Wes Payne

Episode 214: Hacking Devices with Kali Linux | LUP 214

September 12th, 2017  |  1 hr 35 mins

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!

Episode 213: Gnome Does it Again | LUP 213

September 5th, 2017  |  1 hr 14 mins

Gnome is about to solve one of our biggest Wayland’s concerns, but we're worried about the future. Plus we chat with Wimpy about the Ubuntu Rally in NYC & more!

Episode 212: The Free Phone Nightmare | LUP 212

August 29th, 2017  |  1 hr 26 mins

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 additional options for offsite backup & more!

Episode 211: Forks Done Right | LUP 211

August 22nd, 2017  |  1 hr 37 mins

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 & more!

Episode 210: Total Solus Eclipse | LUP 210

August 15th, 2017  |  1 hr 15 mins

A new version of Solus is out and Ikey joins us to chat about whats new, building in Snap support & more. Wimpy sets us straight about confinement & we have some follow up on Slackware.

Plus some great app picks, community news, Gnome’s birthday & more!

Episode 209: LILO and Slack(ware) | LUP 209

August 8th, 2017  |  1 hr 24 mins

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!

Episode 208: The Stallman Line | LUP 208

August 1st, 2017  |  1 hr 38 mins

We get philosophical about open source’s most modern problem & debate where we draw our own personal “Stallman Line”.

Plus a we discuss today’s big Bitcoin fork, Mozilla’s new Firefox experiments, Krita’s woes, Gnome’s moves & the Slackware Challenge.

Episode 207: Return Of The Distrohopper | LUP 207

July 25th, 2017  |  1 hr 36 mins

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.

Episode 206: Beardy McBeardface | LUP 206

July 18th, 2017  |  1 hr 43 mins

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 & more!

Episode 205: A Fitting Fedora | LUP 205

July 11th, 2017  |  1 hr 4 mins

Fedora 26 is here & so is Matthew Miller to chat about the new release, big future projects, important changes to Rawhide & openSUSE’s openQA.

Plus our hands on experience with the new release, the ultimate upgrade test results & more!

Episode 204: Awkward Distro Puberty | LUP 204

July 4th, 2017  |  1 hr 42 mins

TUXEDO Computers & System76 have announced their own Linux distros, plus OutlawCountry, BFQ scheduler, XDA Forum is going to give Phoronix competition & more!

Episode 203: MATEs Wayland MIR-acle | LUP 203

June 27th, 2017  |  1 hr 13 mins

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.

Episode 202: Halls of Endless Linux | LUP 202

June 20th, 2017  |  1 hr 18 mins

Michael Hall from Endless joins us to discuss his new role, Endless’ involvement with Gnome & the unique approach of EndlessOS. Plus Fedora shares some future plans & we try to grok casync, Lennart Poettering’s project for distributing file system images.

Episode 201: Turbo Mode Ikey | LUP 201

June 13th, 2017  |  1 hr 27 mins

Desktop Linux is about to get a lot more competitive, one of its recent biggest disruptors is going full time.

Plus A dive into Fedora 26 beta, the security of Cockpit, Ubuntu Gnome survey results & opening some Windows gaming tech to all of us.

Episode 200: Gnome in the Shell | LUP 200

June 6th, 2017  |  1 hr 10 mins

Alook at the next release of Gnome 3, special features we’re looking forward to & new extensions that make Gnome even better.

Then Google’s solution to old Linux kernel’s in Android, differences between Chrome & Chromium, a Plasma desktop feature & more!

Episode 199: No Samba No Cry | LUP 199

May 30th, 2017  |  1 hr 28 mins

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!