web01.fireside.fm Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:10:58 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Nvidia” https://linuxunplugged.com/tags/nvidia Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:15:00 -0800 An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux. en-us episodic Weekly Linux talk show with no script, no limits, surprise guests and tons of opinion. Jupiter Broadcasting An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux. no Jupiter Broadcasting chris@jupiterbroadcasting.com 647: Plausibly Postulated Prophecies https://linuxunplugged.com/647 146ac113-68f0-49e9-8a8b-5d0571b961c9 Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:15:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025. 1:35:16 no We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025. Special Guest: Drew DeVore. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, open source, predictions, 2026 prediction, 2025 prediction, linux predictions, LinuxFest Northwest, RISC-V, Ubuntu Core Desktop, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Desktop, PewDiePie, I switched to Linux, NixOS, declarative configuration, openSUSE, Kalpa, Aeon, Butane, Ignition, Wayland, Debian, Valve, Proton, Proton 10.0, Wine, Steam Deck, Bcachefs, Hyprvibe, Red Hat, Lightspeed, Linux Foundation, YouTube distro, xz, llm, OSS vulnerability, nVidia, kubernetes, Steam, Steam Harware Survey, Linux market share, NAS, Linux Kernel 7, used hardware, refurbushed hardware, Texas Cyber Summit, Signal, Molly, ADHD is Awesome, medium term listener, Config Confessions, Damn Small Linux, eilmeldung, TUI RSS reader, TUI interface, RSS, RSS Reader, Zbridge, bridge, CAVA, Cavalier, audio visualizer, Rust We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025.

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]]> 611: Distro Double Trouble https://linuxunplugged.com/611 0cc204cd-f9e0-4eaf-af7f-e460984671b1 Sun, 20 Apr 2025 15:30:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04 are here—We break down what’s new, what stands out, and what we love most about each release. 59:41 no Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04 are here—We break down what’s new, what stands out, and what we love most about each release. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, Fedora, Ubuntu, Canonical, Self-Hosted, LFNW, LinuxFest Northwest, Anaconda, Web UI installer, Linux 6.14, Fedora Workstation, COSMIC, KDE Plasma, GNOME 48, GNOME, KDE, Digital Wellbeing, HDR, Matthew Miller, Fedora CoreOS, OSTree, OCI images, LXQt, Plucky Puffin, ARM64, Ubuntu 25.04, BeaconDB, encryption, NVIDIA, Wayland, JB Gaming Den, OpenWebUI, TUI challenge, GitHub, Ignition, RecordApps Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04 are here—We break down what’s new, what stands out, and what we love most about each release.

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]]> 587: Triple Fedora Taste-Test https://linuxunplugged.com/587 2d15972b-9650-4e53-a2b3-4af71538dd0f Sun, 03 Nov 2024 18:15:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Fedora 41 is here! We break down the best new features, then branch out for a three-way spin showdown. Which flavor will come out on top? 1:28:06 no Fedora 41 is here! We break down the best new features, then branch out for a three-way spin showdown. Which flavor will come out on top? Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, Fedora, Fedora 41, Spins, SeaGL, Planet Nix, GNOME 47, Ptyxis, Wayland, DNF 5, DNF, bootupd, bootc, atomic, Mircale, miracle-wm, tiling, Kinoite, Plasma 6.2, NVIDIA, Mir, Matthew Kosarek, i3, Sway, nwg-shell, Flock, rpm-ostree, COSMIC Atomic, Kinoite Mobile, Silverblue, Universal Blue, Asahi Linux, asahi-audio, Apple M1, openSUSE, NixOS, Tumbleweed, Holesail, Folluoost, LUP 600 meetups, Audiobookshelf, arctic circle ZIP code, Meshtastic, Fedora Media Writer, GDM Settings, Web Apps Fedora 41 is here! We break down the best new features, then branch out for a three-way spin showdown. Which flavor will come out on top?

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]]> 565: Mistakes That Made Us Love Linux https://linuxunplugged.com/565 879a6bbe-003c-4eb4-a611-595fac3ab622 Sun, 02 Jun 2024 19:30:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting The facepalm moments that make us question our sanity—and swear off sudo for a week. 1:23:49 no The facepalm moments that make us question our sanity—and swear off sudo for a week. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, Linux Mistakes, Windows 8 moment, Linux refuge, GNOME 3, AI strategy tax, 🤦, everyone makes mistakes, Kate, Microsoft, AI Clippy, Linux Don'ts, live-USB, sudo rm -rf, beginner mistakes, dotfiles, distrohopping, Ubuntu, Nvidia, Debian, dependency hell, SSH updates, dd, NixOS, BeeLink, zram, OOM killer, grub, nine-fives, linux install mistakes, Podverse, GoboLinux, Delfin, Frank Karlitschek, Nextcloud The facepalm moments that make us question our sanity—and swear off sudo for a week.

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  • Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare — What if you care about AI's environmental impact, privacy holes, and the ethical problems of training on data without the creators' permission? The answer might be to switch to Linux. Yes, Linux.
  • Kate Asks about Mistakes to Avoid — Hey boys-Microsoft has officially gone off the deep end with this AI stuff. I'm pretty sure AI Clippy is pulling the strings behind the scenes. Any tips for escaping to Linux before I get assimilated? What are the big "don'ts" for a newbie?
  • Jeremy Molina on X — sudo rm -rf ./ on the root directory 😓
  • Lee Ball on X — I thought I was in a backup directory when I did an rm -rf but turned out I'd forgotten the ./ and just went into /var/lib/mysql and not the backup of said directory.
  • ChaoticHuman on X — I think my most major beginner mistake once was something like "sudo chown useraccount /" because I wanted to not have to deal with file-ownership-conflicts though I no longer remember what exactly I did. I only remember that it led to completely destroying my Linux-system.
  • Ken Starks on X — What are all these files with a dot before them. They aren't programs. Might as well delete them.
  • PDunn on X — Using fringe distos and too much distrohopping causing loss of time and not being productive. Linux can be a time sink I don't have time for. So I installed Ubuntu and moved on. I just use what works and is easy to maintain. Unplugged contributor here.
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  • Chris' Beelink Nix Config
  • Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition — This guide is a beginner's guide to Nix and related tooling, focusing on the newer nix command, and flake.nix compared to older tools like nix-env and default.nix. It does not require any prior Nix knowledge, and instead builds up the Flake based world from first principles, so that it can serve as an introduction to Nix itself, as well as the concept and uses of Flakes.
  • Pick: Delfin — Delfin is a native client for the Jellyfin media server. It features a fast and clean interface to stream your media in an embedded MPV-based video player.
  • Delfin on Flathub
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  • Kate Asks about Mistakes to Avoid — Hey boys-Microsoft has officially gone off the deep end with this AI stuff. I'm pretty sure AI Clippy is pulling the strings behind the scenes. Any tips for escaping to Linux before I get assimilated? What are the big "don'ts" for a newbie?
  • Jeremy Molina on X — sudo rm -rf ./ on the root directory 😓
  • Lee Ball on X — I thought I was in a backup directory when I did an rm -rf but turned out I'd forgotten the ./ and just went into /var/lib/mysql and not the backup of said directory.
  • ChaoticHuman on X — I think my most major beginner mistake once was something like "sudo chown useraccount /" because I wanted to not have to deal with file-ownership-conflicts though I no longer remember what exactly I did. I only remember that it led to completely destroying my Linux-system.
  • Ken Starks on X — What are all these files with a dot before them. They aren't programs. Might as well delete them.
  • PDunn on X — Using fringe distos and too much distrohopping causing loss of time and not being productive. Linux can be a time sink I don't have time for. So I installed Ubuntu and moved on. I just use what works and is easy to maintain. Unplugged contributor here.
  • Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!
  • Chris' Beelink Nix Config
  • Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition — This guide is a beginner's guide to Nix and related tooling, focusing on the newer nix command, and flake.nix compared to older tools like nix-env and default.nix. It does not require any prior Nix knowledge, and instead builds up the Flake based world from first principles, so that it can serve as an introduction to Nix itself, as well as the concept and uses of Flakes.
  • Pick: Delfin — Delfin is a native client for the Jellyfin media server. It features a fast and clean interface to stream your media in an embedded MPV-based video player.
  • Delfin on Flathub
  • Delfin repo
  • Delfin nix package
  • A fireside chat with Nextcloud founder Frank Karlitschek - Nextcloud — Part of this talk was on LUP, now you can hear the full thing.
]]> 527: Framing Brent https://linuxunplugged.com/527 51930101-323b-4f9c-88ad-1a11c9d545a7 Sun, 10 Sep 2023 18:45:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Brent's new Framework laptop has been torn apart and put back together again. We'll find out if it's up to his standards. Plus, we're kicking off a new build. 1:14:20 no Brent's new Framework laptop has been torn apart and put back together again. We'll find out if it's up to his standards. Plus, we're kicking off a new build. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, Berlin, Germany, Nextcloud, NixOS, Meetup, laptops, new laptop, Framework, Framework Laptop, Framework 13, right to repair, LFNW, Notes Station, boot-to-obsidian, Sway, Wayland, Cinnamon, Plasma, Silverblue, uBlue, Kinoite, flakes, nix flakes, ODROID, thin client, Steam Deck, Thinkpad, Lenovo, PXE boot, zap, lightning, value4value, The Blog Index, NVIDIA, CUDA, bcachefs, Kent Overstreet, Linus, Canonical, Ubuntu Desktop, ZeroTier, mesh networking, self-hosting, GPL Condom, box64, Arm, RISC-V, emulation, Android, 🦒, Neo-Store, Obtainium, F-Droid, HP DevOne, DevOne, Brent's new Framework laptop has been torn apart and put back together again. We'll find out if it's up to his standards. Plus, we're kicking off a new build.

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]]> 526: Canonical Wins by Default https://linuxunplugged.com/526 6d4c3c19-058d-432b-8204-b6e87744fb01 Sun, 03 Sep 2023 18:15:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting While chaos is brewing in SUSE and Red Hat land, Canonical stays the course and doubles down on the Linux desktop. Plus, our thoughts on the kernel team GPL-blocking NVIDIA. 49:20 no While chaos is brewing in SUSE and Red Hat land, Canonical stays the course and doubles down on the Linux desktop. Plus, our thoughts on the kernel team GPL-blocking NVIDIA. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, AMD, AMDGPU, kernel driver, graphics drivers, Intel, i915, Nouveau, NVIDIA, GPL, Linux 6.6, Luis Chamberlain, TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, GPL Condom, EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, Christoph Hellwig, DRM, DMCA, copyright, copyleft, ZFS, kernel modules, Ubuntu Desktop, Canonical, Ubuntu 24.04, LTS, Oliver Smith, Ubuntu 23.10, Chromium, Snap packages, snapcraft, SUSE, OpenSUSE, LEAP, ALP, RHEL, Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu Core, Linux Desktop, Linux Desktop investment, Value4Value Music, V4V Music, Wavlake, Framework, Framework Laptop, VoIP While chaos is brewing in SUSE and Red Hat land, Canonical stays the course and doubles down on the Linux desktop. Plus, our thoughts on the kernel team GPL-blocking NVIDIA.

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]]> 498: Rolling Papercuts https://linuxunplugged.com/498 6e232b60-eeb4-4785-9b16-9a338456ff8e Sun, 19 Feb 2023 18:30:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Sometimes running the latest and greatest means you have to pave your own path. This week two examples from living on the edge. 1:03:53 no Sometimes running the latest and greatest means you have to pave your own path. This week two examples from living on the edge. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, Backups, Borg, Vorta, btrfs, snapshots, copy-on-write, btrbk, ssh, rsync, rsnapshot, BorgBackup, ZFS, send/receive, deduplication, Wayland, wlroots, Plasma, remote desktop, RDP, VNC, PiKVM, NVIDIA, video acceleration, Moonlight, Sunshine, gamestreaming, RustDesk, Krfb, KRDC, wayvnc, Waypipe, TeamViewer, NoMachine, Lenovo, WiFi, GNOME, Steam Deck, Zoom, Flatpak, XFCE, sfz, Rust, simple file server, static file server, Sometimes running the latest and greatest means you have to pave your own path. This week two examples from living on the edge.

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]]> 486: Goodbye, Google https://linuxunplugged.com/486 7aa0f1c2-2a07-4c38-8d63-2d1956b47859 Sun, 27 Nov 2022 21:00:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Chris ditches the iPhone and switches to GrapheneOS, a security and privacy-focused project that lets you take control back from Google. 1:34:15 no Chris ditches the iPhone and switches to GrapheneOS, a security and privacy-focused project that lets you take control back from Google. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, GrapheneOS, degoogle, Pixel 7 Pro, Computer Chronicles, Android, Android alternative, mobile, app sandbox, Pixel, AOSP, Android Auto, GrapheneOS, privacy, security, iOS, iPhone, Apple, Play Services, Google Play, Newpipe, Pixel Buds, Firefox, Maps, GNOME, JNOME, GIF, geocache, Debian, Deebian, CalDAV, CardDAV, WebDAV, DAVx5, tailscale, Nextcloud, photo sync, openSUSE, Tumbleweed, DevOne, KDE, Plasma, Tuxedo Computers, Tuxedo OS, nostr, Upscaler, Frog, Tender Owl, text extraction, image upscaling, image restoration, flatpak, n.eko, NVIDIA, Intel 486, x86, Chris ditches the iPhone and switches to GrapheneOS, a security and privacy-focused project that lets you take control back from Google.

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]]> 484: Fedora Falls Flat https://linuxunplugged.com/484 d2362ea2-9398-4e48-858e-b1e01c674d99 Sun, 13 Nov 2022 18:30:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Why this latest release of Fedora misses the mark, and Ubuntu's quiet backing away from ZFS. 1:24:46 no Why this latest release of Fedora misses the mark, and Ubuntu's quiet backing away from ZFS. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, SteamOS, Arch, KDE, Valve, Proton, gaming on Linux, Fedora 37, Raspberry Pi 4, Mumble, V3D, accelerated graphics, Flatpak, Flathub, RPM, RPM Fusion, Slack, Telegram, GNOME Software, GNOME 43, Peertube, helvum, JACK, Pipewire, PulseAudio, Linux audio, Nix, Plasma 5.26, h.264, codecs, NVIDIA, KVM, Matrix, Mastodon, ZFS, zsys, OpenZFS, zfs-on-linux, AI, ML, deep fakes, Coqui, TTS, stable diffusion, Geocache, ODROID, Nexcom, Ubuntu Mate, Popcorn Pocket, Mastodon, fediverse, Pleroma, Signal, Why this latest release of Fedora misses the mark, and Ubuntu's quiet backing away from ZFS.

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]]> 481: Just a Prompt Away https://linuxunplugged.com/481 1bfb24f4-7cd8-4e18-b17f-33a9e0462965 Sun, 23 Oct 2022 20:15:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting The Internet is going crazy with AI-generated media. What's the open-source story, and is Linux being left out? 1:25:04 no The Internet is going crazy with AI-generated media. What's the open-source story, and is Linux being left out? Plus, we try out the new Ubuntu release on the ODROID H3+. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, Ubuntu 22.10, Kinetic Kudu, Canonical, interim release, GNOME, GTK4, Nautilus, PipeWire, Linux 5.19, WiFi, IWD, wpa_supplicant, AI, ML, Stable Diffusion, Stability.ai, CUDA, NVIDIA, CompVis LMU, Runway, LMU Munich, latent diffusion, deep generative neural network, Emad Mostaque, machine learning, artificial intelligence, DreamStudio, container-toolkit, open source, AUTOMATIC1111, docker, docker compose, Btrfs, ZFS, storage, copy-on-write, CoW, bcachefs, Thelio, LURE, AUR, Intel ARC, LVM, cacheing, bcache The Internet is going crazy with AI-generated media. What's the open-source story, and is Linux being left out?

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]]> 480: Taming the Beast https://linuxunplugged.com/480 ad648024-b500-4be3-841d-7be08d1a54e5 Sun, 16 Oct 2022 20:15:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Linus Tech Tips blows it again, and we clean up. Plus, we push System76's updated Thelio Workstation to the breaking point. 1:26:41 no Linus Tech Tips blows it again, and we clean up. Plus, we push System76's updated Thelio Workstation to the breaking point. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, Intel Arc, external GPU, discrete GPU, open-source graphics, Mesa, Linux 6.0, geocache, North Cascades, Fedora, software patents, h.265, h.264, codecs, System76, AMD Ryzen 9, Thelio, NVIDIA, RTX 3060 Ti, NixOS, Dev One, Unigene Superposition, Phoronix Test Suite, Alma Linux, Btrfs, ZFS, LVM, Clear Linux, GPL, LinuxWorld, Ohio Linux Fest, Rust, GTK, Iced, graphics toolkits, Linus Tech Tips blows it again, and we clean up. Plus, we push System76's updated Thelio Workstation to the breaking point.

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]]> 479: Good Software, Bad Blood https://linuxunplugged.com/479 e50e5309-c8d8-4a94-b425-8a6d07444fd4 Sun, 09 Oct 2022 19:45:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting What the heck is going on? Fedora is dropping features, GNOME is getting Iced, and the mistake we'll never make again. We've got a lot to sort out. 1:21:02 no What the heck is going on? Fedora is dropping features, GNOME is getting Iced, and the mistake we'll never make again. We've got a lot to sort out. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, TODO, Tasks, Nextcloud, SharePoint, collaboration, Nextcloud Hub 3, Fedora, MPEG-LA, H.264, H.265, codecs, AMD, Intel, open-source graphics, iGPU, NVIDIA, Red Hat, software patents, software licenses, System76, Pop!_OS, COSMIC, Rust, Iced, GTK, GNOME, Elm, Elm Architecture, C, accessibility, Geocache, SilverBlue, Acastus Photon, Pelias, Auto Move windows, GNOME Extensions, OSINT, Lokinet, UAV, Solaris, Stadia, Google, What the heck is going on? Fedora is dropping features, GNOME is getting Iced, and the mistake we'll never make again. We've got a lot to sort out.

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]]> 460: CPU as a Service https://linuxunplugged.com/460 3db27e21-fb86-492e-b1d0-b692be7e89e6 Sun, 29 May 2022 17:30:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting A new Linux update allows Intel to control features in your CPU using hardware-level DRM. 44:11 no A new Linux update allows Intel to control features in your CPU using hardware-level DRM. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, systemd v251, Lennart Poettering, systemd-sysupdate, image-based, SDSi, Intel, software-defined silicon, Linux 5.18, Nvidia, firmware, software freedom, Peloton, HP Dev One, Pop!_OS, ZFS, send and receive, bcachefs, Mainline, Linux kernel, A new Linux update allows Intel to control features in your CPU using hardware-level DRM.

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  • Fitting Everything Together — In this blog story I hope to provide that from my personal perspective, i.e. explain how I personally would build an OS and where I personally think OS development with Linux should go.
  • systemd-sysupdate — This tool implements file, directory, or partition based update schemes, supporting multiple parallel installed versions of specific resources in an A/B (or even: A/B/C, A/B/C/D/, …) style. A/B updating means that when one version of a resource is currently being used, the next version can be downloaded, unpacked, and prepared in an entirely separate location, independently of the first, and — once complete — be activated, swapping the roles so that it becomes the used one and the previously used one becomes the one that is replaced by the next update, and so on.
  • Thoughts on software-defined silicon — The benefits to Intel are clear. The company can do price differentiation among its customers in an attempt to extract the maximum revenue from each while simultaneously reducing the number of different hardware products it must carry in its catalog. The revenue stream from a processor will not necessarily stop once the CPU is purchased, and might continue indefinitely. The benefit for customers is not quite so clear. In theory, customers with minimal needs can avoid paying for expensive features they don't use and can "upgrade" their hardware without downtime if their needs change.
  • platform/x86: Add Intel Software Defined Silicon driver — Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) is a post manufacturing mechanism for activating additional silicon features. Features are enabled through a license activation process. The SDSi driver provides a per socket, sysfs attribute interface for applications to perform 3 main provisioning functions.
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  • Fitting Everything Together — In this blog story I hope to provide that from my personal perspective, i.e. explain how I personally would build an OS and where I personally think OS development with Linux should go.
  • systemd-sysupdate — This tool implements file, directory, or partition based update schemes, supporting multiple parallel installed versions of specific resources in an A/B (or even: A/B/C, A/B/C/D/, …) style. A/B updating means that when one version of a resource is currently being used, the next version can be downloaded, unpacked, and prepared in an entirely separate location, independently of the first, and — once complete — be activated, swapping the roles so that it becomes the used one and the previously used one becomes the one that is replaced by the next update, and so on.
  • Thoughts on software-defined silicon — The benefits to Intel are clear. The company can do price differentiation among its customers in an attempt to extract the maximum revenue from each while simultaneously reducing the number of different hardware products it must carry in its catalog. The revenue stream from a processor will not necessarily stop once the CPU is purchased, and might continue indefinitely. The benefit for customers is not quite so clear. In theory, customers with minimal needs can avoid paying for expensive features they don't use and can "upgrade" their hardware without downtime if their needs change.
  • platform/x86: Add Intel Software Defined Silicon driver — Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) is a post manufacturing mechanism for activating additional silicon features. Features are enabled through a license activation process. The SDSi driver provides a per socket, sysfs attribute interface for applications to perform 3 main provisioning functions.
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  • Pick: Mainline — A tool for installing the latest Linux kernels on Ubuntu-based distributions.
]]> 459: Better than Butter https://linuxunplugged.com/459 4b4406a5-2759-4510-aa07-163e89e855a6 Sun, 22 May 2022 19:45:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We take a sneak peek at some future tech coming to Linux, and share details on HP's new laptop that runs POP! 58:31 no We take a sneak peek at some future tech coming to Linux, and share details on HP's new laptop that runs POP! Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, HP, HP Dev One, System76, Pop!_OS, bcachefs, filesystem, tow-boot, NixOS, Ramos Gin Fizz, LineageOS, NVMe, Radeon, bcachefs, Kent Overstreet, snapshots, COW, ZFS, Btrfs, Rust, encryption, compression, RAID, erasure coding, Zerotier, WireGuard, flat network, mesh network, TailScale, Arm, Tow-Boot, PINE64, OpenSats, Nvidia, Briar, We take a sneak peek at some future tech coming to Linux, and share details on HP's new laptop that runs POP!

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  • London Meetup — Alex from Self-Hosted will be in the UK in August and is proposing a meetup in London on August 6th at 2pm GMT (meetup.com is based off JBs Pacific Time).
  • HP Dev One — Get ready for a laptop that’s customized for the way you code. Featuring preinstalled Pop!_OS Linux and a tuned Linux keyboard with a Super key, HP Dev One was designed with developers in mind.
  • HP Preparing An AMD-Powered Linux Laptop Powered By Pop!_OS
  • HP teamed up with System76 for the HP Dev One laptop with Pop!_OS Linux
  • Bringing bcachefs to the mainline — Bcachefs is a longstanding out-of-tree filesystem that grew out of the bcache caching layer that has been in the kernel for nearly ten years. Based on a session led by Kent Overstreet at the 2022 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM), though, it would seem that bcachefs is likely to be heading upstream soon. He intends to start the process toward mainline inclusion over the next six months or so.
  • Bcachefs Principles of Operation
  • Tow-Boot — Tow-Boot a user-friendly, opinionated distribution of U-Boot, where there is as few differences in features possible between boards, and a "familiar" user interface for an early boot process tool.
  • OpenSats — Support contributors to Bitcoin and other free and open source projects.
  • Pick: Briar — Secure messaging, anywhere.
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  • London Meetup — Alex from Self-Hosted will be in the UK in August and is proposing a meetup in London on August 6th at 2pm GMT (meetup.com is based off JBs Pacific Time).
  • HP Dev One — Get ready for a laptop that’s customized for the way you code. Featuring preinstalled Pop!_OS Linux and a tuned Linux keyboard with a Super key, HP Dev One was designed with developers in mind.
  • HP Preparing An AMD-Powered Linux Laptop Powered By Pop!_OS
  • HP teamed up with System76 for the HP Dev One laptop with Pop!_OS Linux
  • Bringing bcachefs to the mainline — Bcachefs is a longstanding out-of-tree filesystem that grew out of the bcache caching layer that has been in the kernel for nearly ten years. Based on a session led by Kent Overstreet at the 2022 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM), though, it would seem that bcachefs is likely to be heading upstream soon. He intends to start the process toward mainline inclusion over the next six months or so.
  • Bcachefs Principles of Operation
  • Tow-Boot — Tow-Boot a user-friendly, opinionated distribution of U-Boot, where there is as few differences in features possible between boards, and a "familiar" user interface for an early boot process tool.
  • OpenSats — Support contributors to Bitcoin and other free and open source projects.
  • Pick: Briar — Secure messaging, anywhere.
]]> 458: NVIDIA's New View https://linuxunplugged.com/458 f1766a53-4364-4c50-b6c4-4740f0ec1628 Sun, 15 May 2022 19:00:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting NVIDIA is open-sourcing their GPU drivers, but there are a few things you need to know. Plus, we get some exclusive insights into Tailscale from one of its co-founders. 1:07:13 no NVIDIA is open-sourcing their GPU drivers, but there are a few things you need to know. Plus, we get some exclusive insights into Tailscale from one of its co-founders. Special Guests: Avery Pennarun and Christian F.K. Schaller. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, Tailscale, LAN, Linux Action News, NVIDIA, nouveau driver, firmware blog, sshuttle, Avery Pennarun, Christian Schaller, Red Hat, Ansible, NixOS, Bitwarden, LXD, Starlink, Star Trek, Weron, WebRTC, mesh network, mesh VPN, VPN, Wireguard, VM, Ansible Vaults, open source NVIDIA is open-sourcing their GPU drivers, but there are a few things you need to know. Plus, we get some exclusive insights into Tailscale from one of its co-founders.

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]]> 455: I run NixOS BTW https://linuxunplugged.com/455 1216c884-7cbb-46b8-b80f-1d50bd9a18d9 Sun, 24 Apr 2022 20:30:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We've hit a bump in the road with the NixOS challenge, and share what it might not be great at. Plus, what we didn't cover in our Ubuntu 22.04 review. 1:16:36 no We've hit a bump in the road with the NixOS challenge, and share what it might not be great at. Plus, what we didn't cover in our Ubuntu 22.04 review. The one where we don't talk about Ubuntu 22.04 at all. Open a channel to our Lightning Node: 037d284d2d7e6cec7623adbe600450a73b42fb90800989f05a862464b05408df39 Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Martin Wimpress. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, Ubuntu 22.04, Canonical, Dark Style Preference, PREEMPT-RT, real time kernel, Jammy Jellyfish, unsnap, snapcraft, Flatpak, deb-get, Martin Wimpress, Wimpy, MATE 22.04, Pop!_OS, Nvidia, X.org, Wayland, nftables, nix, NixOS, docker, containers, declarative, poetry, poetry2nix, Guix, GNU, arion, podman, Raspberry Pi 4, tailscale, tmux, Ansible, automation, Github, community, Dave Jones, Adam Curry, podfather, podcasting 2.0, virtualisation, Proxmox, pimox7, MQTT, We've hit a bump in the road with the NixOS challenge, and share what it might not be great at. Plus, what we didn't cover in our Ubuntu 22.04 review.

The one where we don't talk about Ubuntu 22.04 at all.

Open a channel to our Lightning Node: 037d284d2d7e6cec7623adbe600450a73b42fb90800989f05a862464b05408df39

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The one where we don't talk about Ubuntu 22.04 at all.

Open a channel to our Lightning Node: 037d284d2d7e6cec7623adbe600450a73b42fb90800989f05a862464b05408df39

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Martin Wimpress.

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]]> 454: Double Distro Details https://linuxunplugged.com/454 9ae3dac4-b439-4776-9c68-d33c271fcd7b Sun, 17 Apr 2022 18:45:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Has Fedora pulled ahead of Ubuntu? We take a look at the new Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04 releases. 59:19 no Has Fedora pulled ahead of Ubuntu? We take a look at the new Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04 releases. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, GNOME 42, Fedora 36, Ubuntu 22.04, Canonical, Red Hat, QEMU, LXD 5.0, flatpak, 5.17, 5.15, Nvidia, Wayland, Podman 4.0, RPM, dnf, do-release-upgrade, flutter, installer, ZFS, zsys, ksmbd, ntfs, Python 3.10, Ruby 3.0, Jammy Jellyfish, Android, in-flight entertainment, backend sync, zfs send, backups, Synapse, Matrix, Outlook, RSSHub, RSS Has Fedora pulled ahead of Ubuntu? We take a look at the new Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04 releases.

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]]> 446: Kudu Cores and Cloud Wars https://linuxunplugged.com/446 e6adaacf-f53c-40ec-9de3-c46e339d871c Sun, 20 Feb 2022 21:00:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We put the sports car of Linux laptops to the test. Is it the multi-tasking machine it claims to be? 1:02:48 no We put the sports car of Linux laptops to the test. Is it the multi-tasking machine it claims to be? And an essential update on the show. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, Mars 2020, Ingenuity, perseverance, multitasking, linux copter, RTX 3060, ML, AI, tensorflow, Ryzen, AMD, Nvidia, Steam, Proton, Kudu, System76, Pop!_OS, Macbook Pro Max, M1, Phoronix Test Suite, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Rust, GPIO, VSCode, ssh, python, C++, value 4 value, Boosts, Helipad, Discord, Matrix, Element, Spotify, Spodcast, Rust, hwatch, rnote, dog, dns, GTK4, RSS, We put the sports car of Linux laptops to the test. Is it the multi-tasking machine it claims to be?

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]]> 427: Life Changing Virtualization https://linuxunplugged.com/427 2a60c9e2-6b17-4b53-9178-102fd82ac557 Tue, 12 Oct 2021 18:45:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Wimpy stops by with a new tool that will change your virtualization game, and we share our thoughts on Ubuntu 21.10 and take the flavor challenge. 1:09:13 no Wimpy stops by with a new tool that will change your virtualization game, and we share our thoughts on Ubuntu 21.10 and take the flavor challenge. Special Guest: Martin Wimpress. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, Liberty Linux, SUSE, RHEL, AlmaLinux, CentOS, Microsoft, Windows 11, WSLg, WSL, Microsoft Store, Ubuntu 21.10, Impish Indri, GNOME 40, Linux 5.13, Yaru, NVIDIA, PipeWire, Firefox snap, nftables, systemd, cgroup v2, QEMU 6.0, Flutter, MATE 1.26, Kubuntu, KDE 5.22.5, Plasma Desktop, Krita, Latte-dock, quickemu, virtualization, mac OS, TPM, virtio, pci passthrough, gpu acceleration, NUC, AMD, Apple M1, Raspberry Pi, MacBook hate, Phoronix Test Suite 10.6, Wimpy stops by with a new tool that will change your virtualization game, and we share our thoughts on Ubuntu 21.10 and take the flavor challenge.

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]]> 426: This Old Linux PC https://linuxunplugged.com/426 e62102e1-655c-45ab-8a7f-d973435419e7 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:00:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting It's the worst time ever to upgrade or buy a new PC, so we cover our favorite tips for getting the most out of your current hardware. Then we pit a 2014 desktop against a 2021 laptop and find out if our old clunker can beat the Thinkpad. 1:09:51 no It's the worst time ever to upgrade or buy a new PC, so we cover our favorite tips for getting the most out of your current hardware. Then we pit a 2014 desktop against a 2021 laptop and find out if our old clunker can beat the Thinkpad. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Christian F.K. Schaller, Jack Aboutboul, and Martin Wimpress. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, Pop!_OS, Raspberry Pi, ARM64, PipeWire, v4l2, libcamera, Christian F.K. Schaller, Wim Taymans, ALSA, PulseAudio, GStreamer, video camera, Cheese, AlmaLinux Foundation, Jack Aboutboul, CentOS, ThinkPad X1 Carbon, NVMe, eGPU, AMD, NVIDIA, Fedora, Garuda, Thunderbolt, 1440p, 144hz, profile-sync-daemon, Linux-ck, Linux-zen, tubearchivist, NixOS, GreenSysAdmin, OpenSUSE, Tumbleweed, Helvum, tubesync, rust, Linux Desktop, Linux Graphics, Wayland, Flatpak, sandboxed apps, old pc, old hardware, geekbench, It's the worst time ever to upgrade or buy a new PC, so we cover our favorite tips for getting the most out of your current hardware. Then we pit a 2014 desktop against a 2021 laptop and find out if our old clunker can beat the Thinkpad.

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

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]]> 422: The Fun Distro https://linuxunplugged.com/422 916f33ea-9f0e-4708-a39c-0cec8354d135 Tue, 07 Sep 2021 19:00:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We try out what might be the most fun Linux distribution around. It started as a laugh, but now we’re in love. 1:04:04 no We try out what might be the most fun Linux distribution around. It started as a laugh, but now we’re in love. Plus, the reunion road trip hits a bump, some community news, feedback, picks, and more. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, E Ink, Light Phone, social media, Arizona, Lady Jupes, RV, Tornado, Sumo Spring, JPL, NASA, Ingenuity, MARS 2020, Perseverance, KDE Plasma 5.23, Wayland, XWayland, Nate Graham, LWN, Jonathan Corbet, iptables, firewall, firewalld, nftables, Linux for Fun, Arch, Zen kernel, ZRAM, OOM, BTRFS, zstd, NVIDIA, Garuda, TimeShift, Sweet theme, youtube-dl, yt-dlp, ytmdl, gaming on linux, We try out what might be the most fun Linux distribution around. It started as a laugh, but now we’re in love.

Plus, the reunion road trip hits a bump, some community news, feedback, picks, and more.

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Plus, the reunion road trip hits a bump, some community news, feedback, picks, and more.

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]]> 411: The Best of Both OSs https://linuxunplugged.com/411 419d69e4-3d7a-4d48-9a6e-733cb60bf067 Tue, 22 Jun 2021 19:15:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Is it possible to have Arch’s best feature on other Linux distros? We attempt it and report our findings. Plus our reaction to NVIDIA’s beta Wayland support–is this the milestone we’ve been waiting for? 56:45 no Is it possible to have Arch’s best feature on other Linux distros? We attempt it and report our findings. Plus our reaction to NVIDIA’s beta Wayland support–is this the milestone we’ve been waiting for? Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, Arch Linux, arch, pacman, AUR, Ubuntu, Docker, podman, OCI, containers, toolbox, flatpak, linux apps, arch server, NVIDIA, Wayland, XWayland, EGL, Btrfs, Fedora Cloud, pacstall, makedeb, mpm, Junest, x11docker, pacapt, apt, dpkg, Red Hat, security, AMD, Ryzen, CentOS, Rocky Linux, Is it possible to have Arch’s best feature on other Linux distros? We attempt it and report our findings. Plus our reaction to NVIDIA’s beta Wayland support–is this the milestone we’ve been waiting for?

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]]> 394: Tempted But the Truth is Discovered https://linuxunplugged.com/394 1c40f650-5f40-4e18-ba42-98aae2abbfc6 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:45:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting After all these years, what's made us stick with Linux? 1:11:16 no After all these years, what's made us stick with Linux? Plus the commitment just made by the GNOME team, and some new tools that are changing our game. Special Guest: Drew DeVore. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Unplugged, NVIDIA, RTX 3060, cryptocurrency, Ethereum, mining, GPU, NASA, Mars, ffmpeg, open-source, Mars 2020, Perseverance, Ingenuity, Open Build Service, OBS, OpenSUSE, flatpak, flathub, ostree, Minecraft, Microsoft, Android, Minecraft Bedrock Edition, Gnome 40, Gnome, horizontal workspaces, multi-monitor, Allan Day, Mutter, Pipewire, JACK audio, PulseAudio, Linux audio, Descript, Hindenburg Journalist, Protools, REAPER, Ardour, Kx-studio, Catia, Carla, yabridge, linvst, Calf plugins, linux studio plugins, airwindows, SonoBus, Ubuntu Studio, Audacity, ocenaudio, WINE, Steam, Valve, Proton, Windows, Rust, Arch, AUR, Fedora, After all these years, what's made us stick with Linux?

Plus the commitment just made by the GNOME team, and some new tools that are changing our game.

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Plus the commitment just made by the GNOME team, and some new tools that are changing our game.

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]]> 393: Perfecting Our Plasma https://linuxunplugged.com/393 aa2961ea-5908-48ae-bc56-b6188b97ad06 Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:00:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Something special has been achieved this week, a new benchmark in the desktop experience. We dig in. 56:20 no Something special has been achieved this week, a new benchmark in the desktop experience. We dig in. And why everyone will be looking for an open-source LastPass alternative. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Unplugged, AmpliPi, Raspberry Pi, Pi Compute Module, Linux audio, home audio, the coder, robe, Coder Radio, Windows Refund Day, Windows, Microsoft, VLC 4.0, VideoLAN, Plex, mpv, youtube-dl, IMDb, TMDb, Facebook, CentOS Stream, Fedora, Chef, oomd, LastPass, Password Managers, pass, Bitwarden, 1Password, KeePassXC, KeePass, Manjaro, Philip Muller, Arch, Nvidia, KDE, Plasma 5.21, Krunner, Kickoff Menu, Breeze Twilight, Ventoy, M.2, SSD, GPL Condom, LTS Kernel, SonoBus, remote recording, Linux audio, Opus, Something special has been achieved this week, a new benchmark in the desktop experience. We dig in.

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

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

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]]> 387: Tumbling Into the New Year! https://linuxunplugged.com/387 bd535c48-6ffa-4aac-95e1-28a13ad51285 Tue, 05 Jan 2021 19:30:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We have some strong opinions about the state of openSUSE Tumbleweed. We've secretly been running it for the past week, and share our experience. 1:20:11 no We have some strong opinions about the state of openSUSE Tumbleweed. We've secretly been running it for the past week, and share our experience. Plus Microsoft's path to dominating the Linux desktop becomes clear. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Unplugged, bucklespring, IBM Model M, mechanical keyboards, Valve, Steam, Linux Gaming, Linus Torvalds, ECC, Intel, Microsoft, Project Monarch, Outlook, Electron, email, Mailspring, FOSDEM, Matrix, KDE, Plasma, Plasma System Monitor, openSUSE, Tumbleweed, YaST, Nvidia, Zypper, flatpak, Grub, btrfs, snapshots, todoist, todo apps, Planner, elementary OS, Tuxies, GNOME 40, We have some strong opinions about the state of openSUSE Tumbleweed. We've secretly been running it for the past week, and share our experience.

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]]> 383: Murder of a Distro https://linuxunplugged.com/383 432057e2-1664-4b24-82dc-db2ba39e3879 Tue, 08 Dec 2020 19:00:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Red Hat just made big changes to how CentOS works, we breakdown the good, and the bad. 1:06:30 no Red Hat just made big changes to how CentOS works, we breakdown the good, and the bad. Plus how you can DIY a cheap IP KVM using a Raspberry Pi. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Hector Martin. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Unplugged, Tuxies, CentOS, CentOS 8, CentOS Stream, Red Hat, RHEL, Fedora, IBM, Pi-KVM, Raspberry PI, IP-KVM, VNC, IPMI, BMC, Hector Martin, Apple M1, Nvidia, Nouveau, eGPU, Thunderbolt, UMA, Linux hardware, PS4, Microsoft Kinect, AMD, Radeon, radeontop, htop, top, bashtop, bpytop, python, Red Hat just made big changes to how CentOS works, we breakdown the good, and the bad.

Plus how you can DIY a cheap IP KVM using a Raspberry Pi.

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Plus how you can DIY a cheap IP KVM using a Raspberry Pi.

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]]> 378: All in One Pi https://linuxunplugged.com/378 09eabcd5-110a-47cf-8b66-80c51c978b36 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 19:30:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Why we think the new Raspberry Pi 400 is just the beginning. 1:06:46 no Why we think the new Raspberry Pi 400 is just the beginning. And we chat with the CTO of the Uno Platform, a new way to bring native apps to Linux. Chapters: 00:00:00 Pre-show 00:01:01 Intro 00:02:23 Meet the Raspberry Pi 400 00:11:21 Manjaro Update 00:16:59 State of Linux Gaming 00:23:11 GNOME 40 00:27:36 Building Native Apps on Linux 00:48:16 Housekeeping 00:50:05 Feedback 00:58:47 Pick 01:04:23 Post-show Special Guest: Jérôme Laban. VIM, vim-mario, vim plugins, Raspberry Pi 400, Raspberry Pi Keyboard, ARM, PinePhone, Manjaro Nibia, Nvidia, linux graphics, Raspberry Pi 400, Collabora, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi, State of Linux Gaming, DRM, anti-cheat, GNOME 40, Uno Platform, C#, XAML, WinUI, snapcraft, native linux app, write once run everywhere, Windows Calculator, Fedora 33, Gentoo, OpenSUSE, NewsFlash, RSS, feed reader, feedly Why we think the new Raspberry Pi 400 is just the beginning.

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

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

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

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

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]]> 376: From The Factory Floor https://linuxunplugged.com/376 67a75029-7d8e-47f9-923c-b423862a8f86 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:15:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We put the new Ubuntu 20.10 to the test, and chat with System76's Mechanical Engineer to get the secrets of the new Thelio Mega. 58:14 no We put the new Ubuntu 20.10 to the test, and chat with System76's Mechanical Engineer to get the secrets of the new Thelio Mega. Plus some important community news, feedback, picks, and more. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-show 1:37 Intro 2:55 Edge for Linux 7:29 Thelio Mega 16:00 NVIDIA's 5.9 Problem 21:02 PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition 25:44 Housekeeping 30:17 Ubuntu 20.10: Groovy Gorilla 49:33 Feedback 54:11 Picks 57:37 Post-show Special Guests: Lindsey Cross and Philip Muller. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Unplugged, Microsoft, Edge for Linux, browsers, chromium, blink, Chrome, Firefox, System76, Thelio Mega, Lindsey Cross, GPU, AI, ML, Pop!_OS, NVIDIA, Linux 5.9, GPL Condom, NetGPU, Manjaro ARM, PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition, Pine64, Phosh, Ubuntu 20.10, Canonical, Groovy Gorilla, GNOME 3.38, Rockchip, nftables, firewall, ESXi Arm Fling, Raspberry Pi, hard drive, badblocks, S.M.A.R.T, We put the new Ubuntu 20.10 to the test, and chat with System76's Mechanical Engineer to get the secrets of the new Thelio Mega.

Plus some important community news, feedback, picks, and more.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-show
1:37 Intro
2:55 Edge for Linux
7:29 Thelio Mega
16:00 NVIDIA's 5.9 Problem
21:02 PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition
25:44 Housekeeping
30:17 Ubuntu 20.10: Groovy Gorilla
49:33 Feedback
54:11 Picks
57:37 Post-show

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Plus some important community news, feedback, picks, and more.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-show
1:37 Intro
2:55 Edge for Linux
7:29 Thelio Mega
16:00 NVIDIA's 5.9 Problem
21:02 PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition
25:44 Housekeeping
30:17 Ubuntu 20.10: Groovy Gorilla
49:33 Feedback
54:11 Picks
57:37 Post-show

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]]> 365: There's a Hole in my Boot! https://linuxunplugged.com/365 fb2153ff-7ffb-4c0b-a9f1-e76b18ec38aa Tue, 04 Aug 2020 20:30:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We explain why BootHole is getting so much attention and break down the key issues. Then we review our favorite Linux-compatible headsets. 53:49 no We explain why BootHole is getting so much attention and break down the key issues. Then we review our favorite Linux-compatible headsets. Plus community news, feedback, and more. Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Neal Gompa. Linux Podcast, Unplugged, A Cloud Guru, Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux kernel 5.8, AMDGPU, AMD, RSI, vertical mouse, Logitech MX570, Trackball, standing desk, GRUB2, UEFI, BootHole, security, Secure Boot, Debian, Valve, gaming on Linux, proton, steam, emulator, Tony Wasserka, Dolphin, Wii, Gamecube, WINE, MX Linux, Nvidia, Arm, mobile, Nokia n900, physical keyboard, PinePhone, PINE64, Jabra Elite Active 65t, Bluetooth, wireless headset, wireless headphone, earbuds, AirPods, Corsair Void RGB Elite, PulseAudio, Zoom, SM58, Shure, microphones, Linux audio, We explain why BootHole is getting so much attention and break down the key issues. Then we review our favorite Linux-compatible headsets.

Plus community news, feedback, and more.

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]]> We explain why BootHole is getting so much attention and break down the key issues. Then we review our favorite Linux-compatible headsets.

Plus community news, feedback, and more.

Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Neal Gompa.

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]]> 360: The Hard Work of Hardware https://linuxunplugged.com/360 980502f7-11c5-456d-b633-4a5262f7b894 Tue, 30 Jun 2020 21:15:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We're joined by two guests who share their insights into building modern Linux hardware products. 54:45 no We're joined by two guests who share their insights into building modern Linux hardware products. Plus we try out Mint 20, cover some big Gnome fixes, and a very handy open source noise suppression pick! Special Guests: Alfred Neumayer, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Jeremy Soller. Linux Podcast, Unplugged, A Cloud Guru, Jupiter Broadcasting, Raspberry Pi, CutiePi, tablet, GNOME, 4k, culling, performance, Linux graphics, Linux Mint 20, warpinator, file transfer, snap packages, snapcraft, Ubuntu, Canonical, fractional scaling, Chrome, Chromium, system76, Linux Laptop, Oryx Pro, hybrid graphics, Nvidia, UBports, Pine64 PinePhone, Linux mobile, Ubuntu Touch, Project Treble, Linux noise suppression, cadmus, PulseAudio, Jeremy Soller, Alfred Neumayer, RNNoise, open firmware We're joined by two guests who share their insights into building modern Linux hardware products.

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

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

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

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

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

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]]> 349: Arm: A New Hope https://linuxunplugged.com/349 1cc0836b-4a48-4e9f-8edf-c018625a56e6 Tue, 14 Apr 2020 20:15:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We build the server you never should, a tricked out Arm box, and push it to the limit with a telnet torture test. 52:55 no We build the server you never should, a tricked out Arm box, and push it to the limit with a telnet torture test. Plus what we're playing recently, community news, a handy self-hosted music pick, and more. Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais. Linux speed run, rachelbythebay, Steam, Linux gaming, AMD, NVIDIA, DOOM Eternal, Batman: Arkham City, Risk of Rain 2, Raft, Proton, Valve, Wine, GitHub, git, GitLab, Nat Friedman, Ubuntu 20.04, WireGuard, ZFS, Zsys, Canonical, LupLUG, ROCKPro64, PINE64, Pine Microsystems, SBC, Manjaro ARM, Armbian, Beets, MusicBrainz, music management, Telnet, ASCII, Star Wars, Linux Podcast, Unplugged, A Cloud Guru, Jupiter Broadcasting We build the server you never should, a tricked out Arm box, and push it to the limit with a telnet torture test.

Plus what we're playing recently, community news, a handy self-hosted music pick, and more.

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]]> We build the server you never should, a tricked out Arm box, and push it to the limit with a telnet torture test.

Plus what we're playing recently, community news, a handy self-hosted music pick, and more.

Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais.

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]]> 346: The One-Click Trap https://linuxunplugged.com/346 296904e5-b7ba-4aa9-9437-54c0583f9cc4 Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:30:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We debate the dangers and advantages of one-click deployments. Then Dan from elementary OS shares an AppCenter for Everyone update. 1:06:13 no We debate the dangers and advantages of one-click deployments. Then Dan from elementary OS shares an AppCenter for Everyone update. Plus a big batch of feedback that kicks off some wide-ranging discussions. Special Guests: Danielle Foré and Neal Gompa. FOSS, Powerpoint, docker, open source, conferences, NVIDIA, nouveau, graphics, gaming on Linux, System76, Lemur Pro, Linux laptop, One-click apps, automation, Ansible, AWS, Turnkey Linux, Sandstorm, Bitnami, Home Assistant, security, backup, Borg, duplicity, Little Snitch, Microsoft, WSL, Windows, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Mastodon, Twitter, Linux Podcast, Unplugged, A Cloud Guru, Jupiter Broadcasting We debate the dangers and advantages of one-click deployments. Then Dan from elementary OS shares an AppCenter for Everyone update.

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

Special Guests: Danielle Foré and Neal Gompa.

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

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

Special Guests: Danielle Foré and Neal Gompa.

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]]> 331: apt install arch-linux https://linuxunplugged.com/331 14baf960-13bc-4efb-ba26-cf4977b98223 Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:30:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We're myth-busting this week as we take a perfectly functioning production server and switch it to Arch. Is this rolling distro too dangerous to run in production, or can the right approach unlock the perfect server? We try it so you don't have to. 58:46 no We're myth-busting this week as we take a perfectly functioning production server and switch it to Arch. Is this rolling distro too dangerous to run in production, or can the right approach unlock the perfect server? We try it so you don't have to. Plus some big community news, feedback, and more. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Manjaro, Arch, Arch Linux, rolling release, Fedora, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, FreeNAS, arch on the server, mythbusting, ZFS, snapper, btrfs, docker, containers, system administration, linux servers, linux, Teams, Microsoft, Office 365, NVIDIA, nouveau, GPU, GTC, graphics, graphics cards, snapshots, copy-on-write, backups, cockpit, WireGuard,snap-pac, grub-btrfs, systemd-networkd, Linux Podcast, Unplugged, Jupiter Broadcasting We're myth-busting this week as we take a perfectly functioning production server and switch it to Arch. Is this rolling distro too dangerous to run in production, or can the right approach unlock the perfect server? We try it so you don't have to.

Plus some big community news, feedback, and more.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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]]> We're myth-busting this week as we take a perfectly functioning production server and switch it to Arch. Is this rolling distro too dangerous to run in production, or can the right approach unlock the perfect server? We try it so you don't have to.

Plus some big community news, feedback, and more.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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]]> 325: DNF or Die https://linuxunplugged.com/325 66809e83-454a-4303-a8e5-5209bfa2a220 Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:00:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Fedora 31 strikes the right balance, we get the latest on the Librem 5 situation, and an easy graphics boost for laptops. 1:09:09 no Fedora 31 strikes the right balance, we get the latest on the Librem 5 situation, and an easy graphics boost for laptops. Plus the best way to share your terminal yet, and more. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Drew DeVore. etcher, Balena, raspberry pi, eGPU, NVIDIA, AMD, linux graphics, steam, proton, Mantiz, Purism, jay little, Librem 5, Ubucon, Ubucon Europe, Fedora, Fedora 31, GNOME, linux desktop, silverblue, fedora toolbox, containers, podman, docker, cgroupsv2, cgroups, tmate, tmux, terminal sharing, GNOME Software, flatpak, flathub, ssh, python 2, python, i686, 32-bit, Linux Podcast, Unplugged, Jupiter Broadcasting Fedora 31 strikes the right balance, we get the latest on the Librem 5 situation, and an easy graphics boost for laptops.

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

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

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

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

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

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]]> 320: RHELhide https://linuxunplugged.com/320 e00823bb-8df0-4192-8f22-094852009aa7 Tue, 24 Sep 2019 20:30:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting CentOS goes rolling and announces version 8. Find out why we're excited to take a dip in this stream. 1:07:49 yes CentOS goes rolling and announces version 8. Find out why we're excited to take a dip in this stream. Plus we review what might just be your next Linux laptop, and explain why systemd is coming for your /home. Special Guest: Neal Gompa. Pinebook, Ubuntu Touch, CentOS 8, CentOS Stream, RHEL, Red Hat, systemd, systemd-homed, lennart poettering, LUKS, encryption, linux laptops, laptops, linux, twitch, OBS, system76, adder ws, nvidia, openbenchmark, starship, rust, Linux Podcast, Unplugged, Jupiter Broadcasting CentOS goes rolling and announces version 8. Find out why we're excited to take a dip in this stream.

Plus we review what might just be your next Linux laptop, and explain why systemd is coming for your /home.

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]]> CentOS goes rolling and announces version 8. Find out why we're excited to take a dip in this stream.

Plus we review what might just be your next Linux laptop, and explain why systemd is coming for your /home.

Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

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]]> 317: Performance Picks for Kicks https://linuxunplugged.com/317 14a90349-e03a-4a5f-a719-adeb33174f32 Tue, 03 Sep 2019 20:30:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We take a trip to visit Level1Tech's Wendell Wilson and come back with some of his performance tips for a smoother Linux desktop. 1:06:27 no We take a trip to visit Level1Tech's Wendell Wilson and come back with some of his performance tips for a smoother Linux desktop. Plus the story behind exFAT coming to Linux, and the big desktop performance improvements landing next week. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Drew DeVore, and Ell Marquez. Wendell Wilson, Level1Tech, GNOME, Mutter, GNOME, GNOME 3.34, waypipe, xkcd, exFAT, Microsoft, Open Invention Network, Wayland, remote desktop, network transparency, NVIDIA, geometric picking, performance, vendor themes, dark style preference, dark mode, Adwaita, FreeDesktop, game mode, CPUFREQ, cpu tuning, throttling, Meshroom, photogrammetry, Linux Podcast, Unplugged, Jupiter Broadcasting We take a trip to visit Level1Tech's Wendell Wilson and come back with some of his performance tips for a smoother Linux desktop.

Plus the story behind exFAT coming to Linux, and the big desktop performance improvements landing next week.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Drew DeVore, and Ell Marquez.

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  • XKCD Forum Hacked — The security breach occurred two months ago, according to security researcher Troy Hunt who alerted the company of the incident, with unknown hackers stealing around 562,000 usernames, email and IP addresses, as well as hashed passwords.
  • Examining exFAT — Linux kernel developers like to get support for new features — such as filesystem types — merged quickly. In the case of the exFAT filesystem, that didn't happen; exFAT was created by Microsoft in 2006 for use in larger flash-storage cards, but there has never been support in the kernel for this filesystem. Microsoft's recent announcement that it wanted to get exFAT support into the mainline kernel would appear to have removed the largest obstacle to Linux exFAT support. But, as is so often the case, it seems that some challenges remain.
  • Waypipe Is Successfully Working For This Network-Transparent Wayland Apps/Games Proxy — Waypipe development was successful this summer by student developer Manuel Stoeckl who was working on the effort as part of this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Waypipe is successfully working now for running Wayland games/applications over the network using this proxy mechanism and supports features like compression, multi-threading optimizations, and hardware-accelerated VA-API for video encode/decode across the network.
  • GSOC 2019 - M. Stoeckl's website — Waypipe supports many quality of life features, including a user-friendly command line wrapper for ssh, hardware accelerated video encoding, transfer compression with either LZ4 or Zstd, and a method to reconnect applications when the ssh connection breaks. With more recent kernels and versions of Mesa that support DMABUFs (GPU-side buffers), it can proxy programs that render images using OpenGL.
  • What to Expect in GNOME 3.34, Out Next Week - OMG! Ubuntu! — GNOME 3.34 makes it MUCH easier to create app folders in the GNOME Shell ‘Application Overview’, i.e. the grid of app shortcuts you see when pressing the All Apps icon on the Ubuntu Dock.
  • GNOME 3.34's Mutter Lands A Last-Minute Performance Fix For NVIDIA — Canonical's Daniel van Vugt who is known for his many GNOME performance optimizations over the past two years has been toying with this NVIDIA fix/optimization the past few months and merged the code this morning to Mutter. This change that landed is the removal of GLX threaded swap wait handling for the NVIDIA binary driver.
  • Geometric Picking Finally Lands In GNOME/Mutter 3.34 For Lowering CPU Usage — This is about cursor movement and now avoiding OpenGL/GPU usage for the color picking operations. That logic is now being done on the CPU without OpenGL but turns out is more efficiently done this way and is able to cause a measurable drop in CPU usage when moving the mouse cursor and especially when moving around windows.
  • Geometric (OpenGL-less) picking · GNOME / mutter · GitLab) — By avoiding OpenGL and the graphics driver we also reduce CPU usage. Despite reimplementing the logic on the CPU, it still takes less CPU time than going through GL did.
  • GTK, Adwaita, and Vendor Styles - Platform - GNOME Discourse — After the BoF, we decided to continue the discussion and find actionable items to move things forward to improve Adwaita itself, the situation for app developers, and the experience for downstream vendors that wish to ship a distinct visual style. We decided that continuing here on Discourse is a good plan to keep the discussion persistent and centralized.
  • The Need for a FreeDesktop Dark Style Preference - GUADEC 2019 - Videos — Cassidy has been observing and researching dark styles in consumer software for several months, and conducted a user study with over 1,500 participants. In this talk he shares his research, observations, prior art, and requirements for a dark style preference on FreeDesktop platforms.
  • gamemode — GameMode is a daemon/lib combo for Linux that allows games to request a set of optimisations be temporarily applied to the host OS and/or a game process.
  • Free Courses at Linux Academy — September 2019 – Linux Academy — 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 in San Antonio, Texas.
  • Unofficial Hacker Family Dinner & Unbirthday Party | Meetup — Join us 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.
  • Level1Linux Channel
  • Chatting With Alex and Chris From The Self Hosted Podcast! - Level1Linux
  • cpufreq - GNOME Shell Extensions — This is a lightweight CPU frequency scaling monitor and powerful CPU management tool. The extension is using standard cpufreq kernel modules to collect information and manage governors. It needs root permission to able changing governors.
  • i7z — A better i7 (and now i3, i5) reporting tool for Linux.
  • CPUFREQ Extension
  • throttled — Workaround for Intel throttling issues in Linux.
  • Re: [X1C6/T480s] low cTDP and trip temperature in Linux - Page 9 - Lenovo Community — The good news: This problem is being very actively investigated and we (Lenovo) hope to have a solution soon.
  • Jupiter.Gallery — Our self-hosted photo gallery powered by Lychee. Send your photos to chz at jupiterbroadcasting.com.
  • Lychee — A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.
  • Audio in Linux question — Is there something lacking in our ALSA/JACK/PuleAudio stack that I'm not aware of? We obviously can do pro audio production, given Ardour, REAPER and even Audacity. What's missing?
  • zFRAG by LostTrainDude — Defrag your mind by manually defragging a virtual Hard Disk, sector by sector, or enable the AUTODEFRAG to sit back and watch it do it on its own.
  • meshroom: 3D Reconstruction Software — Meshroom is a free, open-source 3D Reconstruction Software based on the AliceVision Photogrammetric Computer Vision framework.
]]> We take a trip to visit Level1Tech's Wendell Wilson and come back with some of his performance tips for a smoother Linux desktop.

Plus the story behind exFAT coming to Linux, and the big desktop performance improvements landing next week.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Drew DeVore, and Ell Marquez.

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  • XKCD Forum Hacked — The security breach occurred two months ago, according to security researcher Troy Hunt who alerted the company of the incident, with unknown hackers stealing around 562,000 usernames, email and IP addresses, as well as hashed passwords.
  • Examining exFAT — Linux kernel developers like to get support for new features — such as filesystem types — merged quickly. In the case of the exFAT filesystem, that didn't happen; exFAT was created by Microsoft in 2006 for use in larger flash-storage cards, but there has never been support in the kernel for this filesystem. Microsoft's recent announcement that it wanted to get exFAT support into the mainline kernel would appear to have removed the largest obstacle to Linux exFAT support. But, as is so often the case, it seems that some challenges remain.
  • Waypipe Is Successfully Working For This Network-Transparent Wayland Apps/Games Proxy — Waypipe development was successful this summer by student developer Manuel Stoeckl who was working on the effort as part of this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Waypipe is successfully working now for running Wayland games/applications over the network using this proxy mechanism and supports features like compression, multi-threading optimizations, and hardware-accelerated VA-API for video encode/decode across the network.
  • GSOC 2019 - M. Stoeckl's website — Waypipe supports many quality of life features, including a user-friendly command line wrapper for ssh, hardware accelerated video encoding, transfer compression with either LZ4 or Zstd, and a method to reconnect applications when the ssh connection breaks. With more recent kernels and versions of Mesa that support DMABUFs (GPU-side buffers), it can proxy programs that render images using OpenGL.
  • What to Expect in GNOME 3.34, Out Next Week - OMG! Ubuntu! — GNOME 3.34 makes it MUCH easier to create app folders in the GNOME Shell ‘Application Overview’, i.e. the grid of app shortcuts you see when pressing the All Apps icon on the Ubuntu Dock.
  • GNOME 3.34's Mutter Lands A Last-Minute Performance Fix For NVIDIA — Canonical's Daniel van Vugt who is known for his many GNOME performance optimizations over the past two years has been toying with this NVIDIA fix/optimization the past few months and merged the code this morning to Mutter. This change that landed is the removal of GLX threaded swap wait handling for the NVIDIA binary driver.
  • Geometric Picking Finally Lands In GNOME/Mutter 3.34 For Lowering CPU Usage — This is about cursor movement and now avoiding OpenGL/GPU usage for the color picking operations. That logic is now being done on the CPU without OpenGL but turns out is more efficiently done this way and is able to cause a measurable drop in CPU usage when moving the mouse cursor and especially when moving around windows.
  • Geometric (OpenGL-less) picking · GNOME / mutter · GitLab) — By avoiding OpenGL and the graphics driver we also reduce CPU usage. Despite reimplementing the logic on the CPU, it still takes less CPU time than going through GL did.
  • GTK, Adwaita, and Vendor Styles - Platform - GNOME Discourse — After the BoF, we decided to continue the discussion and find actionable items to move things forward to improve Adwaita itself, the situation for app developers, and the experience for downstream vendors that wish to ship a distinct visual style. We decided that continuing here on Discourse is a good plan to keep the discussion persistent and centralized.
  • The Need for a FreeDesktop Dark Style Preference - GUADEC 2019 - Videos — Cassidy has been observing and researching dark styles in consumer software for several months, and conducted a user study with over 1,500 participants. In this talk he shares his research, observations, prior art, and requirements for a dark style preference on FreeDesktop platforms.
  • gamemode — GameMode is a daemon/lib combo for Linux that allows games to request a set of optimisations be temporarily applied to the host OS and/or a game process.
  • Free Courses at Linux Academy — September 2019 – Linux Academy — 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 in San Antonio, Texas.
  • Unofficial Hacker Family Dinner & Unbirthday Party | Meetup — Join us 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.
  • Level1Linux Channel
  • Chatting With Alex and Chris From The Self Hosted Podcast! - Level1Linux
  • cpufreq - GNOME Shell Extensions — This is a lightweight CPU frequency scaling monitor and powerful CPU management tool. The extension is using standard cpufreq kernel modules to collect information and manage governors. It needs root permission to able changing governors.
  • i7z — A better i7 (and now i3, i5) reporting tool for Linux.
  • CPUFREQ Extension
  • throttled — Workaround for Intel throttling issues in Linux.
  • Re: [X1C6/T480s] low cTDP and trip temperature in Linux - Page 9 - Lenovo Community — The good news: This problem is being very actively investigated and we (Lenovo) hope to have a solution soon.
  • Jupiter.Gallery — Our self-hosted photo gallery powered by Lychee. Send your photos to chz at jupiterbroadcasting.com.
  • Lychee — A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.
  • Audio in Linux question — Is there something lacking in our ALSA/JACK/PuleAudio stack that I'm not aware of? We obviously can do pro audio production, given Ardour, REAPER and even Audacity. What's missing?
  • zFRAG by LostTrainDude — Defrag your mind by manually defragging a virtual Hard Disk, sector by sector, or enable the AUTODEFRAG to sit back and watch it do it on its own.
  • meshroom: 3D Reconstruction Software — Meshroom is a free, open-source 3D Reconstruction Software based on the AliceVision Photogrammetric Computer Vision framework.
]]> 315: Wayland Buddies https://linuxunplugged.com/315 302a10db-6478-4fef-bb49-6b19bc1276f0 Tue, 20 Aug 2019 20:00:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We spend our weekend with Wayland, discover new apps to try, tricks to share, and dig into the state of the project. 56:51 no We spend our weekend with Wayland, discover new apps to try, tricks to share, and dig into the state of the project. Plus System76's new software release, and Fedora's big decision. Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore. System76, Firmware Manager, Fedora, Fedora 31, i686, Modularity, rust, openSUSE, SUSE, Richard Brown, Jupiter Extras, Xorg X11, GNOME, Plasma, wlroots, flameshot, opendrop, rclone, restic, backups, process-wallpaper, nvidia, firmware, Linux Podcast, Jupiter Broadcasting, LINUX Unplugged We spend our weekend with Wayland, discover new apps to try, tricks to share, and dig into the state of the project.

Plus System76's new software release, and Fedora's big decision.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.

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]]> We spend our weekend with Wayland, discover new apps to try, tricks to share, and dig into the state of the project.

Plus System76's new software release, and Fedora's big decision.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.

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]]> 280: Handmade Desktop Linux https://linuxunplugged.com/280 63b60dfb-f9df-4078-8819-96daee85b000 Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:30:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We’re just back from touring System76’s new factory, and getting the inside scoop on how they build their Thelio desktop. This is our story about walking in as skeptics, and walking out as believers. 1:09:10 yes We’re just back from touring System76’s new factory, and getting the inside scoop on how they build their Thelio desktop. This is our story about walking in as skeptics, and walking out as believers. Plus some surprising community news, a few great picks, and more! ProtonMail, WireGuard, Mir, Wayland, EGLStreams, KMS, NVIDIA, ASUS, ZenFone, GPL Violation, Keyboardio, System76, Thelio, Linux Desktop, Pop!_OS, xrandr, minidlna, ReadyMedia, systemd, udev, Ethr, Microsoft, Go, remove.bg, streama, Linux Podcast, Unplugged, Jupiter Broadcasting We’re just back from touring System76’s new factory, and getting the inside scoop on how they build their Thelio desktop. This is our story about walking in as skeptics, and walking out as believers.

Plus some surprising community news, a few great picks, and more!

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]]> We’re just back from touring System76’s new factory, and getting the inside scoop on how they build their Thelio desktop. This is our story about walking in as skeptics, and walking out as believers.

Plus some surprising community news, a few great picks, and more!

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]]> Episode 276: Very Long Term Support https://linuxunplugged.com/276 87523616-3308-40d9-ab52-25d9e23d6757 Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:15:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Android and Ubuntu are working exceptionally hard to create longer support cycles. We’ll highlight the work that makes this possible, and what’s motivating these two different projects to strive for Very Long Term Support. 1:09:25 yes Android and Ubuntu are working exceptionally hard to create longer support cycles. We’ll highlight the work that makes this possible, and what’s motivating these two different projects to strive for Very Long Term Support. Plus Chris reviews how his new Thunderbolt 3 GPU docking station works under Linux, and why he’ll never be undocking again. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, and Martin Wimpress. Settlers of Catan, XPRA, X11, Remote Desktop, Gaming on Linux, Steam, Steam Link, Valve, Android, Mainline, Linux, Linux Kernel, Deepin, LTS, Ubuntu LTS, very long term support, 18.04, 10 year support, Ubuntu Security Podcast, Thunderbolt, Bolt, Thunderbolt Dock, Linux Dock, Nvidia, Prime, prime-select, Automation System, Minitube, youtube-dl, webtty, unity, unite-shell, Linux Podcast, Unplugged Android and Ubuntu are working exceptionally hard to create longer support cycles. We’ll highlight the work that makes this possible, and what’s motivating these two different projects to strive for Very Long Term Support.

Plus Chris reviews how his new Thunderbolt 3 GPU docking station works under Linux, and why he’ll never be undocking again.

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

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]]> Android and Ubuntu are working exceptionally hard to create longer support cycles. We’ll highlight the work that makes this possible, and what’s motivating these two different projects to strive for Very Long Term Support.

Plus Chris reviews how his new Thunderbolt 3 GPU docking station works under Linux, and why he’ll never be undocking again.

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

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]]> Episode 244: Plasma Predicament https://linuxunplugged.com/244 621e9715-631c-4240-bb9d-f2052bc3b657 Tue, 10 Apr 2018 21:00:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We have some Plasma problems this week, but we’re still putting it into production in our most ambitious event yet. 1:14:48 no We have some Plasma problems this week, but we’re sticking with it and still putting it into production in our most ambitious event yet. But we start with a bunch of important community news, including what looks like ZFS on Linux’s first major bug, the future of Elementary OS apps, and a proposal to revamp Ubuntu’s betas. We have some Plasma problems this week, but we’re sticking with it and still putting it into production in our most ambitious event yet.

But we start with a bunch of important community news, including what looks like ZFS on Linux’s first major bug, the future of Elementary OS apps, and a proposal to revamp Ubuntu’s betas.

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Links:

  • LinuxFest Northwest 2018 — LinuxFest Northwest, an annual Open Source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group and the Information Technology department at BTC. LFNW features presentations and exhibits on free and open source topics, as well as Linux distributions & applications, InfoSec, and privacy; something for everyone from the novice to the professional!
  • Disappearing files ZFS On Linux Bug — Data loss when copying a directory with large-ish number of files. For example, cp -r SRC DST with 10000 files in SRC is likely to result in a couple of "cp: cannot create regular file `DST/XXX': No space left on device" error messages, and a few thousand files missing from the listing of the DST directory.
  • The offending commit — Trying to solve an issue for case insensitive filesystems They limited the attempts to expand the ZAP to 2, which is not enough.
  • Valve's Pipe Has Something Linux in it... — We also have other Linux initiatives in the pipe that we're not quite ready to talk about yet
  • NVIDIA will end 32-bit OS GeForce support this month — It will halt GeForce GPU driver support at the end of April, meaning users will lose access to new GeForce Experience features and game ready updates. Moreover, NVIDIA will end security updates by January 2019, so continuing to use your 32-bit OS with a GeForce card beyond that date could actually put it at risk.
  • The New HandBrake is Great! — The HandBrake Team is pleased to present HandBrake 1.1.0. This major release includes new features, as well as bug fixes and improvements for issues affecting previous HandBrake releases.
  • Plasma-Vault — Plasma applet and services for creating encrypted vaults
  • Offline Vaults for an extra layer of protection
  • Latte-Dock — Latte is a dock based on plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids
  • Falkon — Cross-platform Qt Web Browser
]]> We have some Plasma problems this week, but we’re sticking with it and still putting it into production in our most ambitious event yet.

But we start with a bunch of important community news, including what looks like ZFS on Linux’s first major bug, the future of Elementary OS apps, and a proposal to revamp Ubuntu’s betas.

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Links:

  • LinuxFest Northwest 2018 — LinuxFest Northwest, an annual Open Source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group and the Information Technology department at BTC. LFNW features presentations and exhibits on free and open source topics, as well as Linux distributions & applications, InfoSec, and privacy; something for everyone from the novice to the professional!
  • Disappearing files ZFS On Linux Bug — Data loss when copying a directory with large-ish number of files. For example, cp -r SRC DST with 10000 files in SRC is likely to result in a couple of "cp: cannot create regular file `DST/XXX': No space left on device" error messages, and a few thousand files missing from the listing of the DST directory.
  • The offending commit — Trying to solve an issue for case insensitive filesystems They limited the attempts to expand the ZAP to 2, which is not enough.
  • Valve's Pipe Has Something Linux in it... — We also have other Linux initiatives in the pipe that we're not quite ready to talk about yet
  • NVIDIA will end 32-bit OS GeForce support this month — It will halt GeForce GPU driver support at the end of April, meaning users will lose access to new GeForce Experience features and game ready updates. Moreover, NVIDIA will end security updates by January 2019, so continuing to use your 32-bit OS with a GeForce card beyond that date could actually put it at risk.
  • The New HandBrake is Great! — The HandBrake Team is pleased to present HandBrake 1.1.0. This major release includes new features, as well as bug fixes and improvements for issues affecting previous HandBrake releases.
  • Plasma-Vault — Plasma applet and services for creating encrypted vaults
  • Offline Vaults for an extra layer of protection
  • Latte-Dock — Latte is a dock based on plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids
  • Falkon — Cross-platform Qt Web Browser
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