LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Canonical”

636: Engineering the Future

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:45:00 -0700

We're back from Texas just in time to chat with Jon Seager, Canonical’s VP of Engineering, and their new era with Ubuntu 25.10. On the way, we visit System76 in Denver where the COSMIC team has surprises waiting for us.

Special Guests: Carl Richell, Jeremy Soller, and Jon Seager.

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COSMIC — Next generation Cosmic desktop environment. Use it on your favorite distro!
System76 — Powerful Linux computers designed by nerds, engineered by experts, handcrafted by humans in the US.
GitHub - pop-os/cosmic-epoch: Next generation Cosmic desktop environment
GitHub - pop-os/cosmic-applets: WIP applets for cosmic-panel
Pop!_OS 24.04 (with COSMIC Desktop) Just Hit Beta - OMG! Ubuntu
Canonical releases Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka
Ubuntu Engineering in 2025: A Retrospective · Jon Seager
Ubuntu 25.10 Fix Pending For Broken Flatpak Support - Phoronix
LINUX Unplugged 634: Config Confessions
Hybrid Pick: ncspot
Pick: poop (Performance Optimizer Observation Platform) — This command line tool uses Linux's perf_event_open functionality to compare the performance of multiple commands with a colorful terminal user interface.
sharkdp/hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool

628: Don't Call it a Christro

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 16:30:00 -0700

When personalities clash, the users come last. Meanwhile, Chris’ hyper-tuned setup stops being a toy and starts looking like a daily driver.

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Toronto Meetup - JB Colony Events
Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash — A large and unfortunate mistake in the kernel development management process is underway.
Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs changes for 6.17 - Josef Bacik
Ubuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept — Ubuntu is testing "Dangerous" Desktop Images, daily builds with all Snaps pulled from the edge channel.
Ubuntu 25.10 Will Ship With Linux 6.17 Even If It Means An Unstable "-rc" Kernel
syncthing 2.0 Released! — This is the first release of the new 2.0 series. Expect some rough edges and keep a sense of adventure! 🙏
Z-Wave is not dead - Home Assistant — TL;DR: Z-Wave is alive and well, partly due to a strong community that is building new open-source resources.
Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 — The ultimate way to connect Z-Wave devices to Home Assistant.
Z-Wave reborn - Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2
Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 Reveal Promo - YouTube
Hyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS
Keybinds Reverting to older config? · Hyprvibe Issue #2
Errors at the top of the screen · Hyprvibe Issue #3
Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Formatter
Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Home
Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Shared
Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Hosts
LibreNMS — A fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support. LibreNMS is a fork of Observium.
Observium — Observium is a network monitoring and management platform that provides real-time insight into network health and performance.
Shift Systems / ShiftMon · GitLab — An open source monitoring and logging tool based on Ansible, Telegraf, Grafana, and a bunch of other tools
sst/opencode — AI coding agent, built for the terminal.
Lightning Grows Up | This Week In Bitcoin 68
flatpak/xdg-native-messaging-proxy
NativeMessaging portal for sandboxed browsers · flatpak Issue #655
Pick: papra — The minimalistic document archiving platform.
Papra - Demo
Pick: lue — Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech
Pick: wlgblock — This project replaces the usual password screen with a Gameboy emulator running a patched Pokémon game!

611: Distro Double Trouble

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 15:30:00 -0700

Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04 are here—We break down what’s new, what stands out, and what we love most about each release.

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The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is.
GNOME 48 Release Notes
Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin)
The newest Ubuntu version ushers in ARM64 support for early adopters
Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop
Retro Game Corps on YouTube
Pick: Ignition: Manage your startup apps and scripts on Freedesktop Linux distros — Ignition is a minimal app for editing autostart entries on Freedesktop-compliant Linux distributions.
Ignition on Flathub
Pick: RecordApps — A desktop application that allows you to record audio from specific applications on Linux. Built with Deno, Svelte, and WebView.
Record Apps on Flathub

577: Summer Kernel Corn Roast

Jupiter Broadcasting — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 08:30:00 -0700

Sixty vulnerabilities and exposures disclosed in one week sounds like a lot. We'll explain why it's just business as usual.

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Toronto Meetup — Thursday, Aug 29, 2024
Berlin with Brent — September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Saturday, Sep 14, 2024
Check out Alex’s “Building a Colo Server” video
Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs — The cause: an update Microsoft issued as part of its monthly patch release. It was intended to close a 2-year-old vulnerability in GRUB, an open source boot loader used to start up many Linux devices.
What the f*** is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care — This update was not supposed to apply to dual-boot systems, but did anyway.
SBAT Revocations: Boot Process - Ubuntu Community Hub
“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update
Ubuntu Will Be Skipping Non-Critical Linux Kernel Updates For September - Phoronix
SRU Mailing List Annoucement
Canonical Moves To Shipping Very Latest Upstream Kernel Code For Ubuntu Releases
Kernel Version Selection for Ubuntu Releases - Kernel - Ubuntu Community Hub
Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs — The bcachefs patches have become these kinds of "lots of development during the release cycles rather than before it", to the point where I'm starting to regret merging bcachefs.
Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs fixes for 6.11-rc5 - Linus Torvalds — No one is being jerks here, Linus and I are just sitting in different places with different perspectives. He has a resonsibility as someone managing a huge project to enforce rules as he sees best, while I have a responsibility to support users with working code, and to do that to the best of my abilities.
LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later — Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.
Linux is a CNA — As was recently announced, the Linux kernel project has been accepted as a CNA as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) for vulnerabilities found in Linux.
The Linux security team issues 60 CVEs a week, but don't stress. Do this instead
What is a "good" Linux Kernel bug?
Keynote: Linux Kernel Security Demystified - Greg Kroah-Hartman - YouTube
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added pihole nix module by Tdback · Pull Request #3 · JupiterBroadcasting/nixconfigs — Recently, I wanted to start 'nixifying' some of my docker-compose setup. I've created a simple module for spinning up a podman container running pihole as a systemd service, so that way I can just stick it on any NixOS machine and easily make it my DNS server.
NetworkManager cli (nmci) wrapper to easily create a new network connection
Distrohopper Wheel
No idea where to distrohop next? Let the ultimate distrohopper decide for you!
Proxmox Virtual Environment - NixOS Wiki
Pick: SaunaFS is a distributed file system — A robust distributed POSIX file system meticulously designed to revolutionize your storage solutions by offering unmatched efficiency, security, and redundancy. At its core, SaunaFS is a distributed file system primarily written in C++, inspired by the pioneering concepts introduced by Google File System.
Google File System - Wikipedia
saunafs/INSTALL.md

541: Out with a Bang

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 14:30:00 -0800

The stories that kept us talking all year, and are only getting hotter!

Plus the big flops we're still sore about.

Special Guest: Kenji Berthold.

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527: Framing Brent

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 18:45:00 -0700

Brent's new Framework laptop has been torn apart and put back together again. We'll find out if it's up to his standards. Plus, we're kicking off a new build.

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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.
CCCamp23 — Chaos Communication Camp 2023
Framework — The time has come for consumer electronics products that are designed to last: products that give you back the power to upgrade, customize, and repair them. We’re excited for the opportunity to fix the consumer electronics industry together.
Framework 13 — Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition (13th Gen Intel® Core™)
Nextcloud Conference 2023
LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Fundraising Merch is Live — Your fest is back! Support its return with a shirt and/or donation.
I use NixOS for the same reason. Cleanliness is empowering.
zap
The Blog Index — TheGoldenDragon and I have hashed out some basic ideas about what Boost 4 Blogs should be and in a moment of glory I decided to mimic The Podcast Index by registering blogindex.org!
Linus Torvalds Comments On Bcachefs Prospects For Linux 6.6 — That very much means *NOT* continuing this "I'll just do it my way". You need to show that you can work with others, that you can work within the framework of upstream, and that not every single thread you get into becomes an argument.
Box64 — Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64 Linux devices.
Podcasting 2.0 Top 100 (Music) — This chart is a ranking of the music tracks played on podcasts that have been boosted the most over the last 7 days. It is recalculated hourly. Thank you to Nathan Gathright for the page design. ❤
Neo-Store — An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.
Obtainium — Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source.

526: Canonical Wins by Default

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 18:15:00 -0700

While chaos is brewing in SUSE and Red Hat land, Canonical stays the course and doubles down on the Linux desktop. Plus, our thoughts on the kernel team GPL-blocking NVIDIA.

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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.
AMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5 Million Lines, Entire Linux Kernel At 34.8 Million
Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules — It changes the behavior of symbol_get(), causing it to fail when asked to look up a symbol that is not marked GPL-only. This is an inversion of the usual test, which denies access to symbols that are marked GPL-only. The reasoning is that symbol_get() has always been intended for low-level cooperation deep within the kernel, where everything is expected to be GPL-only anyway.
Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA’s Proprietary Driver — Back in 2020 when the original defense was added, NVIDIA recommended avoiding the Linux 5.9 for the time being. They ended up having a supported driver several weeks later. It will be interesting to see this time how long Linux 6.6+ thwarts their kernel driver.
[Hacker News] Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules
PATCH: modules: only allow symbol_get of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL modules — Given that symbol_get was only ever inteded for tightly cooperating modules using very internal symbols it is logical to restrict it to being used on EXPORY_SYMBOL_GPL and prevent nvidia from costly DMCA circumvention of access controls law suites.
Ubuntu Desktop: Charting a course for the future — Recently, we embarked on an internal exercise to consolidate and bring structure to our values and goals for how we plan to evolve the desktop experience over the next few years. This post is designed to share the output of those discussions and give insight into the direction we’re going.
Ubuntu Desktop “Charting A Course For The Future” With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year
Leap Replacement Discussion — I've been looking at the results from the recent contributor survey to gauge the interest and feasibility of replacing openSUSE Leap with a new community-built offering.
Linux’s Marketshare on Steam Still Higher Than Apple macOS
Wavlake — We envision a new, online world where creators and listeners can freely transact with one another in an open ecosystem.
Music Side Project Studio
The Boostagram Ball
The Fairly Fun Show
DJ V4V Podcast | All music - no Talk
Before The Sch3m3s 8.21.2023 - Behind the SchƎmƎs
V4V SHOW — How To Access V4V Music
Office Hours 34 — Podcast Bounty Hunters
[YouTube] Free Secure Phone Calls. Private Network Coms Access

518: Race To Immutability

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 18:30:00 -0700

Can Ubuntu make a great immutable desktop? We're trying the brand-new "Everything is a Snap" Ubuntu Core Desktop.

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Berlin with Brent Meetup — Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:00 PM
Berlin Buds on Matrix
Things are Changing | Office Hours 32 — We've got a radically new format idea for Office Hours and want to tell you all about it.
Linux Action News 299 — Recent advances in embedded Linux, Canonical takes full control of LXD, ZFS gets a handy Btrfs feature, and updates on the show's production.
Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base — Behind the scenes, the Canonical team has been actively exploring the benefits of Ubuntu Core beyond the realm of IoT, most notably in the context of developers and daily users.
ubuntu-core-desktop on GitHub — This directory contains an image of Ubuntu Core 22 with the GDM display manager loaded into the boot file system.
Actions · canonical/ubuntu-core-desktop - GitHub
canonical/workshops on GitHub — Workshops provides a user friendly interface to create and manage LXD containers as well as provides a full featured terminal.
Workshops on the Snap Store
Snikket Dev's take on XMPP and Embrace Extend Extinguish
snikket-server: Image builder for Snikket server
Snikket Chat — Simple, secure and private messaging.
OLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and Expo — OLF is returning on September 8-9, 2023!
Magnolia Mayhem’s CaterCloud
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Alby
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
kz6fittycent/BobRossQuotes: A bunch of quotes from Bob Ross
Bob Ross Quotes - Snap Store

499: 'velopers Choose Snap

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 18:15:00 -0800

Ubuntu makes its anti-Flatpak stance official, while KDE and GNOME team up to turn Flathub into a universal Linux app store.

Plus, we try the Intel Arc GPU. Could this new hardware make Linux bulletproof?

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LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup — Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PM
Linux 6.2 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Promoted — Linux 6.2 overall has been in good shape from my continued testing and especially for Skylake/Skylake-derived cores is looking better if opting for Call Depth Tracking and it's great to have stable Arc Graphics A380/A750/A770 working out-of-the-box in the labs.
Performance is looking better with later Arcs
mesa 23.0.0 Released
intel-extension-for-pytorch at xpu-master
Install intel-extension-for-pytorch
Intel® Extension for PyTorch — PyTorch Tutorials
rahulunair/stable_diffusion_arc — Stable Diffusion inference on Intel Arc dGPUs
bes-dev/stable_diffusion.openvino — Implementation of Text-To-Image generation using Stable Diffusion on Intel CPU or GPU.
ShuffleBox: Quick Benchmark for Whisper by OpenAI
Flatpak will no longer be available “out-of-the-box” in any of Ubuntu’s official flavors. — Do keep in mind that “not installed by default” is not the same as “not available to install at all”.
Wimpy on Fosstodon — "@bluesabre Did we agree? I think we complied with the requested change. You and I both played our part in ensuring this was clearly and openly communicated."
Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults - Community - Ubuntu Community Hub — As part of our combined efforts, the Ubuntu flavors have made a joint decision to adjust some of the default packages on Ubuntu: Going forward, the Flatpak package as well as the packages to integrate Flatpak into the respective software center will no longer be installed by default in the next release due in April 2023, Lunar Lobster.
KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop — Promote diversity and sustainability in the Linux desktop community by adding payments, donations and subscriptions to the Flathub app store.
ZFS send/receive over ssh on linux without allowing root login
ZFS on Object Storage by George Wilson, Matt Ahrens, Paul Dagnelie, Manoj Joseph - YouTube
JB Geocache Kit Request
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
GPU-Viewer — This project aims to capture all the important details of glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo in a GUI.

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

481: Just a Prompt Away

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 20:15:00 -0700

The Internet is going crazy with AI-generated media. What's the open-source story, and is Linux being left out?

Plus, we try out the new Ubuntu release on the ODROID H3+.

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KDE neon on Twitter: "KDE neon Rebased on Jammy…
Ubuntu 22.10 - Kinetic Kudu — Ubuntu Desktop 22.10 users will benefit from the refinements in GNOME 43, including GTK4 theming for improved performance and consistency. Quick Settings now provide faster access to commonly used options such as wifi, bluetooth, dark mode and power settings.
ODROID-H3+ — Intel® Quad-Core Jasper Lake N6005, Up to 64GB Dual-channel Memory DDR4, PCIe 3.0 x 4 lanes, 2 x 2.5Gbit Ethernet ports, 2 x SATA 3.0 ports, and more!
AI is taking over the iconic voice of Darth Vader, with the blessing of James Earl Jones | TechCrunch
Why the Future of Open Source AI is So Much Bigger Than Stable Diffusion 1.5 and Why It Matters to You — In the absence of news from us, rumors started swirling about why we didn't release the next version yet. Some folks in the community worry that Stability AI has gone closed source and that we'll never release a model again. It's simply not true. We are committed to open source at our very core.
Would you pay $10 to create AI chatbot of dead loved one?
Setup for stable-diffusion-webui-docker
AUTOMATIC1111's Stable Diffusion Webui — A browser interface based on Gradio library for Stable Diffusion.
Stable Diffusion CPU
Get Started with Linode GPU
Guides - Installing the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit
CUDA Toolkit 11.8 Downloads
NVIDIA Container Toolkit — The NVIDIA Container Toolkit allows users to build and run GPU accelerated containers. The toolkit includes a container runtime library and utilities to automatically configure containers to leverage NVIDIA GPUs.
LURE (Linux User REpository) — LURE is intended to bring the AUR to all distros. It is currently in an alpha state and may not be stable. It can download a repository, build packages in it using a bash script similar to PKGBUILD, and then install them using your system package manager.

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

457: Automated Chaos

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 08 May 2022 19:00:00 -0700

Each of us brings a secret topic to the show, and we discover a common theme about using the wrong tool for the right job.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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New NASA Black Hole Sonifications with a Remix — In some ways, this sonification is unlike any other done before because it revisits the actual sound waves discovered in data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The popular misconception that there is no sound in space originates with the fact that most of space is essentially a vacuum, providing no medium for sound waves to propagate through. A galaxy cluster, on the other hand, has copious amounts of gas that envelop the hundreds or even thousands of galaxies within it, providing a medium for the sound waves to travel.
LXD vs Docker — System containers (as run by LXD) are similar to virtual or physical machines. They run a full operating system inside them, you can run any type of workload, and you manage them exactly as you would a virtual or a physical machine.
LXD 5.0 LTS is now available
LXD 5.1 has been released
pylxd — Python module for LXD
Manage LXD instances — Ansible Documentation
Try Infrastructure as Code eBook from Linode
Learning Ansible Basics - Red Hat — Ansible is an open source IT automation engine that automates provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, orchestration, and many other IT processes.
Installing Ansible on Ubuntu
Ansible 101 - Ansible for Beginners
Ansible 101 - Standards — This blog provides a list of the common standards or best practices to live by when writing Ansible code. This is an unofficial list of standards based on my personal experience with hundreds of customers and my own development practices I have used over the years.
Tips and tricks — Ansible Documentation
Jeff Gerrling - Ansible 101 Youtube Series — Ansible 101 is a live YouTube streaming video series that I started in March, 2020, to help people level-up their automation skills by learning Ansible during the global coronavirus pandemic. While everyone is isolated at home, this series brought people together to learn a valuable new skill.
Should we use NixOS as our Cloud and Local Server OS? | Poll Results
Pick: lyrebird — 🦜 Simple and powerful voice changer for Linux, written in GTK 3.
nix-autobahn — This simple shell script collection allows you to download ELF binaries and use them right away!
Mic92/nix-ld — Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS.

456: Our Linux Regrets

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 01 May 2022 18:30:00 -0700

If we could change just one mistake in our Linux journey, what would it be?

Open a channel to our node: 037d284d2d7e6cec7623

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Office Hours 3: New Website Energy — It's a summer of projects, we get into our plans to totally rebuild our website, some new Podcasting 2.0 features and, Brent takes his first bite of the Raspberry Pi.
Website Rebuild Ideas & Explorations
Introducing early access to the Steam snap! — It’s time to do a call for testing on a new Steam snap which brings along everything you need to run Steam games via proton or, of course, native Linux games. Since this is an early access snap, expect there to be bugs and gaps, which we need assistance in identifying. We will iterate quickly, and respond to this feedback.
It looks like the trigger was pulled too fast on this. Running the latest snapd, and the steam-support socket is missing.
interfaces: add a steam-support interface by jhenstridge · Pull Request #11708 · snapcore/snapd
Level up your Linux gaming with the new Steam Snap!
Try Infrastructure as Code eBook | Terraform, Ansible, and more | Linode — A step-by-step IAC guide for Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and Salt.

455: I run NixOS BTW

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 20:30:00 -0700

We've hit a bump in the road with the NixOS challenge, and share what it might not be great at. Plus, what we didn't cover in our Ubuntu 22.04 review.

The one where we don't talk about Ubuntu 22.04 at all.

Open a channel to our Lightning Node: 037d284d2d7e6cec7623adbe600450a73b42fb90800989f05a862464b05408df39

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Martin Wimpress.

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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Dark Style Changes — Now in GNOME 42, it is officially supported, expanding on a concept from elementary OS 6 7. A toggle switch in the new Appearance panel in the core Settings app enables and disables the feature. A lot of work was done in GNOME apps to fix visual dark style bugs. A new transition effect was added (also inspired by elementary) to more elegantly crossfade when the style is switched.
Dark Style Preference · Wiki · GNOME / Initiatives · GitLab
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Eyes More Industrial Usage By Offering Up Real-Time Kernel Beta — Currently in beta with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the linux-realtime kernel
unsnap: Quickly migrate from using snap packages to flatpaks
deb-get — apt-get functionality for .debs published in 3rd party repositories or via direct download
Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS Release Notes — Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS is the culmination of 2 years of continual improvement 😅 to Ubuntu and MATE Desktop. As is tradition, the LTS development cycle has a keen focus on eliminating paper 🧻 cuts 🔪
Linux Downtime – Episode 45 — Joe and Adam are joined by Martin Wimpress to talk about what goes into running a distro like Ubuntu Mate.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Disables 3D Acceleration For Guest VMs With GNOME Boxes / Virt-Manager — In addition to Ubuntu 22.04 switching back NVIDIA to using X11 by default rather than Wayland as a launch-day change, separately, there was another rather notable last minute change affecting 3D support for virtual machines...
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Changes Default For NVIDIA Driver Back To Using X.Org Rather Than Wayland - Phoronix
docker snap unconditionally uses xtables — Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is defaulting to using the GNOME X.Org session rather than Wayland when running the proprietary NVIDIA driver.
https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/
GNU’s advanced distro and transactional package manager
10 years of stories behind Guix
clj-nix: Nix helpers for Clojure projects
poetry2nix: Convert poetry projects to nix automagically
home-manager: Manage a user environment using Nix
Home Manager - NixOS Wiki
Tutorial: Getting started with Home Manager for Nix
hercules-ci/arion: Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS
NixOS Wiki - Raspberry Pi 4
NixOS aarm64 SD image
nixery.dev
NixOS Challenge - Jupiter Broadcasting GitHub
Should we use NixOS as our Cloud and Local Server OS? | StrawPoll.com
nixpkgs/make-snap.nix at master
Picture of Welder
GitHub - quickemu-project/quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.
Miniflux - Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Reader
wallabag
Breez wallet - Lightning Fast Bitcoin Payments
breez/breezmobile: Lightning Network mobile client
037d284d2d7e6cec7623 - Amboss Space
pimox7: Proxmox V7 for Raspberry Pi — Pimox is a port of Proxmox to the Raspberry Pi allowing you to build a Proxmox cluster of Rapberry Pi's or even a hybrid cluster of Pis and x86 hardware.
Wimpy’s World

454: Double Distro Details

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 18:45:00 -0700

Has Fedora pulled ahead of Ubuntu? We take a look at the new Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04 releases.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Office Hours — Join ChrisLAS for an update on all things Jupiter Broadcasting.
What’s New in Fedora 36 — In a blog post introducing the Fedora 36 beta in late March, Red Hat said Fedora 36 continues the project’s “emphasis on delivering leading-edge open source technologies.”
Fedora 36 ChangeSet
Fedora 36 Release Date and New Features
LXQt 1.1 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New
Podman 4.0 — Podman 4.0 is one of our most significant releases ever, featuring over 60 new features. Headlining this release is a complete rewrite of the network stack for improved functionality and performance.
The Best New Features in GNOME 42 — GNOME 42 features a plethora of GTK4/libawaita app ports, intros a retooled screenshot experience, and makes several notable performance upticks.
Relocate RPM database to /usr
Wayland By Default with NVIDIA proprietary Driver
Cockpit File Sharing
Stratis 3.0.0
Fedora 37 Planning To Use RPM 4.18 For Better Security
Fedora Planning To Introduce Major Package Management Changes Next Year
Fedora Plans to Drop Support for Legacy BIOS Systems
Fedora 37 Considering Removal Of Legacy X.Org Drivers
Canonical Experiences Record Channel Business Growth and Momentum
Upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04? Look Out for These Features in 22.04 — Wayland is the default display server in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS — but don’t panic: it’s 2022 and Wayland is pretty solid these days. Plus, thanks to technologies like Pipewire, even previously tricky areas like screen sharing work out of the box, and without fuss under Wayland. Heck, in Ubuntu 22.04 Wayland is so robust it even ships as default for computers for those with select NVIDIA graphics cards.
Ubuntu Upgrade warning
Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop Will be Able to Run on 2GB Raspberry Pi 4
Linux_5.15 - Linux Kernel Newbies
Ubuntu’s Zsys For OpenZFS Linux Installs Sees First Update In A Year
‘Ubuntu Pro’ Settings Pulled from Ubuntu 22.04
How to Upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish
RSSHub: 🍰 Everything is RSSible — RSSHub is an open source, easy to use, and extensible RSS feed generator. It's capable of generating RSS feeds from pretty much everything.
RSSHub Introduction

445: Brent's Betrayal

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 17:45:00 -0800

Linux is the master of small computers, and this week it’s going to the next level. We chat with the creator of the $15 Linux box and share some significant updates for the Raspberry Pi.

Special Guest: Brian Benchoff.

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Raspberry Pi Locator — It's a website to track Raspberry Pi 4 model B, Compute Module 4, Pi Zero 2 W, and Pico availability across multiple retailers in different countries.
It’s dire: Raspberry Pi availability tracker is launched
Ubuntu Unity Remix on Twitter — A new Raspberry Pi testing image is now available for Ubuntu Unity 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish”.
No PC Needed: How to Install Raspberry Pi OS Over the Internet — A new version of the Raspberry Pi bootloader, which is now available in beta, allows you to download and write the OS onto a microSD card, using the BIOS and an Ethernet connection.
Raspberry Pi OS Finally Going 64bit 🔥 — For those curious, here are some benchmarks looking at the performance improvement by switching from Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit to 64-bit.
Self-Hosted 3: Home Network Under $200 — How far can you get with a Raspberry Pi 4? We go all in and find out.
Self-Hosted 38: Crouching Pi, Hidden Server — Alex shocks Chris with his latest project, then lays down some quick-fire picks.
A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15 — This is a ‘Linux Swiss Army Knife’, offering maximum utility while still being able to fit in your pocket. Is it fast? No. Can it run a GUI? Also no. But it can run scripts, ping a server, toggle a few GPIOs, and interact with a USB device. This is a minimum viable computer.
LINUX Unplugged Mumble
RPMLauncher — A better Minecraft Launcher that supports multiple platforms and many functionalities for you to explore!
RPMLauncher on Flathub

444: Much Ado About Ubuntu

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 18:00:00 -0800

There's just something off about Ubuntu these days, this week we put it all together.

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Ubuntu MATE 22.04 Will Include Flatpak Support by Default — Ubuntu MATE isn’t shipping the Flathub repo (like Flathub) preconfigured, or bundling in any Flatpak apps by default. There are also no plans at present to add or expose Flatpak-friendly features in the distro’s homegrown tools like Software Boutique.
Ubuntu 22.04 Dailies Show an Ubuntu Pro Notification on Login — The blurb mentions that Ubuntu Pro is free for personal use on up to 3 machines.
Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager
Kismet — A wireless network and device detector, sniffer, wardriving tool, and WIDS (wireless intrusion detection) framework.
Slackware Release Announcement — Well folks, in spite of the dire predictions of YouTube pundits, this morning the Slackhog emerged from its development den, did *not* see its shadow, and Slackware 15.0 has been officially released.
Slackware 15.0 Officially Released, Powered by Linux Kernel 5.15 LTS
Grub Init Tune: Mario Bros. Mushroom Powerup
Grub tune tester v0.5.0
A collection of GRUB init tunes

443: Linux Did This First

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 18:45:00 -0800

We all take it for granted, but it is one of the best things about Linux. We share the history of the live CD, how it all got started, and the times it saved our bacon.

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Linux Live Kit is a set of shell scripts which allows you to create your own Live Linux!
K3b — K3b was created to be a feature-rich and easy to handle CD burning application.
Finnix — Finnix is the original utility live Linux distribution. Write it to a USB flash drive or burn it to a CD, boot it, and you're seconds from a root prompt with hundreds of utilities available for recovery, maintenance, testing and more.
Finnix 123 released
Cluster Knoppix
Richard Brown on Twitter — Rebrand and rescope; Old expanded support was just RHEL and just for purpose of holding customers over until they migrated to SLE; Liberty includes CentOS and Leap, and doesn’t require customers to move to SLE.
sc-im — Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised – An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal.

442: Liberty Leaks and Lies

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 18:15:00 -0800

SUSE had an awkward week; we breakdown the very mixed launch of SUSE Liberty Linux.

Plus, we've cracked what's driving Linux Distribution adoption these days.

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Pictures of Brent's Server Cabinet Built — Some pics of the sweet server cabinet @brentgervais built this last weekend at the @jupitersignal studio.
Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup
Flathub to verify first-party apps and allow developers to collect monies — Flathub is going to gain a way to process and verify apps from first-party teams. As in, developers who directly publish their app and manage the Flatpak package process for Flathub.
SUSE Liberty Linux Announced For Mixed Linux Environments — SUSE Liberty Linux is a new technology and support offering that provides customers a unified support experience for managing their heterogeneous IT environments.
SUSE announces something for those who miss the old CentOS: Liberty Linux — SUSE Liberty Linux is a new technology and support offering that provides customers a unified support experience for managing their heterogeneous IT environments.
Consistent-Lab-5595 comments on Suse Liberty Linux announcement - Is this a RHEL or CentOS clone ?
New Features in Linux Mint 20.3 ‘Una’ Cinnamon Edition — Linux Mint 20.3 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2025.
Edge ISO available for Linux Mint 20.3 — This image is made for people whose hardware is too new to boot the 5.4 LTS kernel included in Linux Mint 20.3. It ships with kernel 5.13.0-25 instead.
mainline: A continuation of the free version of ukuu. — A tool for installing the latest Linux kernels on Ubuntu-based distributions.
All Roads Lead to Arch: The Evolution of Linux Distros Used for Gaming Over Time — Ubuntu used to be a juggernaut, a staple in the world of Linux Gaming. Ubuntu was the default go-to distro for many users for probably a decade. It’s still an important distro at almost 20% share in our graph, but it’s not the first one anymore.
Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager
Canonical hiring a Desktop Gaming Product Manager for Ubuntu Linux
Fountain podcast app
Pick: ssh-tools — Making SSH more convenient.

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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437: The 2021 Tuxies

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 17:30:00 -0800

It's the second annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, desktops, and services of 2021.

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429: Starlink's Linux Secrets

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:30:00 -0700

We attempt a live production over Starlink, and dig into the secrets of this giant Linux network in space.

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Some users experienced data loss on 21.10
Ubuntu Makes Firefox Snap Default in 21.10
How to Remove Firefox Snap from Ubuntu (21.10 +) And Alternatives
Element One — Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place.
Space Exploration Technologies on GitHub
U-Boot Changes by SpaceX
Linux Kernel Changes by SpaceX
SpaceX openWRT Pull Requests
PTP Changes by SpaceX
Notes from a talk given by then head of Software at SpaceX, Jinnah Hosein — On 1-Aug-2017, Jinnah Hosein, who was the head of Software at SpaceX at the time, spoke to my company, Orbital Insight, in Mountain View California, and I took some notes.
Summary of SpaceX Software AMA
Stack Overflow Blog — Network protocols in orbit: Building a space-based ISP
starlink-grpc-tools — This repository has a handful of tools for interacting with the gRPC service implemented on the Starlink user terminal (AKA "the dish").
Set a Static Route for the App to talk to the Dish
Live Starlink Satellite and Coverage Map
Starlink Coverage Tracker
Croc — A tool that allows any two computers to simply and securely transfer files and folders.
crocgui — A nice simple GUI for croc, designed for mobile use.
kdeconnect-ios — Native iOS port of KDE Connect.

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
All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
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

392: Dad's Deployments

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:30:00 -0800

Which distro is best for friends and family? We have a unique take on this common question.

Plus new insights into the future of CentOS, and Chris falls in love with a 14-inch screamer.

Special Guest: Carl George.

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The unanswered question at CentOS community Q&A: How can we trust you now? — The CentOS board conducted a public Q&A just ahead of last week's FOSDEM 2021 open source conference – and there was an awkward silence when someone asked whether changing the end-of-life (EOL) date for a released project is something that might happen again.
Events/Dojo/FOSDEM2021 - CentOS Wiki
CentOS Dojo 2021: Board of Directors - YouTube
Ubuntu Backports a Major App Update to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS — Ubuntu 20.04 LTS shipped with Thunderbird 68.x but this version is no longer supported upstream. This leaves Ubuntu developers will a problem: backport individual security fixes to Thunderbird 68, or port the newer (and still-supported) Thunderbird 78 to LTS users?
Subscribe to Coder Radio
Jupiter Broadcasting Telegram Channel
All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
EndeavourOS Issues First 2021 Release For Easy-To-Use Arch-Based Linux Distro — For those that have been meaning to try out an Arch Linux based distribution that is easy-to-use and not time consuming with sensible defaults, EndeavourOS is out with its first new spin since 2021 -- and in fact their first fresh ISO release since September.
Our first release of 2021 has arrived – EndeavourOS
ASUS - ROG Zephyrus G14 14" Ultra-Slim Gaming Laptop
Linux on Laptops: ASUS Zephyrus G14 with Ryzen 9 4900HS | Ars Technica
AUR: snap-pac-grub — Pacman hook to update GRUB entries for grub-btrfs after snap-pac made snapshots.
Feedback: Browser Sync
xBrowserSync — Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!
Feedback: Gaming on Wayland
A free, open-source future for Mailspring - Information - Mailspring Community — Today, I am excited to announce that I am open-sourcing mailsync - the C++11 core of Mailspring that performs email sync - under the same GPLv3 license used by the rest of the app, making Mailspring entirely free software.
Pick: ht — Yet another HTTPie clone, written in Rust.
PIck: fddf — Fast data dupe finder, written in Rust.
Pick: bottom — Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor, written in Rust.

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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379: Favorite Linux Tweaks

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:00:00 -0800

We round up our favorite tweaks to the desktop, and apps that make it great.

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

Special Guest: Drew DeVore.

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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

376: From The Factory Floor

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:15:00 -0700

We put the new Ubuntu 20.10 to the test, and chat with System76's Mechanical Engineer to get the secrets of the new Thelio Mega.

Plus some important community news, feedback, picks, and more.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-show
1:37 Intro
2:55 Edge for Linux
7:29 Thelio Mega
16:00 NVIDIA's 5.9 Problem
21:02 PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition
25:44 Housekeeping
30:17 Ubuntu 20.10: Groovy Gorilla
49:33 Feedback
54:11 Picks
57:37 Post-show

Special Guests: Lindsey Cross and Philip Muller.

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Microsoft Edge Insider
Introducing Microsoft Edge preview builds for Linux - Microsoft Edge Blog — Today’s release supports Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE distributions.
System76 unleash a quad-GPU Linux monster with the ‘Thelio Mega’ — System76 say that the Thelio Mega is the world's smallest quad-GPU workstation primarily made for deep learning and scientific computing.
Thelio Mega - System76
NVIDIA Doesn’t Expect To Have Linux 5.9 Driver Support For Another Month — Linux Kernel 5.9+ is incompatible with current and previous NVIDIA Linux GPU drivers. We advise customers to defer updating to Linux Kernel 5.9+ until mid-November when an NVIDIA Linux GPU driver update with Kernel 5.9+ support is expected to be available.
You may want to avoid Linux Kernel 5.9 if you want fully supported NVIDIA drivers
Frogging-Family/nvidia-all: Nvidia driver 450 to 396 series AIO installer
PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition | PINE64 — This community edition will ship in a custom presentation box designed by Manjaro’s development team, and the PinePhone itself will feature a sleek-looking Manjaro logo on the back-cover.
Manjaro ARM Alpha1 with Lomiri (PinePhone) - ARM / Releases - Manjaro Linux Forum
All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
Unfilter.show
Unplugged Core Contributors
Ubuntu 20.10 Release Date & New Features (Updated) - OMG! Ubuntu! — Desktop lead Martin Wimpress has teased full Ubuntu desktop support for the Raspberry Pi 4 (8GB), much to the delight of the Raspberry Pi fan base.
Linux 5.8 Released, This is What’s New - OMG! Ubuntu!
GNOME 3.38 Release Notes
Groovy Gorilla Release Notes
Ubuntu To Try Again In Switching IPTables To Use Nftables Backend - Phoronix
Ubuntu 20.10 Adding Active Directory Support To The Installer - Phoronix — The Ubiquity installer user interface allows specifying the domain, administrator, and password as well as a test for the domain.
Feedback: ESXi Arm Fling
Pick: badblocks — badblocks is a program to test storage devices for bad blocks.

375: Wrong About Pop!

Jupiter Broadcasting — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:30:00 -0700

We're reminded that you can't judge a distro by its screenshots. We use Pop!_OS for a few weeks and share our embarrassing discovery.

Plus our thoughts on the new Plasma release, a super handy pick, and more.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:44 Intro
0:50 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:39 Plasma 5.20
7:50 Kernel 5.9
8:05 VMware Flirts with Arm
15:28 SPONSOR: Linode
18:54 Big News for Nebula
22:10 Code-Shaming the Kernel
27:40 Housekeeping
29:31 Pop!_OS Exit Interview
31:44 Pop!_OS Full-Time Staff
34:49 Pop!_OS: The Last Ten Percent
37:46 Pop!_OS: A Very Unique Distribution
43:13 Pop!_OS: Driving Hardware Sales
47:40 Pop!_OS: Strengthening the System76 Brand
49:51 Manjaro Arm 20.10 Released
50:48 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
51:48 Feedback: TLP Magic
53:23 Feedback: Chromebooks and Education
56:16 Pick: Autotier
59:09 Pick: Antennapod 2.0.1
1:00:30 SPONSOR: Core Contributors
1:01:10 Outro
1:03:18 Post-Show

Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

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Linux_5.9 - Linux Kernel Newbies
Plasma 5.20 — One absolutely massive release!
ESXi on Arm Fling is LIVE! — The ESXi-Arm Fling supports a number of different Arm platforms ranging from a traditional Datacenter form-factor to both Near and Far Edge systems including the highly requested Raspberry Pi.
ESXi Arm Edition | VMware Flings
Great News for Nebula
Nebula for iOS and Android is now available | Defined Networking — In February of this year, Nate and I left Slack to start a company together, Defined Networking, Inc., to focus on Nebula full-time.
Mobile Nebula on the App Store
LUP 329: Flat Network Truthers
The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel — With Linux 5.9, it comes in at 2.16 million lines of code plus another 247k lines of code comments and another 109k blank lines.
AMD Graphics Driver Hacker News Thread
All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
Pop!_OS by System76
Unplugged Core Contributors
Manjaro ARM 20.10 released!
Feedback: TLP Magic
Feedback: Chromebooks and Education
PIck: autotier — A passthrough FUSE filesystem that intelligently moves files between storage tiers based on the frequency of use, file age, and tier fullness.
AntennaPod 2.0.1 Changelog

372: Distro Triforce

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 22:30:00 -0700

What would it really take to get you to switch Linux distributions? We debate the practical reasons more and more people are sticking with the big three.

Plus Carl from System76 stops by to surprise us with some firmware news.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
2:22 Intro
2:36 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
4:24 USB Booting the Pi 4
10:10 System76 Open Firmware Update
23:14 SPONSOR: Linode
25:28 OpenPOWER Summit 2020
29:23 EndeavourOS ARM
30:14 Housekeeping
30:53 SPONSOR: Unplugged Core Contributors
32:59 It's Really Just a Three Distro World
46:37 Feedback: systemd Skepticism
50:50 Feedback: EmacsConf2020
51:40 Picks
52:12 Pick: Cloud Hypervisor
53:51 Pick: SongRec
54:45 Pick: tmpmail
55:55 Pick: MyPaas
57:16 Outro
59:11 Post-Show

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

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Second-hand TV wipes out broadband for entire village
Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB | Hacker News
Raspberry Pi USB Boot - UASP, TRIM, and performance | Jeff Geerling
Switching Between Proprietary Firmware and System76 Open Firmware - System76 Support — System76 Open Firmware is designed to be lightweight and performant with a simple and straightforward user interface.
OpenPOWER Summit 2020 Was This Week With Many Interesting Hardware/Software Talks - Phoronix — Roberto Innocenti provided an update on the POWER64 laptop that is still being worked on via community donations as an open hardware platform.
Open Hardware GNU/Linux PPC64 Laptop Potential - Roberto Innocenti, Power Progress Community - YouTube
Donation Campaign for Signal Integrity Analysis of the PCB Design - GNU/Linux Open Hardware PowerPC notebook
Arch Linux-Based EndeavourOS ARM Launches for ARM Devices - 9to5Linux
Deepin 20 Review — Gorgeous Distro Becomes Even More Beautiful.
Feedback: systemd skepticism
EmacsConf2020 — Have you heard about the recent announcement for EmacsConf 2020? It's a free two-day online Emacs conference scheduled for the weekend of November 28th and 29th, 2020.
cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor — A rust-vmm based cloud hypervisor.
marin-m/SongRec — An open-source Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust.
almarklein/mypaas — Run your own PaaS using Docker, Traefik, and great analytics.
sdushantha/tmpmail — A temporary email right from your terminal.

360: The Hard Work of Hardware

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 21:15:00 -0700

We're joined by two guests who share their insights into building modern Linux hardware products.

Plus we try out Mint 20, cover some big Gnome fixes, and a very handy open source noise suppression pick!

Special Guests: Alfred Neumayer, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Jeremy Soller.

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349: Arm: A New Hope

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 20:15:00 -0700

We build the server you never should, a tricked out Arm box, and push it to the limit with a telnet torture test.

Plus what we're playing recently, community news, a handy self-hosted music pick, and more.

Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais.

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345: Don't Go Viral, Go Virtual

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 20:00:00 -0700

It was the first of its kind, and the first forced to go virtual. We get the behind the scenes story of WSL Conf from the organizers.

Plus our impressions of the latest GNOME release, community news, app picks, and more.

Special Guests: Hayden Barnes, Neal Gompa, and Sohini Bianka Roy.

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Linux Kernel’s Floppy Disk Code Is Seeing Improvements In 2020
elementary #AppCenterForEveryone on Twitter — Due to travel restrictions and for the safety and well-being of our contributors, we are postponing the AppCenter for Everyone sprint that was planned to take place March 12–19. We are coordinating making alternate arrangements with attendees and will provide more info soon
Daniel Foré on Twitter — I’m really bummed that we had to postpone an in-person sprint, but we still hit the ground running today and got a lot done.
Eager Beavers vs the Winter Storm — Work, Life, and RV Podcast
Manjaro KDE will be factory-default of PinebookPro - Manjaro ARM / Announcements - Manjaro Linux Forum
npm is joining GitHub - The GitHub Blog — Looking further ahead, we’ll integrate GitHub and npm to improve the security of the open source software supply chain, and enable you to trace a change from a GitHub pull request to the npm package version that fixed it.
Protect our Speech and Security Online: Reject the Graham-Blumenthal Bill — The so-called EARN IT Act (S. 3398) is anti-speech, anti-security, anti-innovation, and unnecessary. Let’s tell Congress to reject it.
Government ist trying to ban encryption again : linux
GNOME 3.36 Release Notes
GNOME 3.36 Released with New Lock Screen, Better Performance - OMG! Ubuntu! — The new release even manages to sneak in a couple of unexpected, but very welcome, changes too, like a new GNOME Extensions app.
Jupiter Extras: Behind the Scenes: LINUX Unplugged
Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
No LFNW this year
WSLConf: The first conference dedicated to Windows Subsystem for Linux goes virtual
El Reg gets some unexpected lessons from WSLConf — Microsoft celebrated the conclusion of a successful - and suddenly virtual - Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) conference by switching the forthcoming Build event to a digital affair as well. The Register spoke to those behind the first WSLConf about hitting the big red button with mere days to go.
Microsoft Reactor. Learn. Connect. Innovate.
pivpn — The Simplest VPN installer, designed for Raspberry Pi.
Break Timer

344: Our Week with Windows

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:00:00 -0700

We load up Windows 10 with WSL2, the new Terminal, and give it a go to see what it does better than Linux. Then we dive into the deep end and attend the first-ever WSLConf.

Plus the big new feature coming to Ubuntu, why Chris is going to Denver, and more.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, and Martin Wimpress.

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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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333: Linux Wayback Machine

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 12:00:00 -0800

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.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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332: The WSL Secrets

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 18:15:00 -0800

Big things are coming to Microsoft's WSL so we get the inside scoop on what's just around the corner.

Plus a few new GNOME features, some Arch server follow up, and more!

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Hayden Barnes.

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321: Fresh Install Feels

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 22:00:00 -0700

What makes a fresh install of Linux perfect? We ask our panel and share a few tools, tips, and habits that make our Linux installs perfect.

Plus the big little updates coming to Ubuntu MATE, some Pi pontification, and some significant changes for Wireguard.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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310: All Roads Lead to Linux

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 13:00:00 -0700

What’s surprised us, what we got wrong, right, and what the biggest game changers have been in 2019 so far.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Jim Salter.

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309: The Future is Open

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 20:30:00 -0700

Open Source has taken over the world, as IBM's purchase of Red Hat closes. We reflect on this historic moment.

Plus Mozilla's been labeled an Internet Villian, we deep dive into the tech behind all the controversy and how you can self-host secure DNS.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Drew DeVore.

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Red Hat, Inc. on Twitter — As #RedHat's acquisition by @IBM closes, Red Hat will maintain independence and neutrality to give customers freedom, choice and flexibility.
IBM Closes Landmark Acquisition of Red Hat for $34 Billion; Defines Open, Hybrid Cloud Future — Joining forces with IBM gives Red Hat the opportunity to bring more open source innovation to an even broader range of organizations and will enable us to scale to meet the need for hybrid cloud solutions that deliver true choice and agility.
Ubuntu-Maker Canonical’s GitHub Account Gets Hacked — An unknown hacker yesterday successfully managed to hack into the official GitHub account of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux project and created 11 new empty repositories.
Ubuntu Security on Twitter — We can confirm that on 2019-07-06 there was a Canonical owned account on GitHub whose credentials were compromised and used to create repositories and issues among other activities.
Raspberry Pi admits to faulty USB-C design on the Pi 4 — After reports started popping up on the Internet, Raspberry Pi cofounder Eben Upton admitted to TechRepublic that "A smart charger with an e-marked cable will incorrectly identify the Raspberry Pi 4 as an audio adapter accessory and refuse to provide power." Upton went on to say, "I expect this will be fixed in a future board revision, but for now users will need to apply one of the suggested workarounds. It's surprising this didn't show up in our (quite extensive) field testing program."
Firefox 68.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes — Dark mode in reader view expands so that windows are also dark on the controls, sidebars and toolbars.
Linux Millionaire Question Form — Jupiter Broadcasting wants to create a fun game for Linux enthusiasts to test their knowledge on the depths of technology and Linux history. Please help by providing us your thoughtful questions and suggested answers!
Linux Academy on Twitter — The AWS #DevOps Professional certification exam has just been updated with new emphasis on the AWS #Developer Tools suite.
Choose Linux 12: Regolith, Rosa, and Antsy Alien Attack — Two new hosts join Joe to talk about a nice i3 implementation and an amazing arcade game written in Bash.
Linux Academy is Hiring!
Passing the AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam — Whether you need the Cloud Practitioner certification for work or as a personal goal, studying and staying on track is hard because life gets in the way. Join this study group and we’ll help you pass the exam by meeting on a bi-weekly basis and going over the main topics covered in the certification exam.
Emma on Twitter — Hey @system76 fans! I'm looking for a few people to join the HAPPINESS TEAM at System76!
Understanding Burnout Study Group
ISPA announces finalists for 2019 Internet Heroes and Villains: Trump and Mozilla lead the way as Villain nominees — Mozilla, for their proposed approach to introduce DNS-over-HTTPS in such a way as to bypass UK filtering obligations and parental controls, undermining internet safety standards in the UK.
How to enable DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox | ZDNet — The DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol is currently the talk of the town, and the Firefox browser is the only one to support it.
DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) | Public DNS | Google Developers — Google Public DNS provides two distinct DoH APIs
Public recursive name server - Wikipedia — List of public DNS service operators
DNS Over HTTPS Proxy — A set of python 3 scripts that supports proxying DNS over HTTPS as specified in the IETF Draft draft-ietf-doh-dns-over-https.
DNS Privacy Project
dnscrypt-proxy 2 — A flexible DNS proxy, with support for modern encrypted DNS protocols such as DNSCrypt v2 and DNS-over-HTTPS.
Running a DNS over HTTPS Client — There are several DNS over HTTPS (DoH) clients you can use to connect to 1.1.1.1 in order to protect your DNS queries from privacy intrusions and tampering.
curl/doh — A libcurl-using application that resolves a host name using DNS-over-HTTPS (DOH).
RFC 7858 — Specification for DNS over Transport Layer Security
DNS Security with DNSCrypt — While OpenDNS has provided world-class security using DNS for years, and OpenDNS is the most secure DNS service available, the underlying DNS protocol has not been secure enough for our comfort.
DNSSEC – What Is It and Why Is It Important? - ICANN — Engineers in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the organization responsible for the DNS protocol standards, long realized the lack of stronger authentication in DNS was a problem. Work on a solution began in the 1990s and the result was the DNSSEC Security Extensions (DNSSEC).
DNS Security and Privacy — Choosing the right provider — However, with all great options out there (eg: 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9), come great responsibilities. Which provider to choose? Which protocol to choose? DNSCrypt? DNS over HTTPS or TLS? What about DNSSEC? …
pi-hole/pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements — Those who want to get started quickly and conveniently may install Pi-hole using the following command
Configuring DNS-Over-HTTPS on Pi-hole - Pi-hole documentation — DNS-Over-HTTPS is a protocol for performing DNS lookups via the same protocol you use to browse the web securely: HTTPS.
Segmentation fault on raspberry pi 2 model b · Issue #38 · cloudflare/cloudflared
DevilsPie — A totally crack-ridden program for freaks and weirdos who want precise control over what windows do when they appear. If you want all XChat windows to be on desktop 3, in the lower-left, at 40% transparency, you can do it.
Devilspie2 — Devilspie2 is a window matching utility, allowing the user to perform scripted actions on windows as they are created.

291: Dirty Home Directories

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 15:30:00 -0800

We reveal all and look at the mess that is our home directories. How we keep them clean, back them up, and organize our most important files.

Plus Gnome lands a long awaited feature, Firefox gets a bit more clever, and the big money being made on Open Source.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Anthony James, Brent Gervais, Danielle Foré, Dustin Krysak, and Martin Wimpress.

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systemd-nspawn - ArchWiki — systemd-nspawn may be used to run a command or OS in a light-weight namespace container.
Transparently running binaries from any architecture in Linux with QEMU and binfmt_misc
QemuUserEmulation - Debian Wiki — This page describes how to setup and use QEMU user emulation in a "transparent" fashion, allowing execution of non-native target executables just like native ones.
Firefox 67: automatically unload unused tabs to improve memory — If things go as planned, Firefox 67 will introduce a new feature to unload unused tabs to improve memory. The initial bug report dates back eight years but work on the feature began in earnest just a short while ago.
Chrome OS 74 dev channel brings Linux app improvements (Crostini) — There’s now support for audio playback when using Linux apps. Up until now if you wanted to use Linux software to watch videos, listen to music, or do anything else that requires sound, you were out of luck.
GNOME 3.32 Lands Long-Awaited Fractional Scaling Support — Fractional scaling allows for greater control over the UI scaling than the previous integer based scaling of 2, 3, etc, to instead support fractions like 3/2 (1.5) increase in user-interfaces. Fractional scaling is primarily to improve the user experience with modern HiDPI displays.
Systemd-Free Debian "Devuan" Planning Their First Developer Gathering This Spring — Taking place in Amsterdam from 5 to 7 April will be the first Devuan conference for "init freedom lovers".
Canonical adds containerd to Ubuntu Kubernetes — Enabling Kubernetes to drive containerd directly reduces the number of moving parts, reduces latency in pod startup times, and improves CPU and memory usage on every node in the cluster.
Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups
Ubuntu Podcast Listener Get Together — We're having a Get Together in Reading, UK on Saturday March 16th. We'll meet at Breddog in Reading!
Dotfile madness — To those of you reading this: I beg you. Avoid creating files or directories of any kind in your user's $HOME directory in order to store your configuration or data. This practice is bizarre at best and it is time to end it. I am sorry to say that many (if not most) programs are guilty of doing this while there are significantly better places that can be used for storing per-user program data.
More home directory pollution — I looked in my home directory and now see (in addition to 26 dot-files) directories named go, snap and systems.
Steve Reaver on Twitter — There is so much junk in my home dir I had to ls it in column format. I've just about given up using ~ because of all the crap that application put in there!
“Please move the “$HOME/snap” directory to a less o...” : Ubuntu Bug #1575053
Why do hidden files in Unix begin with a dot? — The answer is very simple, because it's extremely easy to test if a file is hidden or not by simply testing the first character of the filename.
Yet Another Dotfiles Manager — When you live in a command line, configurations are a deeply personal thing. They are often crafted over years of experience, battles lost, lessons learned, advice followed, and ingenuity rewarded. When you are away from your own configurations, you are an orphaned refugee in unfamiliar and hostile surroundings. You feel clumsy and out of sorts. You are filled with a sense of longing to be back in a place you know. A place you built. A place where all the short-cuts have been worn bare by your own travels. A place you proudly call… $HOME.
Lyft to spend $300 million on Amazon Web Services by 2022 — Notably, Lyft said that if its usage of Amazon's cloud doesn't hit or exceed that $300 million threshold, it'll have to pay the difference. Lyft committed to spending at least $80 million in each of the three years of the deal, with the stipulation that it will spend $300 million in aggregate overall
MongoDB shares plunge on concerns that Lyft is moving to AWS
Flowblade — Flowblade is a multitrack non-linear video editor released under GPL3 license. From beginners to masters, Flowblade helps make your vision a reality of image and sound.
Shotcut — Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux. Major features include support for a wide range of formats; no import required meaning native timeline editing; Blackmagic Design support for input and preview monitoring; and resolution support to 4k.

286: Ell is for Linux

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 21:00:00 -0800

We're playing Robin Hood with the content, and a new member of our team joins to tell you all about it.

Plus some hard details on the Librem 5, we visit the Canonical Corner, and a big batch of great Linux picks.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Ell Marquez, and Martin Wimpress.

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Choose Linux Episode 1: elementary OS and OpenMediaVault — The show that captures the excitement of discovering Linux.
Firefox 65.0 — Simplified content blocking settings give users standard, strict, and custom options to control online trackers.
What are the phone specs? – Purism
Purism's PureOS Store To Be Based Around Flatpaks — The very first application to the PureOS Store is Lollypop.
Kodi 18.0 — The Kodi team is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Kodi 18.0 "Leia" for all supported platforms.
Canonical Outs Major Linux Kernel Update for Ubuntu 18.04 — These vulnerabilities could allow attackers to either execute arbitrary code or crash the system via a denial of service attack by utilizing a maliciously crafted EXT4 image that could be mounted on the vulnerable machine.
Ubuntu Users Can Now Keep PPAs And Third Party Repositories Enabled When Upgrading To A Newer Ubuntu Version — Another recent change makes sure third party repositories support the release to which the user is trying to upgrade.
SCALE 17x — Pasadena Convention Center March 7 - 10, 2019
Privacy Could Be The Next Big Thing — Upcoming talk by Stuart Langridge at SCALE 17x
Bad Voltage Live | SCALE 17x
Ell on Twitter
Linux Academy Study Group Survey — What course should our next study group cover?
What’s Free At Linux Academy February 2019
Shortwave: Internet radio in Rust
Shortwave Hello World | Felix Häcker — I wanted to rewrite Gradio entirely from scratch using Rust and thought it’s better to start a completely new project.
fx_cast: chromecast for firefox — Enables Chromecast support for casting web apps (like Netflix or BBC iPlayer), HTML5 video and screen/tab sharing.
Cool-Retro-Term 1.1.1 is out! — Big performance improvements (and lowered resource consumption), new shiny (literally) frame, system fonts support, and more!

285: Pain the APT

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 19:45:00 -0800

An embarrassing vulnerability has been found in the apt package manager, we’ll break it all down. Plus Alessandro Castellani tells us about his plans to build a professional design tool for Linux.

We also have a batch of big community news, and the case for the cloud killing Open Source.

Special Guests: Alessandro Castellani and Brent Gervais.

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OggCamp 19 — OggCamp is an unconference celebrating Free Culture, Free and Open Source Software, hardware hacking, digital rights, and all manner of collaborative cultural activities.
OggCamp on Twitter
Remote Code Execution in apt-get — A vulnerability in apt allows a network man-in-the-middle (or a malicious package mirror) to execute arbitrary code as root on a machine installing any package. The bug has been fixed in the latest versions of apt.
Why does APT not use HTTPS?
Turkish ISP Swapped Downloads of Popular Software with Spyware-Infected Apps
Which block I/O scheduler is the best? We asked eBPF. — I set out expecting to see differing distributions of latencies for each block scheduler, but ultimately found that I didn’t understand low-level systems behavior to the degree I thought I did.
Want to spin up Ubuntu VMs from Windows 10's command line, eh? We'll need to see a Multipass. — Windows 10 developers have been gifted yet another way of running Linux on their desktop in the form of Canonical's Multipass.
Microsoft Employee Hints at Windows Core OS Open Source Components
TechSNAP Episode 395: The ACME Era
LinuxFest Northwest 20th Anniversary
LFNW Telegram Group
LinuxFest Northwest Parking Lot BBQ Meetup
SCALE 17x
SCALE Telegram Group
Texas Linux Fest 2019
Public Speaking: A repository of resources about public speaking, specifically in the context of software development and IT conferences.
Linux Operating System Fundamentals — Have you heard of Linux, but don't really know anything about it? Are you a non-technical person just wanting to know what this 'Linux' thing is? Then this course is for you.
Akira: Native Linux App for UI and UX Design
Akira on Kickstarter
Exponent episode 159 — Inverted Pyramids
Late Night Linux – Episode 55 — Are you better off with the elasticity of public clouds like AWS, or should you avoid lock-in by running servers on premises?
AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source
Open source confronts its midlife crisis

279: WireGuardians of the Galaxy

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 18:45:00 -0800

We have a WireGuard success story to share, and it's probably not what you're expecting.

Plus we check in on Ubuntu 19.04, start the search for an Emby replacement, and how to use Reddit on the commandline.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Fire effect for the Keyboardio Model 01 keyboard
Keyboardio: heirloom-grade keyboards for serious typists
chrimbus_'s self hosted streaming questions — Yo @ChrisLAS / @ubuntupodcast I'm tired of depending on our internet to play movies for the kiddo. I was trying to rip some dvds tonight using VLC and AcidRip in hopes to run them off a home server. Either the video ends up glitchy af or no audio. Any suggestions?
Beta source code missing · Issue #3479 · MediaBrowser/Emby
Annoucing Jellyfin - a free software fork of Emby — After the announcement of Emby transitioning to a proprietary model, a number of us decided to fork it to focus on delivering a free software media solution
Streama: Self hosted streaming media server.
Ubuntu 19.04 Release Date & Planned Features — The Ubuntu 19.04 release date is scheduled for April 18, 2019.
GNOME Shell In Ubuntu 19.04 Should Be Faster
Ubuntu Desktop 19.04 Cycle | Trello
Canonical makes Kubernetes moves — Canonical wants to make it darn clear that, besides being the leading cloud Linux distributor, it's also a major Kubernetes player.
Proposed Energy Aware Scheduling For The Linux Kernel Revised A Tenth Time — The ARM Linux developers continue working on Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) for the mainline Linux kernel to better handle systems with asymmetric CPU topologies
Mike's systemd udev fix
Which two names work best for the Jupiter Broadcasting Automation system?
LinuxFest Northwest 2019
WireGuard for iOS - TestFlight
How to easily configure WireGuard - Stavros' Stuff
Use Reddit In The Terminal With RTV (Reddit Terminal Viewer)
Easily Convert Audio File Formats with SoundConverter
sshuttle: Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN
corkscrew: A tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies
Test utility for cve-2018-1002105

Episode 275: Year of the Relevant Desktop

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 19:15:00 -0800

Christian F.K. Schaller from Red Hat joins us to discuss seamless Linux upgrades, replacing PulseAudio, some of the recent desktop Projects Red Hat’s been working on... And the value they get from them.

Plus a big batch of important community news, Wimpy’s Thunderbolt Dock experiments, and way to run pacman on any Linux distribution.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Christian F.K. Schaller, and Martin Wimpress.

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Radio Garden
PlayStation Classic relies on open source emulator for its 20 games - SlashGear — Kotaku got some early hands-on time with the PlayStation Classic and discovered that it uses the PCSX ReARMed emulator.
snes9x — For those packaging the GTK+ port, note that building with GTK+ 3 is now highly recommended over GTK+ 2 and should have no regressions. Also note that Wayland compatibility is implemented, which, if enabled, also requires GTK+ to have been compiled with Wayland support.
Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth says he has no plans to sell anytime soon — “I value my independence,” he told me during a brief chat on the outskirts of the OpenStack Summit in Berlin today. In part, that’s because he simply doesn’t personally need the money but also because he’d like to see through to the end his vision for Canonical and Ubuntu
Open Invention Network Expands Linux Definition — The expansion includes 151 new packages, bringing the total number of protected packages to 2,873. “With this update to the Linux System definition, OIN continues with its well-established process of carefully maintaining a balance between stability and innovative core open source technology,” stated Mirko Boehm, OIN’s director for the Linux System definition. “While the majority of the new additions are widely used and found in most devices, the update includes a number of key open source innovations such as Kubernetes, Apache Cassandra and packages for Automotive Grade Linux.”
Bitwarden Completes Third-party Security Audit — We are pleased to announce that Bitwarden has completed a thorough security audit and cryptographic analysis from the security experts at Cure53.
Adding an optional install duration to LVFS firmware — We’ve just added an optional feature to fwupd and the LVFS that some people might find useful: The firmware update process can now tell the user how long in seconds the update is going to take.
Help wanted - SuperTuxKart networking testers
Supertuxkart
PipeWire Hackfest — The event kicked off with Wim Taymans presenting on current state of PipeWire and outlining the remaining issues and current thoughts on how to resolve them. Most of the first day was spent on a roadtable discussion about what are and should be the goals of PipeWire and what potential tradeoffs there would be going forward.
Thunderbolt 3 GPU Dock — Integrated NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card.
Automation System Name Poll — Vote on the Automation System name.
Junest — The lightweight Arch Linux based distro that runs upon any Linux distros without root access.
Wimpy’s xrandr Script

Episode 255: Fedora to the Core

Jupiter Broadcasting — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 02:30:00 -0700

Big changes are coming to Fedora with the merger of CoreOS. We chat with a couple project members to get the inside scope about what the future of Fedora looks like.

Plus the big feature of the new GitLab release, how Pocket might be Firefox's secret sauce, and why Chris is really excited by PeerTube.

Special Guests: Dusty Mabe and Eric Hendricks.

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Episode 251: The Qt and the Ugly

Jupiter Broadcasting — Wed, 30 May 2018 05:00:00 -0700

After we make ourselves at Gnome, we look at some future open source goodies coming your way, look at how Canonical’s upstream pitch, and get excited about the next great Linux filesystem hope.

Plus Chris’ first wreck on the road to Texas, Thunderbolt networking, and our results from the best Linux laptop for 2018.

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Anonymous Donor Pledges $1M Donation Over Two Years – GNOME
Thunderbolt Networking on Linux
Major Release Endless OS 3.4
JB Telegram Texas Group
JB Texas Shirt! — For the first time JB will be present at Texas Linux Fest June 8 & 9. (Event info: https://2018.texaslinuxfest.org/) We'd love to see as many of these shirts (or any other JB shirt) at the fest!
Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth pulls no punches on Red Hat and VMware in OpenStack cloud
2018 KDE Connect Development Sprint
Bcachefs File-System Is Working On Going Upstream In The Linux Kernel
NetBSD Network Stack Audit
slowmoVideo: Official slowmoVideo repository
Fedora 26 end of life approaching
Some Of The Features Expected For Fedora 29
SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics now officially supports Linux with a big update
Downloads - RED Digital Cinema
This 38-inch Curved Monitor from LG has a Ryzen CPU and Supports Ubuntu
Dell Unveils New Ubuntu Laptops
Best Linux Laptop for 2018 - Results - Straw Poll
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