LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Foss”

662: The GitHub Diet

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:45:00 -0700

Is it time to replace GitHub in our workflow? We git into it. Plus, our favorite features in the new Linux 7.0 release.

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LinuxFest Northwest 2026 — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
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Linux 7.0: Btrfs — A translation layer of logical block addresses that allows changes without moving or rewriting blocks for relocation
Linux 7.0: XFS — Autonomous self-healing; delivers live filesystem health events to userspace for automatic repairs
Linux 7.0: EXT4 — Improves write performance for concurrent direct I/O writes
Linux 7.0: IO-uring — Adds support for BPF filtering to IO_uring for high performance async I/O
Linux 7.0: Scheduler — Scheduler updates land with time slice extension, performance and scalability work for high core count systems
Linux 7.0: Rust — Formally concluding the 'Rust experiment'; Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay
Linux 7.1: i486 — Begins phasing out Intel 486 CPU support; no known Linux distributions still ship with i486 support
Give Up GitHub — We realize this is not an easy task; GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their effective marketing, GitHub has convinced FOSS developers that GitHub is the best (and even the only) place for FOSS development.
opengist — Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, open-source alternative to Github Gist.
Forgejo on Codeberg — Beyond coding. We forge.
Forgejo — Self-hosted alternative to GitHub; liberate your software from proprietary shackles with a familiar environment
NixOS Wiki: Forgejo — Lightweight software forge; completely free software and a fork of Gitea
Forgejo Actions — Reusable pieces of code for CI workflows; compatible with GitHub Actions
NixOS Forgejo Actions Runner — NixOS configuration for turnkey deployment of Forgejo Actions runners
Forgejo Federation (PR #10453) — Work-in-progress for federated repositories; enabling decentralized software development
Forgejo Snippets (Issue #1069) — Create a shareable piece of text, be it code or plain text, publicly or privately
Git Novice Guide — Free interactive tutorial; learn version control with Git from scratch
Pick: sshroute — Network-aware SSH router - routes connections to different IPs/ports/keys/jump hosts based on active VPN or network
Pick: rendercv — Resume builder for academics and engineers
Pick: ESPHome Starter Kit — DIY sensor kit for Home Assistant with ESPHome; build your own smart home devices

529: Changing the Game

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 20:00:00 -0700

Even if you don't game, the data is in, and the impact of the Steam Deck on Linux is massive. We'll go into details and then share our long-term review of the Deck.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Producer Jeff.

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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.
Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’
How SteamOS is Contributing to the Linux Ecosystem - OSS EU 2023 [YouTube]
Open Source Summit Europe 2023: How SteamOS is Contributing to the Linux Ecosystem
Igalia — Open Source Consultancy and Development
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community — Alberto Garcia of the open-source consulting firm Igalia, which continues to collaborate with Valve on some of these Linux ecosystem improvements, talked at length around how SteamOS is contributing to the Linux ecosystem.
Docking Station for Valve Steam Deck Dock
The Steam Deck wasn’t born ready, but it’s ready now
Awesome Deck List
Steam Deck
Steam Store
Valve Corporation
Alby 🐝 on X — Humble reminder: In August, Alby accounts have processed over 1 million transactions! 😊😊😊 And it’s all thanks to… you! 💙 Our users, partners, wallet holders, contributors!
[YouTube] Walkthrough of Nix Install and Setup on MacOS
GeneBean's dot files
RetroDECK — RetroDECK is an emulation and retro gaming solution to catalog and play your game collection directly from Linux in one unified application.

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

462: One Cosmic Collaboration

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 17:00:00 -0700

From skeptic to buyer, why the HP Dev One is the best Linux laptop yet. This is the one review you don't want to miss.

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Starlink RV Mounting & Storage Options
HP Dev One — From preinstalled Linux Pop!_OS to a tuned Linux keyboard with a Super key, HP Dev One is designed with powerful features and tools to help you code your way.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U Processor
HP Dev One CPU Bench Benchmarks
Blender Test On HP DEV One Benchmarks
Podverse — Podcasting 2.0 certified player for Android, F-Droid, iOS, and the web. Share created clips, highlights, playlists, and chapters, sync your queue and more!
Office Hours 6 — Peer to Peer Future
Office Hours on Podverse
LINUX Unplugged on Podverse
Podverse on Twitter
Podverse on GitHub

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

423: What Makes a Linux User?

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

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

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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

409: Launch Your Memories Into the Future

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 18:45:00 -0700

We discuss old and new ways to manage, organize, index, and search your photo collection. It's our favorite Google Photo's alternatives.

Plus Chris' hands-on review of System76's customizable Launch keyboard.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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Google Photos is so 2020—welcome to the world of self-hosted photo management | Ars Technica — Alex's comprehensive write-up for Ars.
rclone Google Photos — The rclone backend for Google Photos is a specialized backend for transferring photos and videos to and from Google Photos.
Launch keyboard — The Launch Configurable Keyboard is engineered to be comfortable, fully customizable, and make your workflow more efficient.
Updated storage policy for Google Photos
Plans & Pricing - Google One
Install Google Photos Sync on Linux with a Snap
How To Backup Google Photos To Your Computer With gphotos-sync
Google Photos Sync — Google Photos Sync downloads your Google Photos to the local file system. It will backup all the photos the user uploaded to Google Photos, but also the album information and additional Google Photos 'Creations' (animations, panoramas, movies, effects and collages).
Sync Google Photos to your Linux Desktop
Photonix Photo Manager — Photonix is a photo management application that streamlines the process of storing, presenting and re-discovering photos.
Photonix Demo
LibrePhotos — A self-hosted open source photo management service.
PhotoStructure — Self-hosted, easy to install, and effortless to run. PhotoStructure is your cloud that runs on your computer. Your data stays yours.
Chevereto — Get your own turnkey image hosting system today. Start your own image sharing website with your own rules.
Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right.
PhotoPrism — PhotoPrism is a privately hosted app for browsing, organizing, and sharing your photo collection. It makes use of the latest technologies to tag and find pictures automatically without getting in your way.
Piwigo — Piwigo is open source photo gallery software for the web. Designed for organisations, teams and individuals.
FileRun File Manager — Self-Hosted File Sync and Sharing.
exiftool - bulk join json with jpg from Google Takeout
How To Correctly Export And Migrate Away From Google Photos
FakeSlice — Discharge USB-C Power Banks before internal battery on newer ThinkPads.
FOSS Talk Live — FOSS Talk Live 2021 is happening on 12th June at 7pm UK time!
JB Telegram
The Seasoned Tux Tee is on Sale

407: And the Answer is...

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

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

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

357: The Little Distro That Could

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 12:00:00 -0700

The lightweight distro that stole our hearts, the four of us each try out a different contender and come away with what we think will be the leanest and meanest distribution for your PC.

Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Jill Bryant Ryniker.

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346: The One-Click Trap

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:30:00 -0700

We debate the dangers and advantages of one-click deployments. Then Dan from elementary OS shares an AppCenter for Everyone update.

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

Special Guests: Danielle Foré and Neal Gompa.

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FOSS Responders — COVID-19 is impacting the open source industry in many ways. If you or your community has been impacted, please let us know
Seems that NVIDIA silently axed their GTC talk about Nouveau?
Update: NVIDIA GTC 2020 Announcements Postponed Entirely
Lemur Pro - System76
Brunch with Brent: Stuart Langridge
Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
FOSS Talk Live 2020 has been cancelled. — It seems very unlikely that London will be functioning by June so I have made this difficult call. I'm very sorry to anyone who has made travel and accommodation arrangements but I trust that everyone will understand why this had to be done.
TXLF 2020 Rescheduled — Given the recommendations by public health officials, we have decided to not have Texas Linux Fest on May 2020 at the Palmer Events Center in Austin, TX. We are currently investigating opportunities to bring parts of Texas Linux Fest online.
Unfilter is Back
TurnKey GNU/Linux — a free Debian based library of system images that pre-integrates and polishes the best free software components into secure, easy to use solutions.
Sandstorm — an open source project built by a community of volunteers with the goal of making it really easy to run open source web applications
Bitnami Stack
YunoHost — easily manage a server for your friends, association or enterprise.
Dedicated Platform Package Manager — an easy way to install and manage server applications.
Home Assistant Add-ons - Home Assistant
Feedback: Backup software tips?
Feedback: mac Apps and Little Snitch
Little Snitch and the Deprecation of Kernel Extensions
Feedback: Life at Microsoft
Feedback: Mint Success
Feedback: Mastodon
Feedback: The Windows Burden

338: Success Through Vulnerability

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 14:00:00 -0800

How did we get from shareware to free software? We jump in the Linux powered time machine and revisit software past.

Plus a new Plasma focused laptop, and two powerful command-line picks.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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316: Self-Hosted Secrets

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 20:30:00 -0700

Safely host your own password database using totally open source software. We cover BitWarden, our top choice to solve this problem.

Plus we announce a new show we're super proud of, and chat with Dan Lynch from OggCamp.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Dan Lynch, and Ell Marquez.

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low-memory-monitor: new project announcement — low-memory-monitor, as its name implies, monitors the amount of free physical memory on the system and will shoot off signals to interested user-space applications, usually session managers, or sandboxing helpers, when that memory runs low, making it possible for applications to shrink their memory footprints before it's too late either to recover a usable system, or avoid taking a performance hit.
Fedora Switching To The BFQ I/O Scheduler For Better Responsiveness & Throughput - Phoronix — Following Chromebooks switching to BFQ and other distributions weighing this I/O scheduler for better responsiveness while maintaining good throughput capabilities, beginning with Fedora 31 there will be BFQ used as well.
Pinebook Preorders — Public #Pinebook Pro pre-orders start in the morning PDT (California, USA Time) August 25. The NEXT pre-order window will be mid-September; so don't worry if you won't get a pre-order now, it won't be a long wait for the next pre-order window.
LINUX Unplugged - Blog - Summer Sprint 2019 — Working remotely certainly has its advantages and I love the ability to sit in the comfort of my own home doing work I’m passionate about. That being said, I think it’s equally important to spend time together in meat space. There really is nothing like looking across the table at your co-workers while you try to flush out new ideas, make important decisions, or just share a meal. Not to mention, Washington is beautiful this time of the year...
Subscribe to Self Hosted — Discover new software and hardware to get the best out of your network, control smart devices, and secure your data on cloud services. Self Hosted is a chat show between Chris and Alex two long-time "self hosters" who share their lessons and take you on the journey of their new ones.
Self Hosted Coming Soon — Self Hosted Teaser
OGGCAMP 19 - OggCamp 19 — We’re at The Manchester Conference Centre in the Pendulum Hotel near Picadilly Station the weekend of October 19th and 20th 2019.
Jupiter Extras — New ideas, great interviews, events, and other content you will love. We bring you the Extras.
Texas Cyber Summit — October 10th-12th, 2019 at the Grand Hyatt in San Antonion
Kyle Spearrin's GitHub
Behind the scenes with the Bitwarden password manager | Opensource.com — I've used password management tools for years. I became frustrated by the complexity and barrier to entry many of the existing solutions offered. There was also a lack of quality, open source solutions available. I thought things could be done better and that there was great value in doing so.
Install Bitwarden for Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft — Bitwarden is the easiest and safest way to store all of your logins and passwords while conveniently keeping them synced between all of your devices.
bitwarden/cli: The command line vault (Windows, macOS, & Linux). — The Bitwarden CLI is a powerful, full-featured command-line interface (CLI) tool to access and manage a Bitwarden vault. The CLI is written with TypeScript and Node.js and can be run on Windows, macOS, and Linux distributions.
bitwarden/mobile: The mobile app vault (iOS and Android). — The Bitwarden mobile application is written in C# with Xamarin Android, Xamarin iOS, and Xamarin Forms.
Bitwarden on F-Droid
‎Bitwarden Password Manager on the App Store
Bitwarden Password Manager - Apps on Google Play
Bitwarden—Linux Apps on Flathub
Import your data from LastPass | Bitwarden Help & Support
Why should I trust Bitwarden with my passwords? | Bitwarden Help & Support
What are organizations? | Bitwarden Help & Support
dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust — This is a Bitwarden server API implementation written in Rust compatible with upstream Bitwarden clients*, perfect for self-hosted deployment where running the official resource-heavy service might not be ideal.
Starting a Container · dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs Wiki
Manage your passwords with Bitwarden and Podman - Fedora Magazine — You can also sync your passwords across devices if you have a cloud-based password manager like LastPass, 1Password, or Dashlane. Unfortunately, none of these products are open source. Luckily there are open source alternatives available.
Installing and deploying | Bitwarden Help & Support
Bitwarden Completes Third-party Security Audit - Bitwarden Blog
Wayland Buddies | LINUX Unplugged 315 : linuxunplugged — A lot of the "Wayland is really smooth" talk really means "Mutter is really smooth", since it's gnome-shell's compositor Mutter that has to implement everything which Xorg used to do.
aguinet/usbtop: usbtop is a top-like utility that shows an estimated instantaneous bandwidth on USB buses and devices.

Episode 274: Open Source by Default

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

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

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

Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais.

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