LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Apple”

610: Linus' Next Big Thing

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 16:00:00 -0700

Apple’s software is going rotten, while Linux sneaks up as the better Mac. Linus grumbles through Git’s 20th birthday, and we spot a hardware window Linux better not slam shut.

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Tailscale Community Meetup Seattle — Calling all Tailscale users, homelabbers, and networking enthusiasts! We’re bringing the community together for a casual, community focused meetup in Seattle.
POLL: Would you tune into a Saturday LFNW Live Stream?
Celebrating Git's 20th anniversary with creator Linus Torvalds — Discover the origins of the open-source version control system, why he handed over the reins a few months in, and what he thinks about adding new programming languages to Git.
Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds - YouTube
uemacs - Linus Editor — Random version of microemacs with my private modificatons
Yes Linus' uemacs is pacakged in Nix
Debian APT 3.0 Stable Released With New Package Solver & Refined Text UI — This new version introduces a significantly refined command-line interface and a completely new package solver.
I Want a Better Mac, so I’m Cheering for a Better Linux — "Apple needs a real competitor, one alternatives such as GNOME on Linux could actually be, if only the hardware rose to the occasion."
outdoorgeek's laptop sleep optimized NixOS config
Rust is easy? Go is… hard?
Pick: chat-gipitty: Terminal client for getting answers from LLMs — Chat Gipitty (Chat Get Information, Print Information TTY) is a command line client for ChatGPT. It allows you to chat with your chosen model of ChatGPT in a terminal and even pipe output into it.
moreutils' sponge — soak up standard input and write to a file.
GitHub - pgdr/moreutils — a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young.
Pick: ALttP VT Randomizer — Each playthrough shuffles the location of all the important items in the game. Will you find the Bow atop Death Mountain, the Fire Rod resting silently in the library, or even the Master Sword itself waiting in a chicken coop?
spannerisms/ALttPNG

581: The Linux Escape Hatch

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:00:00 -0700

What if we had to abandon ship and stop using Desktop Linux? We've come up with a master plan, and put it to the test.

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Meshtastic Linux-Native Application
MeshMap — Meshtastic Node Map
LINUX Unplugged 269 — What if desktop computing went a very different direction in the late 90s? Deeply multithreaded from the start, fast, intuitive, and extremely stable. This is the world of Haiku, and we go for a visit.
The Dawn of Haiku OS — Haiku, unlike its more established competitors, is exceedingly good at tackling one of the toughest challenges of modern computing: multicore microprocessors. Let's take a look at why that is, how Haiku came to be, and whether the operating system running on your computer really performs as well as it should.
Haiku Project History
Haiku R1/beta5 Release Notes — The fifth beta for Haiku R1 over a year and a half of hard work to improve Haiku’s hardware support and its overall stability, and to make lots more software ports available for use.
docker-qemu-haiku — A Docker image for the Haiku operating system.
golang-haiku/go — The Haiku port of the Go programming language for upstream support. Changes are made in 'golang-1.11-haiku' or 'golang-haiku-master'.
Using the remote app server | Haiku Project
JB Haiku Server
Lighttpd
DHH Talks Apple, Linux, and Running Servers
Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
dadjoke-cli
colmena
spectorus' NixOS Config
Pick: rustpad — Efficient and minimal collaborative code editor, self-hosted, no database required
Is the Nostr moment officially here?

566: Chef's Choice Ubuntu

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 23:45:00 -0700

We try Omakub, a new opinionated Ubuntu desktop for power users and macOS expats.

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Have a pint with Alex in Norwich , Sun, Jun 16, 2024, 2:30 PM | Meetup
Spokane Meetup, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PM
Nextcloud Conference 2024: call for speakers - Nextcloud
Nextcloud Conference 2024 - Nextcloud
Berlin with Brent: September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Fri, Sep 13, 2024 | Meetup
notch on X — Alright, that's enough spyware in my OS. Do I go desktop Mac, or do I have the energy to go full Linux? Not sure, but I'm tired of my operating system treating me like the product.
DHH on X — If I have such a fundamental misalignment with where Apple has gone, why stay? I think that was the question I finally just asked myself for the umph-teenth time, and realized I didn’t have a good answer that wasn’t just based on comfort.
For the Love of Linux — In this podcast episode, REWORK host Kimberly Rhodes talks with David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of 37signals and CTO, about his personal shift from using Apple products to exploring Linux and Windows platforms. He discusses the expanded platform integration at 37signals, which now includes all three operating systems.
DHH on X — The big "Year of Linux on the Desktop" will be 2025. Snapdragon X chips will be ready. Folks will be sick of AI shoved into every crevasse of their life. Thank heaven for disagreeable nerds refusing to bend the knee to the corporate agenda!
Linux as the new developer default at 37signals — I've personally been having a blast over the last few months digging deeper and deeper into the Linux rabbit hole, and it's been a delight discovering just how good its become as developer platform.
Introducing Omakub — Omakub turns a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system by running a single command.
Xournal++
Flameshot
Pinta
Framework
Omakub list of installed apps
Omakub — An Omakase Developer Setup for Ubuntu 24.04 by DHH
Omakub on GitHub
Omakub introductory video
Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!
devenv — Fast, Declarative, Reproducible and Composable Developer Environments using Nix
squid
GeneBean on X — My dad was so happy with his desktop after I switched him to #Pop_OS! that he had me do the same to the laptop he takes on trips. Thanks for such a stellar distro @system76
Walkthrough of Nix Install and Setup on MacOS by zmre on YouTube
Wildspaces.work — Wildpsaces.work is designed for remote workers interested in reconnecting with community and working from new and wild places.
Chris' Amazon Tablet — 10.1 Inch Android 13 Octa-core with 8(4+4) GB+128GB Tablets, 5MP+8MP Camera, Bluetooth 5.0
Fully Kiosk Browser Lockdown
Jellyfin Media Player — Desktop client using jellyfin-web with embedded MPV player. Supports Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
helipad-flake — A Nix flake to provide a helipad package and NixOS module. Intended for use with nix-bitcoin.
kthresher: Tool to remove unused kernels in Debian/Ubuntu
Kopia — Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup Software
Pick: Multiplex — Multiplex is an app to watch torrents together, providing an experience similar to Apple's SharePlay and Amazon's Prime Video Watch Party.
weron — weron provides lean, fast & secure overlay networks based on WebRTC.

525: Beating Apple to the Sauce

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 19:45:00 -0700

We daily drive Asahi Linux on a MacBook, chat about how the team beat Apple to a major GPU milestone, and an easy way to self-host open-source ChatGPT alternatives.

Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

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🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
Hector Martin's Controversial Question — Would you be okay with us adding some really trivial telemetry to the Asahi installer?
Berlin with Brent — Brent will be back in Berlin for the Nextcloud Conference and can't get enough of Berlin Meetups! Friday, September 8th, 6 PM.
Fedora Asahi Remix
Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware — Fedora Asahi Remix will be their new flagship distribution for providing a polished Linux experience on Apple Silicon.
Fedora Asahi Remix: bringing Fedora to Apple Silicon Macs (Flock To Fedora 2023)
Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix — We’re still working out the kinks and making things even better, so we are not quite ready to call this a release yet. We aim to officially release the Fedora Asahi Remix by the end of August 2023. Look forward to many new features, machine support, and more!
Hector Martin: “Okay, I’m going to be honest…” — I apologize to all Asahi Linux users. You deserve better. When I chose Arch Linux ARM as a base I didn't realize it would have so many basic QA issues.
Coming soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs! (Fedora Discourse)
The first conformant M1 GPU driver — Our reverse-engineered, free and open source graphics drivers are the world’s only conformant OpenGL ES 3.1 implementation for M1- and M2-family graphics hardware. That means our driver passed tens of thousands of tests to demonstrate correctness and is now recognized by the industry.
Asahi Linux’s Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant — It's even more rewarding for the community developers in that Apple doesn't provide any conformant (OpenGL or Vulkan) graphics drivers for their Arm-based platform.
Feature Support · AsahiLinux/docs Wiki
Switch to the kernel-16k variant - Fedora Discussion
NixOS: Unlocking your LUKS via SSH and Tor
StreetComplete — Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android.
getumbrel/llama-gpt: A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot. Powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device.
serge-chat/serge: A web interface for chatting with Alpaca through llama.cpp. Fully dockerized, with an easy to use API.
liltom-eth/llama2-webui: Run any Llama 2 locally with gradio UI on GPU or CPU from anywhere (Linux/Windows/Mac). Use
llama.cpp — Port of Facebook’s LLaMA model in C/C++
Llama2.c — Inference Llama 2 in one file of pure C
Koboldcpp — A simple one-file way to run various GGML models with KoboldAI’s UI
lollms-webui — Lord of Large Language Models Web User Interface
LM Studio — Discover, download, and run local LLMs
text-generation-webui — A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models. Supports transformers, GPTQ, llama.cpp (ggml/gguf), Llama models.
A comprehensive guide to running Llama 2 locally — Code Llama is a state-of-the-art LLM capable of generating code, and natural language about code, from both code and natural language prompts.
Meta Releases Code Llama, a Coding Version of Llama 2
Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding
Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source
Meta launches Llama 2, a source-available AI model that allows commercial applications — A family of pretrained and fine-tuned language models in sizes from 7 to 70 billion parameters.
Meta’s Llama 2 is not open source — Meta's newly released large language model Llama 2 is not open source.

504: It's a Trap!

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:30:00 -0700

Why using the iPhone makes it harder to run Linux; Chris follows up on his four-month-long challenge to ditch iOS for GrapheneOS.

Plus, Brent's extended stay in Berlin has led to some developments you won't want to miss.

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c-base interface — welcome onboard c-base
matelight: — Show text and gifs on mate crates.
Raleigh-Durham Pizza Party! — Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 3pm EST
Olympia Linux Spring Meetup — Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 1:00 PM PDT
Podverse Call for Help
LINUX Unplugged 486: Goodbye, Google
Immich — Self-hosted photos and videos backup solution from your mobile phone
KDE Connect — Enabling communication between all your devices. Made for people like you.
iodé — The Eco Friendly Smartphone Protecting Your Privacy
Berlin Buds Matrix Room
LibreSign — Libre digital signature app for Nextcloud.
Develop for Nextcloud — Have you always wanted to learn how to develop apps for your Nextcloud? These tutorials should flatten your learning curve.
Berlin with Brent | LINUX Unplugged 503
Nextcloud Cookbook on iOS
nextcloud/cookbook — A library for all your recipes. It uses JSON files following the schema.org recipe format.
Nextcloud AIO — Nextcloud AIO stands for Nextcloud All In One and provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance.
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Alby
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org

495: The Moment of Truth

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 19:45:00 -0800

Are the free software alternatives good enough? The conclusion to our 60-day challenge to drop Google, Apple, and the iPhone.

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Jupiter Broadcasting Community Links
Jupiter Jobs Matrix Room
New JB Contact Page
Patreon Problems Thread on Twitter
A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal
immich — Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.
Donate to GrapheneOS
Duplicacy: A new generation cloud backup tool — Duplicacy backs up your files to many cloud storages with client-side encryption and the highest level of deduplication.
duplicity — Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm.
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Pick: carbonyl — Chromium running inside your terminal
Fathy Boundjadj: Forking Chrome to render in a terminal — It's snappy, starts in less than a second, runs at 60 FPS, and idles at 0% CPU usage. It does not require a window server (i.e. works in a safe-mode console), and even runs through SSH.

489: Brent's Secret Emails

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 20:00:00 -0800

Brent's been hiding your emails; we confront him and expose what he's been keeping from the show.

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Linux teams up with partners to overthrow Google Maps’s dominance
Tailnet lock white paper — Tailscale implements a novel mechanism, tailnet lock, to prevent a malicious control plane from inserting itself into a network. Tailnet lock requires the verification of a cryptographic signature on all WireGuard® node keys distributed by Tailscale’s control plane.
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History — In "Hardcore History" journalist and broadcaster Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", unorthodox way of thinking and applies it to the past.
Knaves Out – Darknet Diaries — This is the story about how someone hacked into JP Morgan Chase, one of the biggest financial institutions in the world.
Dana Carvey’s The Weird Place — The Weird Place is an episodic sci-fi comedy adventure that will blow your mind. From manipulative aliens to time-traveling pirates to a power-hungry mad man with a magic globe.
Linux Out Loud — Linux Out Loud is a community powered podcast. We take conversations from the DLN Community from places like the DLN Discourse Forums, Telegram group, Discord server and more.
Picture of Dennis V’s Keyboard
Announcement: Direct Alby wallet top up with MoonPay
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
Generate Let’s Encrypt Certificate with DNS Challenge and Namecheap
Tailscale breaks DNS-over-TLS on Android · Issue #915 · tailscale/tailscale
Moving entire Linux installation to another drive - Ask Ubuntu
Migrate installation to new hardware - ArchWiki
Disk cloning - ArchWiki
NixOS Root on ZFS
NixOS getting started - no mention of mkswap
ZFS - NixOS Wiki
NixOS install with ZFS — Dan’s Cheat Sheets 1 documentation
Installing NixOS with multiple encrypted ZFS pools, decrypted with one password
How I installed Encrypted ZFS root on NixOS
Install NixOS on ZFS With Opt-In State
NixOS on encrypted ZFS | The DevOps Blog
How do you say SUSE?
Packman
SmartTubeNext — Ad free app for watching tube videos on Android TV boxes.
Nobara Linux — The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.
thoughtbot/rcm — rc file (dotfile) management
GoToSocial — Fast, fun, ActivityPub server, powered by Go.
JB FOSDEM 2023 Matrix Room

486: Goodbye, Google

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 21:00:00 -0800

Chris ditches the iPhone and switches to GrapheneOS, a security and privacy-focused project that lets you take control back from Google.

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Computer Chronicles - Intel 486 — In 1992, the big issue was - is it worth the money to upgrade my 386 PC to the new 486 chip? This program looks at the performance of the new Intel 486 and helps users decide.
GrapheneOS — The private and secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility. Developed as a non-profit open source project.
GrapheneOS: Supported Phones
GrapheneOS: Features Overview
Sandboxed Google Play overview for GrapheneOS
Lockscreen bypass fixed in November’s update - discovered by GrapheneOS in June
GrapheneOS on Twitter — We independently discovered the Android lockscreen bypass fixed in Android's November security update while working on features like a duress PIN/password.
A week with GrapheneOS exposed my over-reliance on Google
GrapheneOS Initial Impressions
Banking Applications Compatibility with GrapheneOS
HERE WeGo — Maps & Navigation
Fountain on Twitter — More sats = higher signal⚡️📡
Hot on Fountain
DAVx⁵ — CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV for Android
Bitwarden: Top 10 Burning Questions on 2FA
n.eko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.
Install NVIDIA Drivers on Debian 11
deemix — deemix is a barebone deezer downloader library built from the ashes of Deezloader Remix.
lidarr-on-steroids
nostr — The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all.
Pick: Upscaler — Upscale and enhance images.
Frog by Tender Owl
Frog on Flathub
A Science Project — “Make the 486 Great Again!”
Linus Torvalds bids 486 Linux adieu — It's been fun, but Linus Torvalds thinks it's time for 486 Linux to leave computers behind and go to museums.

474: Linux's Malware Inevitability

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:30:00 -0700

Can Linux do better? Apple is scrambling to build always-on malware protection into the next macOS as its market share grows. A precautionary tale for Linux users.

Plus we take a look at Ubuntu Unity as it becomes an official flavor.

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Canonical Accepts Ubuntu Unity as Official Ubuntu Flavor Starting with Ubuntu 22.10 — The Ubuntu Unity 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) release is expected to see the light of day as an official Ubuntu flavor on October 20th, 2022.
[vote] Re: Ubuntu Unity as an official flavor
Ubuntu Unity
Office Hours 11 — We're pushing our new website to production live on the show today. We have no idea how things will turn out - but we're taking you along for the ride either way!
JB Meetups
JB Matrix West Coast Crew
Baller Boost Jingles — Send us your feedback via GitHub
Mac vs. PC Ad
macOS malware development surged by over 1,000% in 2020
Increased Enterprise Use of iOS, Mac Means More Malware
Report Finds Surge in Malware Aimed at MacOS - Security Boulevard
macOS now scans for malware whenever it gets a chance — In the last six months macOS malware protection has changed more than it did over the previous seven years.
Desktop Market Share
Is any virus protection software needed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Linux devices ‘increasingly’ under attack from hackers, warn security researchers
Brunch with Brunch
Harmonoid — Plays and manages your music library. Looks beautiful & juicy.
LINUX Unplugged 409 — Launch Your Memories Into the Future.
Google Photos is so 2020

441: Planet Incinerating Technology

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 19:45:00 -0800

We make some last-minute changes to our server setup and catch up on a bunch of thought-provoking feedback.

Special Guests: Martin Wimpress and Neal Gompa.

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Do You Put Linux/Distro Stickers On Your Machine?
ChrisLAS Birthday Party Hang and Chow
Jupiter Extras — Why Linux Will Win in 20 Years
Denver Road Trip Memories — During our summer road trip to Denver we had the microphone's recording and captured some great moments.
Denver Road Trip Tech — Our road trip machine is loaded up from solar to networking, the tech that made working, living, and recording from the road possible for 44 days and over 2,200 miles.
Dev corrupts NPM libs ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ breaking thousands of apps
Crypto Theses for 2022
Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
ZFS has a history of not handling 15+ drive vdevs well.
bismuth — KDE Plasma extension, that lets you tile your windows automatically and manage them via keyboard, just like in classical tiling window managers (i3, dwm or XMonad).
Ideas on growing the Flathub Community in 2022

438: Million-Dollar Predictions

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 20:45:00 -0800

We do our best to predict what will happen in 2022, and own up to what we thought might happen in 2021.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Drew DeVore, and Joe Ressington.

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428: Pi for the People

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 19:45:00 -0700

We try out POP!_OS on the Raspberry Pi 4, and chat with its creator Jeremy Soller from System76.

Plus our thoughts on the perfect Linux laptop right now, and the clever initiative Valve just launched for the Deck.

Special Guests: Jack Aboutboul, Jeremy Soller, and Neal Gompa.

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SpaceCadetPinball — Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows
Pop!_OS Raspberry Pi 4 Beta — THIS IS A BETA. Bugs are expected and re-installs are likely.
Pop!_OS Software Engineer Job Opening (Rust)
Valve Launches “Steam Deck Verified” Program For Games That Run Well On The Steam Deck — Valve says they are reviewing the entire Steam catalog of games and will be categorizing each game for its level of compatibility with the Steam Deck. These ratings in turn will show up within the Steam Store and for users own game libraries.
Apple Announces The M1 Pro / M1 Max, Asahi Linux Starts Eyeing Their Bring-Up — Meanwhile the Asahi Linux crew is preparing for their eventual bring-up of the new hardware. They have pre-ordered the M1 Pro MacBook Pro model and will be procuring the M1 Max model too.
Hector Martin on Twitter — Asahi Linux on M1 Pro bring-up stream ~next week. Thanks to all my Patreon supporters for making this kind of thing possible!
AlmaLinux ELevate — ELevate enables migration between major versions of RHEL® derivatives. Easily go from CentOS 7.x to any 8.x of your choice.
AlmaLinux ELevate Demo - YouTube
Bryan lets us know some neat functionality in the kernel…
UTM — UTM employs Apple's Hypervisor virtualization framework to run ARM64 operating systems on Apple Silicon at near native speeds.
ytcc — Command line tool to keep track of your favorite playlists on YouTube and many other places.
rust-motd — Beautiful, useful MOTD generation with zero runtime dependencies.
Pick: onetun — onetun opens a TCP port on your local system, from which traffic is forwarded to a TCP port on a peer in your WireGuard network. It requires no changes to your operating system's network interfaces: you don't need to have root access, or install any WireGuard tool on your local system for it to work.

423: What Makes a Linux User?

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:30:00 -0700

Why it might be time to re-think who is and who is not a Linux user, plus we do a reality check on the state of Linux phones.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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Email from Purism — As previously announced, we will be increasing prices for all new orders of the Librem 5 in stages (the phone will be priced at $1199 from all orders received on or after Nov 1st, 2021 and we expect this price to go upward to $1299 in March 2022) as component prices change and as we deliver greater quantities of product.
Linux Phones | Madaidan’s Insecurities — Linux phones lack any significant security model and the points from the Linux article apply to Linux phones fully. There is not yet a single Linux phone with a sane security model.
Linux kernel needs more phones and tablets, says developer — "Especially for guys even running upstream kernel on RPI CM4 like me, more ARM devices with upstream kernel support will just be more happiness. Not to mention this also means super long time support, way longer than the lifespan of those devices."
Steam Deck dev-kits are on the move Valve say, as some already have it — "All packaged up and ready for devs! This is one of the limited batches of Steam Deck dev-kits heading out today for partners to test their games."
POKE 756,224 on Twitter — @ChrisLAS I admire your quest to get Linux running on your Thinkpad with the same battery life and perf you get on Windows. I've gotta admit, I've given up and just run Windows on mine, and the ugly truth is that Windows 11 is, for my needs anyway, really nice!
Pick: Flatseal — Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify permissions from your Flatpak applications.

407: And the Answer is...

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 25 May 2021 12:00:00 -0700

From our origins with Linux to preparing your home LAN for a solar storm, it’s an Ask us Anything special edition!

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Pick: termbin.com — Netcat-based command line pastebin.

399: No PRs Please

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:30:00 -0700

Lutris developer Mathieu Comandon joins us to share his perspective on the uncomfortable issues facing Linux desktop developers.

Plus the tech behind Shells.com, community news, feedback, and more.

Special Guests: Mathieu Comandon and Zlatan Todorić.

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68k.news — Headlines From the Future
Linux Action News 182 — GNOME 40 is out and we chat with the project’s Executive Director about the technical and visual improvements in the new release. Plus the facts around RMS’s return to the FSF board, and our analysis of the situation.
Episode 118 — Stallman is back and ruffling feathers, PHP moves to GitHub, AMP might be on its way out, Audacity’s latest update gives us pause, Fairphone delivers an unlikely update, online events, and more.
AlmaLinux OS Stable Release is live! — We are very happy to announce that today we are releasing the first AlmaLinux OS stable version. That's right, you can go right ahead and download the stable version and use it everywhere you need a stable, reliable, Linux distribution.
Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week — Ubuntu and its flavors will be participating in another ‘Ubuntu Testing Week’ from April 1st to April 7th.
Shells — Personal Workspaces Powered by Cloud Computers.
An Interview With Zlatan Todoric, Open-Source Developer & Former Purism CTO
Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer
JB Telegram Group
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Lutris — Open Gaming Platform
[Mathieu's Blog] Not on the same page — The disconnect I feel between what I want to deliver in what I build and what the users asks for is now too big to ignore. In some way, I already knew it would be the case before I even started Lutris. I knew that what I was trying to achieve wasn’t in line with how Linux users usually behave…
Feedback: Cockpit
Feedback: Covid Appointment Script

395: The Waybig Machine

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 17:45:00 -0800

It's our worst idea yet. We share the password to our brand-new server and see who can own the box first. Whoever wins gets a special prize.

Plus how Archive.org uses Linux, and more.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Carl George, and Neal Gompa.

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tsukae — Show off your most used shell commands
GNOME Shell X11Gestures Wxtension — Enable GNOME Shell multi-touch gestures on X11 with this extension.
TouchEgg — Touchégg is an app that runs in the background and transform the gestures you make on your touchpad or touchscreen into visible actions in your desktop.
Apple Touch Bar Linux Driver Hopes For Upstream In 2021 — Sent out on Saturday by independent developer Ronald Tschalär was the latest reverse-engineered, open-source driver code that gets the Touch Bar and ALS support working for MacBook Pro 13,* / 14,* / 15,* models.
Internet Archive Infrastructure — Jonah Edwards breaks down how the Internet Archive works, behind the scenes.
jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram
All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
liamg/traitor — Automatic Linux privesc via exploitation of low-hanging fruit e.g. gtfobins.
Don't expose the Docker socket (not even to a container) — Docker primarily works as a client that communicates with a daemon process (dockerd). Typically that socket is a UNIX domain socket called /var/run/docker.sock. That daemon is highly privileged; effectively having root access. Any process that can write to the dockerd socket also effectively has root access.
Feedback: Minecraft Bedrock Bridge
GeyserMC — Enable clients from Minecraft Bedrock Edition to join your Minecraft Java server.
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386: Perilously Precocious Predictions

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 19:30:00 -0800

Friends join us for a special edition of the show to review last year's predictions, and forecast the future.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Joe Ressington, and Neal Gompa.

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366: Linux Server Salvage

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 21:30:00 -0700

We refurbish a special machine from the Jupiter Broadcasting Hardware Archive and try out Matrix, the one chat platform to rule them all.

Plus Dan and Cassidy from elementary OS join us to discuss version 6.0.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:45 Intro
2:25 KDE Neon 20.04
4:17 Mozilla Resturcturing
8:21 elementary OS 6
18:29 Housekeeping
20:00 Matrix
22:33 Silver Salvage
29:43 Matrix Server Punishment Test
33:04 Clients Galore
35:06 Secure By Default
43:56 Outro
45:08 Post-Show

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.

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364: Linux Arm Wrestling

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 23:15:00 -0700

The past, present and future of Linux on Arm. The major challenges still facing full Linux support, and why ServerReady might be a solution to unify Arm systems.

Plus we chat with the Manjaro team about recent changes.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:58 Intro
2:01 Terminal 2.0 in ChromeOS
4:41 Manjaro's Process Problems
13:49 Manjaro Sneak Peaks
15:41 Weekend Manjaro Journey
21:02 Housekeeping
22:09 ARM on Linux
24:01 The History of ARM
28:16 Single Board Computing Revolution
31:47 ARM Reaching into the Present
33:17 The Future of ARM
36:42 Not Everyone Loves ARM
43:01 Wants and What Ifs
48:30 App Pick: tuptime
49:48 App Pick: s-tui
50:21 Outro
51:36 Post-Show

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Dalton Durst, Drew DeVore, Jeremy Soller, Marius Gripsgard, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller.

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359: Death of the Mac

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:45:00 -0700

Why we think Apple just handed market share to Desktop Linux, and why you can kiss running Linux on the Mac goodbye forever.

Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Neal Gompa.

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Generating cooking recipes using TensorFlow and a LSTM Recurrent Neural Network
ARM-based Japanese supercomputer is now the fastest in the world
Ampere donates Arm64 server hardware to Debian to fortify the Arm ecosystem
Google’s Bringing Its Apple AirDrop Rival to Linux, Windows, and Mac
Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions
Apple is switching Macs to its own processors starting later this year
Tim Cook says first Mac with Apple Silicon shipping to consumers by end of this year
r/linux: How will Apple’s ARM announcement affecting Linux going forward?
r/linux: Let’s suppose Apple goes ARM, MS follows its footsteps and does the same. What will happen to Linux then? Will we go back to “unlocking bootloaders”?
Jared Domínguez on Twitter — Today’s cynical take: Apple supporting Linux VMs is a way to make devs feel good with minimal effort (offload the work to Parallels/BSD community) while allowing Apple to deprecate their already super stale Unix userland. macOS itself will become less accessible.
unsilence: Console Interface and Library to remove silent parts of a media file 🔈

358: Our Fragmented Favorite

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 21:45:00 -0700

It's time to challenge some long-held assumptions.

Today's Btrfs is not yesterday's hot mess, but a modern battle-tested filesystem, and we'll prove it.

Plus our thoughts on GitHub dropping the term "master", and the changes Linux should make NOW to compete with commercial desktops.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.

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343: What Linux is Best At

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 18:30:00 -0800

We try the Mac desktop for 30 days, find out what we think it does best, and where Linux will always have it beat.

This episode kicks off the start of a bigger conversation series.

Plus community news, very handy picks, and more.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Maria Komarova, and Michael Aaron Murphy .

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339: The Mint Mindset

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:30:00 -0800

We get into the Linux Mint mindset after years away and share our take on Cinnamon's many improvements.

Plus news that'll have knock-on effects for the rest of the year, and more.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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334: Particularly Poor Predictions

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 12:00:00 -0800

We review our predictions and own up to what we got wrong, and what we got right in 2019.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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284: Free as in Get Out

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 19:00:00 -0800

ZFS on Linux is becoming the official upstream project of all major ZFS implementations, even the BSDs. But recent kernel changes prevent ZFS from even building on Linux. Neal Gompa joins us to discuss why it all matters.

Plus some surprising community news, and a few great picks!

Special Guests: Dalton Durst and Neal Gompa.

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This Guy Made a Computer Mouse That Is Itself a Computer
Apple’s FoundationDB open sources CloudKit database layer — The FoundationDB Record Layer is an open source library that provides a record-oriented datastore with semantics similar to a relational database, implemented on top of FoundationDB.
FoundationDB Record Layer: A Multi-Tenant Structured Datastore
'Celluloid' is the new name of GNOME MPV — “The current name is a bit unelegant, and doesn’t really fit in with other apps on the GNOME platform. Good app names are usually a single noun that’s related to the app’s domain (e.g. “Fragments” for a torrent app, or “Peek” for a screen recorder).”
Google is Adding 'Apt Search' to the ChromeOS App Launcher — Now, based on a code commit uncovered by Chrome Story, users of the Linux (beta) for Chromebooks will also be able to search for and install Linux apps from the Chrome OS launcher.
Chrome OS to let companies use other Linux distros for apps — Device administrators will be able to designate a URL for Chrome OS to download the Linux distro, and a hash to ensure the download was successful.
Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Release — OTA-7 is the release where we take a breath and focus on getting the launch just right.
ZFS On Linux Runs Into A Snag With Linux 5.0 — ZFS On Linux currently fails to build against the Linux 5.0 kernel sources.
Linux 5.0: _kernel_fpu{begin,end} no longer exported · Issue #8259 · zfsonlinux/zfs
The future of ZFS in FreeBSD
Datto — Datto offers business continuity and disaster recovery, networking, business management, and file backup and sync solutions, and has created a one-of-a-kind ecosystem of partners that provide Datto solutions to half a million businesses across more than 130 countries.
Neal Gompa - DevOps Engineer II - Datto, Inc.
Neal Gompa on Twitter @Det_Conan_Kudo
Chezmoi: Manage your dotfiles securely across multiple machines.
Introducing Ephemeral – Cassidy James Blaede — The always-incognito web browser for elementary OS.
Introducing The Elementary OS 5 Linux Community Challenge
Chris losing it on the Linux Academy Live Stream — Time code link to just before it all happens.

281: 2019 Predictions

Jupiter Broadcasting — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 20:45:00 -0800

We get serious and bring in a special referee to help us lock in our Linux predictions for 2019.

Special Guest: Alan Pope.

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Episode 274: Open Source by Default

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 20:00:00 -0800

Have the revolutionaries won the war against proprietary software? That’s the argument being made. And we argue, what else did you expect?

Plus some performance improvements inbound to Linux, and the perfectly proportioned open source project we’ve recently discovered.

Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais.

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Celebrate Fifteen Years of Fedora — On November 6, 2003, Red Hat announced Fedora Core 1
KDE Connect — Today we released version 1.10 of the KDE Connect Android app. Therefore it’s time again to share what we’ve been working on.
Apple's New Hardware With The T2 Security Chip Will Currently Block Linux From Booting — At least until further notice, these new Apple systems sporting the T2 chip will not be able to boot Linux operating systems
ProcDump-for-Linux: A Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals tool — A Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals tool
The Faster FUSE Has Been Fused Into Linux 4.20 — Performance work for FUSE in this next version of the Linux kernel includes symlink caching, a hash table optimization, and copy file range support.
The Open Source Revolution Is Over - the Revolutionaries Won — What happens when the revolutionaries win? After they've stormed the castle, tried on the king's clothes, slept in his bed and drunk the royal wine, then what?
Hybrid Cloud Architecture: What Is It and Why You Should Care
Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. — Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!
Automation System Naming Form
CPod: An Open Source, Cross-platform Podcast App — It is an Election app, which gives it the ability to run on the largest operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS).