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Plus, follow-up on Chris' GrapheneOS adventures and more.

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Special Guests: Martin Wimpress and Neal Gompa.

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• System76 Engineer Confirms Work on New Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based on GNOME
• Carl Richell on Twitter — We celebrated 16 years of @system76 today. It was a nice surprise. This is about a third of the team. While we’ve adapted to remote work well, I miss full-company events and hope we can get back to those soon.
• It’s Been 9 Years Since Valve Rolled Out The Steam Linux Beta — Over the past nine years Valve has done an incredible job advancing gaming for Linux and allowing it to reach heights never once imagined. As we move into 2022 and ten years of Steam on Linux it will be incredibly exciting to see how Steam Deck performs in the marketplace and ultimately its impact on the Linux ecosystem.
• BattlEye Support In Good Shape With Steam Client Beta + Proton Experimental
• Kalendar is out! — Note that this is still an in-development release and that there will be bugs, features still to be added, and so on. We want your feedback — especially bug reports! These will help us improve Kalendar as much as we possible can before we can release a truly stable 1.0 version.
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• Vorta — Linux Apps on Flathub
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Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:29 Intro
0:46 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:31 LVFS Hits 20 Million Downloads
4:10 Dell Precision 5750 Review Unit Coming Soon
6:27 LVFS Continued
7:29 Xen Hypervisor is Porting to Raspberry Pi 4
12:09 New Dell XPS 13 Developer Editions
14:56 Lenovo Expands its Linux-Loaded Selection
16:48 SPONSOR: Linode
19:31 WSL to Support GUI Apps
24:09 Will Microsoft Switch to Linux?
33:18 Fedora 33 Beta is Live
35:13 Housekeeping
36:13 Exploring Send and Receive
38:06 Send and Receive: Backups
39:37 Send and Receive: Setting Up the Volumes
41:00 Send and Receive: Rsync Comparison
43:40 Send and Receive: Data Retention Tests
48:10 Send and Receive: Comparing Performance
50:09 Send and Receive: Right Tool for the Job
55:29 Send and Receive: Rivaling NTFS and APFS
57:39 Feedback: Todo Apps
1:01:33 SPONSOR: Unplugged Core Contributors
1:02:30 Outro
1:04:17 Post-Show

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

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• 20 Million Downloads from the LVFS — Technical Blog of Richard Hughes
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• Lenovo Expands Its Range of Ubuntu Laptops - OMG! Ubuntu!
• WSLG Overview
• WSLG Slide Deck
• X.Org Developers Conference 2020 (16-18 September 2020): X11 and Wayland applications in WSL
• XDC 2020 - Day 1 - September 16, 2020 - YouTube (link with timecode)
• What’s new in the Windows Subsystem for Linux - September 2020 | Windows Command Line
• Support Wayland protocol to allow GUI apps to work. · Issue #938 · microsoft/WSL
• Announcing the release of Fedora 33 Beta - Fedora Magazine
• Phoronix Fedora 33 Beta coverage
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Deploying Btrfs at Facebook Scale - Josef Bacik, Facebook
• ZFS Send and Receive
• btrfs-send(8)
• zrepl — One-stop ZFS backup & replication solution.
• sanoid — Policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools.
• btrbk — Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes.
• Fruit Images Dataset
• Feedback: MS to Ditch Windows for Linux?
• Windows to become emulation layer atop Linux kernel, predicts Eric Raymond
• Last phase of the desktop wars?
• Feedback: Todo Apps — I'd love to hear more about todo apps, is that something you've covered before on self-hosted or LUP?
• Todoist
• Todo.txt — Future-proof task tracking in a file you control
• Taskwarrior

Plus a big batch of feedback that kicks off some wide-ranging discussions.

Special Guests: Danielle Foré and Neal Gompa.

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• Update: NVIDIA GTC 2020 Announcements Postponed Entirely
• Lemur Pro - System76
• Brunch with Brent: Stuart Langridge
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• TXLF 2020 Rescheduled — Given the recommendations by public health officials, we have decided to not have Texas Linux Fest on May 2020 at the Palmer Events Center in Austin, TX. We are currently investigating opportunities to bring parts of Texas Linux Fest online.
• Unfilter is Back
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• Sandstorm — an open source project built by a community of volunteers with the goal of making it really easy to run open source web applications
• Bitnami Stack
• YunoHost — easily manage a server for your friends, association or enterprise.
• Dedicated Platform Package Manager — an easy way to install and manage server applications.
• Home Assistant Add-ons - Home Assistant
• Feedback: Backup software tips?
• Feedback: mac Apps and Little Snitch
• Little Snitch and the Deprecation of Kernel Extensions
• Feedback: Life at Microsoft
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