Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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• Berlin Meet Up — Join Brent for an impromptu, short-notice, Nextcloud-esque meetup in Berlin!
• Berlin Buds on Matrix
• Docker is deleting Open Source organisations — Yesterday, Docker sent an email to any Docker Hub user who had created an "organisation", telling them their account will be deleted including all images, if they do not upgrade to a paid team plan. The email contained a link to a tersely written PDF (since, silently edited) which was missing many important details which caused significant anxiety and additional work for open source maintainers.
• Coder Radio 66: Docker All The Things
• We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams — We apologize for how we communicated and executed sunsetting Docker “Free Team” subscriptions, which alarmed the open source community.
• Deploy a Docker registry server
• Introducing lscr.io — We are partnering with Scarf to create our own pseudo-registry, lscr.io. This isn't a true docker registry, we're not hosting the images ourselves, it's more of a load-balancer/stats platform/vanity URL.
• Dodge the next Dockerpocalypse: how to own your own Docker Registry address — What if you could use your own fixed registry URL, on your own domain & entirely under your control, but without having to self-host forever, or even commit to any particular registry, or handle all the bandwidth & storage costs?
• Reddit Discussion: DockerHub replacement stratagy and options on ipfs
• Podman — Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System.
• nerdctl — Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...
• whats-up-docker at noted — What's up Docker ( aka WUD ) gets you notified when a new version of your Docker Container is available.
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — October 20-22, 2023 at Bellingham Technical College
• Office Hours 9 — We Hate Crypto Too
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• The future of Linux Containers — At PyCon Solomon Hykes shows docker to the public for the first time.
• Docker Open-sourced — dotCloud, a PaaS provider, has open sourced Docker, a key component of their platform.
• First commit for Kubernetes
• Microsoft tried and failed to buy docker for $4b
• New Red Hat project looks a lot like a Docker fork
• Introducing Moby Project
• Solomon Hykes leaves Docker, the company he founded
• Rate limiting starts on Docker Hub
• [Alex's YouTube] Secret Management with Ansible Vault and docker-compose — This video shows how I use Ansible and Ansible Vault in conjunction with docker-compose to keep my secrets safe and encrypted whilst still being able to push my repos to Github publicly.

Plus the outrageous bounty on a beloved Linux desktop app.

Special Guest: Gary Kramlich.

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• Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web’s inventor is selling its original code as an NFT — Comprising over 9.500 lines of code, the files contain the basis of the languages and protocols underpinning the internet as we know it: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Universal Document Identified (URI).
• Meetup: Salt Lake City — Saturday, August 7, 2021, 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM PDT.
• Meetup: Denver — Friday, August 20, 2021, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM PDT.
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup Page
• Pidgin: the universal chat client — Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on XMPP and sitting in an IRC channel at the same time.
• Pidgin contributors: grim — Long time contributor, author of Guifications, and a founding member of the plugin pack.
• Zerodium on Twitter — We’re looking for #0day exploits affecting Pidgin on Windows and Linux. Bounty: $100,000.
• ZERODIUM — Limited-Time Bug Bounties and Temporarily Increased Payouts
• Linux 5.14 Mainline Should Work With The Raspberry Pi 400 — No kernel driver changes were needed since it's basically very close to the Raspberry Pi 4 but the updated DTS configuration is needed for the 1.8GHz clock rate, a different WiFi chip, and power off handling via GPIO.
• XFS To Enjoy Big Scalability Boost With Linux 5.14 — The big numbers are seeing the transaction rate go up from around 700k to 1.7M commits per second and a reduction in flush operations by 2~x orders of magnitude less for metadata heavy workloads that don't enforce fsync.
• Archive of old versions of Linux — Thanks to Mediactive Network for hosting this website.
• Mandrake 10.1 Visual Tour
• Xandros 3.0 Desktop Gallery
• Red Hat 9’s Classic Look
• Ubuntu 6.06 LTS — Ubuntu 6.06 LTS introduces functionality that simplifies common Linux server deployment processes. For system administrators setting up large numbers of web, mail and related servers, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS offers the fastest and most consistent path to deployment, combined with the availability of global commercial support where needed.
• Damn Small Linux — Damn Small Linux is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution.
• BackTrack Linux — BackTrack was a Linux distribution that focused on security, based on the Knoppix Linux distribution aimed at digital forensics and penetration testing use.
• TLP — Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life
• auto-cpufreq — Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux based on active monitoring of laptop's battery state, CPU usage, CPU temperature and system load. Ultimately allowing you to improve battery life without making any compromises.
• Did you know that you can 100% legally get & run WordPerfect for free? — But there is a catch – of course: they're both very old and hard to run on a modern computer. I'm here to tell you how to get them and how to install and run them.

Plus our take on Ubuntu 21.04, become a master of your schedule with our pick, and a Garage Sale update.

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• Hirsute Hippo Release Notes — These release notes for Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) provide an overview of the release and document the known issues with Ubuntu and its flavours.
• Ubuntu 21.04 Release Date & New Features - OMG! Ubuntu!
• Announcing the Ubuntu Desktop Team Indaba (AMA) - April 23, 2021 @ 3PM UTC — This will be a live stream featuring members of the Ubuntu Desktop Team and members of the community. We will include special guests from the community as well as take questions from via live chat.
• LINUX Unplugged 396: How Linux Got to Mars — Tim Canham, the Mars Helicopter Operations Lead, shares Linux’s origins at JPL and how it ended up running on multiple boxes on Mars.
• Nasa successfully flies small helicopter on Mars — The drone, called Ingenuity, was airborne for less than a minute, but Nasa is celebrating what represents the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.
• NASA Helicopter Hovers Over Mars In 1st Powered Flight On Another Planet
• Humans have just flown a rotorcraft on an alien planet for the first time in history.
• Linux Action News 185 — The major shift in the Linux landscape this week that was hardly noticed, and our thoughts on COSMIC from System76.
• Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
• Jupiter Broadcasting Telegram
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• docker-mailserver — A fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) using Docker.
• Docker Mailserver Docs
• DMARC Guide | Global Cyber Alliance | Email Authentication Made Easy
• GitHub - calendso/calendso: The open-source Calendly alternative.
• System76 Blog — COSMIC to Arrive in June Release of Pop!_OS 21.04 — What is COSMIC? It’s a refined solution that makes the desktop easier to use, yet more powerful and efficient for our users through customization.

Plus some highlights from Arch Conf, and our reaction to Mint finally fixing their Chromium problem.

Special Guest: Drew DeVore.

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• A Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs.
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• Arch Conf 2020 Videos
• media.ccc.de - Arch Linux: Past, Present and Future
• Project X - Pure Open-Source Coreboot Support On AMD Zen - Phoronix — Project X is about "eXcising binary blobs from the x86 part of Zen CPUs."
• OSFC 2020 - Open Source Firmware Conference
• Linux Mint pre-loads Chromium and Brings New IPTV Player — The package is available Linux Mint repository as “chromium” which you can install using standard “apt-get” or via the package manager. This is pure native Chromium and not a snap version.
• Monthly News – October 2020 – The Linux Mint Blog
• LINUX Unplugged 360: The Hard Work of Hardware
• Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US
• SpaceX Starlink users provide first impressions and unboxing pictures | Ars Technica — New speed-test data collected by Ookla and published by PCMag last week found average Starlink download speeds of 79.5Mbps and average upload speeds of 13.8Mbps in October
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• profile-sync-daemon — Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers.
• GPU-Viewer — A front-end to glxinfo, vulkaninfo, clinfo and es2_info.
• Ivan Molodetskikh: Video Trimmer — Video Trimmer cuts out a fragment of a video given the start and end timestamps. The video is never re-encoded, so the process is very fast and does not reduce the video quality.
• junegunn/fzf — A command-line fuzzy finder
• Fish shell — fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family.
• cxreg/smartcd — Alter your bash (or zsh) environment as you cd.
• wting/autojump — A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.
• gsamokovarov/jump — Jump helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.
• muammar/mkchromecast — Cast macOS and Linux Audio/Video to your Google Cast and Sonos Devices
• xat/castnow — commandline chromecast player
• xat/dlnacast — Cast local media to your TV through UPnP/DLNA
• skorokithakis/catt — Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources to your Chromecast.
• tridactyl — A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl
• philc/vimium — The hacker's browser.
• Use your ~/.local folder!
• Liquorix kernel for Debian users — Liquorix is a distro kernel replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads.
• PipeWire nightly for Fedora users — PipeWire nightly builds from the projects git master. Use at your own risk.
• Firefox Adwaita Theme — This is a bunch of CSS code to make Firefox look closer to GNOME's native apps.
• Feedback: Thoughts after youtube-dl
• Feedback: FreeIPA
• Feedback: Zentyal as an AD Server

Plus Alexi Pol joins us for two big updates from the KDE community.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
1:30 Intro
1:49 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:56 Linux Action News Returns!
4:17 Ubuntu 20.10 Embraces Active Directory
7:26 DebConf 2020
12:58 Pipewire Progress with Wim Tayman
23:26 SPONSOR: Linode
25:28 Akademy 2020
33:41 Housekeeping
36:19 SPONSOR: Unplugged Core Contributors
38:08 Jono Bacon's Book Club
39:05 Feedback: Alpine Server Challenge
40:15 Feedback: Remote Office
44:05 Picks: SC-IM
45:11 Picks: Present
47:30 Outro
48:49 Post-Show

Special Guests: Aleix Pol, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Neal Gompa, and Wim Taymans.

Sponsored By:

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Links:

• YARH.IO MKI: Raspberry Pi 3B+ Hackable Linux Handheld
• Linux Action News is BACK: Linux Action News 153
• Ubuntu 20.10 Adding Active Directory Support To The Installer
• The Problems Debian Is Facing In 2020
• PipeWire Is In Increasingly Great Shape - Ready For More User Testing
• PipeWire Late Summer Update 2020 — Christian F.K. Schaller
• Launching Pipewire! — Christian F.K. Schaller
• PipeWire GitLab
• PipeWire Homepage
• WirePlumber, the PipeWire session manager
• LUP 272: Prepare for Pipewire
• Akademy 2020 — Friday 4th to Friday 11th September
• Brunch with Brent: Aleix Pol
• Aleix Pol on Twitter
• BigBlueButton - Open Source Web Conferencing
• The Linux App Summit Call for Papers
• Coder Radio
• Unplugged Core Contributors
• ‘People Powered’ Book Club - Jono Bacon
• Feedback: Server challenge
• Feedback: Remote Office
• Self-Hosted 24: OPNsense Makes Sense
• Setup a secure (SSH) tunnel as a systemd service
• What no one needs: An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminal
• present: A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects.
• Why I Link to WayBackMachine Instead of Original Site - Hawaii GenTech - Big Island Website Management and Tech Assistance
• (WaybackMachine Link) Why I Link to WayBackMachine Instead of Original Site - Hawaii GenTech

Special Guest: Alan Pope.

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Links:

• Predicting 2015 | LUP 73
• Ghost of Predictions Past | LAS 453
• 2015 Linux Predictions | Linux Action Show 345