LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Mate”

602: The BSD Humbling

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:00 -0800

Our FreeBSD Challenge comes to a close, and chances are one of us will be paying the Windows tax.

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Planet Nix
Flox — Your dev environment, everywhere
The Launch 🚀 09: The Eagle has Landed
The Rules of the FreeBSD Challenge
libluksde — Library and tools to access LUKS Disk Encryption encrypted volumes
linuxulator-steam-utils — Linux Steam on FreeBSD
bhyve/Windows - FreeBSD Wiki
Chapter 12. Linux Binary Compatibility
doas - dedicated openbsd application subexecutor
doas mastery
Chapter 33. Firewalls
ardour « audio - ports - FreeBSD ports tree
jellyfin « multimedia - ports - FreeBSD ports tree
Hank wrote in about his testing with a Pi4
FreeBSD pi4 tweak — I got lucky - that was posted two days before I gave this a go. I installed on a 4GB Pi 4B.
Hank's BSD Notes — IMO should get a point just for figuring out how to configure NTP and time zone. Sheesh!
Mizutamari — User-friendly Wine front-end primarily for FreeBSD
Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD
Games - GhostBSD Wiki
What’s Coming for Future Releases of GhostBSD? — We're making some important changes to how GhostBSD is built and released to provide a better, more stable experience for our users.
Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
Gene's Portable Screen
NetBSD Root on ZFS
Music Assistant — Music Assistant is a free, opensource Media library manager that connects to your streaming services and a wide range of connected speakers.
Pick: HedgeDoc — HedgeDoc lets you create real-time collaborative markdown notes.
Pick: Add Water — A utility app to easily install the Firefox GNOME Theme and automatically update it in the background. This theme keeps Firefox fashionable within the GNOME design ecosystem, and provides many helpful features to customize the interface to make browsing even more pleasant

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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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.

492: A New Challenge Approaches

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 18:45:00 -0800

Join us on a journey to true software freedom. We embark on our 30-day challenge and discover a whole new philosophy that will change the way you think about technology.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Mastodon Sees Dip in Active Users After Twitter Exodus Surge
SCaLE 20x — The 20th Annual Southern California Linux Expo will take place on March 9-12, 2023 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA.
Easily Deploy a Mastodon Server with Linode Marketplace
Self-Hosted 87: Jellyfin January — We kick off our Jellyfin January challenge and invite you to join us. Plus, Chris has some new hardware and our thoughts on the trouble at the Matrix foundation.
Top 10 Self-Hosted Apps - Perfect Media Server
[YouTube] The Definitive Guide to Jellyfin
Ubuntu Manpage: intel_gpu_top — Display a top-like summary of Intel GPU usage.
jellyfin/Swiftfin — Native Jellyfin Client for iOS and tvOS.
intel-gpu-tools Repo
Alex's Jellyfin Ansible Setup
Fountain Rewind 2022
List of all Star Trek episodes sorted by original airdate
List of all Star Trek episodes sorted by star date
Alby
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Pick: Btrfsmaintenance — Scripts for btrfs maintenance tasks like periodic scrub, balance, trim or defrag on selected mountpoints or directories.
btdu — sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs.

437: The 2021 Tuxies

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 17:30:00 -0800

It's the second annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, desktops, and services of 2021.

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429: Starlink's Linux Secrets

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:30:00 -0700

We attempt a live production over Starlink, and dig into the secrets of this giant Linux network in space.

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Some users experienced data loss on 21.10
Ubuntu Makes Firefox Snap Default in 21.10
How to Remove Firefox Snap from Ubuntu (21.10 +) And Alternatives
Element One — Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place.
Space Exploration Technologies on GitHub
U-Boot Changes by SpaceX
Linux Kernel Changes by SpaceX
SpaceX openWRT Pull Requests
PTP Changes by SpaceX
Notes from a talk given by then head of Software at SpaceX, Jinnah Hosein — On 1-Aug-2017, Jinnah Hosein, who was the head of Software at SpaceX at the time, spoke to my company, Orbital Insight, in Mountain View California, and I took some notes.
Summary of SpaceX Software AMA
Stack Overflow Blog — Network protocols in orbit: Building a space-based ISP
starlink-grpc-tools — This repository has a handful of tools for interacting with the gRPC service implemented on the Starlink user terminal (AKA "the dish").
Set a Static Route for the App to talk to the Dish
Live Starlink Satellite and Coverage Map
Starlink Coverage Tracker
Croc — A tool that allows any two computers to simply and securely transfer files and folders.
crocgui — A nice simple GUI for croc, designed for mobile use.
kdeconnect-ios — Native iOS port of KDE Connect.

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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339: The Mint Mindset

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:30:00 -0800

We get into the Linux Mint mindset after years away and share our take on Cinnamon's many improvements.

Plus news that'll have knock-on effects for the rest of the year, and more.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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333: Linux Wayback Machine

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 12:00:00 -0800

Open source won the last decade, but what if it hadn’t? We look back at some major milestones and reflect on a world where they never existed.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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327: Distro Disco

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 14:00:00 -0800

Get to know our Linux Users Group a little better and learn why they love their Linux distros of choice, and the one thing they'd change to make them perfect.

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!

324: RAMburglars

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 20:15:00 -0700

Is the ZFS tax too high? We pit ZFS on root against ext4 in our laptop pressure cooker and see how they perform when RAM gets tight.

Plus we take a look at Pop!_OS 19.10, complete our Ubuntu 19.10 review, cover community news, and lots more.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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290: Proper Pi Pedigree

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 20:15:00 -0800

We head to the Raspberry Pi corner and pick the very best open source home automation system.

Plus some great news for Gnome users, OBS studio has a new funding model, and a nostalgic chat with our study buddy Kenny.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Martin Wimpress.

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More GNOME Shell / Mutter Performance Optimizations & Latency Reductions Still Coming - Phoronix — Specifically on the Ubuntu front, Daniel has released a fix for Ubuntu 19.04 Disco and Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic to deal with 144/120Hz displays where GNOME's Mutter caps the rendering to 60 FPS. The fix for Ubuntu 18.10 is still being in the process of SRU'ed.
OBS Studio 23.0 Released With VA-API Video Encoding, New Audio Filters - Phoronix — OBS Studio 23.0 also has several new audio filters, batch remuxing support, multi-track audio support to FFmpeg output, and a variety of other alterations.
Open Broadcaster Software | New Ways to Support OBS Development — It’s amazing to think that the first version of OBS was publicly released over six years ago. What started out as a small side project by Hugh “Jim” Bailey to make a free and open source program to stream StarCraft 2 has grown into a powerful force in the streaming and video production industry. Hundreds of thousands of people use OBS Studio every day not just for video gaming, but also for broadcasting everything from conferences to sports competitions to school announcements. It’s a tool that can be used freely by anyone, from large studios with big budget productions to individuals who just want to engage with a community online.
Available Now: New GeForce-Optimized OBS — We have collaborated with OBS, the industry-leading streaming application, to help them release a new version with improved support for NVIDIA GPUs. The new OBS Studio, version 23.0, reduces the FPS impact of streaming by up to 66% compared to the previous version, meaning higher FPS for your games.
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What’s Free at Linux Academy — March 2019 - Linux Academy Blog — Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group, allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.
LiNUX Courses - Linux Operating System Fundamentals — Kenny first encountered Solaris UNIX while I was in the military, and found out about Linux through the grapevine. He has worked with Linux in local government, fortune 500 companies, educational institutions, and by providing training. I have received Linux certifications from LPI, CompTIA, and Red Hat. Kenny has been working with Linux for nearly two decades and is passionate about sharing his knowledge with others about the system, and strives to learn more about the operating system every day.
Raspberry Pi Updates Devices to Linux 4.19
Martin Wimpress on Twitter — This week I am working on @ubuntu_mate 18.04.2 images for the @Raspberry_Pi models 2 and 3/3+ Nothing exciting to report just yet, build system is configured and the root file system is being generated. Next up is adding the kernel and boot loader.
Python Wheels for the Raspberry Pi — piwheels is a Python package repository providing Arm platform wheels (pre-compiled binary Python packages) specifically for the Raspberry Pi, making pip installations much faster.
StableReleaseUpdates - Ubuntu Wiki — Once an Ubuntu release has been completed and published, updates for it are only released under certain circumstances, and must follow a special procedure called a "stable release update" or SRU.
OpenHab vs Home Assistant vs Domoticz - Best Open Source Home Automation
Awesome Home Assistant — Awesome Home Assistant is a curated list of awesome Home Assistant resources.
Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.
openHAB — a vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for your home.
Domoticz — Domoticz is a Home Automation system design to control various devices and receive input from various sensors.
IronicBadger: Home Assistant configuration files — This repository contains all configuration used to configure my home automation setup using Home Assistant. This is a living and breathing repository and as such is subject to change.
Linux Action Show special about Home Assistant — Our founder Paulus Schoutsen is interviewed by Chris Fisher for a Linux Action Show special about home automation, Hass.io and the new Home Assistant podcast.
smacke/subsync: Automagically synchronize subtitles with video.
Podcast Generator — Podcast Generator is an open source Content Management System written in PHP and specifically designed for podcast publishing. It provides the user with the tools to easily manage all of the aspects related to the publication of a podcast, from the upload of episodes to its submission to the iTunes store.

286: Ell is for Linux

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 21:00:00 -0800

We're playing Robin Hood with the content, and a new member of our team joins to tell you all about it.

Plus some hard details on the Librem 5, we visit the Canonical Corner, and a big batch of great Linux picks.

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

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Choose Linux Episode 1: elementary OS and OpenMediaVault — The show that captures the excitement of discovering Linux.
Firefox 65.0 — Simplified content blocking settings give users standard, strict, and custom options to control online trackers.
What are the phone specs? – Purism
Purism's PureOS Store To Be Based Around Flatpaks — The very first application to the PureOS Store is Lollypop.
Kodi 18.0 — The Kodi team is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Kodi 18.0 "Leia" for all supported platforms.
Canonical Outs Major Linux Kernel Update for Ubuntu 18.04 — These vulnerabilities could allow attackers to either execute arbitrary code or crash the system via a denial of service attack by utilizing a maliciously crafted EXT4 image that could be mounted on the vulnerable machine.
Ubuntu Users Can Now Keep PPAs And Third Party Repositories Enabled When Upgrading To A Newer Ubuntu Version — Another recent change makes sure third party repositories support the release to which the user is trying to upgrade.
SCALE 17x — Pasadena Convention Center March 7 - 10, 2019
Privacy Could Be The Next Big Thing — Upcoming talk by Stuart Langridge at SCALE 17x
Bad Voltage Live | SCALE 17x
Ell on Twitter
Linux Academy Study Group Survey — What course should our next study group cover?
What’s Free At Linux Academy February 2019
Shortwave: Internet radio in Rust
Shortwave Hello World | Felix Häcker — I wanted to rewrite Gradio entirely from scratch using Rust and thought it’s better to start a completely new project.
fx_cast: chromecast for firefox — Enables Chromecast support for casting web apps (like Netflix or BBC iPlayer), HTML5 video and screen/tab sharing.
Cool-Retro-Term 1.1.1 is out! — Big performance improvements (and lowered resource consumption), new shiny (literally) frame, system fonts support, and more!

Episode 245: Microsoft of Things

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 17:00:00 -0700

Azure Sphere is Microsoft making silicon as a service with Linux at its core. We’ve chatted with the folks behind Azure Sphere and breakdown this huge announcement.

Plus a bunch of community news, a string of app picks, and maybe even a concerned rant.

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Utopian - Rewarding Open Source Contributors
Linus Buzzkills 5.0 — But v5.0 will happen some day. And it should be meaningless. You have been warned.
gotop — A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop
Clonezilla Live Disk Cloning OS Gets New Massive Deployment BitTorrent Mechanism — However, one of the most interesting feature of the Clonezilla Live 2.5.5-38 release is a new massive deployment mechanism based on the BitTorrent technology.
fontfinder — A Google font browser for your GTK desktop, written in Rust
Kdenlive in Paris — Our team will dedicate this time to discuss near and long term goals, review the application workflow with professional editors, work on the major 18.08 release and much more.
Microsoft's Next OS is Based on Linux, Not Windows — Microsoft is creating here is Azure Sphere OS, a new operating system aimed at tiny MCU-based IoT devices that is based on Linux.
Microsoft’s bid to secure the Internet of Things: Custom Linux, custom chips, Azure — Azure Sphere has three components. First is a new class of microcontrollers (MCUs) that supports seven critical hardware features that Microsoft says are a necessary foundation to build secure systems. These include support for unforgeable encryption keys protected by hardware, the ability to update system software, and hardware-enforced compartmentalization between software components.
Galen Hunt at Microsoft Research — I am part of the launch team for Microsoft Research New Experiences and Technologies organization (MSR NExT). I am manager of the Operating Systems Technologies Group.
The Seven Properties of Highly Secure Devices — Our group has begun a research agenda to bring high-value security to low-cost devices.