LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Linux Laptop”

462: One Cosmic Collaboration

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 17:00:00 -0700

From skeptic to buyer, why the HP Dev One is the best Linux laptop yet. This is the one review you don't want to miss.

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!

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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352: Three Course Battery

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 05 May 2020 20:15:00 -0700

Manjaro has a new hardware partner so Phillip joins to share the details, and we have the Lemur Pro in house for a battery endurance test like no other.

Plus an Arch server update, and Chris orders the new Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Jeremy Soller, and Philip Muller.

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350: Focal Focus

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 22:00:00 -0700

The latest Ubuntu LTS is here, but does it live up to the hype? And how practical are the new ZFS features? We dig into the performance, security, and stability of Focal Fossa.

Plus our thoughts on the new KWin fork, if Bleachbit is safe, and a quick Fedora update.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.

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347: Arm is Here

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:30:00 -0700

We discover a few simple Raspberry Pi tricks that unlock incredible performance and make us re-think the capabilities of Arm systems.

Plus we celebrate Wireguard finally landing in Linux, catch up on feedback, and check out the new Manjaro laptop.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Philip Muller.

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346: The One-Click Trap

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:30:00 -0700

We debate the dangers and advantages of one-click deployments. Then Dan from elementary OS shares an AppCenter for Everyone update.

Plus a big batch of feedback that kicks off some wide-ranging discussions.

Special Guests: Danielle Foré and Neal Gompa.

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FOSS Responders — COVID-19 is impacting the open source industry in many ways. If you or your community has been impacted, please let us know
Seems that NVIDIA silently axed their GTC talk about Nouveau?
Update: NVIDIA GTC 2020 Announcements Postponed Entirely
Lemur Pro - System76
Brunch with Brent: Stuart Langridge
Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
FOSS Talk Live 2020 has been cancelled. — It seems very unlikely that London will be functioning by June so I have made this difficult call. I'm very sorry to anyone who has made travel and accommodation arrangements but I trust that everyone will understand why this had to be done.
TXLF 2020 Rescheduled — Given the recommendations by public health officials, we have decided to not have Texas Linux Fest on May 2020 at the Palmer Events Center in Austin, TX. We are currently investigating opportunities to bring parts of Texas Linux Fest online.
Unfilter is Back
TurnKey GNU/Linux — a free Debian based library of system images that pre-integrates and polishes the best free software components into secure, easy to use solutions.
Sandstorm — an open source project built by a community of volunteers with the goal of making it really easy to run open source web applications
Bitnami Stack
YunoHost — easily manage a server for your friends, association or enterprise.
Dedicated Platform Package Manager — an easy way to install and manage server applications.
Home Assistant Add-ons - Home Assistant
Feedback: Backup software tips?
Feedback: mac Apps and Little Snitch
Little Snitch and the Deprecation of Kernel Extensions
Feedback: Life at Microsoft
Feedback: Mint Success
Feedback: Mastodon
Feedback: The Windows Burden

338: Success Through Vulnerability

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 14:00:00 -0800

How did we get from shareware to free software? We jump in the Linux powered time machine and revisit software past.

Plus a new Plasma focused laptop, and two powerful command-line picks.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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337: Mystical Users

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:45:00 -0800

We make an appeal to keep Linux powerful and avoid the Macification of the desktop, and review the latest developer-focused XPS 13.

Plus some community news that's getting missed, picks, and more.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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293: Netflix's Gift to Linux

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 22:30:00 -0700

Developers at Netflix are creating the next set of super powers for Linux, we'll get the details straight from the source.

Plus some good Debian news, our tips for better battery life, and we play a little Hot SUSE Potato.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Ell Marquez.

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Google Stadia announced, a game streaming service for Chrome, Android, and TVs — Powered by Linux, it supports the Vulkan graphics API and Google partnered with Unreal to fully support the Stadia platform.
Chris on Instagram — We found a great spot to work for the day, great signal. Just one problem. We sorta got taken hostage for a few hours.
Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Candidates — We're now into the campaigning period. We have 5 candidates.
Linux Laptop Battery Optimization Tool TLP 1.2 Released — TLP 1.2 was released today after being in development for more than a year, and it brings support for NVMe, and removable drives like USB and IEEE1394 devices, support for multi queue I/O schedulers (blk-mq), and other significant enhancements.
TLP – Configuration
Suse is once again an independent company — Few companies have changed hands as often as Suse and yet remained strong players in their business. Suse was first acquired by Novell in 2004. Novell was then acquired by Attachmate in 2010, which Micro Focus acquired in 2014. The company then turned Suse into an independent division, only to then announce its sale to EQT in the middle of 2018.
SUSE is now an independent company after being acquired by EQT for $2.5 billion | Packt Hub — As the company has been owned by EQT, so according to few users it’s still not independent. One of the users commented on HackerNews, “Being owned by a Private Equity fund can really not be described as being “independent”.
MATE 1.22 released — Wanda the Fish now works properly on HiDPI displays
Albert Vaca Cintora on Twitter — KDE Connect has been removed from @GooglePlay for violating their new policy on apps that access SMS. The policy has an explicit exception for companion apps (like KDE Connect), but it was removed anyway and *there's no way to talk to Google*
Use of SMS or Call Log permission groups - Play Console Help
Full-system dynamic tracing on Linux using eBPF and bpftrace — What if you want to trace what happens inside a system call or library call? What if you want to do more than just logging calls, e.g. you want to compile statistics on certain behavior? What if you want to trace multiple processes and correlate data from multiple sources? In 2019, there's finally a decent answer to that on Linux: bpftrace, based on eBPF technology.
Learn eBPF Tracing: Tutorial and Examples — eBPF can be used for many things: network performance, firewalls, security, tracing, device drivers, and more!
IO Visor Project — The IO Visor Project is an open source project and a community of developers to accelerate the innovation, development, and sharing of virtualized in-kernel IO services for tracing, analytics, monitoring, security and networking functions. It builds on the Linux community to bring open, flexible, distributed, secure and easy to operate technologies that enable any stack to run efficiently on any physical infrastructure.
IO Visor Project on GitHub — Organization that hosts the repos for bpftrace, bcc, and other tools.
BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more — BCC is a toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs, and includes several useful tools and examples.
bpftrace: High-level tracing language for Linux eBPF
Install bpftrace for Linux using the Snap Store
BCC Tool Diagram — Diagram that breaks down useful tools in BCC
eBPF Perf Tools 2019: Slides
eBPF Perf Tools 2019: Video (resynced by Squigly)
eBPF Perf Tools 2019: Video (original)

Episode 272: Prepare for Pipewire

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:00:00 -0700

The lead developer of PipeWire Wim Taymans joins us to discuss Linux’s multimedia past, and its exciting future. They promise to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux.

Plus we review the professional grade Precision 5530, tour our new studio in a box, and release one of our first production tools as free software!

Special Guest: Wim Taymans.

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JACK Audio Connection Kit|Home
GetJacked · GitHub — Some simple scripts to build a "Studio in a Box" with JACK.
PipeWire — PipeWire is a project that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux.
PipeWire Wiki
Launching Pipewire!
Precision 15 Inch 5530 Developer Edition — Dell’s thinnest, lightest and smallest 15" mobile workstation is more powerful than ever.
Precision 5530 Benchmarks — JB1 Reaper Custom Build vs Dell Precision 5300
TechSNAP Episode 385: 3 Things to Know About Kubernetes — Kubernetes expert Will Boyd joins us to explain the top 3 things to know about Kubernetes
TechSNAP Episode 386: What Makes Google Cloud Different — We bring on our Google Cloud expert and explore the fundamentals, demystify some of the magic, and ask what makes Google Cloud different.
TechSNAP Episode 387: Private Cloud Building Blocks — We bring in Amy Marrich to break down the building blocks of OpenStack.