LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Linux Graphics”

426: This Old Linux PC

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:00:00 -0700

It's the worst time ever to upgrade or buy a new PC, so we cover our favorite tips for getting the most out of your current hardware. Then we pit a 2014 desktop against a 2021 laptop and find out if our old clunker can beat the Thinkpad.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Christian F.K. Schaller, Jack Aboutboul, and Martin Wimpress.

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It Seems Pop OS Linux Will Soon be Available on Raspberry Pi and Other ARM Devices — System76’s Principal Engineer and maintainer of Pop!_OS, Jeremy Soller shared a teaser photo on Twitter recently.
PipeWire and fixing the Linux Video Capture stack — With PipeWire having stabilized a lot for audio now we feel the time has come to go back to the video side of PipeWire and work to improve the state-of-art for video capture handling under Linux.
PipeWire
Linux Action News 209 — Why Linus believes keeping Linux fun is critical, the massive investment Fedora is about to make in video, and why we suspect Cloudflare's R2 service will make Amazon squirm.
AlmaLinux OS Foundation Membership Opens to the Public — An individual can qualify for membership as anyone who uses AlmaLinux OS, contributes to AlmaLinux OS, provides services to the AlmaLinux OS community or otherwise supports the AlmaLinux OS. All past and present contributors or mirror maintainers would qualify as Contributor members.
What AlmaLinux Foundation Membership Means for You - AlmaLinux OS Blog — We all own AlmaLinux now and no one can change that. Forever. Not CloudLinux, not any other corporation or anyone else. Our fate and future are in the hands of every member and is ours alone to control. We're no longer bound by one person, group or entity. It can not be bought nor sold, nor transferred or fought about.
Unofficial user repositories/Repo-ck - ArchWiki
tubearchivist has a docker-compose.yml
Which “server” distro should we go with next? | StrawPoll.com
Pick: Helvum — Helvum is a GTK-based patchbay for pipewire, inspired by the JACK tool catia.
Pick: tubesync — Syncs YouTube channels and playlists to a locally hosted media server.

416: Server Meltdown

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 18:00:00 -0700

We try to pull off a show while recovering from an epic server crash. Then we build the ultimate remote Linux desktop—in the cloud!

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Framework Laptop review: pick your ports — In other words, upgradability is the reason to buy the Framework laptop.
Latest Framework Laptop DIY Edition/Linux topics — Setup guides, advice, troubleshooting, and more, for those of us who use Linux-based Operating Systems on our Framework Laptops.
Which Linux distribution do you want to use on your Framework Laptop?
[Video] A COMPLETELY Upgradeable Laptop?
Framework: The Touchpad and Fingerprint Reader — If you’re a Linux user, we’ve got you covered too! Our firmware lead Kieran submitted a patch to libfprint, and support is making its way into various distributions to be able to work automatically.
FreeBSD Working On A New Installer, Updates To Their Linux Compatibility Layer — A variety of improvements to FreeBSD's Linux compatibility layer for running Linux binaries on FreeBSD.
Gaming sessions on Steam Deck are run via gamescope, a Wayland compositor — This also suggests that SteamOS 3.0 requires Vulkan, and specifically support for async compute.
Element raises $30M to boost Matrix — Element, the startup founded by the team who created Matrix, just raised $30M of Series B funding in order to further accelerate Matrix development and improve Element, the flagship Matrix app.
Webtop — Alpine and Ubuntu based containers containing full desktop environments in officially supported flavors accessible via any modern web browser.
LinuxServer.io: Meet Webtops A Linux Desktop Environment In Your Browser — A lot of different Docker GUI solutions exist today, but what we always found is they were just missing some common sense stuff.
Webtop - Running Linux Desktop inside a Container in the Browser
JingOS — Future Mobile OS based on Linux
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
PIck: docker-wine — Docker image that includes Wine and Winetricks for running Windows applications on Linux and macOS

388: Waxing On With Wendell

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 18:15:00 -0800

Wendell joins the show to cover the state of graphics on Linux, and what Intel has in store for the future.

Plus why we're excited about PeerTube again, some feedback, and more.

Special Guest: Wendell Wilson.

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Linux Action News 171 — We explain the recent Qt upset, and then go hands-on with the new PeerTube release. Plus Wendell from Level1Techs joins us to discuss his thoughts on porting Linux to the Apple M1.
Our new PeerTube instance
Coder Radio 395 — Their lives change forever when they meet a handsome, tormented, laptop.
Level1Linux: We’re ready for One GPU – Two OSs. Intel Xe, SR-IOV and thoughts on VMs
Intel Xe MAX Needs Two Linux Kernels For Now - Meaning You Need To Use A GPU-Accelerated VM — The good news is the Xe MAX graphics can be used for a GPU-accelerated Linux virtual machine. The bad news is the Xe MAX support doesn't yet allow for dGPU usage by the host outside of a virtual machine context as it needs "two different [Linux] kernels" for operation in conjunction with the integrated graphics.
Intel GVT-g - ArchWiki — Intel GVT-g is a technology that provides mediated device passthrough for Intel GPUs (Broadwell and newer). It can be used to virtualize the GPU for multiple guest virtual machines, effectively providing near-native graphics performance in the virtual machine and still letting your host use the virtualized GPU normally.
Dell XPS 13 Laptop | Dell USA
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openSUSE Feedback — I'd like to make an argument about Yast. OpenSuse definitely should be clearer in who it is intended for. But here is my humble opinion. It is not for folks who have been using Linux for years.
openSUSE/opi: OBS Package Installer (CLI) — Search and install almost all packages available for openSUSE and SLE.
openSUSE Docs Telegram Channel
Richard Brown on Twitter
Feedback: Try Alpine! — Overall, Alpine is a small, simple distro with a lot of tricks up its sleeves. It's definitely worth a look!
Pick: GPU-Viewer for Linux — This project aims to capture all the important details of glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo in a GUI. The project is being developed using python 3 pygobject with GTK3.
New Core Contributor Promo Code — 2021

378: All in One Pi

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 19:30:00 -0800

Why we think the new Raspberry Pi 400 is just the beginning.

And we chat with the CTO of the Uno Platform, a new way to bring native apps to Linux.

Chapters:
00:00:00 Pre-show
00:01:01 Intro
00:02:23 Meet the Raspberry Pi 400
00:11:21 Manjaro Update
00:16:59 State of Linux Gaming
00:23:11 GNOME 40
00:27:36 Building Native Apps on Linux
00:48:16 Housekeeping
00:50:05 Feedback
00:58:47 Pick
01:04:23 Post-show

Special Guest: Jérôme Laban.

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Happy birthday VIM! — 29 years ago the very first version of Vim was built and distributed.
vim-mario: Mario on Vim
Meet the Raspberry Pi 400, a $70 Linux PC Hiding Inside a Keyboard - OMG! Ubuntu! — At the heart of the Raspberry Pi 400 is a 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A72. This quad-core chip is similar to last year’s Raspberry Pi 4 but clocked to run slightly faster.
The Raspberry Pi 400 - Teardown and Review | Jeff Geerling
Collabora expect their Linux Kernel work for Windows game emulation in Kernel 5.11 | GamingOnLinux — One of the key points that Gabriel Krisman Bertazi went over is their work on system call emulation, which is now required because DRM and anti-cheat tech "are issuing system calls directly from the Windows game code and that bypasses Wine."
GNOME 40 Desktop Environment Slated for Release on March 24th, 2021 — Only three development milestones will be published in six months, an alpha, a beta and a Release Candidate.
Uno Platform — The first and only UI Platform for single-codebase applications for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux.
Uno Platform 3.1 Released
The Windows Calculator on Linux with Uno Platform | Ubuntu — The good folks in the Uno Platform community have ported the open-source Windows Calculator to Linux. The calculator is published in the snapstore and can be downloaded right away.
Porting Windows Calculator
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Feedback: Falling for Fedora
Feedback: First Time Fedora User
Feedback: Distro Debate
Pick: NewsFlash — A modern feed reader designed for the GNOME desktop.
Miniflux is a minimalist and opinionated feed reader.

360: The Hard Work of Hardware

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 21:15:00 -0700

We're joined by two guests who share their insights into building modern Linux hardware products.

Plus we try out Mint 20, cover some big Gnome fixes, and a very handy open source noise suppression pick!

Special Guests: Alfred Neumayer, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Jeremy Soller.

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325: DNF or Die

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:00:00 -0700

Fedora 31 strikes the right balance, we get the latest on the Librem 5 situation, and an easy graphics boost for laptops.

Plus the best way to share your terminal yet, and more.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Drew DeVore.

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