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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• System76 tips Fedora Cosmic spin for 2025 release with Fedora 42 — It looks like System76's exciting new Rust-based Cosmic DE will get an official Fedora spin in the upcoming Fedora 42, potentially giving Linux users with bleeding-edge hardware an official way to try Cosmic.
• Pop!_OS Mattermost — An excellent place to engage if you want to bring COSMIC to a distro near you.
• iced — A cross-platform GUI library for Rust
• Smithay — A smithy for rusty wayland compositor
• Testing COSMIC — The easiest way to test COSMIC DE currently is by building a systemd system extension.
• Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!
• Portal:Kalpa - openSUSE Wiki — openSUSE MicroOS Desktop Gnome was renamed to openSUSE Aeon, and the Plasma Desktop version is being renamed to openSUSE Kalpa.
• pop-os/kernelstub: A simple EFI boot manager manager for Linux
• Alpaca — GTK App to Chat with local AI models
• Alpaca on FlatHub

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.

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

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• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

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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

Plus, we follow up on Brent's never-ending desktop distro search and Chris' new Linux rig.

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• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

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• Just a bunch of idiots having fun—a photo history of the LAN party
• Introducing Shufflecake — Shufflecake is a tool for Linux that allows creation of multiple hidden volumes on a storage device in such a way that it is very difficult, even under forensic inspection, to prove the existence of such volumes. Each volume is encrypted with a different secret key, scrambled across the empty space of an underlying existing storage medium, and indistinguishable from random noise when not decrypted.
• Hidden Filesystem Design and Improvement - Elia Anzuoni — We propose a novel design, a scheme called Shufflecake, which targets a more balanced compromise between performance and security. The level of deniability it offers, while not protecting against attacks in the most stringent threat model, is sufficient in many practical scenarios.
• Tommaso Gagliardoni’s Homepage
• Linux kernel module for Shufflecake
• Shufflecake Userland Tools
• Fedora upgrade failed due to dep failure
• Comparing openSUSE MicroOS and Fedora Silverblue 37
• Scaling Mastodon is Impossible
• Using Mastodon for comments on a static blog
• TwitterToNitter — Bookmarklet that shows the current Twitter page on Nitter. On every click it choses a random Nitter instance.
• libredirect — A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.

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• Pre-show: Microsoft is selling tech pants for $150. — Wait, what are tech pants?
• London Meetup on August 5th at 6pm GMT
• Southern Oregon Meet Up, Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 6:00 PM
• Sacramento Meet Up!, Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 6:00 PM
• Southern California Meet Up, Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 6:00 PM
• Portland Meet Up, Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 6:00 PM
• Steam Deck Tech Specs
• (Video) Steam Deck Teardown — Everything Valve Said Not to Do!
• Chris' Known Good USB C Docking Station
• Boost Pick: Furtherance — Track your time without being tracked.
• Furtherance on Flathub
• Impractical Python Projects
• Understanding all of Python, through its builtins
• Larix Broadcaster
• Pick: Droidcam — DroidCam turns your phone/tablet into a webcam for your PC.
• Droidcam with Linux
• v4l2-loopback

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• Ubuntu MATE 22.04 Will Include Flatpak Support by Default — Ubuntu MATE isn’t shipping the Flathub repo (like Flathub) preconfigured, or bundling in any Flatpak apps by default. There are also no plans at present to add or expose Flatpak-friendly features in the distro’s homegrown tools like Software Boutique.
• Ubuntu 22.04 Dailies Show an Ubuntu Pro Notification on Login — The blurb mentions that Ubuntu Pro is free for personal use on up to 3 machines.
• Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager
• Kismet — A wireless network and device detector, sniffer, wardriving tool, and WIDS (wireless intrusion detection) framework.
• Slackware Release Announcement — Well folks, in spite of the dire predictions of YouTube pundits, this morning the Slackhog emerged from its development den, did *not* see its shadow, and Slackware 15.0 has been officially released.
• Slackware 15.0 Officially Released, Powered by Linux Kernel 5.15 LTS
• Grub Init Tune: Mario Bros. Mushroom Powerup
• Grub tune tester v0.5.0
• A collection of GRUB init tunes

We try three different builds and prepare ourselves for our journey into SUSE land. Our setups, what we liked, and what we still need to figure out.

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• 2021 Tuxie Nominations are Open!
• SteamOS 3.0 will have an immutable filesystem - a first for arch? — During the Steam Deck Development live steam, Valve finally gave us some good news and said that SteamOS 3.0 will be generally available for everyone to install on their computers. They also revealed that SteamOS 3.0 will have an immutable root file system to prevent unauthorized access and use PipeWire for audio.
• Greg’s Company Buys Ads openSUSE Search Results — "Hey, @openSUSE have you been seeing a drop in downloads recently? I might know why..."
• They did this to AlmaLinux at the end of July.
• AlmaLinux AMA
• Setting up a containerized environment - openSUSE User Documentation Project
• Using the Linode Graphical Shell (Glish)
• How to switch from OpenSUSE Leap to Tumbleweed?
• Transactional Updates | Administration Guide | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
• The Transactional Update Guide
• Manpage for transactional-update — Transactional-update updates the system in a transactional way; this means updates are atomic, so either the patches are fully applied or nothing is changed. The update does not influence the running system and it can be rolled back. To activate the changes, the system needs to be rebooted. To achieve this transactional-update is using Btrfs' snapshot mechanism, combined with the default distribution tools
• YaST Online Update
• OpenSUSE System Updates
• Snapper rollback with btrfs
• openSUSE/transactional-update — Do transactional updates on openSUSE/SUSE Linux Enterprise products with btrfs, snapshots and rollback.
• Open Build Service
• OpenSUSE Conference 2017
• Post that explains some of the drawbacks of transaction updates
• Zypper cheat sheet VERY handy and recommend it
• JupiterGarage.com
• Pick: mp4grep — Command-line tool that searches audio/video files.
• JB All Shows Feed

Plus our thoughts on the perfect Linux laptop right now, and the clever initiative Valve just launched for the Deck.

Special Guests: Jack Aboutboul, Jeremy Soller, and Neal Gompa.

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• SpaceCadetPinball — Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows
• Pop!_OS Raspberry Pi 4 Beta — THIS IS A BETA. Bugs are expected and re-installs are likely.
• Pop!_OS Software Engineer Job Opening (Rust)
• Valve Launches “Steam Deck Verified” Program For Games That Run Well On The Steam Deck — Valve says they are reviewing the entire Steam catalog of games and will be categorizing each game for its level of compatibility with the Steam Deck. These ratings in turn will show up within the Steam Store and for users own game libraries.
• Apple Announces The M1 Pro / M1 Max, Asahi Linux Starts Eyeing Their Bring-Up — Meanwhile the Asahi Linux crew is preparing for their eventual bring-up of the new hardware. They have pre-ordered the M1 Pro MacBook Pro model and will be procuring the M1 Max model too.
• Hector Martin on Twitter — Asahi Linux on M1 Pro bring-up stream ~next week. Thanks to all my Patreon supporters for making this kind of thing possible!
• AlmaLinux ELevate — ELevate enables migration between major versions of RHEL® derivatives. Easily go from CentOS 7.x to any 8.x of your choice.
• AlmaLinux ELevate Demo - YouTube
• Bryan lets us know some neat functionality in the kernel…
• UTM — UTM employs Apple's Hypervisor virtualization framework to run ARM64 operating systems on Apple Silicon at near native speeds.
• ytcc — Command line tool to keep track of your favorite playlists on YouTube and many other places.
• rust-motd — Beautiful, useful MOTD generation with zero runtime dependencies.
• Pick: onetun — onetun opens a TCP port on your local system, from which traffic is forwarded to a TCP port on a peer in your WireGuard network. It requires no changes to your operating system's network interfaces: you don't need to have root access, or install any WireGuard tool on your local system for it to work.

And why everyone will be looking for an open-source LastPass alternative.

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

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• Datadog: Datadog - the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

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• AmpliPi - Home Audio System — Kickstarter — One thing that sets apart the AmpliPi design is that we have made it open source, from the software, to the firmware, to the schematics. The REST API and Web App are written in Python and run on a Raspberry Pi 3+ Compute Module.
• The Coder — The Coder is made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear. Embroidered on the left chest with a classic white on black Coder Radio logo.
• Windows Refund Day — For those who hadn't heard the story, February 15th 1999 was windows refund day. It was a worldwide day when open source OS users went to microsoft's offices to return their unused licenses of windows that they were forced to acquire since they were bundled with the machine they bought.
• VLC 4.0 is coming later this year with a new UI, focus on online video and security — The new version will also focus more on playing videos from the Internet, relying on extensions to find third-party content. The team is also working on a version of VLC that will work inside the browser (based on WebAssembly).
• The Movie Database (TMDb)
• Facebook’s Linux Desktop Choice Is Fedora But Ramping Up CentOS Stream — Among the reasons Facebook is now pursuing CentOS Stream on the desktop is to serve as a stable rolling-release, binary compatibility, punctual security updates, and its close relationship with Fedora.
• Changes to LastPass Free - The LastPass Blog — Starting March 16th, 2021, LastPass Free will only include access on unlimited devices of one type, Desktop or Mobile.
• KeePass Password Safe
• Bitwarden Open Source Password Manager | Bitwarden
• 1Password Linux
• Manjaro Linux on Twitter — We updated #PlasmaMobile to the latest #Plasma 5.21 stable release. This comes with the latest 5.10 LTS kernel and updated development packages. Checkout the latest software by @kdecommunity powered by @ManjaroLinuxARM for your #Pinephone!
• Manjaro on Shells.com
• JupiterBroadcasting Telegram Group
• The Opinion Dominion Episode 28 — A wild Chris Fisher appears… for an interview.
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Plasma 5.2 — Apart from the numerous improvements in stability, there are quite a few Plasma components that are getting much better support in Wayland. KRunner, for example, is now able to list all open windows in Wayland, a new component in the panel’s system tray informs you of the keyboard layout, and we now support features required for GTK 4, so all GTK 4 applications will now work.
• M.2 Enclosure for SATA NGFF SSD
• Feedback: Arch Upgrade Tips
• Feedback: Arch on the laptop of Chris’ son
• SonoBus — SonoBus is an easy to use, open-source, application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.

Plus new insights into the future of CentOS, and Chris falls in love with a 14-inch screamer.

Special Guest: Carl George.

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• The unanswered question at CentOS community Q&A: How can we trust you now? — The CentOS board conducted a public Q&A just ahead of last week's FOSDEM 2021 open source conference – and there was an awkward silence when someone asked whether changing the end-of-life (EOL) date for a released project is something that might happen again.
• Events/Dojo/FOSDEM2021 - CentOS Wiki
• CentOS Dojo 2021: Board of Directors - YouTube
• Ubuntu Backports a Major App Update to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS — Ubuntu 20.04 LTS shipped with Thunderbird 68.x but this version is no longer supported upstream. This leaves Ubuntu developers will a problem: backport individual security fixes to Thunderbird 68, or port the newer (and still-supported) Thunderbird 78 to LTS users?
• Subscribe to Coder Radio
• Jupiter Broadcasting Telegram Channel
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• EndeavourOS Issues First 2021 Release For Easy-To-Use Arch-Based Linux Distro — For those that have been meaning to try out an Arch Linux based distribution that is easy-to-use and not time consuming with sensible defaults, EndeavourOS is out with its first new spin since 2021 -- and in fact their first fresh ISO release since September.
• Our first release of 2021 has arrived – EndeavourOS
• ASUS - ROG Zephyrus G14 14" Ultra-Slim Gaming Laptop
• Linux on Laptops: ASUS Zephyrus G14 with Ryzen 9 4900HS | Ars Technica
• AUR: snap-pac-grub — Pacman hook to update GRUB entries for grub-btrfs after snap-pac made snapshots.
• Feedback: Browser Sync
• xBrowserSync — Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!
• Feedback: Gaming on Wayland
• A free, open-source future for Mailspring - Information - Mailspring Community — Today, I am excited to announce that I am open-sourcing mailsync - the C++11 core of Mailspring that performs email sync - under the same GPLv3 license used by the rest of the app, making Mailspring entirely free software.
• Pick: ht — Yet another HTTPie clone, written in Rust.
• PIck: fddf — Fast data dupe finder, written in Rust.
• Pick: bottom — Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor, written in Rust.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Joe Ressington, and Neal Gompa.

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• LINUX Unplugged 281: 2019 Predictions
• LINUX Unplugged 334: Particularly Poor Predictions
• LINUX Unplugged 335: Practically Perfect Predictions

Plus, we attempt to combine two internet connections with Linux live from the woods!

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
1:07 Intro
1:55 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:35 Lenovo Linux Laptops
11:21 Raspberry Pi Storage Speedup
13:31 SPONSOR: Linode
17:45 Linux Unplugged Core Contributors
18:58 Fedora 33 Bug-a-Thon
20:55 Using Two Internet Connections in Linux
25:11 Policy Routing
28:32 Net-ISP-Balance
31:46 Diving into Policy Routing
33:42 Speedify
39:35 Feedback
40:32 Pick: tunshell
43:16 Outro
45:46 Post-Show

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

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• Lenovo begins rollout of Fedora Linux on their laptops, Ubuntu systems due soon | GamingOnLinux
• Linux Patch Proposed To Double Raspberry Pi 4 Transfer Speed To eMMC/SD Storage - Phoronix
• Unplugged Core Contributors
• (Test Week) Fedora 33 Btrfs Test Day" - Fedocal
• Dual 4G LTE Router for Public Transportation MAX Transit Duo- Peplink
• Bonding internet connections
• VPN Bonding - Simon Mott
• Aggregate internet links with mlvpn
• MLVPN Docs
• engarde: A go network utility to create a reliable IP tunnel over multiple connections
• WireGuard: Multi Link / VPN Bonding
• Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control: Routing for multiple uplinks/providers
• Net-ISP-Balance: Load-balance your Internet connection across two or more ISPs for improved bandwidth and reliability
• Improve Your Multi-Homed Servers with Policy routing
• A Quick Introduction to Linux Policy Routing
• Policy Based Routing: Concepts and Implementation
• Task-centered iproute2 user guide
• An older pure-iptables approach
• Simple policy routing load-balancing script
• Foolsm - Foobar Link Status Monitor
• Shorewall has multi-ISP support too
• How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
• Speedify
• Jupiter Broadcasting Matrix Quick Start Guide – Jay Tuckey’s Blog
• TimeToogo/tunshell: Remote shell into ephemeral environments 🐚 🦀
• Ubuntu Podcast
• The New Show

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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• Say hello to the Linux Terminal 2.0 for Chrome OS
• Change in manjaro team composition - Manjaro Linux Forum
• Phil’s version of the story
• Notebook for Package Building · Expense #22477 - Open Collective
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• LUP LUG Mumble Server Info
• Fullscreen JB IRC Chat - bit.ly/jupiterchat
• Intel’s 7nm is busted, chips delayed, may have to use rival foundries to get GPUs out for US govt exascale super • The Register
• Intel Restructuring: Murthy Leaves, Ann Kelleher Takes Over 7nm And 5nm Development
• Arash Massoudi on Twitter: “Huge tech deal: Japan’s SoftBank to buy UK’s ARM Holdings for $32.4bn tomorrow"
• Hermann Hauser on Twitter: “ARM is the proudest achievement of my life. The proposed sale to SoftBank is a sad day for me and for technology in Britain.” /
• Brit chip biz ARM legs it to Softbank for $32bn • The Register
• Some facts about the Acorn RISC Machine - Google Groups
• Linux Devs had Arm builds are early as spring of 1994.
• Arch Linux ARM first released March 11, 2002
• Raspberry Pi - Single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Mainly using Broadcom SoCs
• Pine64 - initially Pine Microsystems, founded by TL Lim, the inventor of the PopBox and Popcorn Hour series of media players. Mainly using RockChip SoCs
• Beaglebone - a low-power open-source single-board computer produced by Texas Instruments in association with Digi-Key and element14. Using Texas Instruments SoCs
• Odroid - a series of single-board computers and tablet computers created by Hardkernel, located in South Korea. Mainly using Amlogic SoCs
• Orange Pi - an open source single board computer, based on Raspberry Pi but generally lower in price and manufactured by Shenzhen Xunlong Software. Mainly using Allwinner based SoCs
• Banana Pi - a line of low-cost credit card-sized single-board computers produced by the Chinese company Shenzhen SINOVOIP Co., Ltd. Using various SoCs including Realtek, Mediatek, Allwinner, etc
• NanoPi - a single board computer computer company based out of GuangDong, China. Mainly shipping with Samsung, Allwinner, and RockChip SoCs
• PINEBOOK Pro | PINE64
• Dual-display version of RK3399-based Rock Pi 4 starts at $59
• This is what HoneyComb LX2K 16-core Arm Workstation Looks Like (Video)
• Kobol Helios64 - Will your next NAS be ARM powered?
• Ubports - Linux on your phone!
• Amazon’s Graviton - 40% better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances
• YouTube: Making Pi ServerReady - Time for cheap Arm Infrastructure be Standards-Compliant — Even if you don't care about IoT, getting this class of devices to be standards-compliant will provide developers, tech evangelists and early adopters with $50-$100 ServerReady platforms, solving a real headache today around pricing/availability of systems in the market.
• Server systems – Arm Developer
• Arm announces ServerReady compliance program - Processors blog - Processors - Arm Community
• Raspberry Pi 4 Strides Towards ServerReady Status via SBBR-Compliant UEFI Firmware Effort - Hackster.io
• s-tui - Stress-Terminal UI, monitors CPU temperature, frequency, power and utilization with built in stress testing options
• Tuptime – A CLI Utility To Find Linux System Uptime

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

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• WireGuard patchset for OpenBSD
• Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source
• Craig Loewen on Twitter: "@satyanadella has just announced that WSL will include GPU compute support, and GUI application support! Get ready for more WSL announces and details today
• Craig Loewen on Twitter: “@Kiview @thezigpc @cinnamon_msft @satyanadella Our initial prototypes use Wayland”
• Hayden Barnes on Twitter: “WSL2 is getting GUI support, pass-through GPU support, and a new way to easily install.”
• Hayden Barnes on Twitter: "More glimpses of GUI support for WSL 2 from @shanselman and @cinnamon_msft
• DirectX ❤ Linux | DirectX Developer Blog
• Windows Terminal 1.0
• Windows 10 Is Getting Its Own Built-In Package Manager
• PineTab pre-orders open in late May
• PineTab running UBPorts with 5.6 kernel and Lima graphics drivers
• ManjaroBook AMD Ryzen
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• Join us on Telegram
• Pi-hole v5.0 is here!
• Inside the Brotherhood of Pi-hole Ad Blockers
• Linux Mint Success from Zachary
• Pi Boot question from Kamil
• Raspberry Pi 4 USB Boot Config Guide for SSD / Flash Drives
• XPS Feedback Request
• Pick: multi-boot ISO USB
• Ventoy: just copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it!

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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• Inkscape 1.0
• Promo video: Inkscape 1.0 is here! - YouTube
• Return of the Lite - an impressively powerful, lightweight and compact 11” Linux laptop - Manjaro Linux Forum
• Compare Laptops - Find the best Linux Laptop – Star Labs®
• Buy a Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera – Raspberry Pi
• Cloud Playground now supports Ubuntu 20.04!
• Cloud Playground comes to ACG for Business
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• Televised Table Reads Promo
• Televised Table Reads Twitter
• Lemur Pro Pictures on @instachrislas
• Lemur Pro Speakers Question from Eddie
• Internal Overview - System76 Technical Documentation
• Lemur Pro Peformance Benchmarks
• Chris Fisher on Twitter: “Just got done putting @system76’s Lemur Pro through the ultimate battery endurance test. 12 hours of working from the woods, no power outlets, live streaming with @OBSProject. I’ll tell you how it went on tomorrow’s @LinuxUnplugged
• Ovenell’s Heritage Inn
• Useful Lemur Pro docs
• Audio Recorder Tip from Mike
• Audio Recorder
• sound - Capturing ONLY desktop audio with ffmpeg - Ask Ubuntu
• FFmpeg Devices Documentation: PulseAudio
• Feedback from Jason: New Hosted Wireguard Service
• Tailscale: Private networks made easy

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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• Raspberry Pi Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) Daily Build
• WireGuard 1.0.0 for Linux 5.6 Released
• LUP Started Covering WireGuard in June of 2016
• Manjaro InfinityBook Pro 15
• Manjaro Linux on Twitter — "Our #Intel based @ManjaroLinux by @TUXEDOComputers is now available for pre-orders.
• Linux 5.6 Ships With Broken Intel WiFi Driver After Network Security Fixes Go Awry
• Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features
• Btrfs Ready For Linux 5.6 With Async Discard For Better Efficiency + Performance
• EXT4 Gets Performance Work While XFS Gets 32-Bit Fixes For Linux 5.6
• F2FS Experimental Compression Is Ready For Extending Flash Storage Life
• Multipath TCP Support Is Working Its Upstream - First Bits Landing With Linux 5.6
• USB4 Support Lands In The Linux 5.6 Kernel
• Linux 5.6 Is The First Kernel For 32-Bit Systems Ready To Run Past Year 2038
• VirtualBox Shared Folder Driver Seeks Inclusion In Linux 5.6
• User Error 88
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Feedback: Arch to FreeBSD?
• Feedback: Pi4 Fixes
• Raspberry Pi 4 Rev 1.2 Fixes USB-C Power Issues, Improves SD Card Resilience
• Feedback: Pi4 Projects
• Raspberry Pi NAS SATA Adapter Stackable X828 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD Cluster – Geekworm
• Feedback: Downsides of JSON in the Shell
• LINUX Unplugged 341: Long Term Rolling
• JC: JSON in the Shell
• Long Term Rolling Feedback
• Feedback: Try NixOS already!
• Feedback: Timeshift Story and Question
• Armbian – Linux for ARM development boards

Plus community news, a concerning issue for makers, an Arch server follow up, and more.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Jeremy Stott, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa.

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• The makers of Jif peanut butter team up with Giphy to try to settle the GIF/Jif debate once and for all
• Manjaro Linux on Twitter: After several months of development we are happy to announce Manjaro Linux 19.0 release, named Kyria!
• Get in the C: Raspberry Pi 4 can handle a wider range of USB adapters thanks to revised design’s silent arrival
• Brunch with Brent: Heather Ellsworth
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Alex’s Blog: FAA Remote ID Proposal
• FPVFC FAQ on FAA Remote ID NPRM - December 2019
• Proposed Rule: Remote Identification of Unmanned Aircraft Systems
• Introducing the Uber SSH Certificate Authority - Uber Security + Privacy - Medium
• bless: Repository for BLESS, an SSH Certificate Authority that runs as a AWS Lambda function
• How Uber, Facebook, and Netflix Do SSH
• stoggi/sshrimp: 🦐SSH Certificate Authority in a Lambda (on the barbie)
• “Zero Trust SSH” - Jeremy Stott (LCA 2020) - YouTube
• linux.conf.au 2020 | Presentation: Zero Trust SSH
• Keybase SSH
• hallow: A SSH Certificate Authority designed for use with AWS native environments
• BeyondCorp: A New Approach to Enterprise Security – Google Research
• collascii - A collaborative ascii canvas
• Ly - a TUI display manager
• ChrisLAS Cast
• Ubuntu Podcast

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• Why you should replace Windows 7 with Linux | Vivaldi Browser
• Pacman Candy Easter Egg
• Cheap DIY LED Light Strip | Self-Hosted Live Hack - YouTube
• Boston Dynamics Parkour Robot

Plus some big community news, feedback, and more.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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• Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux
• Microsoft Teams is the first Office app for Linux | VentureBeat
• Black Friday Sale is almost done!
• NVIDIA Looks To Have Some Sort Of Open-Source Driver Announcement For 2020
• WireGuard VPN is a step closer to mainstream adoption
• How to setup your own VPN server using WireGuard on Ubuntu
• Chris Noticed his Manjaro mirrors were REALLY slow this AM
• Christmas Student Contest! | The Mad Botter — We are running a contest for High-School students to win a System76 Thelio Linux PC on us. To qualify you must be a US high-school student with your parents permission to participate and write a small FOSS project and publish it on GitHub.
• Perfect Plasma Setup - From Basic to Brilliant - YouTube
• Jupiter Extras: Brunch with Brent: Alan Pope
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram
• WireGuard
• Snapper
• pacupg
• snap-pac: Pacman hooks that use snapper to create pre/post btrfs snapshots like openSUSE’s YaST
• Docker + systemd-network Surprise - Bootloader Blog
• Docker - ArchWiki
• A reliable fix to Docker not keeping it’s IPV4 address on Arch - VADOSWARE
• ubuntu - Docker service starts before ZFS - Server Fault
• grub-btrfs: Include btrfs snapshots in the grub menu
• Feedback: Arch Update Catch-Up Tips

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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• Chris Fisher on Twitter: “Trying out @GoogleStadia before today’s @LinuxUnplugged.
• Google is Working to Bring Mainline Linux Kernel to Android
• Linux 5.5 Crypto Code Has The Changes To Usher In WireGuard - Phoronix
• System76 Superfan 3 Article
• Photo Gallery for System76 Superfan 3
• Pinebook Pro Article
• Jupiter Extras: popey on ThinkPads
• Jupiter Extras - NOW ON YouTube
• Tinc VPN
• Tinc - ArchWiki
• Install tinc VPN for Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
• Introducing Nebula, the open source global overlay network from Slack
• Slack’s open source Nebula overlay network tool can solve multi region connectivity woes - TechRepublic
• Nebula on GitHub
• Feedback: CLI Autocomplete?
• fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder
• Fish Shell
• Liam writes… Hi Chris, I have also been experiencing random lag…
• Profile-sync-daemon: Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers.
• Feedback: Forum?
• wee-slack: A WeeChat plugin for Slack.com. Supports threads and reactions, synchronizes read markers, provides typing notification, etc..
• Girens for Plex - Linux Apps on Flathub

Plus a few surpises from the System76 Super Fan event.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Lukasz Erecinski.

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• PinePhone “BraveHeart” Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone for early adopters
• MacBook Pro 2013 | eBay
• Apple MacBook Pro 2013 15.4" RETINA Laptop - ME294LL/A i7 16GB 512GB GT 750M | eBay
• KDE is looking for an experienced project manager to help guide the community’s goals to completion.
• GNOME Shell & Mutter Dev – Development blog for GNOME Shell and Mutter
• System76 Superfan event
• https://github.com/system76
• Jupiter Extras: Brunch with Brent: Emma Marshall
• Keyboard firmware updater
• Manjaro ARM Preview3 for Pinebook Pro - Manjaro ARM / Announcements - Manjaro Linux Forum
• Brunch with Brent feed link.
• Lakka - The DIY open source retrogaming emulation console

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Neal Gompa.

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• Neal’s DNF-on-Tumbleweed Hack
• New LA free course for November
• Yellow Dog Linux - Wikipedia
• APT-RPM — APT-RPM is a port of Debian's APT tools to a RPM based distribution.
• URPMI - Mageia wiki — urpmi is Mageia's command line tool for managing packages and repositories
• Linux Millionaire Question Form — Jupiter Broadcasting wants to create a fun game for Linux enthusiasts to test their knowledge on the depths of technology and Linux history. Please help by providing us your thoughtful questions and suggested answers!

Also what makes Manjaro unique? We chat with one of the founders and find out why it's much more than a desktop environment.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Bernhard Landauer, Brent Gervais, and Neal Gompa.

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• Richard Stallman Resigns — On September 16, 2019, Richard M. Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation, resigned as president and from its board of directors.
• GNOME relationship with GNU and the FSF – Liberal Murmurs — In my capacity as the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, I have also written to the FSF. One of the most important parts of my role is to think of the well being of our community and the GNOME mission. One of the GNOME Foundation’s strategic goals is to be an exemplary community in terms of diversity and inclusion. I feel we can’t continue to have a formal association with the FSF or the GNU project when its main voice in the world is saying things that hurt this aim.
• balena releases first fully functional 64-bit OS for the Raspberry Pi 4 — Today, we are excited to announce the release of 64-bit balenaOS for the Raspberry Pi 4, providing support for the full 4GB of memory and allowing the simultaneous, side-by-side running of 32-bit and 64-bit Docker containers - a first for the Raspberry Pi 4!
• Nextcloud 17 scales up and improves data protection with Remote Wipe, collaborative text editor, 2FA updates, IBM Spectrum Scale support and Global Scale improvements – Nextcloud — Fresh from the Nextcloud conference stage, we are proud to announce a major release of Nextcloud, the easiest solution for secure, on-premises collaboration on documents, calendars and communication! Nextcloud 17 will introduce a series of secure collaboration features including a collaborative text editor, remote wipe, updated secure view, improved two-factor-authentication and easier access than ever with deeper integration of large-scale storage like S3 and IBM Spectrum Scale.
• PowerShell on GitHub
• PowerShellOnLinux - Home — Our Site is focused on everything PowerShell regardless of which OS you are running but we are specifically focused on Linux and Mac.
• PowerShellOnLinux - FavoriteModules — Below you will find a list of PowerShell Modules that we've found useful.
• PowerShellOnLinux on Twitter
• DM on Twitter
• Free Courses at Linux Academy — September 2019 — On September 17th Linux Torvald first released the Linux Operating System Kernel on September 17th, 1991 so we are celebrating by offering free training for you to increase your Linux Skills.
• Texas Cyber Summit — October 10th to 12th in San Antonio, Texas.
• Linux Headlines — Linux and open source headlines every weekday, in under 3 minutes.
• Self-Hosted 1: The First One — You've been wanting to host a Nextcloud instance (or anything else) for your family for a while now. Where on Earth do you start? We share some hard learned lessons about self-hosting, discuss the most important things to consider when building a home server, and Chris gives Alex a hard time about Arch as a Server OS.
• Unofficial Hacker Family Dinner & Unbirthday Party | Meetup — Join Chris, Wes, Chz and Ell for a meet and greet with fellow Texas Cyber Summit attendees and a belated celebration of Ell and Allie's Birthdays! There will be good food, good friends, and we hope some good conversation.
• Manjaro - enjoy the simplicity — Manjaro is a professionally made Linux based operating system that is a suitable replacement for Windows or MacOS. Multiple Desktop Environments are available through our Official and Community editions. We also work with manufacturers to design dedicated hardware. Visit the shop for more information.
• ClipGrab — A friendly downloader for YouTube and other sites
• Linux 5.3 - Linux Kernel Newbies
• Linux 5.4 Cycle To Begin With exFAT Driver, EPYC Improvements & New GPU Support — Finally there will be mainline exFAT support for that Microsoft file-system with it finally being blessed to be supported under Linux/open-source. The exFAT driver still has a lot of improvements to go (the current code quality has been called horrible) but is already making progress within staging.

Plus we share some big news of our own and the strange feels we get from Chrome OS.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Ell Marquez, and Philip Muller.

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• Kate Planning — Whereas Kate already works well as a general purpose editor, the competition in the text editor space got more intense in the last years. For example Sublime, Atom and Visual Studio Code are things to keep an eye on feature & polishing wise.
• Free software advocate Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week | ZDNet — Stallman gave a "mostly standard talk," covering the importance of free software, GPL v3, GNU vs. Linux. He added that "he had a list of 'small requests': make Github push users to better software license hygiene, make hardware manufacturers to publish their hardware specs, make it easier to workaround Secure Boot."
• Microsoft hosts first Windows Subsystem for Linux conference | ZDNet — Hayden Barnes, founder of Whitewater Foundry, a startup focusing on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) announced WSLconf 1, the first community conference for WSL.
• Manjaro is taking the next step - Announcements - Manjaro Linux Forum — On July 8th, Philip and Bernhard met together with the CEO of Blue Systems to officially found this business entity. As a result, Bernhard and Philip will now be able to commit full-time to Manjaro, while Blue Systems will take a role as an advisor.
• Manjaro CommunityBridge
• Self-Hosted — Discover new software and hardware to get the best out of your network, control smart devices, and secure your data on cloud services. Self-Hosted is a chat show between Chris and Alex two long-time "self-hosters" who share their lessons and take you on the journey of their new ones.
• Linux Headlines — Linux and open source headlines every weekday, in under 3 minutes.
• Free Courses at Linux Academy — September 2019 — On September 17th Linux Torvald first released the Linux Operating System Kernel on September 17th, 1991 so we are celebrating by offering free training for you to increase your Linux Skills.
• Texas Cyber Summit — October 10th-12th 2019 in San Antonio Texas
• Texas Cyber Summit Telegram Group
• Unofficial Hacker Family Dinner & Unbirthday Party — Join Chris, Wes, Chz and Ell for a meet and greet with fellow Texas Cyber Summit attendees and a belated celebration of Ell and Allie's Birthdays! There will be good food, good friends, and we hope some good conversation.
• LINUX Unplugged 296: Defining Desktop Linux — "[...] a desktop linux operating system where you are able to download the source code for the current version of the kernel, compile it, install it, reboot and boot off the kernel you just compiled and built. If you can't do that, it is not desktop linux." - Wimpy
• Linux for Chromebooks could get an installation menu for different distros – About Chromebooks — A Crostini user recently submitted a feature request to provide more options, such as Ubuntu, Fedora or theoretically, any Linux distro that Google could possibly offer.
• Google Launches Chrome OS, Says Windows is 'Torturing Users' | CIO — Google co-founder Sergey Brin said Windows and other traditional PC operating systems are "torturing users" at Google's Chrome OS launch event Wednesday, where the company claimed 75% of business users can be converted from Windows to Chrome OS right away.
• Elgan: Why Chromebooks will fail | Computerworld
• In the Clouds: Inventing Chromebook — While working for Google back in 2006, I had the good fortune to create a new operating system.
• dnschneid/crouton: Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment
• Chromebooks can now run Linux in a Chrome OS window – Gigaom — This is cool: Chromebook users can now run their favorite Linux distribution within a window right on their Chrome OS desktop. Google’s own happiness evangelist François Beaufort revealed with a Google+ post Tuesday that Chromebook oners who have set their device in developer mode can download special Crouton Chrome extension to run Linux without being forced to switch back and forth between the two operating systems.
• The Google Play store, coming to a Chromebook near you
• A new generation of Chromebooks, designed to work with millions of apps
• LINUX Unplugged Episode 248: Contain All The Things — Chrome OS is officially getting full-fledged Linux apps, and we ponder if this is truly a win for Linux.
• You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS | TechCrunch — For the longest time, developers have taken Chrome OS machines and run tools like Crouton to turn them into Linux-based developer machines. That was a bit of a hassle, but it worked. But things are getting easier. Soon, if you want to run Linux apps on your Chrome OS machine, all you’ll have to do is switch a toggle in the Settings menu. That’s because Google is going to start shipping Chrome OS with a custom virtual machine that runs Debian Stretch, the current stable version of the operating system.
• Chrome OS Stable Channel Gets Linux Apps | Linux Journal
• Neverware — Whether you’re a business, a school, or a home user, CloudReady OS is the fast, easy way to convert your hardware to the security and manageability of Google's Chrome ecosystem.
• chromefy — Transforming Chromium to Chrome
• Brunch with Brent: A Chat with Drew DeVore — Brent sits down with Drew DeVore, Jupiter Broadcasting's latest addition to the Audio Editing Engineer team and cohost of Choose Linux. We chat shoes, his love for linux, adventures in audio, and why JB feels like home.

Plus some neat and powerful uses for recent Pis, and our thoughts on Manjaro's change of heart.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, and Brent Gervais.

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• Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain. You Can Download Them Free — Prior to 1964, books had a 28-year copyright term. Extending it required authors or publishers to send in a separate form, and lots of people didn't end up doing that. Thanks to the efforts of the New York Public Library, many of those public domain books are now free online.
• About FreeOffice - it's not being installed by default - Announcements - Manjaro Linux Forum — Manjaro will not be installing FreeOffice by default. This isn't happening.
• Join the new Minimization Team - devel-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists — I'm starting a Minimization Objective focusing on minimising the installation size of some of the popular apps, runtimes, and other pieces of software in Fedora.
• Google Engineers Get Windows Booting When Kexec'ed Under Linux - Phoronix — An interesting summer internship at Google has led to an experimental effort to get Microsoft Windows running via Kexec from Linux. The engineers involved have been implementing enough of the EFI Boot Services to be able to kexec Windows from Linux.
• Roy Hopkins on Twitter — That's a coincidence. Today I managed to boot Windows 10 directly from Linux on a real platform using a kernel module to emulate UEFI. I hate to say it but achieving ExitBootServices is only the beginning...
• LinuxBoot — LinuxBoot is a firmware for modern servers that replaces specific firmware functionality like the UEFI DXE phase with a Linux kernel and runtime.
• The 2019 SeaGL CFP is open for business! | Seattle GNU/Linux Conference — Calling all speakers or speakers-to-be! Our 2019 Call for Proposals is open!
• Chris Fisher on Instagram — Raspberry Pi 4 desktop kit unboxing
• Benchmarking the Raspberry Pi 4 - Gareth Halfacree — Although appearing similar at first glance, the new board is slightly larger thanks to ports extending further from the PCB for improved case compatibility, the Ethernet and USB ports have been switched around, the power input is now a USB Type-C connector, and the full-size HDMI output has been swapped out for not one but two micro-HDMI connectors.
• Chris' pi4 Benchmarks
• Rpi4-sql Benchmarks - OpenBenchmarking.org
• RPI4-CPU-PERF Benchmarks - OpenBenchmarking.org
• HP 4000 Pro SFF Desktop Intel Core 2 Duo (E7500) 2.93GHz 4GB DDR3 250GB HDD
• Initial Raspberry Pi 4 Performance Benchmarks - Phoronix
• motioneye — motionEye is a web frontend for the motion daemon, written in Python.
• Motion — Motion is a highly configurable program that monitors video signals from many types of cameras.
• CodiMD - Realtime collaborative markdown notes on all platforms. — CodiMD lets you collaborate in real-time with markdown. Built on HackMD source code, CodiMD lets you host and control your team's content with speed and ease.
• r-darwish/topgrade: Upgrade everything — Keeping your system up to date mostly involves invoking more than a single package manager. This usually results in big shell one-liners saved in your shell history. Topgrade tries to solve this problem by detecting which tools you use and run their appropriate package managers.

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.

Plus some great picks, community news, and more.

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

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• Announcing the evolution of the Red Hat Certified Engineer program — In the updated program, we are shifting the focus to automation of Linux system administration tasks using Red Hat Ansible Automation and will be changing the requirements for achieving an RHCE credential.
• Linux for Chromebooks: Secure Development - Google I/O 2019 — Learn how Chrome OS gives you a secure, safe sandbox for the Web, Android, and Linux through Chrome OS design principles, Sandboxing Chrome, ARC++, and Linux (Crostini). This session will also cover ways to handle challenges to high performance and tradeoffs with safety.
• Pop!_OS featured on Linus Tech Tips Linux gaming episode as preferred Linux distribution
• The first Devuan Conference - report, videos and interviews — The submarine looking building gave home to an event gathering open source super heroes and all sorts of magical creatures because to quote the first Devuan docsprint in December 2016 from a booklet called ‘Software freedom your way’ : “We must apply thought and attention to software development and we share responsibility, as users and developers of software systems, to foster values of cooperation in the spirit of science, human cultures, and the diversity of life.”
• Ubuntu Still Working On ZFS Install Support, But Not In Time For 19.04 — For the past number of months we've seen Canonical developers working on ZFS support in the Ubuntu desktop and ZFS root partition support so that the Ubuntu desktop could (optionally) be installed to a ZFS On Linux partition.
• TechSNAP Episode 401: Everyday ZFS — Jim and Wes sit down to bust some ZFS myths and share their tips and tricks for getting the most out of the ultimate filesystem. Plus when not to use ZFS, the surprising way your disks are lying to you, and more!
• Linux Academy Limited Time Sale!
• LFNW Telegram Group
• Simplot Careers
• Our Trip to Dell | LAS 464 — Is Dell’s new hardware a sign of serious commitment to Linux or a large company’s hedge against market changes? We go inside Dell, get exclusive access to the teams & people behind many of Dell’s products that run Linux & find out. Plus we discuss Ubuntu dropping Unity for Gnome, Lightworks’ latest release & more!
• DiscoDingo ReleaseSchedule — Final release on April 18th, 2019.
• Ubuntu Releases
• Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) Beta
• PartyLoud — PartyLoud is a tool to create fake internet traffic in order to mitigate tracking on local networks.
• Wes' PartyLoud Demo
• ncspot — Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.
• iwd — iwd (iNet wireless daemon) is a wireless daemon for Linux written by Intel that aims to replace WPA supplicant.
• Xfce Blog
• ElectronPlayer — An Electron Based Web Video Services Player. Supporting Netflix, Youtube, Twitch, Floatplane And More.
• ElectronPlayer on GitHub
• spotifyd: A spotify daemon — An open source Spotify client running as a UNIX daemon.