Episodes
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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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336: Linus' Filesystem Fluster
January 14th, 2020 | 53 mins 31 secs
a cloud guru, age, arc, automotive grade linux, bandwhich, benchmarks, btrfs, ces, checksums, command line utilities, data integrity, data storage, encryption, ext4, ffsend, filesystems, firefox send, gpg, iftop, jim salter, jupiter broadcasting, linus torvalds, linux, linux podcast, lru cache, mozilla, nethogs, oracle, pgp, s-tui, sun microsystems, unplugged, windows, windows 10, windows 7, xfs, zfs
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.
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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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330: 'Tis the SSHession
December 3rd, 2019 | 1 hr 3 mins
5.1, 6tunnel, adguard, backuppc, cassidy james blaede, elementary os, freedombox, gift giving, gifts, hass.io, hera, holiday gifts, homeassistant, ipv6, jellyfin, juno, jupiter broadcasting, kodi, lakka, librem 5, linux gifts, linux podcast, odroid go, open media vault, openssh, orange pi, osmc, pihole, pinephone, purism, raspberry pi, retroarch, sbc, self-hosted, snapcast, ssh, strobe audio, unplugged, veeam, vpn
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.
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329: Flat Network Truthers
November 26th, 2019 | 1 hr 6 mins
android, arch linux, crypto, cryptography, fish shell, flat network, fzf, girens, google, gtk, guus sliepen, jupiter broadcasting, jupiter extras, kde, linux, linux 5.5, linux gaming, linux podcast, mainline, manjaro, native apps, nebula, networking, overlay network, plasma, plex, profile-sync-daemon, ryan huber, slack, stadia, system76, thinkpad, tinc, unplugged, virtual private network, vpn, wee-slack, wireguard, zinc
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.
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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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324: RAMburglars
October 22nd, 2019 | 58 mins 56 secs
19.10, ai, benchmarks, don watkins, ext4, fedora, filesystem, gnome, gnome foundation, jupiter broadcasting, linux gaming, linux podcast, mate, matthew miller, memory pressure, ml, opensource.com, openzfs, patent troll defense fund, pi 4, pop!_os, ram, raspberry pi 4, shotwell, steam remote play together, system76, tensorflow, tensorman, thinkpad, thinkpad-tools, ubuntu 19.10, unix, unplugged, zfs
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.
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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.