LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Gitlab”

482: Legacy Gets the Boot

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 20:00:00 -0700

Are the long-timers holding Linux back? Lennart Poettering argues we are and proposes a new Microsoft-blessed way to secure Linux.

Plus, our thoughts on the slow decline of mailing lists in open-source development.

Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

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“Old/weird laptops” sought to help test Linux kernel backlight drivers — You could help smooth out a long-needed overhaul of Linux's backlight systems.
The GNOME Project is closing all its mailing lists — The GNOME Project is preparing to shut down its mailing lists due to problems maintaining the project's GNU Mailman instance - which relies on Python 2 - and a lack of moderators.
[Evolution] Announcement: this mailing list will be retired
Re: Moving final mailman lists over to discourse
Issues · jupiterbroadcasting.com
Office Hours 15: One PR At a Time — We recap a busy night after a studio power outage, then dig into what makes an open-source project worth contributing to. Why do some fail while others grow and prosper?
How I make a living working on SerenityOS — This post describes in detail how I support myself while working on the SerenityOS project.
Systemd supremo proposes tightening up Linux boot process — In brief, what he sees as the problem is that on hardware with Secure Boot enabled, while the boot process up to and including the kernel is signed, the next step, loading the initrd, is not. That's what he wants to fix.
Brave New Trusted Boot World — This document looks at the boot process of general purpose Linux distributions. It covers the status quo and how we envision Linux boot to work in the future with a focus on robustness and simplicity.
NixOS bootspec-secureboot — This repository is a research project that aims to improve the bootloader story in NixOS.
Matthew's NixOS Screen shot
Grab a new podcast app — Upgrade to a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app.
vhs: Your CLI home video recorder 📼 — Write terminal GIFs as code for integration testing and demoing your CLI tools.
FFmpeg.guide — A simple GUI tool to create complex FFmpeg filtergraphs quickly and correctly, without having to mess with the cumbersome filter syntax

464: Git Happens

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 18:45:00 -0700

We're going back in time to witness the early days of a critical tool to build Linux, then jump forward 15 years and join our buddy Brent on his journey to learn that very tooling.

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WSL 2 distros are now supported on Windows Server
Ten SpaceX Starlink Updates
Dish calls out Elon Musk for tweets about Starlink and RVs, planes
Dish begs FCC to deactivate Starlink setups used in moving vehicles
SpaceX: Starlink Risks Becoming ‘Unusable’ If Dish Gets 12GHz Spectrum
JB London Meetup - Aug 5 “6pm London time”
London Colony Meetup - Matrix chat room
Linode Guides — Migrate a PostgreSQL Database to a Managed Database
Tech Talk: 2007 Linus Torvalds on git
Oh My Git! — An open source game about learning Git!
Getting started with Git: Terminology 101
Tech With Tim - Git And GitHub in ~30 Minutes
JB GitHub - Website Rebuild Ideas & Explorations · Discussion #8
Git Tutorial for Beginners - Git & GitHub Fundamentals In Depth
Cleanup by Brent · Pull Request #29
GitKraken
awesome-git — A curated list of amazingly awesome Git tools, resources and shiny things.
ungit — The easiest way to use git. On any platform. Anywhere.
Hugo: The world’s fastest framework for building websites
Celebrating 15 years of Git — An interview with Git maintainer Junio Hamano
Brunch with Brent: Quentin Stafford-Fraser — Brent sits down with Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser, computer scientist, serial-entrepreneur, inventor (perhaps) of the webcam, Augmented Reality Ph.D. who ran the very first web server at the University of Cambridge, among much more.
Office Hours 6: Peer to Peer Future — Interview with Mitch Downey, co-founder of Podverse.
Fountain 0.4.0 — Listen to Earn, Promotions & Paid Likes
gpodder.net — gpodder.net is a libre web service that allows you to manage your podcast subscriptions and discover new content. If you use multiple devices, you can synchronize subscriptions and your listening progress.
Source for gpodder.net
GPodder Sync in the Nextcloud App Store
Podverse: Podcasting 2.0 certified player for Android, F-Droid, iOS, and the web.
[Album] The New Deal
TinyPilotKVM: Control any computer remotely.

379: Favorite Linux Tweaks

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:00:00 -0800

We round up our favorite tweaks to the desktop, and apps that make it great.

Plus some highlights from Arch Conf, and our reaction to Mint finally fixing their Chromium problem.

Special Guest: Drew DeVore.

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Arch Conf 2020 Videos
media.ccc.de - Arch Linux: Past, Present and Future
Project X - Pure Open-Source Coreboot Support On AMD Zen - Phoronix — Project X is about "eXcising binary blobs from the x86 part of Zen CPUs."
OSFC 2020 - Open Source Firmware Conference
Linux Mint pre-loads Chromium and Brings New IPTV Player — The package is available Linux Mint repository as “chromium” which you can install using standard “apt-get” or via the package manager. This is pure native Chromium and not a snap version.
Monthly News – October 2020 – The Linux Mint Blog
LINUX Unplugged 360: The Hard Work of Hardware
Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US
SpaceX Starlink users provide first impressions and unboxing pictures | Ars Technica — New speed-test data collected by Ookla and published by PCMag last week found average Starlink download speeds of 79.5Mbps and average upload speeds of 13.8Mbps in October
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profile-sync-daemon — Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers.
GPU-Viewer — A front-end to glxinfo, vulkaninfo, clinfo and es2_info.
Ivan Molodetskikh: Video Trimmer — Video Trimmer cuts out a fragment of a video given the start and end timestamps. The video is never re-encoded, so the process is very fast and does not reduce the video quality.
junegunn/fzf — A command-line fuzzy finder
Fish shell — fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family.
cxreg/smartcd — Alter your bash (or zsh) environment as you cd.
wting/autojump — A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.
gsamokovarov/jump — Jump helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.
muammar/mkchromecast — Cast macOS and Linux Audio/Video to your Google Cast and Sonos Devices
xat/castnow — commandline chromecast player
xat/dlnacast — Cast local media to your TV through UPnP/DLNA
skorokithakis/catt — Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources to your Chromecast.
tridactyl — A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl
philc/vimium — The hacker's browser.
Use your ~/.local folder!
Liquorix kernel for Debian users — Liquorix is a distro kernel replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads.
PipeWire nightly for Fedora users — PipeWire nightly builds from the projects git master. Use at your own risk.
Firefox Adwaita Theme — This is a bunch of CSS code to make Firefox look closer to GNOME's native apps.
Feedback: Thoughts after youtube-dl
Feedback: FreeIPA
Feedback: Zentyal as an AD Server

349: Arm: A New Hope

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 20:15:00 -0700

We build the server you never should, a tricked out Arm box, and push it to the limit with a telnet torture test.

Plus what we're playing recently, community news, a handy self-hosted music pick, and more.

Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais.

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Episode 255: Fedora to the Core

Jupiter Broadcasting — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 02:30:00 -0700

Big changes are coming to Fedora with the merger of CoreOS. We chat with a couple project members to get the inside scope about what the future of Fedora looks like.

Plus the big feature of the new GitLab release, how Pocket might be Firefox's secret sauce, and why Chris is really excited by PeerTube.

Special Guests: Dusty Mabe and Eric Hendricks.

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