LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Flathub”

625: They're Doing it Wrong!

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 15:45:00 -0700

A radical rethink of what a Linux distro should do, and what it should stop doing. Plus, we dig into what's great about Linux 6.16.

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F43 Change Proposal: Filter Fedora Flatpaks for Atomic Desktops — With this change, we want to make the availability of a Fedora Flatpak an explicit decision for the Fedora Atomic Desktops.
Fedora Flatpaks creates more work
Fedora Must (Carefully) Embrace Flathub
Strategy 2028 Update – Fedora Community Blog
Initiatives/Fedora bootc - Fedora Project Wiki — Silverblue & Kinoite are ready to be our desktop Editions, with bootc (Jason)
Proposal: Enable Flathub by Default - Fedora Discussion
The Case for Fedora Flatpaks
bazaar: New App Store for GNOME
Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance
EXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance"
Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More Devices
Linux 6.16 Merges A Fix For The Macintosh II
Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX
The first half of the 6.16 merge window
The second half of the 6.16 merge window
Enforcement (or not) for module-specific exported symbols
Toward the unification of kselftests and KUnit
Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel
Supporting kernel development with large language models
Fending off unwanted file descriptors
Linux 6.16 - Linux Kernel Newbies
Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs
Zoned Loop Block Device — The Linux Kernel documentation
DJM-V10 Creative style 6-channel professional DJ mixer (black) - Pioneer DJ
LLM generated git-resolve.sh
Aidan's NixOS Flake
Using Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula
SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus
Pick: Toney — Toney is a fast, lightweight, terminal-based note-taking app for the modern developer.
Pick: Etesync-Knotes — A secure note-taking application for linux, integrated with Etebase for encrypted synchronization.

592: Chris' Netboot Nonsense

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 18:00:00 -0800

USB thumb drives are old and busted. No hard drive? No problem. Need a quick system rescue or work in another distro for the day? Easy.

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ODROID H4 PLUS
ODROID H4 Mini-ITX Kit
Plan your meetup: Colony Events
LUP 600 Pacific Northwest Party · Colony Events
Request for Proposals: Flathub Program Management — The GNOME Foundation, in partnership with KDE e.V., is bootstrapping Flathub LLC to become a self-sustaining entity.
Flathub to become a self-sustaining entity and they're looking to hire someone to help
Flathub Statistics
Flathub Verified Apps
Verification | Flathub Documentation
open issues on FlatHub-Infra GitHub
netboot.xyz — Your favorite operating systems in one place. A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.
Booting Methods
boot netboot.xyz from grub
boot netboot.xyz from a USB Disk
Windows | netboot.xyz
Windows PE image as an ISO, instructions on how to build it can be found here
LUP 333
Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
Proxmox and Veeam backups
home-assistant-technitiumdns — This custom integration allows you to integrate TechnetiumDNS with Home Assistant, providing sensors for various DNS statistics.
sam h's nix config with Blocky
Rescuezilla — Rescuezilla is an open-source easy-to-use disk imaging app that's fully compatible with Clonezilla — the industry-standard trusted by tens of millions.
rescuezilla/rescuezilla: The Swiss Army Knife of System Recovery

576: The Secret Server

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:45:00 -0700

We reveal how we turned our humble LAN into a public server farm, all while keeping our IP address under wraps and our ISP blissfully unaware.

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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 — Building a colo server for Jupiter Broadcasting using the 45Homelab HL15 server.
Firewall - NixOS Wiki
nftables wiki
The netfilter.org "nftables" project
Gentoo Nftables Examples
networking/nftables: add .tables property and disable ruleset flushing by default by mkg20001
Example nftables config
Olympia Mike on "verified only Flatpaks" — I'm curious your take on a recent update that happened in Linux Mint, and the possible knock on effect of it.
Incus is a next generation system container and virtual machine manager.
Moving from Proxmox to Incus
Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!
Referral Code eXchange
auto-tab-discard
tab-session-manager
OneTab extension for Google Chrome and Firefox
Tubular — A fork of NewPipe that implements SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike.

558: Top 5 Essential Apps

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0700

We asked, and you answered: Your top 5 Linux app essentials and post-install rituals. Plus, some news to better cope with "extreme file-system damage."

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Berlin with Brent: May Meetup — Brent is back in Berlin! Please join the Jupiter Broadcasting community for an evening together, and bring your friends!
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📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
Warp — Warp allows you to securely send files to each other via the internet or local network by exchanging a word-based code.
Bcachefs Repair Code Reaching Complete & Robust Recovery — "This patchset was kindly tested by a user from India who accidentally wiped one drive out of a three drive filesystem with no replication on the family computer - it took a couple weeks but we got everything important back."
Linux 6.9-rc3 Released With Many Bcachefs Patches — "[...] but hey, if you had a corrupted bcachefs filesystem you'd probably want this, and if you thought bcachefs was stable already, I have a bridge to sell you. Special deal only for you, real cheap."
Fedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOME
F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation — Switch the default desktop experience for Workstation to KDE Plasma. The GNOME desktop is moved to a separate spin / edition, retaining release-blocking status.
Changes/FedoraPlasmaWorkstation - Fedora Project Wiki
412linux.io — N100 Media Serving Efficiency with Quick Sync
Pick: FreeTube — FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. Use YouTube without advertisements and prevent Google from tracking you with their cookies and JavaScript. Available for Windows, Mac & Linux thanks to Electron.
FreeBSD Speedruns — The zero-to-desktop FreeBSD speedrun category records the time taken from the first boot of a FreeBSD image, through installation, to the display of a desktop environment or window manager.
FreeBSD Zero to Desktop Speedrun Challenge — The operations and commands that needed to be done took me 1:33 and installation of base.txz/kernel.txz datasets took 0:28. Downloading and installing needed pkg(8) packages took 2:22 of time.

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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537: This Makes Us Unemployable

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 03:00:00 -0800

Can we save an old Arch install? We'll attempt a live rescue, then get into our tips for keeping your old Linux install running great.

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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.
Is Arch Linux suitable for server environment? — Probably the biggest issue with Arch as a server operating system is that it's not clear where and when applications may break after an upgrade. More often than not, you have to keep up with what's going on in the wiki and on the forums before doing any sort of upgrade
Unplugged Tuxies - 2023
⚠️ DID WE MISS SOMETHING?
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Texas Linux Festival 2024 — Texas Linux Fest is the first state-wide annual community-run conference for Linux and open-source software users and enthusiasts from around the Lone Star State. Much like SCALE in Los Angeles, Ohio Linux Fest in Columbus, and Linux Fest Northwest – and an ever-growing list of successful regional shows.
Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention — On February 2nd, the base-devel package group has been replaced by a meta package of the same name.
Git migration announcement
Git migration completed — We are proud to announce that the migration to Git packaging succeeded! 🥳
[Arch News] Changes to default password hashing algorithm and umask settings
Linus’s law — In software development, Linus's law is the assertion that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".
The Linux Scheduler: a Decade of Wasted Cores — In our experiments, these performance bugs caused many-fold performance degradation for synchronization-heavy scientific applications, 13% higher latency for kernel make, and a 14-23% decrease in TPC-H throughput for a widely used commercial database.
The Linux kernel scheduler has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for the past 15 years and nobody noticed – The HFT Guy
The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores | Hacker News
sched: Update normalized values on user updates via proc · torvalds/linux@acb4a84 · GitHub — This patch updates the internally used scheduler tuning values that are normalized to one cpu in case a user sets new values via sysfs.
BackTrack Linux
Flatseal
Why you probably shouldn’t add a CLA to your open source project — Contributor license agreements (or CLAs for short) have gained a lot of visibility in recent years as some prominent open-source projects have opted to adopt them. If all the cool kids are doing it, should your open source project? Probably not. Here’s why
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507: Full Wobble

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 18:45:00 -0700

Why Fedora 38 might Sway you to try it; and how it runs on the MacBook M1 Max.

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Redesigned Flathub Site Launches For Flatpak Apps — A redesigned version of the Flathub website has launched for this weekend's Linux App Summit. Flathub remains the centralized website for exploring and finding new Flatpak sandboxed Linux apps.
Flathub — Welcome to Flathub, the home of hundreds of apps which can be easily installed on any Linux distribution. Browse the apps online, from your app center or the command line.
Olympia Linux Spring Meetup
Announcing Fedora Linux 38 — Fedora Linux 38 introduces several new Spins — variants that showcase different desktop environments.
Fedora 38 Released With GNOME 44 Desktop, GCC 13, Many New Features — Fedora 38 brings many changes including the GCC 13 system compiler and other updated toolchain components like GNU Make 4.4, Glibc 2.37, Binutils 2.39, Golang 1.20, Ruby 3.2, and more.
What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38
How to rebase to Fedora Linux 38 on Silverblue
Fedora Linux 38 Spins
Fedora Workstation Download
asahi-fedora-builder — Builds a minimal Fedora image to run on Apple M1/M2 systems
music-player — An extensible music server written in Rust 🚀🎵✨
Tools on Tech
The Split Kit
Podverse
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Alby
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
Reaper on Flathub

501: Fat Stacks for Flatpaks

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 19:00:00 -0700

Robert McQueen shares the inside scoop on Flathub’s ambitious plans to create a universal app store for all distros—and we ask the hard questions.

Special Guest: Robert McQueen.

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LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — October 20-22, 2023 at the Bellingham Technical College.
Flathub in 2023 - Flathub Discourse — We’ve been busy behind the scenes, so I’d like to share what we’ve been up to at Flathub and why—and what’s coming up from us this year.
Robotic Tendencies » Flathub in 2023
Rule of Acquisition 57 — Good customers are as rare as latinum… treasure them.
Fountain on Twitter — The veterans are dominating the charts as we celebrate some major milestones this week 👏
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Trayscale — An unofficial GUI wrapper around the Tailscale CLI client.
Trayscale on Flathub
Pick: abcde — A Better CD Encoder
A collection of abcde.conf files

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.

491: 2023 Spoilers

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 12:00:00 -0800

We assemble to predict what will happen in 2023 and score how our 2022 predictions turned out.

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The Matrix Holiday Update 2022
Steam Linux Market Share
Ideas on growing the Flathub Community in 2022
Heroic Games Launcher | Flathub Beta Site
Flathub-Codethink Collaboration
[GNOME Software Mock-up] Patronage by Tobias Bernard
How (and why) I minted 314 NFTs To Support Open Source Projects
The Log4j security flaw could impact the entire internet. Here’s what you should know
Log4j Vulnerability Detection: One year after Log4Shell
LibRedirect
Get Together — Get Together is an open source event manager for local communities.

487: The Debian Debate

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0800

After nearly half a year of woe, Brent is ready to give Linux the go. Join us as we compare and contrast two Linux distros and end up with one going on Brent's machine.

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

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Apple Limits iPhone AirDrop Function Used for Protests in China
Magic Earth — Free Maps & Navigation App
Top 10 reasons to use Debian as your Linux distro
Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of ‘move fast and break things’, and version 11 is no different
ProtonPlus — A simple Wine and Proton-based compatiblity tools manager for GNOME.
ProtonUp-Qt — Install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda & more for Steam and Wine-GE & more for Lutris with this graphical user interface.
Why openSUSE - openSUSE Wiki
The Nobara Project — The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.
Who Wants To Be a Millionaire — Test your knowledge to see if you can answer all questions and win $1 million. Have fun!
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Questions and Source Code

484: Fedora Falls Flat

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 18:30:00 -0800

Why this latest release of Fedora misses the mark, and Ubuntu's quiet backing away from ZFS.

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SteamOS Has Finally Been Rebased to the Latest Version of Arch Linux!
Fedora 37 is GO — The Fedora Linux 37 Final RC 1.7 compose is GO and will be shipped live on Tuesday, 15 November.
Fedora 37 ChangeSet
Announcing the release of Fedora Linux 37 Beta
NixOS on Fedora
Is it true that mesa-freeworld hasn't been published on RPM Fusion yet?
Schedules/Plasma 5 - KDE Community Wiki
Fedora 37 Plasma Login Fuzzzz
How to Install a Mastodon Server on Ubuntu 20.04 on Linode
Don’s use ZSYS · Issue #230 · ubuntu/zsys — Finally I just want to say I regret having to say this. ZFS and ZSYS are both great technologies. They're ideal solutions to big problems and really move the state of the art forward. Unfortunately, their implementations are both 90% ideal but 10% incomplete.
Bug #1968150 “[FFe] Remove zsys from installer” : Bugs : ubiquity package : Ubuntu
Chris B’s Deep Fake funny and crazy ChrisLAS images.
NAS Board ODROID Killer N5105/N6005
Nexcom Industrial Low Power Rigs
Bitcoin Dad Pod Episode 50: Effective Scam-Truism
Bitcoin General Chat on Matrix
Bitcoin Q&A Room
Pocket Popcorn Computer — Finally, a handheld Linux device with a high-definition 1080p display and large battery life.
Pleroma — a lightweight fediverse server
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Coqui TTS — A deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production.

473: End of the Road

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 19:30:00 -0700

We've reached the end of the road in our immutable Linux series, and an old friend stops by to give us the inside scoop on Endless OS.

Plus, we announce who will be joining us at JPL in September.

Special Guest: Cassidy James Blaede.

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GNOME launches a new “telemetry” program to improve GNOME
gnome-info-collect repository — gnome-info-collect is a simple client-server application used for collecting information on GNOME systems. The data will be used to improve GNOME, specifically by informing design decisions, influencing where resources are invested, and generally helping us to understand users better.
Self contained flake for gnome-info-collect courtesy of kenji
Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups
JB Matrix westcoastcrew Meetup Room
Hot on Fountain
Mobilizon — Mobilizon is a tool that helps you find, create and organize events.
Endless OS — Comes preloaded with over 100 apps and essential tools so you have all you need, even when there's no internet access.
Keybase
May 7th 2020: Zoom Acquires Keybase
MSGConvert — A .MSG to mime/mbox converter
VisiData — VisiData is an interactive multitool for tabular data. It combines the clarity of a spreadsheet, the efficiency of the terminal, and the power of Python, into a lightweight utility which can handle millions of rows with ease.
googerteller — audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into google.
Espanso — Tired of typing the same sentences over and over? Discover the incredible power of a full-blown text expander.
New Jupiter Broadcasting Website

472: 5 Problems With NixOS

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 17:45:00 -0700

The five most common problems when trying out an immutable Linux distro like NixOS. Plus, why one Linux dev says just target WINE.

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New Flathub Site in Beta - Big Things Coming — [...] next steps are to flesh out the donation infrastructure with the aim to allow app pages to have their own link to donation/purchase.
Win32 Is The Only Stable ABI on Linux — I think this whole situation shows why creating native games for Linux is challenging. It’s hard to blame developers for targeting Windows and relying on Wine + friends. It’s just much more stable and much less likely to break and stay broken.
The Offending glibc Commit
A glibc Bug
The ABI status of ELF hash tables — If EAC were free software, of course, chances are there would already be a patch circulating to deal with the problem. As it is, only its owner can deal with this problem directly. Meanwhile, though, there is another workaround available: distributors can easily patch the glibc build to restore the DT_HASH section and make the problem go away for now.
Jupiter JPL Meetup Form
JB Meetups
West Coast Crew Matrix Room
Endless OS — The Endless Operating System is simple and easy for anyone to use. It is fully equipped with essential apps to learn, play, work and connect.
Different methods to run a non-NixOS executable on NixOS — What are the different methods to run a non-NixOS executable on NixOS? I'd like to see also the manual methods.
nix-ld: Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS
vscode with extensions nix package
vscode FHS compatible
toolbox-vscode — Toolbox Visual Studio Code integration
Self-Hosted 67: The No Container Theory — Why Chris is moving away from using Containers, Alex's new project, and some great follow-up.
Podcasting 2.0 Apps — Grab a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app, and boost into the show.
Heroic Games Launcher — Heroic is an Open Source GOG and Epic games launcher for Linux, Windows and macOS. Also available on the Steam Deck!
Heroic Games Launcher | Flathub

468: The Read Only Scenario

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0700

A fundamental change is coming to desktop Linux, and Silverblue might be our hint at where things are going.

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Pre-show: PSATA HATs support up to four drives on Raspberry Pi 4 or Rock Pi 4 — Radxa’s Dual ($25) and Quad ($35) SATA HATs work on the Raspberry Pi 4 or Rock Pi 4 at up to 400 MB/s via USB 3.0.
JPL Lottery — Join the JB Crew at JPL! We only have 15 spots. Please enter your info, and our happy little python script might just pick your name from the virtual hat. - If you don't get picked, don't worry. We're having another meetup while we are in town!
Fedora Silverblue User Guide — Unlike other operating systems, Silverblue is immutable. This means that every installation is identical to every other installation of the same version. The operating system that is on disk is exactly the same from one machine to the next, and it never changes as it is used.
Fedora 34 Silverblue on Raspberry Pi 4 / 400de
RPi4: Raspberry Pi 4 UEFI Firmware Images — This repository contains installable builds of the official EDK2 Raspberry Pi 4 UEFI firmware.
Self-Hosted 67: The No Container Theory
Ventoy
Endless OS
Fitting Everything Together — TLDR: Hermetic /usr/ is awesome; let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, uniformity – built from traditional distribution packages, but deployed via images.
Steam Deck Guide — A guide covering Steam Deck including the applications and tools that will make you a better and more efficient with your Steam Deck device.
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
BoostCLI — Command line tool to send and review Podcasting 2.0 Value.
Podcasting 2.0 Podcast — The Podcast Index presents Podcasting 2.0 - Upgrading Podcasting.
Podcasting 2.0: “Bells Out” — Adam & Dave discuss the week's developments on podcastindex.org with Chris Fisher from Jupiter Broadcasting.
Impervious API — Impervious API is a programmatic layer that sits on top of the Bitcoin Lightning Network
Pick: Audio Sharing — Running Audio Sharing will automatically share the current audio playback in the form of an RTSP stream. This stream can then be played back by other devices, for example using VLC.
Audio Sharing on Flathub
Bottles on Flathub — Run Windows software on Linux with Bottles! Our built-in dependency installation system grants automatic software compatibility access. Use the download manager to download the official components: the runner (Wine, Proton), DXVK, dependencies, etc.

449: Bugfix and Chill

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 18:30:00 -0700

How each of us asks for features and help from free software projects, and one of our most prescient soapboxes in a while.

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Jupiter Broadcasting East Coast Meetup — Saturday, Apr 9, 2022 · 3:00 PM EDT
Obsidian — Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
How To ADHD — Those of us with ADHD have brains that work differently, which means we need to work differently.
Onion Share — OnionShare is an open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network.
OnionShare on Flathub
Kevin Rooke on Twitter — 5,000 podcasts are now on the Lightning Network. 4.2 million to go.⚡️
Heroic Games Launcher on Flathub — An Open Source GOG and Epic Games Launcher.
Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish testing week
Ubuntu ISO Testing Tracker
New Podcast Apps — The Podcast Index is here to preserve, protect and extend the open, independent podcasting ecosystem.
The Pomp Podcast — What is the Lightning Network?
What’s in a Boostagram?
How the Lightning Network is Innovating Podcasting — Podcast Index allows podcasters to add their podcast and connect your podcast to your own node, or use their service and they run a node for you. Users can set a specific sats per minute to listen, and the content creators stream payment by sats.
Fountain Podcast App
BoostCLI — Command line tool to send and review Podcasting 2.0 Value.
LINUX Unplugged on Podcastindex.org

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.

441: Planet Incinerating Technology

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

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

Special Guests: Martin Wimpress and Neal Gompa.

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

438: Million-Dollar Predictions

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

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

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

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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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436: Hop on Pop

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 19:45:00 -0800

We each try out the new Pop_OS! and Carl Richell from System76 joins us to get into the details.

Plus why we feel Pop might be the new Ubuntu.

Special Guest: Carl Richell.

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Amazon Is Hiring DXVK, Mesa & Proton Linux Developers For Luna Cloud Gaming - Phoronix — As part of the work on Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service, the company has put out job openings of great match to our audience... An Amazon engineer did confirm that this indeed is for genuine Linux gaming engineers.
New Server Christening Get Together — Lets get together, share some foods, and power up the new Jupiter Broadcasting local server. Then stick around and listen in to a live recording of LINUX Unplugged from the studio.
System76 Blog — Pop!_OS 21.10 has landed!
Pop!_OS 21.10 Introduces Mini Application Menu
Jeremy Soller on Twitter — Pop switched the build system and repositories away from http://launchpad.net to our own system http://apt.pop-os.org/release for 21.10 in order to improve our control of package updates and reduce the time to build, test, and release them. It is not related to changing bases.
Linode Security Digest December 12-19, 2021
Pop!_OS Auto Tiling Tutorial
Recovery Partition - System76 Support — The Recovery Partition is a full copy of the Pop!_OS installation disk. It can be used exactly the same as if a live disk copy of Pop!_OS was booted from a USB drive.
Add Recovery To Your Pop!_OS — If you like me, fellow reader, you may be using a more custom partition setup. Unfortunately, anything other than the default clean install on Pop!_OS means you do not get the automatically generated recovery partition of goodness. Here's a small guide over how to get the setup on an already existing install.
casper — A hook for initramfs-tools to boot live systems.
pop-os/launcher — Modular IPC-based desktop launcher service.
Raycast — Raycast is a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher. It lets you complete tasks, calculate, share common links, and much more.
Pick: n.eko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.
Ventoy — With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly.

434: Endlessly Flat

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:15:00 -0800

The Director of EndlessOS joins us to respond to recent Flatpak criticism.

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).

430: The Real Beefy Miracle

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 20:00:00 -0700

We check-in with Fedora Project lead Matthew Miller on the state of the project, then conduct our exit interview with Fedora 34, and review Fedora 35.

What's new, what's changed, and what's broken. It's a Fedora special.

Special Guests: Matthew Miller and Neal Gompa.

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Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust — I've been working on a new operating system kernel Kerla, written from scratch in Rust which aims to be Linux-compatible at the ABI level. In other words, support running unmodified Linux binaries!
Roving With Perseverance - NASA Mars — Displays including full-scale models of Perseverance and the Ingenuity Mars helicopter will be on exhibit in museums across the country
The Museum of Flight – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program — NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter models will be on display, October 30, 2021 - April 3, 2022
Remote desktop and screen casting in Wayland - GNOME Wiki! — Remote desktop functionality is not implemented in mutter but in GNOME Remote Desktop. GNOME Remote Desktop currently supports "screen share", also known as "remote assistance" mode through VNC or RDP. VNC support is provided via LibVNCServer and RDP support is provided via FreeRDP.
GNOME remote desktop RDP setup guide — The RDP server in gnome-remote-desktop currently doesn't have the UI to setup yet. To be able to use the RDP server, the server certificate, private keyfile and credentials therefore need to be created manually.
Zoom Supports Continued Access for Basic Users with Advertising Program
Worth the wait: Fedora Linux 35 is here! — We switched the default audio system to PipeWire in Fedora Linux 34, and now we’re improving this by adding the new WirePlumber session manager. WirePlumber allows for more customization of the policy and rules for audio and video. It provides a richer development experience and adds bindings for most languages.
WirePlumber 0.4.4 documentation — WirePlumber is a modular session / policy manager for PipeWire and a GObject-based high-level library that wraps PipeWire’s API, providing convenience for writing the daemon’s modules as well as external tools for managing PipeWire.
Tom Wagner / Helvum — Helvum is a GTK-based patchbay for pipewire, inspired by the JACK tool catia.
Common F35 bugs - Fedora Project Wiki
DNF System Upgrade :: Fedora Docs
Fedora Spins Prereleases
Fedora Docs
Changes/Restart User Service after Upgrade - Fedora Project Wiki
Fedora Flathub Filter List
Plasma Discover rpm-ostree_backend
Ryujinx - Nintendo Switch Emulator — Ryujinx is an open-source Nintendo Switch emulator created by gdkchan and written in C#.
Ryujinx on GitHub
Ryujinx Setup & Configuration Guide

423: What Makes a Linux User?

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

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

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

394: Tempted But the Truth is Discovered

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:45:00 -0800

After all these years, what's made us stick with Linux?

Plus the commitment just made by the GNOME team, and some new tools that are changing our game.

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Nvidia is nerfing its new RTX 3060 for Ethereum cryptocurrency mining — Nvidia is purposefully making its new RTX 3060 graphics cards less efficient to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency. New drivers that will accompany the release of the GPUs later this month will reduce the hash rate of Ethereum mining by around 50 percent, using software detection for cryptocurrency mining.
Linux has made it to Mars — “It’s kind of an open-source victory, because we’re flying an open-source operating system and an open-source flight software framework and flying commercial parts that you can buy off the shelf if you wanted to do this yourself someday.”
Linux Action News 177 — We share some exclusive details about the Linux-powered gear that just landed on Mars, and the open-source frameworks that make it possible.
[Video] NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sends New Video and Images of the Red Planet
Introducing Flatpak Builds - Open Build Service — OBS now supports building flatpak bundles, so you can build your own!
Minecraft Bedrock Launcher on Flathub — The project runs the native libraries from the Android version directly on your computer.
GNOME Shell + Mutter 40 Beta Released With Wayland Improvements, Overview Redesign — GNOME 40 beta is coming together with the GNOME Shell and Mutter components having seen new releases on Monday.
GNOME Shell 40 and multi-monitor — Multi-monitor has come up a fair bit in conversations about the GNOME Shell UX updates that are coming in GNOME 40. There’s been some uncertainty and anxiety in this area, so we wanted to provide more detail on what the multi-monitor experience will exactly be like, so people know what to expect.
PipeWire 0.3.22 Released With Many Improvements — PipeWire 0.3.22 was released this week with a whole lot of work in trying to see that Fedora 34 this spring can ship with it in use by default.
PipeWire 0.3.22 Release
Jupiter Broadcasting Telegram Channel
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Feedback: Giving up on daily driver? — Do you sometimes wonder if it's time to give up on a Linux desktop as your daily driver?
KXStudio — KXStudio is a collection of applications and plugins for audio production.
Ubuntu Studio — A free and open operating system for creative people.
ycollet/linuxmao audio packages Copr
Drew's fedora Proaudio Copr
yabridge — A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2 and VST3 plugins on Linux.
ocenaudio — Easy, fast and powerful audio editor.
Audacity — Free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.
Avid Pro Tools
SonoBus — SonoBus is an easy to use application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.
PipeWire — It provides a low-latency, graph based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both pulseaudio and JACK.
ardour — the digital audio workstation
Airwindows Plugins
Calf Studio Gear - GNU/Linux Audio Plug-Ins
Linux Studio Plugins Project
ReaPlugs for REAPER
SWS / S&M Extension for REAPER
Ultrasound — High-end podcasting for everyone.
Pick: Proton-Caller — Run any Windows program through Valve's Proton.

325: DNF or Die

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:00:00 -0700

Fedora 31 strikes the right balance, we get the latest on the Librem 5 situation, and an easy graphics boost for laptops.

Plus the best way to share your terminal yet, and more.

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

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Episode 273: International Hat Machines

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:30:00 -0700

We speculate about a future where IBM owns Red Hat, and review the latest Fedora 29 release that promises a new game changing feature.

Plus Chris returns from MeetBSD with his review, and we get the inside scope on System76’s Thelio hardware.

Special Guests: Alan Pope and Martin Wimpress.

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LKML: Greg KH: Linux 4.19 — These past few months has been a tough one for our community, as it is our community that is fighting from within itself, with prodding from others outside of it. Don't fall into the cycle of arguing about those "others" in the "Judean People's Front" when we are the "We're the People's Front of Judea!" That is the trap that countless communities have fallen into over the centuries. We all share the same goal, let us never loose sight of that.
Samsung Open-Source Group Reportedly Shuts Down - Phoronix — Samsung has apparently shut down the Samsung Open-Source Group (Samsung OSG) as a blow to the wider free software ecosystem considering the group's prolific contributions over the years from low-level open-source projects to desktop/user-facing code-bases.
You Can Play Over 2,600 Windows Games on Linux Via Steam Play
ProtonDB
ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 Workstation Dock — The ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 WorkStation Dock is a pioneering docking solution powered by Intel Thunderbolt technology and is designed exclusively for ThinkPad Mobile Workstations, delivering up to 230W power to charge both notebook and a full range of productivity and connectivity peripherals.
System76 Shares With Us More Details On Thelio Open Hardware, Pricing Starts At $1,100 USD
System76 on US Manufacturing and Open Hardware — To further our open computer ambition, we’re working to remove functionality from the proprietary mainboard. To that end, we designed Thelio Io, a daughter board that manages thermal and chassis control while also providing a storage backplane for the drives in Thelio. It’s open hardware and open source firmware, and a big step in the right direction.
1 Billion pulls from Docker Hub.
IBM TO ACQUIRE RED HAT — IBM will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $34 billion.
Statement on the IBM acquisition of Red Hat — Nevertheless, the world has moved on. Replacing UNIX is no longer sufficient. The decline in RHEL growth contrasted with the acceleration in Linux more broadly is a strong market indicator of the next wave of open source. Public cloud workloads have largely avoided RHEL.
RHEL 7.6 Released — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 is designed to be the trusted bedrock for hybrid cloud deployments
Announcing the release of Fedora 29 — This release is particularly exciting because it’s the first to include the Fedora Modularity feature across all our different variants. Modularity lets us ship different versions of packages on the same Fedora base.
What is Modularity :: Fedora Docs Site — Different users have different needs. Developers want the latest versions possible, system administrators want stability for longer period of time. There are many Linux distributions out there, each targeting a different audience, for example Fedora vs. CentOS.
Working with modules in Fedora — This article puts one of those modules to practical use, covering installation and setup of Review Board 3.0 using modules.
Blog - Chris Goes to MeetBSD — MeetBSD 2018 took place at the sprawling Intel Santa Clara campus. The venue itself felt more like an olive branch than a simple friendly gesture by Intel. In truth it felt like a bit of an apology. You get the subtle sense they feel bad about how the BSD's were treated with the Meltdown and Specter flaws.
TAP ROOM For the Ask Noah Party
Dbxfs - Mount Dropbox Folder Locally As Virtual File System In Linux — The dbxfs officially supports Linux and Mac OS. However, it should work on any POSIX system that provides a FUSE-compatible library or has the ability to mount SMB shares.
PSA: Dropbox ext4 limitation workaround — Create a loopback!
TaskBook — Popey recommended!

Episode 263: Updates from the Source

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 18:45:00 -0700

Docker controversy is brewing, but it's probably not what you think. We get around of community updates directly from the source, and why Debian an Intel are playing the game of he said, she said.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, and Martin Wimpress.

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