuous integration, coreboot, distro hoppers, fedora, jupiter broadcasting, kconfig, kde, laptop, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux unplugged, livepatch, major hayden, open firmware, openqa, opensuse, patchwork, plasma, quicktile, red hat, system76, thunderbolt, ubuntu lts, wobbly windows, xfce
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.
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313: I Spy With My Little Pi
August 6th, 2019 | 1 hr 2 mins
codimd, fedora, fedora minimization team, freeoffice, jupiter broadcasting, kexec, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxboot, manjaro, motion, motion detection, motion sensor, motioneye, pihole, pulic domain books, raspberry pi 4, raspberry pi desktop kit, seagl, shinobi, topgrade, uefi, windows kexec
We put the Raspberry Pi 4 to the desktop test, and try it as our daily driver.
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311: 32 Hours of Outrage
July 23rd, 2019 | 1 hr 8 mins
32bit, amazon linux, aws certified solutions architect, career in linux today, dropbox xfs, endeavour os, fedora i686, jupiter broadcasting, kernel 5.2 kvm bug, linux job market, linux job tipis, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxserver, red hat certified engineer, texas linuxfest keynote, thomas cameron
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.
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309: The Future is Open
July 9th, 2019 | 1 hr 5 mins
browser wars, canonical, cloudflare, dark theme, devilspie, dns, dns-over-https, dns-over-tls, dnscrypt, dnssec, firefox, firefox 68, github, ibm, internet, internet villian, isp, jupiter broadcasting, linux, linux unplugged, mozilla, open source, pihole, raspberry pi 4, red hat, redaing mode, secure dns, security, ubuntu, udp, uk ispa, usb-c, xfce
Open Source has taken over the world, as IBM's purchase of Red Hat closes. We reflect on this historic moment.
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307: What's your NextCloud?
June 25th, 2019 | 1 hr 19 mins
32bit, arandr, collaboration, containers, data storage, docker, document editing, dropbox, file sync, glass disc, i386, i686, ia-32, jupiter broadcasting, lexicon, linux drama, linux journalism, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nextcloud, open source, open source alternatives, pim, raspberry pi, raspberry pi 4, raspberry pi desktop, snap packages, steam, ubuntu, ubuntu 19.10, x86
Go full self-hosted with our team’s tips, and we share our setups from simple to complex.
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306: Flipping FreeNAS for Fedora
June 18th, 2019 | 59 mins 49 secs
atari vcs, chromium, command line bookmarks, containers, docker, fedora, fedora 30, fedora server, freebsd, freenas, grep, jupiter broadcasting, linus tech tips, linux podcast, linux unplugged, marker, nas, netflix, nfs, openzfs, picks, rga, ripgrep, sack panic, snap packages, storage, system76, tcp, thelio, windows, wsl2, zfs, zfs on linux
We attempt something you never should, we live flip our FreeNAS ZFS install to a Fedora server.
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305: Resilience Is Futile
June 11th, 2019 | 55 mins 9 secs
bsides, chob, data corruption, encryption, firefox, firefox premium, gnome mpv, hacker family dinner, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, live distro, matrix, matrix foundation, mozilla, mpv, opensuse, picks, resilient linux, security, suse, universal packages, vlc
Is Resilient Linux truly an indestructible distro? Or is this our toughest distro challenge yet?
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304: Losing My Religion
June 4th, 2019 | 1 hr 6 mins
amd, bbq, ctrl alt face, deep fakes, deep learning, desktop fragmentation, desktop standards, ebooks, foliate, free software, gtkwebkit, jupiter broadcasting, linux desktop, linux gaming, linux podcast, linux state of the union, linux unplugged, open source, peer to peer, peertube, ryzen, smach z, texas linuxfest, thomas cameron, txlf, ubuntu, ubuntu mate, windows 7, year of the linux desktop, youtube
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.
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303: Stateless and Dateless
May 28th, 2019 | 1 hr 8 mins
bundles, clear linux, encryption, gnome, gtk, intel, jupiter broadcasting, kubecon, kubernetes, kvm, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nvidia driver, pci passthrough, please don’t theme, rolling linux, stop themeing my app, ubuntu 19.10, virtualization, zfs on linux
We visit Intel to figure out what Clear Linux is all about and explain a few tricks that make it unique.
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301: Peak Red Hat
May 14th, 2019 | 1 hr 9 mins
clear linux, command line threat hunting, containers, github package registry, gyre, hybrid cloud, jupiter broadcasting, linux unplugged, openshift 4, python 3, red hat summit, rhel 8, ryzen thinkpad, texas linux fest, ulauncher, universal base image
We scale the Red Hat Summit and come back with a few stories to share.
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300: Ultimate Fedora Test
May 7th, 2019 | 1 hr 5 mins
18.04, bootloaderspec, buku, dell, dell precision 3540, fedora, fedora 30, flicker free boot, gnome 3.32, grub, homebrew smart watch, jupiter broadcasting, l4t, linux on the switch, linux unplugged, lxqt, mir, nintendo switch, pantheon, pcap, project sputnik, python classroom, red hat, red hat logo, rhel 8, shadowman, silverblue, smarch watch, sysctl explorer, systemd-boot, termshark, ubuntu, wayland, wayland conformance suite, wireshark, xfce
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.
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299: Shame as a Service
April 30th, 2019 | 1 hr 13 mins
android, containers, distrohoppers, docker, dockercon, fedora, fedora 30, flicker free boot, free software, geary, gnome, gnome 3.32, home automation, jupiter broadcasting, lfnw, librem one, linux, linux audio, linux conference, linux lite, linuxfest norhtwest, mastodon, mattermost, open source, privacy, purism, red hat, saas, silverblue, software as a service, ubuntu 19.04, unplugged, vpn
Fresh back from LinuxFest Northwest we share a few of our favorite stories and memories.