LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Google”

630: Google's Garden Lockdown

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 21:45:00 -0700

Google's sideloading lockdown has us pushing Wes' Pixel further than Google ever dreamed.

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1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
DECbot/nebula-cert-maker: Simple yaml and python script to create certificates for your Nebula Mesh VPN — The Nebula Cert Maker will create a new Nebula CA certificates and then generate and sign certificates for all hosts in the host list.
Texas Linux Festival 2025
Jupiter Broadcasting Garage
Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs As Now "Externally Maintained" — Linus Torvalds updated the maintainers file for Bcachefs and now reflects its upstream state as "externally maintained" rather than "supported".
Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year — Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it's a certified device.
Android Developers Blog: A new layer of security for certified Android devices
Android developer verification
nixos-avf: NixOS for Android Terminal — This profile contains the necesarry services and kernel configs to get it running under the Terminal app
nixos-avf-image-app releases
NixOS VM on my phone lol (Android Virtualization Framework) - NixOS Discourse
Setup SSH and Tailscale on Android 15 Linux Terminal App
droid-nixos — NixOS VM on the Android "Terminal" app
ttyd: Share your terminal over the web
Introduction - Book of crosvm
crosvm: The Chrome OS Virtual Machine Monitor
Android 16 New Feature Terminal (Debian 12) Actual Test: Network Configuration and Software Installation
💻 How to Install Android 16 Linux Terminal with GUI Mode on Your Android Phone Step-by-Step Guide
Hands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!
Android 16 Terminal Debian GUI Access Tool — This script is specifically designed for terminal environments on Android 16 systems, enabling quick configuration of graphical interface access for Debian 12. After configuration, you can access the native Debian 12 GUI environment within the Android terminal from your PC through the following steps
wansview 2K Security Cameras Wireless — Outdoor-2.4G WiFi Home Security Cameras via Remote Control with Phone APP for 360º View, Color Night Vision, 24/7 SD Card Storage.
Thingino — Open-source Firmware for Ingenic SoC IP Cameras.
themactep/thingino-firmware: Open-source firmware for Ingenic SoC IP cameras
paperless-upload-thunderbird — Add-On for Thunderbird to upload PDF directly to paperless-ngx
distrostu's nix config
Flameshot — Open source screenshot software
Hyprshot — A utility to easily take screenshots in Hyprland
blendOS — Arch Linux made declarative, immutable and atomic
Frigate NVR — Frigate is an open source NVR built around real-time AI object detection. All processing is performed locally on your own hardware, and your camera feeds never leave your home.
Pick: Kvaesitso — A search-focused, free and open source launcher for Android
Jonas Hietala: I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS — I use the Kvaesitso launcher.

495: The Moment of Truth

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 19:45:00 -0800

Are the free software alternatives good enough? The conclusion to our 60-day challenge to drop Google, Apple, and the iPhone.

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Jupiter Broadcasting Community Links
Jupiter Jobs Matrix Room
New JB Contact Page
Patreon Problems Thread on Twitter
A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal
immich — Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.
Donate to GrapheneOS
Duplicacy: A new generation cloud backup tool — Duplicacy backs up your files to many cloud storages with client-side encryption and the highest level of deduplication.
duplicity — Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm.
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Pick: carbonyl — Chromium running inside your terminal
Fathy Boundjadj: Forking Chrome to render in a terminal — It's snappy, starts in less than a second, runs at 60 FPS, and idles at 0% CPU usage. It does not require a window server (i.e. works in a safe-mode console), and even runs through SSH.

489: Brent's Secret Emails

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 20:00:00 -0800

Brent's been hiding your emails; we confront him and expose what he's been keeping from the show.

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Linux teams up with partners to overthrow Google Maps’s dominance
Tailnet lock white paper — Tailscale implements a novel mechanism, tailnet lock, to prevent a malicious control plane from inserting itself into a network. Tailnet lock requires the verification of a cryptographic signature on all WireGuard® node keys distributed by Tailscale’s control plane.
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History — In "Hardcore History" journalist and broadcaster Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", unorthodox way of thinking and applies it to the past.
Knaves Out – Darknet Diaries — This is the story about how someone hacked into JP Morgan Chase, one of the biggest financial institutions in the world.
Dana Carvey’s The Weird Place — The Weird Place is an episodic sci-fi comedy adventure that will blow your mind. From manipulative aliens to time-traveling pirates to a power-hungry mad man with a magic globe.
Linux Out Loud — Linux Out Loud is a community powered podcast. We take conversations from the DLN Community from places like the DLN Discourse Forums, Telegram group, Discord server and more.
Picture of Dennis V’s Keyboard
Announcement: Direct Alby wallet top up with MoonPay
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
Generate Let’s Encrypt Certificate with DNS Challenge and Namecheap
Tailscale breaks DNS-over-TLS on Android · Issue #915 · tailscale/tailscale
Moving entire Linux installation to another drive - Ask Ubuntu
Migrate installation to new hardware - ArchWiki
Disk cloning - ArchWiki
NixOS Root on ZFS
NixOS getting started - no mention of mkswap
ZFS - NixOS Wiki
NixOS install with ZFS — Dan’s Cheat Sheets 1 documentation
Installing NixOS with multiple encrypted ZFS pools, decrypted with one password
How I installed Encrypted ZFS root on NixOS
Install NixOS on ZFS With Opt-In State
NixOS on encrypted ZFS | The DevOps Blog
How do you say SUSE?
Packman
SmartTubeNext — Ad free app for watching tube videos on Android TV boxes.
Nobara Linux — The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.
thoughtbot/rcm — rc file (dotfile) management
GoToSocial — Fast, fun, ActivityPub server, powered by Go.
JB FOSDEM 2023 Matrix Room

487: The Debian Debate

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0800

After nearly half a year of woe, Brent is ready to give Linux the go. Join us as we compare and contrast two Linux distros and end up with one going on Brent's machine.

Plus, follow-up on Chris' GrapheneOS adventures and more.

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Apple Limits iPhone AirDrop Function Used for Protests in China
Magic Earth — Free Maps & Navigation App
Top 10 reasons to use Debian as your Linux distro
Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of ‘move fast and break things’, and version 11 is no different
ProtonPlus — A simple Wine and Proton-based compatiblity tools manager for GNOME.
ProtonUp-Qt — Install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda & more for Steam and Wine-GE & more for Lutris with this graphical user interface.
Why openSUSE - openSUSE Wiki
The Nobara Project — The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.
Who Wants To Be a Millionaire — Test your knowledge to see if you can answer all questions and win $1 million. Have fun!
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Questions and Source Code

479: Good Software, Bad Blood

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 19:45:00 -0700

What the heck is going on? Fedora is dropping features, GNOME is getting Iced, and the mistake we'll never make again. We've got a lot to sort out.

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Tasks - Nextcloud Apps — Tasks can be shared between users. Tasks can be synchronized using CalDAV (each task list is linked to an Nextcloud calendar, to sync it to your local client: Thunderbird, Evolution, KDE Kontact, iCal … - just add the calendar as a remote calendar in your client). You can download your tasks as ICS files using the download button for each calendar.
Home Assistant Yellow — Home Assistant Yellow integrates 1,000+ different devices and services, allowing you to create powerful automations and get insight into your energy usage. All from an easy-to-use interface that runs 100% locally without anything in the cloud.
Oh No!😱Fedora is Dropping Support for Popular Video Codecs — Primarily, it will affect AMD GPU users using open-source drivers, preventing them using GPU acceleration to play video content that requires using these codecs. Additionally, it also affects any user who uses open-source graphics drivers, even if they run iGPUs on Intel chips.
recent commit to Mesa on Fedora
Tom Callaway on Twitter
System76’s Pop!_OS COSMIC Desktop To Make Use Of Iced Rust Toolkit — The UX team has been carefully designing widgets and applications over the last year. We are now at the point where it is critical for the engineering team to decide upon a GUI toolkit for COSMIC. After much deliberation and experimentation over the last year, the engineering team has decided to use Iced instead of GTK.
Reddit Comment That Kicked All this Off
Iced toolkit — A cross-platform GUI library for Rust focused on simplicity and type-safety. Inspired by Elm.
Comment thread on Reddit that kicked it all off
Jeremy Soller on Twitter
Jeremy Soller on Twitter
Jeremy Soller on Twitter
Checklist of things going into Iced for Cosmic
Acastus — Acastus Photon is a completely private, free and open source Address / POI lookup application for android.
photon.komoot.io — Search as you type with OpenStreetMap
pelias.io
Auto Move Windows - GNOME Shell Extensions
Podcasting 2.0 Apps

478: The Best of Both Worlds

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 20:15:00 -0700

We go hands-on at NASA's JPL and learn why Linux is the best OS for Earth and Mars.

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!

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.

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.

401: Own Your Mailbox

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 19:45:00 -0700

Do as we say, not as we do. This week we're setting off to host our own email. We'll cover the basics, what's we're using, and why.

Plus an update on Jupiter Broadcasting going independent, community news, and more.

Special Guest: Martin Wimpress.

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Google Online Security Blog: Rust in the Android platform — We're excited to announce that the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) now supports the Rust programming language for developing the OS itself.
Mike Kelly on Twitter — I’ve been curious to try out @rustlang and wanted to celebrate @LinuxUnplugged episode 400… so I combined both in a silly fun little project. Check it out… a mini-website powered by Rust… @ChrisLAS and @wespayne would be proud!
Mars Helicopter Flight Delayed — During a high-speed spin test of the rotors on Friday, the command sequence controlling the test ended early due to a “watchdog” timer expiration.
Work Progresses Toward Ingenuity’s First Flight on Mars — Over the weekend, the team considered and tested multiple potential solutions to this issue, concluding that minor modification and reinstallation of Ingenuity’s flight control software is the most robust path forward.
All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
Mailcow.email — The mailserver suite with the ‘moo’ – 🐮 + 🐋 = 💕.
Mailcow: dockerized documentation
SOGo — SOGo is a fully supported and trusted groupware server with a focus on scalability and open standards.
Zimbra: Open Source Secure Private Business Email & Collaboration
Mail-in-a-Box Setup Guide
Jupiter Garage
GNOME Designers Explore a ‘Bottom Bar’ Layout for GNOME Shell

391: GNOME 40ified

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 19:00:00 -0800

We try out GNOME 40 and its new workspace layout. Who we think this works well for, and who might want to avoid it.

Plus Wimpy, Ubuntu's Desktop lead, chats with us about his future after Canonical.

Special Guests: Carl George and Martin Wimpress.

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VideoLAN is 20 years old!
Refreshing the Ubuntu Desktop Installer — We have started working on the new desktop installer, and plan to have a preliminary version ready for testing in the 21.10 release; due in October 2021. This paves the way to transitioning to the new installer for the next LTS release, which will be 22.04, due for release in April 2022.
Martin 🙂 Wimpress on Twitter — I’ll soon⏳be leaving Canonical. I’m very excited to be joining the fine people @SlimDevOps😃Despite the change, I’ll continue to lead @ubuntu_mate; it’s my passion💖project. Naturally, I’ll remain an enthusiastic #Ubuntu & Snapcraft community contributor💪
Slim.ai
OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T seeing work for mainline Linux kernel support — Thanks to the existing minimal mainline support for the platform, features like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and 3D Acceleration are already working at the current stage of development.
All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
Unplugged Hangout Stream Live 1-26-2021 - JupiterTube
GNOME 40 Approaches Its UI Freeze, Easy Means To Start Testing It — GNOME Shell recently merged its new horizontal workspaces, among other changes. The official GNOME Shell & Mutter development blog put out a new post on Monday highlighting their latest efforts. They are working to get the remaining big items in place over the next two weeks before the freeze and then an “intense period of polishing and bug fixing.”
Another Shell UX Update – GNOME Shell & Mutter
Welp, Ubuntu 21.04 Won’t Ship with GNOME 40 or GTK4 — Ubuntu devs cite the redesign of GNOME Shell in GNOME 40 and its potential impact on GNOME extensions (of which Ubuntu ships a few by default) and the Yaru GTK theme as reason to “stick” to GNOME 3.38 this cycle.
Triple Buffering Likely Not Landing Until GNOME 42
Ubuntu 21.04 Will Use Wayland By Default
Quick Demo: Gnome 40 Multi-monitor Demo - JupiterTube
Carl George on Twitter — I’ve been a @gnome fan/apologist for a long time. Dynamic virtual workspaces spanned across multiple horizontally arranged monitors are so damn wonderful to use. Productive. Efficient. Spatial.
Carl's Workspace Layout Drawing
Feedback: Chromium Woes
Feedback: Ventoy
UGREEN M.2 Enclosure for SATA NGFF SSD
Silicon Power 256GB A55 M.2 SSD
Pick: Ticker — Terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking

390: Eating the License Cake

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:00:00 -0800

Successful open-source projects all seem to struggle with one major gorilla. Who it is, and what their options are now.

Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Jonathan Corbet.

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Security Disclosure 2: vulnerabilities in custom integrations HACS, Font Awesome and others - Home Assistant — Multiple custom integrations were found that allowed an attacker to steal any file without logging in. Previously implemented fixes were not sufficient.
FEDORA-2021-48866282e5 — security update for chromium — Fedora Updates System — I gave a lot of thought to whether I wanted to continue to maintain the Chromium package in Fedora, given that many (most?) users will be confused/annoyed when API functionality like sync and geolocation stops working for no good reason. Ultimately, I decided to continue for now, because there were at least some users who didn't mind, and if I stopped, someone else would start over and run blindly into this problem.
Introduction to Elasticsearch - YouTube
Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | AWS Open Source Blog — In order to ensure open source versions of both packages remain available and well supported, including in our own offerings, we are announcing today that AWS will step up to create and maintain a ALv2-licensed fork of open source Elasticsearch and Kibana.
AWS, as predicted, is forking Elasticsearch | ZDNet
All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
Jellyfin 10.7.0 Release Changelog — SyncPlay for TV shows and Music, significantly improved web performance, an upgrade to .NET SDK 5.0 for improved performance in the backend, and more!
Jellyfin 10.7.0 RC3
LWN.net - Wikipedia
Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
Jonathan Corbet - Faces of Open Source
Pick: polybar — A fast and easy-to-use status bar
Pick: dust — A more intuitive version of du in rust
Pick: Waybar — Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.

375: Wrong About Pop!

Jupiter Broadcasting — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:30:00 -0700

We're reminded that you can't judge a distro by its screenshots. We use Pop!_OS for a few weeks and share our embarrassing discovery.

Plus our thoughts on the new Plasma release, a super handy pick, and more.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:44 Intro
0:50 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:39 Plasma 5.20
7:50 Kernel 5.9
8:05 VMware Flirts with Arm
15:28 SPONSOR: Linode
18:54 Big News for Nebula
22:10 Code-Shaming the Kernel
27:40 Housekeeping
29:31 Pop!_OS Exit Interview
31:44 Pop!_OS Full-Time Staff
34:49 Pop!_OS: The Last Ten Percent
37:46 Pop!_OS: A Very Unique Distribution
43:13 Pop!_OS: Driving Hardware Sales
47:40 Pop!_OS: Strengthening the System76 Brand
49:51 Manjaro Arm 20.10 Released
50:48 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
51:48 Feedback: TLP Magic
53:23 Feedback: Chromebooks and Education
56:16 Pick: Autotier
59:09 Pick: Antennapod 2.0.1
1:00:30 SPONSOR: Core Contributors
1:01:10 Outro
1:03:18 Post-Show

Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

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Linux_5.9 - Linux Kernel Newbies
Plasma 5.20 — One absolutely massive release!
ESXi on Arm Fling is LIVE! — The ESXi-Arm Fling supports a number of different Arm platforms ranging from a traditional Datacenter form-factor to both Near and Far Edge systems including the highly requested Raspberry Pi.
ESXi Arm Edition | VMware Flings
Great News for Nebula
Nebula for iOS and Android is now available | Defined Networking — In February of this year, Nate and I left Slack to start a company together, Defined Networking, Inc., to focus on Nebula full-time.
Mobile Nebula on the App Store
LUP 329: Flat Network Truthers
The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel — With Linux 5.9, it comes in at 2.16 million lines of code plus another 247k lines of code comments and another 109k blank lines.
AMD Graphics Driver Hacker News Thread
All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
Pop!_OS by System76
Unplugged Core Contributors
Manjaro ARM 20.10 released!
Feedback: TLP Magic
Feedback: Chromebooks and Education
PIck: autotier — A passthrough FUSE filesystem that intelligently moves files between storage tiers based on the frequency of use, file age, and tier fullness.
AntennaPod 2.0.1 Changelog

372: Distro Triforce

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 22:30:00 -0700

What would it really take to get you to switch Linux distributions? We debate the practical reasons more and more people are sticking with the big three.

Plus Carl from System76 stops by to surprise us with some firmware news.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
2:22 Intro
2:36 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
4:24 USB Booting the Pi 4
10:10 System76 Open Firmware Update
23:14 SPONSOR: Linode
25:28 OpenPOWER Summit 2020
29:23 EndeavourOS ARM
30:14 Housekeeping
30:53 SPONSOR: Unplugged Core Contributors
32:59 It's Really Just a Three Distro World
46:37 Feedback: systemd Skepticism
50:50 Feedback: EmacsConf2020
51:40 Picks
52:12 Pick: Cloud Hypervisor
53:51 Pick: SongRec
54:45 Pick: tmpmail
55:55 Pick: MyPaas
57:16 Outro
59:11 Post-Show

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Carl Richell, and Neal Gompa.

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Second-hand TV wipes out broadband for entire village
Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB | Hacker News
Raspberry Pi USB Boot - UASP, TRIM, and performance | Jeff Geerling
Switching Between Proprietary Firmware and System76 Open Firmware - System76 Support — System76 Open Firmware is designed to be lightweight and performant with a simple and straightforward user interface.
OpenPOWER Summit 2020 Was This Week With Many Interesting Hardware/Software Talks - Phoronix — Roberto Innocenti provided an update on the POWER64 laptop that is still being worked on via community donations as an open hardware platform.
Open Hardware GNU/Linux PPC64 Laptop Potential - Roberto Innocenti, Power Progress Community - YouTube
Donation Campaign for Signal Integrity Analysis of the PCB Design - GNU/Linux Open Hardware PowerPC notebook
Arch Linux-Based EndeavourOS ARM Launches for ARM Devices - 9to5Linux
Deepin 20 Review — Gorgeous Distro Becomes Even More Beautiful.
Feedback: systemd skepticism
EmacsConf2020 — Have you heard about the recent announcement for EmacsConf 2020? It's a free two-day online Emacs conference scheduled for the weekend of November 28th and 29th, 2020.
cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor — A rust-vmm based cloud hypervisor.
marin-m/SongRec — An open-source Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust.
almarklein/mypaas — Run your own PaaS using Docker, Traefik, and great analytics.
sdushantha/tmpmail — A temporary email right from your terminal.

367: Podcatcher Play-off

Jupiter Broadcasting — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:15:00 -0700

We round up the best podcast clients for your Linux desktop, mobile, and the web.

Plus we announce the official Jupiter Broadcasting Matrix server, share some great picks, and a thought-provoking email.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:35 Intro
2:03 Debian Requests Artwork
3:04 Google Kernel Code Dump
8:07 The Future of Rust
14:15 Manjaro Forum Meltdown
20:11 Matrix Server Migration
27:38 Housekeeping
28:44 Podcatcher Play-Off
29:08 Podcatcher Play-Off: Honorable Mentions
31:33 Podcatcher Play-Off: Winds
33:36 Podcatcher Play-Off: Cpod
35:33 Podcatcher Play-Off: Airsonic
38:16 Podcatcher Play-Off: Shellcaster
40:15 Podcatcher Play-Off: Castero
40:42 Podcatcher Play-Off: Castget
42:27 Podcatcher Play-Off: Pocketcasts
44:22 Podcatcher Play-Off: Antennapod
45:09 Podcatcher Play-Off: Overcast
47:22 Feedback: Mac Pro as a Daily Driver
48:38 Feedback: Internet Apocalypse
57:22 Pick: Quad SATA Kit for Raspberry Pi
1:00:01 Pick: Outrun
1:02:50 Outro
1:04:30 Post-Show

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller.

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Debian turns 27! - Bits from Debian
r/linux: Debian turns 27!
Debian Bullseye artwork call for proposals - entries must be submitted by October 15
Google Finally Begins Their Open-Source Dance Around Linux User-Space Threading - Phoronix
[PATCH for 5.9 0/3] FUTEX_SWAP (tip/locking/core) - Peter
Laying the foundation for Rust’s future | Rust Blog
Manjaro’s new Forum
LINUX Unplugged Matrix Community
Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
LUP LUG Mumble Server Info
Fullscreen JB IRC Chat
Gnome Podcasts
gPodder — Media aggregator and podcast client
brtmr/podfox
Spotify
Winds — Winds is a modern, open-source RSS and Podcast app built using React/Redux/Node by Stream.
CPod — A simple, beautiful podcast app for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
AirSonic — Airsonic is a free, web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music.
shellcaster — Terminal-based podcast manager built in Rust
castero — TUI podcast client for the terminal
castget — A command-line podcast downloader.
Pocketcasts
Pocket Casts acquired by NPR, other public radio stations, and This American Life - The Verge
Overcast
AntennaPod
Feedback: ‘TheFake VIP’ still uses that same Mac Pro as his daily driver — I still, to this day, run a Mac Pro just like that as my daily driver, in Windows, macOS and Linux (Arch with i3). It's still a dream machine for me.
Feedback: Would you still use Linux if there was no more internet? — So let me ask you an important question. Would you still use Linux if there was no more internet?
QUAD SATA KIT for Raspberry PI — Easily build your own NAS / Media-server based on Raspberry Pi 4 Description mount up to 4x 2.5" HDD or SSD
outrun — Execute a local command using the processing power of another Linux machine.
Debconf 20 starts this week.
Flipper Zero — Tamagochi for Hackers

364: Linux Arm Wrestling

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 23:15:00 -0700

The past, present and future of Linux on Arm. The major challenges still facing full Linux support, and why ServerReady might be a solution to unify Arm systems.

Plus we chat with the Manjaro team about recent changes.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:58 Intro
2:01 Terminal 2.0 in ChromeOS
4:41 Manjaro's Process Problems
13:49 Manjaro Sneak Peaks
15:41 Weekend Manjaro Journey
21:02 Housekeeping
22:09 ARM on Linux
24:01 The History of ARM
28:16 Single Board Computing Revolution
31:47 ARM Reaching into the Present
33:17 The Future of ARM
36:42 Not Everyone Loves ARM
43:01 Wants and What Ifs
48:30 App Pick: tuptime
49:48 App Pick: s-tui
50:21 Outro
51:36 Post-Show

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Dalton Durst, Drew DeVore, Jeremy Soller, Marius Gripsgard, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller.

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359: Death of the Mac

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:45:00 -0700

Why we think Apple just handed market share to Desktop Linux, and why you can kiss running Linux on the Mac goodbye forever.

Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Neal Gompa.

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Generating cooking recipes using TensorFlow and a LSTM Recurrent Neural Network
ARM-based Japanese supercomputer is now the fastest in the world
Ampere donates Arm64 server hardware to Debian to fortify the Arm ecosystem
Google’s Bringing Its Apple AirDrop Rival to Linux, Windows, and Mac
Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions
Apple is switching Macs to its own processors starting later this year
Tim Cook says first Mac with Apple Silicon shipping to consumers by end of this year
r/linux: How will Apple’s ARM announcement affecting Linux going forward?
r/linux: Let’s suppose Apple goes ARM, MS follows its footsteps and does the same. What will happen to Linux then? Will we go back to “unlocking bootloaders”?
Jared Domínguez on Twitter — Today’s cynical take: Apple supporting Linux VMs is a way to make devs feel good with minimal effort (offload the work to Parallels/BSD community) while allowing Apple to deprecate their already super stale Unix userland. macOS itself will become less accessible.
unsilence: Console Interface and Library to remove silent parts of a media file 🔈

341: Long Term Rolling

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 13:30:00 -0800

We question the very nature of Linux development, and debate if a new approach is needed.

Plus an easy way to snapshot any workstation, some great feedback, and an extra nerdy command-line pick.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.

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329: Flat Network Truthers

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:30:00 -0800

Build one flat network across cloud providers, personal networks, with even thousands of nodes. We feature two amazing open source solutions, and the creators behind them.

Plus community news, first impressions of Google Stadia, listener feedback, and some great picks.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Guus Sliepen, and Ryan Huber.

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Episode 270: Stratis Pulls it All Together

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 19:15:00 -0700

Red Hat developer Andy Grover joins us to discuss Stratis Storage, an alternative to ZFS on Linux and its recent milestone.

Also Google subtracts Plus, some KDE and GNOME news, and a bit of forgotten Linux history.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Andy Grover, and Martin Wimpress.

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IRL Glasses
Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public — Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social network and then opted not to disclose the issue this past spring, in part because of fears that doing so would draw regulatory scrutiny and cause reputational damage, according to people briefed on the incident and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Project Strobe — The consumer version of Google+ currently has low usage and engagement: 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds.
Google Has 'No Plans' to Enable Chrome Hardware Acceleration on Linux
KDE Plasma 5.14 — A lot of work has gone into improving Discover, Plasma's software manager, and, among other things, we have added a Firmware Update feature and many subtle user interface improvements to give it a smoother feel.
Farewell, application menus! — These menus have been with us since the beginning of the GNOME 3.0 series, but we’re planning on retiring them for the next GNOME release (version 3.32).
Creative Selection (Audiobook) by Ken Kocienda
Eazel - Wikipedia — Eazel was founded by Andy Hertzfeld in August 1999 in Mountain View, California. It had 22 initial employees and raised $12 million from a number of venture capital investment companies
Eazel launches Nautilus software then lays off 40 workers — After releasing the first version of its new Nautilus open-source desktop software with much fanfare Monday, Eazel Inc. bit the bullet just a day later and laid off more than half of its 70-member staff
Jobs at Linux Academy
Andy Grover (@iamagrover) — Hacks on @StratisStorage at Red Hat, and has other creative dreams too. Bass. Rustlang. Mostly cat and political retweets these days.
Stratis Storage (@StratisStorage) — Easy to use local storage for Linux.
Stratis Storage Project Page
Stratis: Easy local storage management for Linux [LWN.net] — Stratis is a new local storage-management solution for Linux. It can be compared to ZFS, Btrfs, or LVM. Its focus is on simplicity of concepts and ease of use, while giving users access to advanced storage features. Internally, Stratis's implementation favors tight integration of existing components instead of the fully-integrated, in-kernel approach that ZFS and Btrfs use.
XFS vs EXT4 – Comparing MongoDB Performance on AWS EC2 — In performance terms, XFS is indeed a force multiplier when paired with high speed disks that it can take real advantage from. For low to mid-end systems, it doesn’t seem to be able to do much to improve your performance.
Todoist for Linux, an electron wrapper for the official Todoist web app. — Todoist for Linux, an electron wrapper for the official Todoist web app.

Episode 268: Elementary, My Dear Plasma

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 20:00:00 -0700

We chat with Nate Graham who’s pushing to make Plasma the best desktop on the planet. We discuss his contributions to this effort, and others.

Plus we get the scope on a new Juno feature from the source, and the creator of WSLinux a distro built specifically for Windows 10’s Windows Subsystem for Linux joins us.

Also some community news, some old friends stop by, and more!

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Hayden Barnes, Martin Wimpress, and Nate Graham.

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ytdl-webserver: 📻 Webserver for downloading youtube videos. Ready for docker.
Google Secretly Logs Users Into Chrome Whenever They Log Into a Google Site — Starting with Chrome 69, whenever a Chrome user would access a Google-owned site, the browser would take that user's Google identity and log the user into the Chrome in-browser account system
Christoph Tavan on Twitter — "Clear all Cookies except Google Cookies", thanks Chrome."
PlayOnLinux 5.0 Alpha Released With Redesigned UI, Phoenicis — PlayOnLinux 5.0 Alpha has a completely redesigned user-interface and rolls out their new "Phoenicis" platform. This new platform is decentralized, Git-based, and improves POL's script engine. The current PlayOnLinux 5.0 Alpha release has support for about 135 different games.
AppCenter and Content Ratings — Starting with Juno, we’ll display a content warning when a user goes to download an app that meets or exceeds a certain level of OARS data—think nudity, violence, or language content.
Getting the team together to revolutionize Linux audio — With the video part of PipeWire already in production we decided the time has come to try to accelerate the development of the audio bits. So PipeWire creator Wim Taymans, PulseAudio developer Arun Raghavan and myself decided to try to host a PipeWire hackfest this fall to bring together many of the core Linux audio developers to try to hash out a plan and a roadmap.
Precision 15 Inch 5530 Mobile Workstation Laptop
Nate Graham is creating KDE Plasma | Patreon — I'm Nate Graham, and I'm on a mission to make KDE Plasma the best and most widely-used computer operating system interface on planet Earth.
KDE's Goals for 2018 and Beyond | KDE.news — Nate reasons that focusing on irksome details of the most common and commonly used of KDE's software, such as Plasma, Dolphin, Okular and Discover, would be the first step towards polishing the whole.
This week in Usability & Productivity, part 37 — Here’s your latest Usability & Productivity report–and we’ve got all kinds of goodies to share!
Recommended Watch: Konquering the World
'Netflix for Open Source' Wants Developers to Get Paid — A startup called Tidelift hopes to help these unsung programmers get paid with a business model the company compares to Netflix. The idea is that a company pays a subscription fee to Tidelift, which takes a cut and then distributes the remainder to open source projects that the subscriber uses, such as Babel. In exchange, the subscriber gets assurance that the software is properly maintained.
Tidelift
WLinux — A Linux distro optimized for WSL based on Debian.
WLinux: GitHub
John's +1 to Root on ZFS
zedenv — ZFS boot environment manager
Traefik - The Cloud Native Edge Router / Reverse Proxy / Load Balancer
KDE - KDE Community Code of Conduct

Episode 265: Privacy Priorities

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 19:15:00 -0700

Intel has disappointed the kernel community with its latest security disclosures but there’s still hope for a better future. That’s more than can be said for the state of privacy on Android, so we discuss some alternatives.

Plus the latest community updates, a new timeline for the Librem 5, tempting new Chromebooks, and some top picks.

Special Guests: Alan Pope and Eric Hendricks.

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