LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Macos”

566: Chef's Choice Ubuntu

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 23:45:00 -0700

We try Omakub, a new opinionated Ubuntu desktop for power users and macOS expats.

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Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
Have a pint with Alex in Norwich , Sun, Jun 16, 2024, 2:30 PM | Meetup
Spokane Meetup, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PM
Nextcloud Conference 2024: call for speakers - Nextcloud
Nextcloud Conference 2024 - Nextcloud
Berlin with Brent: September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Fri, Sep 13, 2024 | Meetup
notch on X — Alright, that's enough spyware in my OS. Do I go desktop Mac, or do I have the energy to go full Linux? Not sure, but I'm tired of my operating system treating me like the product.
DHH on X — If I have such a fundamental misalignment with where Apple has gone, why stay? I think that was the question I finally just asked myself for the umph-teenth time, and realized I didn’t have a good answer that wasn’t just based on comfort.
For the Love of Linux — In this podcast episode, REWORK host Kimberly Rhodes talks with David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of 37signals and CTO, about his personal shift from using Apple products to exploring Linux and Windows platforms. He discusses the expanded platform integration at 37signals, which now includes all three operating systems.
DHH on X — The big "Year of Linux on the Desktop" will be 2025. Snapdragon X chips will be ready. Folks will be sick of AI shoved into every crevasse of their life. Thank heaven for disagreeable nerds refusing to bend the knee to the corporate agenda!
Linux as the new developer default at 37signals — I've personally been having a blast over the last few months digging deeper and deeper into the Linux rabbit hole, and it's been a delight discovering just how good its become as developer platform.
Introducing Omakub — Omakub turns a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system by running a single command.
Xournal++
Flameshot
Pinta
Framework
Omakub list of installed apps
Omakub — An Omakase Developer Setup for Ubuntu 24.04 by DHH
Omakub on GitHub
Omakub introductory video
Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!
devenv — Fast, Declarative, Reproducible and Composable Developer Environments using Nix
squid
GeneBean on X — My dad was so happy with his desktop after I switched him to #Pop_OS! that he had me do the same to the laptop he takes on trips. Thanks for such a stellar distro @system76
Walkthrough of Nix Install and Setup on MacOS by zmre on YouTube
Wildspaces.work — Wildpsaces.work is designed for remote workers interested in reconnecting with community and working from new and wild places.
Chris' Amazon Tablet — 10.1 Inch Android 13 Octa-core with 8(4+4) GB+128GB Tablets, 5MP+8MP Camera, Bluetooth 5.0
Fully Kiosk Browser Lockdown
Jellyfin Media Player — Desktop client using jellyfin-web with embedded MPV player. Supports Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
helipad-flake — A Nix flake to provide a helipad package and NixOS module. Intended for use with nix-bitcoin.
kthresher: Tool to remove unused kernels in Debian/Ubuntu
Kopia — Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup Software
Pick: Multiplex — Multiplex is an app to watch torrents together, providing an experience similar to Apple's SharePlay and Amazon's Prime Video Watch Party.
weron — weron provides lean, fast & secure overlay networks based on WebRTC.

525: Beating Apple to the Sauce

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 19:45:00 -0700

We daily drive Asahi Linux on a MacBook, chat about how the team beat Apple to a major GPU milestone, and an easy way to self-host open-source ChatGPT alternatives.

Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

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🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
Hector Martin's Controversial Question — Would you be okay with us adding some really trivial telemetry to the Asahi installer?
Berlin with Brent — Brent will be back in Berlin for the Nextcloud Conference and can't get enough of Berlin Meetups! Friday, September 8th, 6 PM.
Fedora Asahi Remix
Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware — Fedora Asahi Remix will be their new flagship distribution for providing a polished Linux experience on Apple Silicon.
Fedora Asahi Remix: bringing Fedora to Apple Silicon Macs (Flock To Fedora 2023)
Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix — We’re still working out the kinks and making things even better, so we are not quite ready to call this a release yet. We aim to officially release the Fedora Asahi Remix by the end of August 2023. Look forward to many new features, machine support, and more!
Hector Martin: “Okay, I’m going to be honest…” — I apologize to all Asahi Linux users. You deserve better. When I chose Arch Linux ARM as a base I didn't realize it would have so many basic QA issues.
Coming soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs! (Fedora Discourse)
The first conformant M1 GPU driver — Our reverse-engineered, free and open source graphics drivers are the world’s only conformant OpenGL ES 3.1 implementation for M1- and M2-family graphics hardware. That means our driver passed tens of thousands of tests to demonstrate correctness and is now recognized by the industry.
Asahi Linux’s Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant — It's even more rewarding for the community developers in that Apple doesn't provide any conformant (OpenGL or Vulkan) graphics drivers for their Arm-based platform.
Feature Support · AsahiLinux/docs Wiki
Switch to the kernel-16k variant - Fedora Discussion
NixOS: Unlocking your LUKS via SSH and Tor
StreetComplete — Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android.
getumbrel/llama-gpt: A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot. Powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device.
serge-chat/serge: A web interface for chatting with Alpaca through llama.cpp. Fully dockerized, with an easy to use API.
liltom-eth/llama2-webui: Run any Llama 2 locally with gradio UI on GPU or CPU from anywhere (Linux/Windows/Mac). Use
llama.cpp — Port of Facebook’s LLaMA model in C/C++
Llama2.c — Inference Llama 2 in one file of pure C
Koboldcpp — A simple one-file way to run various GGML models with KoboldAI’s UI
lollms-webui — Lord of Large Language Models Web User Interface
LM Studio — Discover, download, and run local LLMs
text-generation-webui — A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models. Supports transformers, GPTQ, llama.cpp (ggml/gguf), Llama models.
A comprehensive guide to running Llama 2 locally — Code Llama is a state-of-the-art LLM capable of generating code, and natural language about code, from both code and natural language prompts.
Meta Releases Code Llama, a Coding Version of Llama 2
Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding
Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source
Meta launches Llama 2, a source-available AI model that allows commercial applications — A family of pretrained and fine-tuned language models in sizes from 7 to 70 billion parameters.
Meta’s Llama 2 is not open source — Meta's newly released large language model Llama 2 is not open source.

474: Linux's Malware Inevitability

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:30:00 -0700

Can Linux do better? Apple is scrambling to build always-on malware protection into the next macOS as its market share grows. A precautionary tale for Linux users.

Plus we take a look at Ubuntu Unity as it becomes an official flavor.

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Canonical Accepts Ubuntu Unity as Official Ubuntu Flavor Starting with Ubuntu 22.10 — The Ubuntu Unity 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) release is expected to see the light of day as an official Ubuntu flavor on October 20th, 2022.
[vote] Re: Ubuntu Unity as an official flavor
Ubuntu Unity
Office Hours 11 — We're pushing our new website to production live on the show today. We have no idea how things will turn out - but we're taking you along for the ride either way!
JB Meetups
JB Matrix West Coast Crew
Baller Boost Jingles — Send us your feedback via GitHub
Mac vs. PC Ad
macOS malware development surged by over 1,000% in 2020
Increased Enterprise Use of iOS, Mac Means More Malware
Report Finds Surge in Malware Aimed at MacOS - Security Boulevard
macOS now scans for malware whenever it gets a chance — In the last six months macOS malware protection has changed more than it did over the previous seven years.
Desktop Market Share
Is any virus protection software needed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Linux devices ‘increasingly’ under attack from hackers, warn security researchers
Brunch with Brunch
Harmonoid — Plays and manages your music library. Looks beautiful & juicy.
LINUX Unplugged 409 — Launch Your Memories Into the Future.
Google Photos is so 2020

469: Tough Linux Love

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 12:00:00 -0700

Is the Linux desktop hard to love? A long-time user experience developer argues it is, and we respond to his criticisms.

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JPL Lottery — 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. - If you don't get picked, don't worry. We're having another meetup while we are in town!
Jupiter Broadcasting - Meetup.com
London Meetup, Fri, Aug 5, 2022 - Meetup.com
Google’s in-house desktop Linux - Computerworld — The best-known Google operating system is Chrome OS, but inside Google itself, the company also uses its own Linux desktop distro — gLinux.
X220 - ThinkWiki — An overview of the ThinkPad X220
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love — I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But I’ve come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. But I just can’t stick with it. I always end up back on macOS. And I’m starting to understand why.
Run Chrome in Toolbox on Silverblue
Distrobox — Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with.
Rclone — Rclone is a command-line program to manage files on cloud storage.
Cryptomator - Free Cloud Encryption for Dropbox & Co — Cryptomator encrypts your data quickly and easily. Afterwards you upload them protected to your favorite cloud service.
Cryptomator— Linux Apps on Flathub
New Podcast Apps

453: Raleigh Action Show

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 19:15:00 -0700

We just wrapped up our East Coast meetup and have a bunch of great stories to share. Plus some Nix ups and downs, and more.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Microsoft Working On AMD GPU Hotplug Support For Linux Driver — Here is a combination not normally expected... Microsoft engineers have submitted patches for review enabling AMD GPU hot-plugging support with the Radeon "AMDGPU" Linux kernel driver.
webtop — Alpine, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch based containers containing full desktop environments in officially supported flavors accessible via any modern web browser.
Tea — The tools that build the Internet have steeped too long. It’s time for a fresh brew.
FreeRDP — FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license.
Rust Pick: bore — a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost.

407: And the Answer is...

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 25 May 2021 12:00:00 -0700

From our origins with Linux to preparing your home LAN for a solar storm, it’s an Ask us Anything special edition!

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Pick: termbin.com — Netcat-based command line pastebin.

389: Harder Butter Faster Stronger

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:45:00 -0800

We showcase a tool that will change your Linux game.

Plus our thoughts on the recent Btrfs FUD, a bunch of feedback, and a handy pick.

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[ANNOUNCE] nano-5.5 is released
Ubuntu 21.04 Will Finally Stop Making New Home Directories World-Readable — Ubuntu 21.04 will do away with the existing practice on Ubuntu Linux systems of making new user home directories world-readable.
Linux 5.10.8 Kernel Released - Finally Fixes That Btrfs Performance Regression — Linux 5.10.8 is out today as the latest stable release for the Linux 5.10 LTS series. Making this point release notable is that it finally addresses the 5.10 Btrfs performance regression.
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Ventoy — An open-source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
Ventoy on GitHub
Feedback: openSUSE and FOSS Adventures
Feedback: Neon Success Story
Feedback: Next Tuesday
Feedback: ThinkPad X12 Detachable
ThinkPad X12 Detachable | Windows Tablet | Lenovo US
Feedback: Google forms?!
Feedback: System76 Prediction
Pick: PGHoard — pghoard is a PostgreSQL backup daemon and restore tooling that stores backup data in cloud object stores.

358: Our Fragmented Favorite

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 21:45:00 -0700

It's time to challenge some long-held assumptions.

Today's Btrfs is not yesterday's hot mess, but a modern battle-tested filesystem, and we'll prove it.

Plus our thoughts on GitHub dropping the term "master", and the changes Linux should make NOW to compete with commercial desktops.

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

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344: Our Week with Windows

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:00:00 -0700

We load up Windows 10 with WSL2, the new Terminal, and give it a go to see what it does better than Linux. Then we dive into the deep end and attend the first-ever WSLConf.

Plus the big new feature coming to Ubuntu, why Chris is going to Denver, and more.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, and Martin Wimpress.

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343: What Linux is Best At

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 18:30:00 -0800

We try the Mac desktop for 30 days, find out what we think it does best, and where Linux will always have it beat.

This episode kicks off the start of a bigger conversation series.

Plus community news, very handy picks, and more.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Maria Komarova, and Michael Aaron Murphy .

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312: What Modern Linux Looks Like

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 20:00:00 -0700

Manjaro takes significant steps to stand out, and the shared problem major distributions are trying to solve, and why it will shape the future of Linux.

Plus macOS apps on Linux, and our first impressions of the Raspberry Pi 4.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Drew DeVore, Martin Wimpress, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller.

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ThinkTiny — The ThinkTiny is a miniature laptop computer with a 0.96 inch display and a design that’s heavily inspired by Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad style. There’s even a TrackPoint-like pointing nub.
Darling Picks Up New Contributors For Its macOS Compatibility Layer On Linux — Darling is the long-standing (albeit for some years idling) effort to allow macOS binaries to run on Linux that is akin to Wine but focused on an Apple macOS layer rather than Windows. This summer it's been moving along and seeing some new developer contributions.
Darling Progress Report Q2 2019 — We are very excited to say that in Q2 2019 (April 1 to June 30) we saw more community involvement than ever before. Many pull requests were submitted that spanned from bug fixes for our low level assembly to higher level modules such as the AppKit framework. Thanks to everyone for your contributions and we hope for this level of engagement to continue.
Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit — Full desktop computer kit - just connect to HDMI display(s)
Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35 — A 1.5GHz quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A72 CPU (~3× performance)
Raspberry Pi 4 Ubuntu Server 18.04.2 Install / Config Guide — Right now there is a memory limitation of 1 GB in 64 bit mode on the Raspberry Pi 4. This is apparently due to the SD card driver breaking when more than 1 GB of RAM is present. This will all be solved eventually but until then I recommend using the 32 bit version of Ubuntu or waiting until the Raspberry Pi 4 support catches up. If you want to run the 64 bit one now anyway it works fine other than the memory limitation.
Raspberry Pi 4 on Arch Linux ARM
Fedora 30 - Rasbberry Pi 4 support - arm - Fedora Mailing-Lists
Manjaro announces partnership, will start shipping closed source FreeOffice suite by default — Additionally we ship FreeOffice 491 by default. This is possible since we partnered up with Softmaker 70.
[Testing Update] 2019-07-29 - Kernels, XFCE 4.14-pre3, Haskell - Announcements / Testing Updates - Manjaro Linux Forum
Phil's GitHub
Ubucon Europe 2019 – Sintra, 10th-13th October — Ubucon is an event organized by the Ubuntu Communities from all around the world. The focus of the event is Ubuntu, an open source, community-driven and free linux distribution, and other free and open source technologies. This year, this event will be organized in Sintra, Portugal, in October 2019. We are preparing four full days of sprints, workshops, conferences, talks and social events for all participants.
AWS Cloud Practitioner Study Group — RSVP to this study group created to help you pass the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification starting on Wednesday July 31st at 11am Pacific.
Introducing Fedora CoreOS — Fedora CoreOS is built to be the secure and reliable host for your compute clusters. It’s designed specifically for running containerized workloads without regular maintenance, automatically updating itself with the latest OS improvements, bug fixes, and security updates
Fedora CoreOS - Getting Started — Fedora CoreOS has no install-time configuration. Every Fedora CoreOS system begins with a generic, unconfigured disk image. On first boot Ignition will read the supplied config and configure the system. Ignition configs are usually supplied via the cloud’s userdata mechanism, or, in the case of bare metal, injected at install time. This guide will show you how to launch Fedora CoreOS on AWS, QEMU, and bare metal as well as how to create Ignition configs.
Podman — What is Podman? Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System. Containers can either be run as root or in rootless mode. Simply put: `alias docker=podman`.
Buildah, Podman, and Skopeo – the BIT that matters — Still doing all your Linux container management using an insecure, bloated daemon? Well, don’t feel bad. I was too until very recently. Now I’m finding myself slowly saying goodbye to my beloved Docker daemon and saying hello to Buildah, Podman, and Skopeo. In this article, I explore the exciting new world of rootless and daemon-less Linux container tools.
Replacing Docker with Podman — Yeah, you read it right… while Docker is a buzzword in the tech industry now. we will see the consequences of using it and how we can solve the problem with Podman. Replacing Docker with Podman
etcd: Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system — etcd is a distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
Ubuntu Core — We redesigned the entire system from first boot to create the most secure embedded Linux for devices and connected things.

302: Dark Style Rises

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 21 May 2019 21:00:00 -0700

Can the Free Desktop avoid being left behind in the going dark revolution? Cassidy from elementary OS joins us to discuss their proposal.

Plus we complete our Red Hat arc by giving Silverblue the full workstation shakedown, Drew shares his complete review, and we discuss the loss of Antergros.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Cassidy James Blaede, and Drew DeVore.

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Antergos Linux Project Ends — Today, we are announcing the end of this project. As many of you probably noticed over the past several months, we no longer have enough free time to properly maintain Antergos.
The Need for a FreeDesktop Dark Style Preference — OS-wide dark styles are hard. For ages you’ve been able to forcibly change out the system style on GTK, KDE, Android and Windows with something that’s dark by default instead of light, but this causes issues when apps don’t expect it
WireGuard in NetworkManager — NetworkManager 1.16 got native support for WireGuard VPN tunnels
GDC 2019 Developer Session: First Light - Bringing DOOM to Stadia — The inside story of how DOOM came to life on Stadia.
System Builder - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6 GHz 6-Core, Radeon RX 580 8 GB ARMOR OC, P300 ATX Mid Tower
User Error
The Friday Stream Episode 4: The Techxorcist — Chris tries to convince Brent to take a buddies trip, we try to get the audience a discount chicken deal, and Ell’s trying to get out of a locked server room.
Texas Linux Fest 2019 — Texas Linux Fest is an annual Linux and open source software event for Texas and the surrounding region.
Mobile Apps Now Open to Community Edition students - Linux Academy Blog — Starting with today’s release (3.0), Community Edition students will be able to log in and use the our mobile apps
Team Silverblue — Before we chose the name Team Silverblue, the team was the Fedora Atomic Workstation SIG, and the Atomic Workstation is what we are producing, now under its new name, Silverblue. At its core, it is a variant of the Fedora Workstation which uses rpm-ostree to provide an immutable OS image with reliable updates and easy rollbacks.
MineTime — MineTime is part of a research project to build a modern, multi-platform, AI-powered calendar application.
New Guake Drop-Down Terminal PPA (Ubuntu And Linux Mint Installation) - Linux Uprising Blog — Guake is a drop-down terminal for the GNOME desktop which includes split terminal functionality, session save/restore, support for transparency, and many other features.