LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Gnome Foundation”

614: Self-Hosted Location Tracking

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 11 May 2025 17:00:00 -0700

We test-drive a self-hosted alternative to Google Location History. Plus, we cover the week’s Linux news highlights, then spill the beans on our upcoming TUI challenge.

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1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
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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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
LINUX Unplugged TUI Challenge Rules — Help shape the challenge - what did we miss?
libcaca – Caca Labs — A graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text terminals.
New GNOME Executive Director Named: Steven Deobald — Steven Deobald has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, succeeding interim director Richard Littauer and Holly Million, who stepped down last year after a brief tenure.
Creation of the NixOS hardware team — TL;DR: The Steering Committee is launching the new Hardware Team to own the nixos-hardware repo, drive hardware enablement, and expand partnerships.
Adopting sudo-rs By Default in Ubuntu 25.10 - Project Discussion - Ubuntu Community Hub — The sudo-rs project is designed to be a drop in replacement for the original tool. For the vast majority of users, the upgrade should be completely transparent to their workflow. That said, sudo-rs is a not a “blind” reimplementation.
LINUX Unplugged 607: Ubuntu's Rusty Roadmap
Bcachefs Patches Aim For Faster Snapshot Deletion But With Another On-Disk Format Update — Bcachefs has introduced patches aimed at significantly improving snapshot deletion performance. However, implementing these improvements necessitates an update to an incompatible on-disk format, which must be explicitly enabled by users.
Dawarich — Your Journey, Your Control — Visualize your location history, track your movements, and analyze your travel patterns with complete privacy and control.
fabean/ytviewer — YouTube TUI that pulls subscriptions from YouTube API
Pick: meshSidecar — meshSidecar provides a flexible way to integrate mesh networking capabilities with NixOS services. It allows services to participate in mesh networks without requiring direct modification of the service itself.
Pick: ELEMENT.FM — Unlimited, GPLv3 Licensed, self-hostable podcast hosting

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

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

399: No PRs Please

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:30:00 -0700

Lutris developer Mathieu Comandon joins us to share his perspective on the uncomfortable issues facing Linux desktop developers.

Plus the tech behind Shells.com, community news, feedback, and more.

Special Guests: Mathieu Comandon and Zlatan Todorić.

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68k.news — Headlines From the Future
Linux Action News 182 — GNOME 40 is out and we chat with the project’s Executive Director about the technical and visual improvements in the new release. Plus the facts around RMS’s return to the FSF board, and our analysis of the situation.
Episode 118 — Stallman is back and ruffling feathers, PHP moves to GitHub, AMP might be on its way out, Audacity’s latest update gives us pause, Fairphone delivers an unlikely update, online events, and more.
AlmaLinux OS Stable Release is live! — We are very happy to announce that today we are releasing the first AlmaLinux OS stable version. That's right, you can go right ahead and download the stable version and use it everywhere you need a stable, reliable, Linux distribution.
Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week — Ubuntu and its flavors will be participating in another ‘Ubuntu Testing Week’ from April 1st to April 7th.
Shells — Personal Workspaces Powered by Cloud Computers.
An Interview With Zlatan Todoric, Open-Source Developer & Former Purism CTO
Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer
JB Telegram Group
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Lutris — Open Gaming Platform
[Mathieu's Blog] Not on the same page — The disconnect I feel between what I want to deliver in what I build and what the users asks for is now too big to ignore. In some way, I already knew it would be the case before I even started Lutris. I knew that what I was trying to achieve wasn’t in line with how Linux users usually behave…
Feedback: Cockpit
Feedback: Covid Appointment Script

356: Linux Hardware Love

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 21:00:00 -0700

From the low-end to the high-end we try out both ends of the Linux hardware spectrum. Wes reviews the latest XPS 13, and Chris shares his thoughts on the Pinebook Pro.

Plus a really cool new feature in Linux 5.7, and we get some answers to the recent GNOME patent settlement from the source.

Special Guests: Dan Johansen and Drew DeVore.

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324: RAMburglars

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 20:15:00 -0700

Is the ZFS tax too high? We pit ZFS on root against ext4 in our laptop pressure cooker and see how they perform when RAM gets tight.

Plus we take a look at Pop!_OS 19.10, complete our Ubuntu 19.10 review, cover community news, and lots more.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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