Special Guest: Noah Chelliah.

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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.
• Ask Noah Show 354 — Google makes the news this week in one of the largest cases in history over meaningful competition. Do we need the regulation to stop Google? Ubuntu will start allowing you to use a TPM chip for encryption, plus your livestreaming, ZFS, and VPN questions are answered!
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Postponed
• LinuxFest Northwest Meetups
• Hub 6: Healthy meeting culture and the first local AI Assistant [YouTube]
• “Nextcloud Hub 6” launched🚀 — Nextcloud Hub 6 has evolved into a robust collaboration platform that empowers organizations and individuals to work seamlessly while ensuring data privacy.
• Element X — Element X isn’t just the fastest Matrix client ever - it’s up to 6000x faster than any other Matrix client.
• Element X preview is now on Android too!
• sliding-sync Proxy — An implementation of MSC3575.
• MSC3575: Sliding Sync (aka Sync v3) — This MSC outlines a replacement for the CS API endpoint `/sync`.
• Matrix Community Summit 2023 — Join us from Thu, 21st to Sat, 24th September 2023!
• Beeper — All your chats in one app. Yes, really.
• Atari VCS Base — Featuring AMD Raven Ridge 2 APU and AMD Ryzen processor GPU with 8GB DDR4 RAM (upgradable), and 32GB eMMC fixed internal storage.
• BeardedTek/linode-dyndns — Linode Dynamic DNS Updater
• Pick: yazi — ⚡️ Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.

We take the opportunity to expand on the overall effort to solve Linux fragmentation.

Special Guests: Martin Wimpress, Neal Gompa, and Will Thompson.

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• Pocket Popcorn Computer — Finally, a handheld Linux device with a high-definition 1080p display and large battery life. Pocket P.C. is your hacker terminal on-the-go.
• On Flatpak disk usage and deduplication – Will Thompson’s GNOME-ish blog — There is a blog post doing the rounds asserting that Flatpak Is Not The Future. The post is really long, and it seems unlikely that I and the author will ever agree on this topic, so I’m only going to talk about a couple of paragraphs about disk usage and sharing of runtimes between apps which caught my eye.
• Bustle — Graphical D-Bus message analyser and profiler.
• Gnome Initial Setup
• Endless OS Foundation — Our mission is to help all people and communities connect with technology.
• Will sometimes does other stuff and writes about it
• Flatpak Is Not the Future - Ludocode — Flatpak calls itself “the future of application distribution”. I am not a fan. I’m going to outline here some of the technical, security and usability problems with Flatpak and others. I’ll try to avoid addressing “fixable” problems (like theming) and instead focus on fundamental problems inherent in their design. I aim to convince you that these are not the future of desktop Linux apps.
• docker-slim — Don’t change anything in your Docker container image and minify it by up to 30x
• Flatseal — Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify permissions from your Flatpak applications.
• Bruch with Brent with Stuart Langridge — Brent sits down with Stuart Langridge, co-host of Bad Voltage, for an exploration of open source’s “final mile”, the text and language interface as a UX opportunity, terminals vs. search engines, Darwinian processes and crab-bucketism in software development, and more.
• Seeking contractors for work on Flathub project — GNOME has a donor who is interested in supporting financial sustainability for app developers and removing barriers to an inclusive ecosystem. Flathub would like to use these funds to work with a contractor for a short-term project and make steps towards supporting application developers being able to request payments (whether donations or subscriptions).

We try three different builds and prepare ourselves for our journey into SUSE land. Our setups, what we liked, and what we still need to figure out.

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• 2021 Tuxie Nominations are Open!
• SteamOS 3.0 will have an immutable filesystem - a first for arch? — During the Steam Deck Development live steam, Valve finally gave us some good news and said that SteamOS 3.0 will be generally available for everyone to install on their computers. They also revealed that SteamOS 3.0 will have an immutable root file system to prevent unauthorized access and use PipeWire for audio.
• Greg’s Company Buys Ads openSUSE Search Results — "Hey, @openSUSE have you been seeing a drop in downloads recently? I might know why..."
• They did this to AlmaLinux at the end of July.
• AlmaLinux AMA
• Setting up a containerized environment - openSUSE User Documentation Project
• Using the Linode Graphical Shell (Glish)
• How to switch from OpenSUSE Leap to Tumbleweed?
• Transactional Updates | Administration Guide | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
• The Transactional Update Guide
• Manpage for transactional-update — Transactional-update updates the system in a transactional way; this means updates are atomic, so either the patches are fully applied or nothing is changed. The update does not influence the running system and it can be rolled back. To activate the changes, the system needs to be rebooted. To achieve this transactional-update is using Btrfs' snapshot mechanism, combined with the default distribution tools
• YaST Online Update
• OpenSUSE System Updates
• Snapper rollback with btrfs
• openSUSE/transactional-update — Do transactional updates on openSUSE/SUSE Linux Enterprise products with btrfs, snapshots and rollback.
• Open Build Service
• OpenSUSE Conference 2017
• Post that explains some of the drawbacks of transaction updates
• Zypper cheat sheet VERY handy and recommend it
• JupiterGarage.com
• Pick: mp4grep — Command-line tool that searches audio/video files.
• JB All Shows Feed

Special Guests: Martin Wimpress and Neal Gompa.

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• Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 15th Red Planet flight
• 2021 Tuxie Nominations are Open
• System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based On GNOME — Word of System76 making their "own" desktop not based on GNOME does follow some recent friction between Pop!_OS and GNOME developers over their approach to theming and customizations.
• 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.
• Linux HATES Me – Daily Driver CHALLENGE Pt.1 - YouTube — This is part 1 in a series where Linus and Luke migrate their home workstation to Linux. In this episode, each decides which Distro they'll use, and then tries to run a game on it.
• JupiterGarage.com
• Linux Action News 214
• Self-Hosted 57
• How to fix the GSP 670 headset to make it work properly on Linux
• Akselmo’s Game
• ESOLinuxAddonManager
• Vorta for BorgBackup — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty Borg Backup with your favorite desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft.
• Vorta — Linux Apps on Flathub
• Vorta | Memory Alpha

Plus we announce the official Jupiter Broadcasting Matrix server, share some great picks, and a thought-provoking email.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:35 Intro
2:03 Debian Requests Artwork
3:04 Google Kernel Code Dump
8:07 The Future of Rust
14:15 Manjaro Forum Meltdown
20:11 Matrix Server Migration
27:38 Housekeeping
28:44 Podcatcher Play-Off
29:08 Podcatcher Play-Off: Honorable Mentions
31:33 Podcatcher Play-Off: Winds
33:36 Podcatcher Play-Off: Cpod
35:33 Podcatcher Play-Off: Airsonic
38:16 Podcatcher Play-Off: Shellcaster
40:15 Podcatcher Play-Off: Castero
40:42 Podcatcher Play-Off: Castget
42:27 Podcatcher Play-Off: Pocketcasts
44:22 Podcatcher Play-Off: Antennapod
45:09 Podcatcher Play-Off: Overcast
47:22 Feedback: Mac Pro as a Daily Driver
48:38 Feedback: Internet Apocalypse
57:22 Pick: Quad SATA Kit for Raspberry Pi
1:00:01 Pick: Outrun
1:02:50 Outro
1:04:30 Post-Show

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

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• Debian turns 27! - Bits from Debian
• r/linux: Debian turns 27!
• Debian Bullseye artwork call for proposals - entries must be submitted by October 15
• Google Finally Begins Their Open-Source Dance Around Linux User-Space Threading - Phoronix
• [PATCH for 5.9 0/3] FUTEX_SWAP (tip/locking/core) - Peter
• Laying the foundation for Rust’s future | Rust Blog
• Manjaro’s new Forum
• LINUX Unplugged Matrix Community
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• LUP LUG Mumble Server Info
• Fullscreen JB IRC Chat
• Gnome Podcasts
• gPodder — Media aggregator and podcast client
• brtmr/podfox
• Spotify
• Winds — Winds is a modern, open-source RSS and Podcast app built using React/Redux/Node by Stream.
• CPod — A simple, beautiful podcast app for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• AirSonic — Airsonic is a free, web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music.
• shellcaster — Terminal-based podcast manager built in Rust
• castero — TUI podcast client for the terminal
• castget — A command-line podcast downloader.
• Pocketcasts
• Pocket Casts acquired by NPR, other public radio stations, and This American Life - The Verge
• Overcast
• AntennaPod
• Feedback: ‘TheFake VIP’ still uses that same Mac Pro as his daily driver — I still, to this day, run a Mac Pro just like that as my daily driver, in Windows, macOS and Linux (Arch with i3). It's still a dream machine for me.
• Feedback: Would you still use Linux if there was no more internet? — So let me ask you an important question. Would you still use Linux if there was no more internet?
• QUAD SATA KIT for Raspberry PI — Easily build your own NAS / Media-server based on Raspberry Pi 4 Description mount up to 4x 2.5" HDD or SSD
• outrun — Execute a local command using the processing power of another Linux machine.
• Debconf 20 starts this week.
• Flipper Zero — Tamagochi for Hackers

Plus the future of OpenPGP in Thunderbird, a disappointing update for the Atari VCS, and a shiny new Spotify client for your terminal.

Special Guest: Martin Wimpress.

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• Linus Torvalds Shares His Thoughts on Microsoft’s New-Found Love for Linux - OMG! Ubuntu!
• Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird
• Game over: Atari VCS architect quits project, claims he hasn’t been paid for six months • The Register
• Jupiter Extras: Self-Hosted: Reverse Proxy Basics
• September Free Courses
• Texas Cyber Summit
• Birthday Party at Two Brothers BBQ
• subspace: A simple WireGuard VPN server GUI
• RaspberryPiWireguard: Install and configure WireGuard on Raspberry Pi (and others)
• wireguard: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout on raspberry pi 4 : WireGuard
• vpnac.org
• Rigellute/spotify-tui: Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀
• C* Music Player