Special Guest: Producer Jeff.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2025 Schedule
• POLL: Would You Tune Into a Saturday LFNW Live Stream?
• LINUX Unplugged LIVE@LFNW Sunday — Sunday 10:00 AM · 1h · HC 108
• Linux-Powered Payments: Running a Lightning Node with nix-bitcoin — Sunday 1:30 PM · 45 min · HC 204
• Lutris - Open Gaming Platform for Linux — video game preservation platform aiming to keep your video game collection up and running for the years to come.
• GitHub - ValveSoftware/Proton: Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
• R36MAX Retro Handheld Game Console with 64G Built-in 18000+ Classic Games — The R36Max is a budget device that puts the common RK3326 chip into a vertical handheld. It has the same specs as the R36Pro, but with a larger, 1:1 screen.
• R36 Max Handheld Game Console with 4" Screen Linux System
• Kooha: Elegantly record your screen — Kooha is a simple screen recorder with a minimal interface. You can simply click the record button without having to configure a bunch of settings.
• vtt-summarizer: Summarize .vtt files into meeting notes — It uses open source LLMs to handle the data extraction and summarization, ensuring everything can be run locally and without the need to share with third parties.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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• Warp Terminal: Warp - the re-imagined terminal now available for Linux with multiple distributions available including Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Arch Linux.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Introducing Fedora Atomic Desktops
• 45Drives/autotier — A passthrough FUSE filesystem that intelligently moves files between storage tiers based on frequency of use, file age, and tier fullness.
• Ok, what is the “actual” way to install Nextcloud completely, fully, as in all the features, and best performance?
• Help a newbie to make a choice - 🚧 Installation - Nextcloud community
• Nextcloud All-in-One
• NextcloudPi — NextcloudPi is a ready to use image for Virtual Machines, Raspberry Pi, Odroid HC1, Rock64 and other boards.
• NextcloudPi | Nextcloud Conference 2022
• Nextcloud - Official Docker Image
• nextcloud/ansible-collection-nextcloud-admin: The ansible galaxy for your nextcloud administrative needs.
• ReinerNippes/nextcloud: Ansible playbook to install nextcloud, php, nginx or apache, mariadb or postgres, redis-server, onlyoffice or collabora office
• LINUX Unplugged 307 — What’s your NextCloud?
• Top 10 Self-Hosted Apps - Perfect Media Server
• Self-Hosted - Episodes Tagged with “nextcloud”
• The Holy Grail Nextcloud setup made easy by NixOS
• NixOS Nextcloud Module Docs
• NixOS Nextcloud Service Source
• Nextcloud Apps Packaged in NixOS
• LUP’s nextcloud.nix
• NixOS Nextcloud Module Options
• Soltros’ Nextcloud-on-NixOS
• TODO: ExecStartPost to copy off backups
• First NixCon North America!
• Southern California Linux Expo 21
• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
• Yard House Menu
• Eric's Nextcloud on NixOS
• Eric's Collabora
• Nextcloud NixOS Setup Overview
• Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition
• hercules-ci/arion — Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS
• Arion documentation
• GabMus / Envision · GitLab — A VR stack for Linux, recently running directly on the NVK driver and Wayland.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Producer Jeff.

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• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

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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.

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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

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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.

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• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.
• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!

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• The Steam Linux Beta Begins…
• Steam Linux Use Tips Up In October Thanks To The Steam Deck — The growth of Steam Deck adoption also now bumps AMD's CPU marketshare among Steam on Linux gamers to 56% against Intel, an increase in October alone of +4.37%.
• GitHub Issue: Geocatching details on site
• ODROID-H3+ – ODROID — Great compatibility, a brand new x86 64-bit single board computer with large memory capacity and advanced IO ports.
• ODROID-H3 Case Type 2 – ODROID
• ODROID-H3 Case Type 3 – ODROID
• plex - LinuxServer.io
• Jellyfin intro-skipper Plugin
• Tuxies Board Room
• Ubuntu Summit 2022 — An opportunity for the broader Ubuntu community to learn and speak about the amazing work and success stories happening in the ecosystem.
• How to Revert the Last Git Commit | Linode
• Snapcraft.io
• What happened to signal-desktop? - snapcraft.io — This is due to a DMCA takedown request coming from people representing Signal. Canonical is currently working with Signal to resolve this issue.
• “signal-desktop” not found · Issue #70 · snapcrafters/signal-desktop
• Install signal-desktop on Linux | Snap Store
• Godot Engine — Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine.
• Godot’s Graduation: Godot moves to a new Foundation — Software Freedom Conservancy and the Godot leadership are excited to share their decision that the Godot project has reached a level of success for which it makes sense for Godot to have its own independent foundation.
• Announcing Godot’s Graduation from SFC!
• I will try my best to explain why the upcoming @godotengine foundation can’t offer Console ports.
• Open source game development advances with Godot Engine 3.5 out now
• The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta
• Godot: Exporting for Linux
• Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them
• With Twitter in chaos, Mastodon is on fire | CNN Business
• How to securely store secrets in BitWarden CLI and load them into your ZSH shell when needed | by Zack Proser | Oct, 2022 | Gruntwork
• Intel ME-Enabled System Needed For Updating Arc Graphics GSC Firmware — Update: Intel reached out to say firmware updating will work on AMD platforms, but awaiting to hear futher details.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps

Special Guest: Tim Canham.

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• 412Linux on Twitter — Sadly, @ChrisLAS is the first person I thought about after reading the Stadia update. He really did believe in it. Can't wait to hear his t
• A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy — A few years ago, we also launched a consumer gaming service, Stadia. And while Stadia's approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong technology foundation, it hasn't gained the traction with users that we expected so we’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming service.
• The Verge blames Linux — Google spent millions convincing publishers like Ubisoft and Take-Two to bring their biggest games to Stadia. Google had to pay such large sums because the work to port games over wasn’t particularly easy given Stadia runs on Linux, a platform game developers haven’t paid enough attention to.
• Stadia died because no one trusts Google
• Grants Pass Geocache Location
• Sacramento Geocache Location
• Pasadena Geocache Location
• Office Hours 13: One Long Monday
• Check out our Meetups
• Our West Coast Matrix Crew
• Immich
• Storj
• Google Photos is messing up old backed-up images for some users
• frozear's NixOS Config — It uses Awesome Window Manager, the Ranger file manager and Kitty for a terminal. Dotfiles for those three are included.
• Ham Radio Linux Distributions
• Linux in the Ham Shack
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Bitrefill — Buy Gift Cards & Top Up Airtime with Bitcoin or Crypto
• JPL Open Source Rover Project — A build-it-yourself, 6-wheel rover based on the rovers on Mars!

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• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

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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

• 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.

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• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.

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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

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• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.

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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

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

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• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.

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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.

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

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• Updated Rust Code For Linux Kernel Patches Posted
• Dell Technologies Announces Completion of VMware Spin-off
• Pop!_OS's GNOME Shell Repo
• Steam Tracker

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• Register for Ohio LinuxFest 2021
• Kodi “Matrix” 19.3 Release — Okay, we know that we've only just released 19.2, and some of you are probably even still waiting for that, but that's a big part of the reason we need to push out a new build. We still had some challenges with the Xbox release, and some other issues came to light that we didn't want to ignore - so, rather than get into platform-specific point releases, we thought we'd just nudge up to 19.3 and go for it.
• Jellyfin — Jellyfin is the volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached. Your media, your server, your way.
• Plex — Plex brings together all the media that matters to you. Your personal collection will look beautiful alongside stellar streaming content.
• Dual Gigabit Ethernet Carrier Board for Raspberry Pi CM4 4 with 4GB RAM/ 32GB eMMC — It features a variety of I/O peripherals such as MIPI CSI, MIPI DSI, micro-HDMI to connect displays/ cameras, a standard 9-pin USB 3.0 header for more USB expansion, a micro-SD card slot, and an FPC connector while maintaining a compact form factor! This board is ideal for HTPC makers, Linux developers, software router enthusiasts, and the majority of regular Raspberry Pi users.
• Client Spotlight: Infuse for tvOS and iOS - Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System — With Infuse, it's easy to connect to with automatic server discovery. Once connected, you can enjoy direct playback (no transcoding required) for almost all formats.
• Jellyfin Plugin for Kodi — The Jellyfin for Kodi add-on combines the best of Kodi - ultra smooth navigation, beautiful UIs and playback of any file under the sun, and Jellyfin - the most powerful open source multi-client media metadata indexer and server. You can now retire your MySQL setup in favor of a more flexible setup.
• catt — Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources to your Chromecast.
• Self-Hosted Podcast — Discover new software and hardware to get the best out of your network, control smart devices, and secure your data on cloud services.
• Perfect Media Server — Perfect Media Server began life as a series of blog posts over at blog.linuxserver.io. Those posts continue to be very popular but a blog post (or three) can only get you so far... I therefore introduce perfectmediaserver.com - a wiki format information repository detailing all you need to know to build a free, open and modular media server that will last for many, many years.
• Jellyfin Android App
• Jellyfin for Android TV
• Jellyfin Roku App
• Jellyfish Bitrate Test Files
• jellyfin-mpv-shim — MPV Cast Client for Jellyfin.
• Pick: Junction — Set Junction as the default application for a resource and let it do the rest. Junction will pop up and offer multiple options to handle it.
• Junction on Flathub

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, the reunion road trip hits a bump, some community news, feedback, picks, and more.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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• A Cloud Guru: Students will install and configure various use cases for Apache, Squid, and NGINX, including virtual hosts, proxy and reverse proxy servers, HTTPS/SSL, and load balancing. We’ll also discuss how to collect Apache metrics, as well as the differences between Apache and NGINX.
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.

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• The Light Phone — The Light Phone II is a premium, minimal phone. It will never have social media, clickbait news, email, an internet browser, or any other anxiety-inducing infinite feed.
• Ingenuity Is So Good, NASA’s Mars Helicopter Mission Just Got an Exciting Update — Given its stunning and unexpected success, NASA has extended Ingenuity's mission indefinitely.
• KDE’s Plasma Wayland Session Is “Finally Reaching Stability” Following Many Fixes — "Gazillions of bugfixes...Including many for the Plasma Wayland session! It’s finally reaching stability. I know it’s taken a while, but I think we’re very nearly there!"
• This week in KDE: gazillions of bugfixes
• Nftables reaches 1.0 — The release of nftables 1.0.0 can be seen as a signal that it is time for the laggards to get more serious about making the switch. While it is hard to imagine iptables support being removed anytime soon, it's rather easier to foresee that enthusiasm for maintaining it will continue to wane. It only took 13 years, but this transition finally appears to be heading into its final stage.
• nftables wiki
• Garuda Linux — Garuda Linux is a rolling release distro based on Arch Linux, which ensures always getting the latest software updates.
• Garuda Whoogle
• Garuda Startpage
• Stickers | Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
• Pick: yt-dlp — A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.
• Pick: ytmdl — A simple app to get songs from YouTube in mp3 format with artist name, album name etc from sources like iTunes, Spotify, LastFM, Deezer, Gaana etc.

Plus community news, feedback, and more.

Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Neal Gompa.

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• Eight Great Features Of Linux 5.8 - Phoronix
• Feedback from David: Trackball for RSI
• Standing Desks from Autonomous
• MX Vertical Advanced Ergonomic Mouse
• Debian: GRUB2 UEFI SecureBoot vulnerability - ‘BootHole’
• A long list of GRUB2 secure-boot holes
• There’s a Hole in the Boot
• Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole patches
• Valve Hires Former Emulator Developer To Work On Open-Source Graphics For Linux
• Nvidia-Arm Deal Would Be a Technology ‘Disaster’
• Invitation to Play Along | PINE64
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• LUP LUG Mumble Server Info
• Fullscreen JB IRC Chat - bit.ly/jupiterchat
• Jabra Elite Active 65t Tech Specs
• Amazon.com: Jabra Elite Active 65t Earbuds
• PulseAudio Loopbacks and Virtual Sinks
• PulseAudio Hacks for Zoom
• Shure SM58-LC Cardioid Dynamic Vocal Microphone
• Corsair Void RGB Elite Wireless Premium Gaming Headset
• ATR2100-USB - Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone | Audio-Technica
• Booth Junkie Review: Audio Technica ATR-2100 USB review
• Feedback: Another reason to love MX Linux

Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Jill Bryant Ryniker.

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• BunsenLabs Linux
• Puppy Linux Home
• The FreeBSD Project
• SparkyLinux
• KolibriOS official site
• antiX Linux

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

This episode kicks off the start of a bigger conversation series.

Plus community news, very handy picks, and more.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Maria Komarova, and Michael Aaron Murphy .

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• GNOME Shell 3.36 release Looking Great
• Firefox 75 On Wayland Now To Have Full WebGL, Working VA-API Acceleration - Phoronix
• Don’t forget about DST!
• FOSS Talk Live - June 20th at The Harrison near King’s Cross in London
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Late Night Linux – Episode 84 – Late Night Linux
• How Docker Makes All Linux Distros Look Alike - Container Journal
• Docker Desktop for Mac - Docker Hub
• Docker Desktop for Windows
• Simon Ferquel on Twitter: “We just updated @docker desktop edge channel with a build supporting Windows 10 Home Insider (you need WSL2 to run it on Home). So happy to see this at last!” / Twitter
• Yong Sheng on Twitter: “running #docker on #wsl2 from a fresh reboot of #windows10 20H1: 9 sec startup, 1.1gb of ram, no hyper-v MobyVM required. passthrough support into my existing ubuntu wsl instance. been waiting for this for years! https://t.co/6ernWi4Hoz” / Twitter
• Chris Tries a Mac and it Makes him Think
• Steam Survey Updated For February 2020 With Latest Linux Figures - Phoronix
• Carl Richell on Twitter: Pop!_OS tiling is shaping up nicely. We’re hoping to have a 20.04 beta release available in about a month.
• pop-os/shell: Pop!_OS Tiling GNOME Extension
• catt - Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources to your Chromecast.
• The Silver Searcher - A code searching tool similar to ack, with a focus on speed.
• Ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern

Plus community news, a reality check on Linux gaming, and some shiny new hardware.

Special Guests: Jason Evangelho and Peter Ammon.

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• Pretty much every recent Windows Phone is now hackable
• Fedora 31 Isn't Expected To Be Delayed After All — Since November the developers behind Fedora Linux had been discussing whether to significantly delay or even cancel Fedora 31 so they could spend around one year working on re-tooling how the distribution is crafted and work on other fundamental changes. But it turns out now they have decided against this big shake-up delay
• Fedora Planning A Per-System Unique Identifier For DNF — The proposal is quick to acknowledge the intent isn't for tracking users but only counting and this UUID wouldn't be re-used by other systems.
• Linux 5.0 is on the way — The numbering change is not indicative of anything special. If you want to have an official reason, it's that I ran out of fingers and toes to count on, so 4.21 became 5.0
• Track Chris and Lady Jups
• GNU ed 1.15 released
• Bash 5.0 release available
• Fish Shell 3.0.0 — Fish 3 is a major release, which introduces some breaking changes alongside improved functionality.
• Peter (@ridiculous_fish) | Twitter
• "Would totally skip Linux." — We shipped Planetary Annihilation on Win, Mac, and Linux. Linux uses we're a big vocal part of the Kickstarter and forums. In the end they accounted for <0.1% of sales but >20% of auto reported crashes and support tickets
• Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets | Hacker News
• Jason Evangelho on Twitter — Re: Adobe Premiere on Linux. I have a call next week with both Bill Roberts (Sr. Director Product Management) & Patrick Palmer (Principal Product Manager). They reached out to ME. I think a genuine effort is being made here to listen to & understand various perspectives.
• Jason Evangelho @ Forbes
• Entroware Apollo 14"

Plus Chris reviews how his new Thunderbolt 3 GPU docking station works under Linux, and why he’ll never be undocking again.

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

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• Pioneers — Pioneers, the wonderfully addicting game based on "The Settlers of Catan"
• XPRA — multi-platform screen and application forwarding system or "screen for X11"
• Valve discontinues the Steam Link — Farewell to the Steam Link, the best wireless HDMI gadget ever made
• Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline — Android devices are based on the Linux kernel but, since the beginning, those devices have not run mainline kernels.
• Linux Deepin 15.8 Released with Various Neat Improvements
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is getting 10-Year Support
• Ubuntu Security Podcast
• LINUX Unplugged Feedback: Docking Stations?
• Lenovo G0A10170UL Thunderbolt 3 Graphics Dock
• Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 Dock on Debian Linux | The Blog of Juho
• Thunderbolt 3 device manager
• prime-select: A fork of FedoraPrime enhanced for all linux distributions
• Black Friday Sale | Linux Academy
• Name the Automation System — Which two names work best for the Jupiter Broadcasting Automation system?
• Feedback from Albert: Youtube on the Desktop?
• Minitube, YouTube app for Mac, Windows and Linux
• youtube-dl — youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube
• webtty: Share a terminal session over WebRTC
• unite-shell: Unite makes GNOME Shell look like Ubuntu Unity Shell.
• WireGuard VPN Road Warrior Setup

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!

Plus community news, our thoughts on building a market for Linux apps, the latest from UBPorts, and more good news from LVFS!

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

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• Realtek on the LVFS!
• Fedora Moves Ahead With Plans To Drop Packages Having Bad Security
• Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Release
• KDE Itinerary
• Updated: Intel Answers Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking Ban
• Benchmarks Of Intel's Latest Linux Microcode Update
• Organizing a Market for Applications
• Libre Application Summit
• Origin of the name Proton — We've been working on this for a long time. We needed an internal codename we could use that wouldn't tip our hand if it leaked (so Wine puns are out), and that we wouldn't be embarrassed to continue using after release (sorry, BadgerBadgerBadger). A bunch of ideas were tossed around the CodeWeavers office one afternoon, and I ended up picking Proton because it's short, easy to remember, sounds cool, and is hard to Google for. Although, I like your explanation too :)
• Wine and Steam - A Major Milestone — We have been working directly with Valve for two years on this effort,
• How do I use Proton via command line?
• Protontricks: A simple wrapper that does winetricks things for Proton enabled games, requires Winetricks.