Plus Ubuntu's Director of Desktop Martin Wimpress covers the details everyone missed in 20.04.

Special Guests: Martin Wimpress, Matthew Miller, and Neal Gompa.

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• Red Hat Summit 2020 Virtual Experience
• Wimpy on Twitter: There are new ✨ features in #Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 that no one is aware of or talking 🙊 about, so here they are; straight from the horses mouth 🐴 Also, a little peek behind the curtain 👀 regarding how OEM requirements help shape desktop #Linux 🐧
• What’s new in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS?
• LINUX Unplugged 350: Focal Focus
• Lenovo is Bringing Fedora Linux to its ThinkPad Laptops
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• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• ACG launches Cloud Playgrounds for B2B
• Fedora 32 Officially Released With EarlyOOM, SSD TRIM Finally Flipped On, GNOME 3.36
• Fedora 32 Schedule: All Tasks
• Fedora Release Life Cycle
• Fedora 32 Cleared For Release Next Week
• Fedora 32 ChangeSet
• Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years — Christian F.K. Schaller
• GNOME 3.36
• Login and unlock in GNOME Shell 3.36
• Enable Earlyoom
• Previously covered on LINUX Unplugged 348: OK OOMer
• Change firewalld default to nftables
• Make iptables-nft preferred iptables implementation
• Nftables: a new packet filtering engine (2009)
• The return of nftables (2013)
• Why nftables
• And maybe it will be eBPF before long anyway… (2018)
• Adopting sysusers.d format
• DNF Better Counting
• Enable FSTrim Timer
• Restart services at end of rpm transaction
• Systemd 245 Released - First Version Including Systemd-Homed
• GCC 10
• GCC’s New Static Analysis Capabilities Are Getting Into Shape For GCC 10 - Phoronix
• Static analysis in GCC 10 - Red Hat Developer
• GLIBC 2.31
• LLVM 10
• Python 3.8
• Retire Python 2
• Fedora 32 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Engaged In Some Healthy Competition Over Performance
• Initial Benchmarks Of Fedora 32 Linux Performance
• Firefox Performance On Wayland Is Looking Good - Browser Benchmarks With KDE vs. GNOME
• Fedora Alternate Architectures
• Fedora Magazine Mentions Better Rock64 Support
• Bonus Pick: bashtop

Plus our thoughts on the new KWin fork, if Bleachbit is safe, and a quick Fedora update.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.

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Links:

• Logging Into Linux With A 1930s Teletype
• TUXEDO Computers Launches A Power/Thermal Control Center For Their Linux Systems
• System76 Lemur Pro
• KDE’s window manager KWin gets forked with ‘KWinFT’ to accelerate the development and better Wayland
• BleachBit 4.0.0
• Fedora 32 Final is NO-GO
• Brunch with Brent: Sri Ramkrishna
• Linux Spotlight EP44 - Drew DeVore of Jupiter Broadcasting
• Linux Spotlight EP43 - An Interview with Tyler Brown longtime JB fan
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• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Ubuntu 20.04 Flavours Hit Beta, But What’s New?
• Gnome 3.34 vs Gnome 3.36 Visual Comparison
• The ‘GameMode’ performance tool from Feral Interactive makes it into Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 20.04 and WSL 1 - WSL2 - Ubuntu Community Hub
• Ubuntu Server 20.04 CPU Security Mitigation Performance Impact
• Kernel 5.4: VirtIO-FS
• Grub boot menu bug
• Folder under applications menu doesn’t show text below last line of icons.
• Daniel Kerkow on Twitter: Migrating to a later LTS should be easily possible, so I would maybe stick to 18.04 for now if in doubt."
• pacat: Play back or record raw or encoded audio streams on a PulseAudio sound server
• 3mux: Imagine tmux with a smaller learning curve, i3-like keybindings, and more sane defaults.