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• Planet Nix CFP - Jan 6th
• Colony Events
• LUP was the #2 top show on Fountain.fm for 2024. THANK YOU!
• LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later
• MAGI OS: AI powered Linux
• MakuluLinux AI podcast – MakuluLinux
• MakuluLinux X – AI Integration Update – MakuluLinux
• OpenZFS Native Encryption Use Raises Data Corruption Concerns
• Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 Brings RISC-V & Drops i386 Installer
• After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends
• mesa-dri-drivers-24.2.4-1.fc41 - Fedora Packages
• UbuntuUpdates - Package Search (all versions of mesa)
• Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Moving To NVK + Zink For OpenGL On Newer GPUs - Phoronix
• Mesa's NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3 Support - Phoronix
• NixOS-based distributions - NixOS Wiki
• It's time for change, it's time for Linux. - YouTube
• How I Broke up with Adobe
• Automotive Grade Linux Launches New Expert Group Led by Toyota to Help Automakers Manage Open Source Activities - Automotive Grade Linux
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• Enclosed - Send private and secure notes — Minimalistic web application designed for sending end-to-end encrypted notes and files.
• enclosed - GitHub

Special Guest: Michael Tunnell.

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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
• TuxDigital — TuxDigital creates podcasts and videos to help people improve their lives through technology. Our content covers everything from computer hardware and apps to fitness tips to help people live their best life through educational and entertaining media.
• First NixCon North America!
• Southern California Linux Expo 19
• System76 Virgo laptop PCB design open sourced ahead of release — The company began sharing hints about the upcoming System76 Virgo laptop earlier this year. Now System76 has released the PCB design files, giving us a few more clues about what to expect.
• System76 Virgo Laptop Project on Github
• Bcachefs Merged Into The Linux 6.7 Kernel — Less than twenty-four hours after Bcachefs was submitted for Linux 6.7, this new open-source file-system has been successfully merged for this next kernel version.
• Bcachefs Lands More Fixes Ahead Of Linux 6.7 Stable Debut — Linux 6.7 stable will likely debut on New Year's Eve unless the cycle is extended by an extra week due to the holidays.
• CVE-2023-39191: 8.2 HIGH — An improper input validation flaw was found in the eBPF subsystem in the Linux kernel. The issue occurs due to a lack of proper validation of dynamic pointers within user-supplied eBPF programs prior to executing them. This may allow an attacker with CAP_BPF privileges to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of the kernel.
• holoiso — This project attempts to bring the Steam Deck's SteamOS Holo redistribution into a generic, installable format, and provide a close-to-official SteamOS experience.
• butterfish — A shell with AI superpowers.
• New MakuluLinux Release Brings AI to the Max — Max is a new distro for MakuluLinux developer Jacque Montague Raymer. It is the first AI-integrated operating system designed with Debian compatibility running on the Gnome backend framework.
• Download Ubuntu Desktop
• Ubuntu Flavors
• Pick: BoxBuddy — BoxBuddy is a graphical user interface for Distrobox.

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!

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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• NASA greenlights two new Mars helicopters and lengthens Perseverance’s resume — Perseverance’s high-flying robotic companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, has inspired the design of two future rotorcraft that would swerve over the Martian terrain to pick up other samples.
• Get your name in the hat for our JPL tour — Join the JB Crew at JPL! We only have 15 spots. Please enter your info, and our happy little python script might just pick your name from the virtual hat.
• Upcoming Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups
• remembertoremember on Twitter — I haven’t really had major Linux woes in a long time and I use new hardware with 4k but always shop with Linux in mind.
• New $160: Beelink MiniS Mini Pc with 11th Gen Processor N5095,8GB DDR4 128GB SSD Mini Desktop Computers
• Acer Switch One SW1-011 Intel Atom x5-Z8300 @ 1.44 GHz 2GB Ram 32GB Storage
• Lenovo IdeaPad 3 14IML05 14" 128GB SSD, Intel Pentium Gold, 2.40GHz, 4GB
• Acer Mini PC Atom x5-Z8300 2Gb RAM 16Gb EMMC WiFi Bluetooth Linux CloudProfessor
• nixos-generators — The nixos-generators project allows to take the same NixOS configuration, and generate outputs for different target formats.
• MinisForum DeskMini UM350 Ryzen Mini PC
• Dell Wyse 5070 thin client
• New Features in Linux Mint 21 ‘Vanessa’ Cinnamon Edition — Linux Mint 21 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop experience more comfortable.
• Linux Mint 21 Released - Built Atop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Office Hours 9 — We Hate Crypto Too
• ManageIQ
• Usermode FTP Server on Flathub
• gh4a — Github client for Android
• OctoDroid on F-Droid
• OctoDroid for GitHub
• JB Colony Matrix Meetup Rooms

Special Guest: Tim Canham.

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• Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft
• Brunch with Brent: Quentin Stafford-Fraser
• Brunch With Brent: Tim Canham — Brent sits down with Tim Canham, Senior Software Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We explore topics including the hardware and software powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter; JPL's switch from Solaris to Linux; the open source projects, tools, and philosophy at JPL, ...and more.
• JPL Free Public Tours
• West Coast Crew Matrix Room
• Jupiter.party - The JB Network Membership
• ptpython — A better Python REPL.
• IPython — A powerful interactive shell.
• bpython
• Jupyter Notebooks
• Nextjournal
• Joe’s minimal implementation of Git ~300 LOC
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Pick: dua-cli — View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.
• dust — A more intuitive version of du in rust.
• parallel-disk-usage — Highly parallelized, blazing fast directory tree analyzer.
• dirstat-rs — (fastest?) disk usage cli, similar to windirstat.
• dutree — a tool to analyze file system usage written in Rust.
• F’ — A Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework.
• quickemu
• Play webtorrent’s with mpv

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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.

Special Guest: Quentin Stafford-Fraser.

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• Brunch with Brent: Quentin Stafford-Fraser - Jupiter Extras — 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. We explore topics including computer science as an art-form, the origins of the Raspberry Pi and T9 predictive text, philosophies around innovation and invention, challenging the patent system, and more.
• JB London Meetup
• DNS Toys — A DNS server that takes creative liberties with the DNS protocol to offer handy utilities and services that are easily accessible via the command line.
• Mars helicopter needs patch to work around failed sensor — The patch inserts a small code snippet into the software running on Ingenuity's flight computer, intercepting incoming garbage packets from the inclinometer and injecting replacement packets constructed from IMU data.
• Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying
• Umbrel 0.5 — Umbrel 0.5 brings the very first redesign of Umbrel’s UI since we launched. We went back to the drawing board to design a completely new homepage, a refreshed UI with beautifully crafted glass-like elements, a new dock-based layout, and the option to pick and choose from one of the 16 gorgeous, hand-curated wallpapers. And, of course, there’s a dark mode.
• Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser's Website — I’m a computer scientist, entrepreneur, part-time academic and full-time gadget enthusiast based in Cambridge, England.
• Quentin Stafford-Fraser's Blog
• Jellyfin 10.8.0 has been released!
• Jellyfin Release v10.8.0 — After a rather long development cycle the Jellyfin team is proud to announce stable version 10.8! This release post will mostly cover the highlights with little prose, as there is so much to cover!
• nix-bitcoin — A collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easily installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an emphasis on security.

And an essential update on the show.

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• Kudu from System76 — Enjoy fast, steady progression with the Kudu’s powerful H-class AMD processor. The Kudu laptop is equipped to handle longer sessions so you can taste the victory of beating your schedule.
• Kudu (kudu6) - System76 Technical Documentation
• Internal Overview - System76 Technical Documentation
• MBP M1 Max Machine Learning, Sys76-kudu-ML Benchmark Comparison
• Sys76-kudu-amd, Sys76-kudu-nv Benchmark Comparison
• Value 4 Value Calculator
• Pick: Spodcast — Spodcast is a caching Spotify podcast to RSS proxy. Using Spodcast you can follow Spotify-hosted netcasts/podcasts using any player which supports RSS, thus enabling the use of older hardware which is not compatible with the Spotify (web) app.
• Pick: hwatch — A modern alternative to the watch command, that records the result of command execution and can display history and diffs.
• Pick: rnote — A simple drawing application to create handwritten notes.
• Pick: dog dns client — dog is an open-source DNS client for the command-line. It has colourful output, supports the DoT and DoH protocols, and can emit JSON.

Special Guests: Carl George and Martin Wimpress.

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• Jupiter Extras: Cryptocurrency Chat with Chris
• Introducing CentOS Stream 9 — CentOS Stream is a continuous-delivery distribution providing each point-release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• EPEL 9 is now available! — This is the culmination of five months of work between the EPEL Steering Committee, the Fedora Infrastructure and Release Engineering team, and other contributors.
• Linux Action News 218
• Linux Action News 064
• LINUX Unplugged 387: Tumbling Into the New Year!
• Changes/Switch RPMs to zstd compression - Fedora Project Wiki
• Search through all the show notes of all the shows!
• Pick: audapolis — An editor for spoken-word audio with automatic transcription.

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 Valve and AMD team up to improve Linux performance and the duct-tape solution holding our server together.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and paradigm.

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• Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale Stickers
• Salt Lake City Meetup
• Denver Meetup Meetup
• AMD + Valve Working On New Linux CPU Performance Scaling Design — Along with other optimizations to benefit the Steam Deck, AMD and Valve have been jointly working on CPU frequency/power scaling improvements to enhance the Steam Play gaming experience on modern AMD platforms running Linux.
• Linux has finally hit that almost mythical 1% user share on Steam again — If we take how many monthly active users Steam has which Valve reported at over 120 million at the start of this year, that would give us an estimated 1,204,000 monthly active Linux users on Steam.
• Watch Ingenuity explore intriguing Raised Ridges in new video
• Chris Hijacks Fedora 34 (Image Gallery)
• Bedrock Linux — Bedrock Linux is a meta Linux distribution which allows users to mix-and-match components from other, typically incompatible distributions. Bedrock integrates these components into one largely cohesive system.
• Bedrock Linux: Frequently Asked Questions
• Linux Action Show 316 — Introducing Bedrock Linux
• Bedrock Linux presentation at Ohio Linuxfest 2012
• Chris Fisher on Twitter — I joined the @latenightlinux boys to cover my @syncthing setup that just hit the two-year mark, and we chat a little @teamsilverblue, the problem of OSS grifting, and more.
• JB Telegram
• JB Mumble
• Pick: imgdupes — Find and delete near-duplicate images based on a perceptual hash.

Plus, we set up private and secure location tracking and tell you how and why.

Special Guest: Michael Tunnell.

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• A Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.
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• NASA is mapping out plans for bigger, more capable Mars helicopters — One concept is the Mars Science Helicopter, advocated as a way to greatly expand the exploration zone on Mars — including possible deep dives into Red Planet caves.
• This Week in Linux - TuxDigital — This Week in Linux is a weekly news show that covers the latest news in the world of Linux. We cover a wide variety of topics from application / distro releases to Linux Gaming and even news about core system items like the Linux kernel itself.
• Destination Linux Network — DLN is a media network powered by Linux & Open Source designed to bring passionate creators together to spread our love of open-source, technology, and Linux.
• Salt Lake City Meetup
• Denver Meetup Meetup
• Colony Tracker . LIVE — Track the Colony and join us for Micro Meetups!
• OwnTracks — OwnTracks allows you to keep track of your own location. You can build your private location diary or share it with your family and friends. OwnTracks is open-source and uses open protocols for communication so you can be sure your data stays secure and private.
• What it does - OwnTracks Booklet
• HTTP - OwnTracks Booklet
• Example: OwnTracks recorder in a container on Fedora with Let’s Encrypt and nginx
• Installing Owntracks recorder on FreeBSD – Dan Langille’s Other Diary
• Rocky and Gred Spin BS to avoid coming on LUP
• Current sitting CentOS Board Member Recomends People use AlmaLinux — Hey guys .. Igor and all .. I want to wish you all the very best. And for anyone out there who wants to move from CentOS Linux 8 to another downstream RHEL community build , this is the definitely the one I would recommend. I have known the Cloud Linux team for a while .. and I very much trust them.
• IRC Transcript from LUP 413
• Greg was too busy talking to the Reg to come on the show
• Feedback: Michael Staggs on Twitter — @ChrisLAS You mentioned recommending Deepin to new users. I know in current political climate, China and security are hotbutton issues, but I don't feel we can give Deepin a pass on security. So bad that OpenSUSE audit team won't audit them anymore.
• Portal:Deepin/Security Issues
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup(s)
• JB Telegram
• JB Mumble

Plus our take on Ubuntu 21.04, become a master of your schedule with our pick, and a Garage Sale update.

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• A Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.
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• MailRoute: Try out MailRoute today and get 10% off the lifetime of your account and start with a 30-day free trial, no credit card required.

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• Hirsute Hippo Release Notes — These release notes for Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) provide an overview of the release and document the known issues with Ubuntu and its flavours.
• Ubuntu 21.04 Release Date & New Features - OMG! Ubuntu!
• Announcing the Ubuntu Desktop Team Indaba (AMA) - April 23, 2021 @ 3PM UTC — This will be a live stream featuring members of the Ubuntu Desktop Team and members of the community. We will include special guests from the community as well as take questions from via live chat.
• LINUX Unplugged 396: How Linux Got to Mars — Tim Canham, the Mars Helicopter Operations Lead, shares Linux’s origins at JPL and how it ended up running on multiple boxes on Mars.
• Nasa successfully flies small helicopter on Mars — The drone, called Ingenuity, was airborne for less than a minute, but Nasa is celebrating what represents the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.
• NASA Helicopter Hovers Over Mars In 1st Powered Flight On Another Planet
• Humans have just flown a rotorcraft on an alien planet for the first time in history.
• Linux Action News 185 — The major shift in the Linux landscape this week that was hardly noticed, and our thoughts on COSMIC from System76.
• Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
• Jupiter Broadcasting Telegram
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• docker-mailserver — A fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) using Docker.
• Docker Mailserver Docs
• DMARC Guide | Global Cyber Alliance | Email Authentication Made Easy
• GitHub - calendso/calendso: The open-source Calendly alternative.
• System76 Blog — COSMIC to Arrive in June Release of Pop!_OS 21.04 — What is COSMIC? It’s a refined solution that makes the desktop easier to use, yet more powerful and efficient for our users through customization.

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

Special Guest: Martin Wimpress.

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• A Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs.
• New JB Stickers: Own a bit of Jupiter Broadcasting history, while making way for the new!
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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

Plus the challenges Linux still faces before its ready for mission-critical space exploration.

Special Guest: Tim Canham.

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• A Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs.
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• Debian running on Rust coreutils — tldr: uutils/coreutils is now available in Debian, good enough to boot a Debian with GNOME, install the top 1000 packages, build Firefox, the Linux Kernel and LLVM/Clang.
• uutils/coreutils — An attempt at writing universal (as in cross-platform) CLI utilities in Rust.
• Steam Link now available on Linux — Special thanks to Collabora for helping make this possible.
• Steamlink Repo
• Steam Link on Flathub
• Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games to Run on Linux — Proton has been receiving many updates in the past few months as well, with the introduction of the Soldier Linux runtime container and Proton Experimental on top of the regular Proton releases.
• Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer | Linode
• JB Telegram
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• NASA’s Perseverance Drives on Mars’ Terrain for First Time — NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover performed its first drive on Mars March 4, covering 21.3 feet (6.5 meters) across the Martian landscape. The drive served as a mobility test that marks just one of many milestones as team members check out and calibrate every system, subsystem, and instrument on Perseverance.
• [Video] Cassini Burns into Saturn After Grand Finale
• Curiosity — NASA’s Mars Exploration Program
• nasa/fprime — A flight software and embedded systems framework.
• Wind River VxWorks RTOS
• Field-programmable gate array - Wikipedia
• JPL CubeSat ASTERIA — ASTERIA (Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics) was a technology demonstration and opportunistic science mission to conduct astrophysical measurements using a CubeSat.
• Pick: ocenaudio — Easy, fast and powerful audio editor.
• Pick: nativefier — Make any web page a desktop application.
• Linux Action News 179 — Canonical reveals long-term Ubuntu plans that you might have missed, and the "double ungood" warning from Linus this week.
• Post-show Pick: Jellyfin 10.7.0 — Note: Non-reversible database changes. Ensure you back up before upgrading.

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• Nvidia is nerfing its new RTX 3060 for Ethereum cryptocurrency mining — Nvidia is purposefully making its new RTX 3060 graphics cards less efficient to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency. New drivers that will accompany the release of the GPUs later this month will reduce the hash rate of Ethereum mining by around 50 percent, using software detection for cryptocurrency mining.
• Linux has made it to Mars — “It’s kind of an open-source victory, because we’re flying an open-source operating system and an open-source flight software framework and flying commercial parts that you can buy off the shelf if you wanted to do this yourself someday.”
• Linux Action News 177 — We share some exclusive details about the Linux-powered gear that just landed on Mars, and the open-source frameworks that make it possible.
• [Video] NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sends New Video and Images of the Red Planet
• Introducing Flatpak Builds - Open Build Service — OBS now supports building flatpak bundles, so you can build your own!
• Minecraft Bedrock Launcher on Flathub — The project runs the native libraries from the Android version directly on your computer.
• GNOME Shell + Mutter 40 Beta Released With Wayland Improvements, Overview Redesign — GNOME 40 beta is coming together with the GNOME Shell and Mutter components having seen new releases on Monday.
• GNOME Shell 40 and multi-monitor — Multi-monitor has come up a fair bit in conversations about the GNOME Shell UX updates that are coming in GNOME 40. There’s been some uncertainty and anxiety in this area, so we wanted to provide more detail on what the multi-monitor experience will exactly be like, so people know what to expect.
• PipeWire 0.3.22 Released With Many Improvements — PipeWire 0.3.22 was released this week with a whole lot of work in trying to see that Fedora 34 this spring can ship with it in use by default.
• PipeWire 0.3.22 Release
• Jupiter Broadcasting Telegram Channel
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Feedback: Giving up on daily driver? — Do you sometimes wonder if it's time to give up on a Linux desktop as your daily driver?
• KXStudio — KXStudio is a collection of applications and plugins for audio production.
• Ubuntu Studio — A free and open operating system for creative people.
• ycollet/linuxmao audio packages Copr
• Drew's fedora Proaudio Copr
• yabridge — A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2 and VST3 plugins on Linux.
• ocenaudio — Easy, fast and powerful audio editor.
• Audacity — Free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.
• Avid Pro Tools
• SonoBus — SonoBus is an easy to use application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.
• PipeWire — It provides a low-latency, graph based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both pulseaudio and JACK.
• ardour — the digital audio workstation
• Airwindows Plugins
• Calf Studio Gear - GNU/Linux Audio Plug-Ins
• Linux Studio Plugins Project
• ReaPlugs for REAPER
• SWS / S&M Extension for REAPER
• Ultrasound — High-end podcasting for everyone.
• Pick: Proton-Caller — Run any Windows program through Valve's Proton.