Plus, we try the Intel Arc GPU. Could this new hardware make Linux bulletproof?

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• LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup — Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PM
• Linux 6.2 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Promoted — Linux 6.2 overall has been in good shape from my continued testing and especially for Skylake/Skylake-derived cores is looking better if opting for Call Depth Tracking and it's great to have stable Arc Graphics A380/A750/A770 working out-of-the-box in the labs.
• Performance is looking better with later Arcs
• mesa 23.0.0 Released
• intel-extension-for-pytorch at xpu-master
• Install intel-extension-for-pytorch
• Intel® Extension for PyTorch — PyTorch Tutorials
• rahulunair/stable_diffusion_arc — Stable Diffusion inference on Intel Arc dGPUs
• bes-dev/stable_diffusion.openvino — Implementation of Text-To-Image generation using Stable Diffusion on Intel CPU or GPU.
• ShuffleBox: Quick Benchmark for Whisper by OpenAI
• Flatpak will no longer be available “out-of-the-box” in any of Ubuntu’s official flavors. — Do keep in mind that “not installed by default” is not the same as “not available to install at all”.
• Wimpy on Fosstodon — "@bluesabre Did we agree? I think we complied with the requested change. You and I both played our part in ensuring this was clearly and openly communicated."
• Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults - Community - Ubuntu Community Hub — As part of our combined efforts, the Ubuntu flavors have made a joint decision to adjust some of the default packages on Ubuntu: Going forward, the Flatpak package as well as the packages to integrate Flatpak into the respective software center will no longer be installed by default in the next release due in April 2023, Lunar Lobster.
• KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop — Promote diversity and sustainability in the Linux desktop community by adding payments, donations and subscriptions to the Flathub app store.
• ZFS send/receive over ssh on linux without allowing root login
• ZFS on Object Storage by George Wilson, Matt Ahrens, Paul Dagnelie, Manoj Joseph - YouTube
• JB Geocache Kit Request
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• GPU-Viewer — This project aims to capture all the important details of glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo in a GUI.

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• SteamOS Has Finally Been Rebased to the Latest Version of Arch Linux!
• Fedora 37 is GO — The Fedora Linux 37 Final RC 1.7 compose is GO and will be shipped live on Tuesday, 15 November.
• Fedora 37 ChangeSet
• Announcing the release of Fedora Linux 37 Beta
• NixOS on Fedora
• Is it true that mesa-freeworld hasn't been published on RPM Fusion yet?
• Schedules/Plasma 5 - KDE Community Wiki
• Fedora 37 Plasma Login Fuzzzz
• How to Install a Mastodon Server on Ubuntu 20.04 on Linode
• Don’s use ZSYS · Issue #230 · ubuntu/zsys — Finally I just want to say I regret having to say this. ZFS and ZSYS are both great technologies. They're ideal solutions to big problems and really move the state of the art forward. Unfortunately, their implementations are both 90% ideal but 10% incomplete.
• Bug #1968150 “[FFe] Remove zsys from installer” : Bugs : ubiquity package : Ubuntu
• Chris B’s Deep Fake funny and crazy ChrisLAS images.
• NAS Board ODROID Killer N5105/N6005
• Nexcom Industrial Low Power Rigs
• Bitcoin Dad Pod Episode 50: Effective Scam-Truism
• Bitcoin General Chat on Matrix
• Bitcoin Q&A Room
• Pocket Popcorn Computer — Finally, a handheld Linux device with a high-definition 1080p display and large battery life.
• Pleroma — a lightweight fediverse server
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Coqui TTS — A deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production.

Plus community news, feedback, and a great pick.

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• Cast Your Nominations for the 2020 Tuxies
• CloudLinux to invest more than a million dollars a year into CentOS clone — Project Lenix will be a free, open-source, community-driven, 1:1 binary compatible fork of RHEL 8 (and future releases).
• Feedback: Mike’s Stream Struggles
• Matrix Client: Fractal — Fractal is a Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust. Its interface is optimized for collaboration in large groups, such as free software projects.
• Matrix Client: nheko — The motivation behind the project is to provide a native desktop app for Matrix that feels more like a mainstream chat app.
• This Week in Matrix
• Lenovo begins rollout of Fedora Linux on their laptops, Ubuntu systems due soon — As the Fedora team mentioned in the original announcement, it's coming without any bloat as they said Lenovo "respects our open source principles". The only software they will have is from the included repositories, no extra fluff.
• ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 Spec (PDF)
• HW probe of Chris’ ThinkPad X1 Carbon
• LENOVO 20U9CTO1WW - Geekbench Browser
• chrislas’s Profile - Geekbench Browser
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Feedback: Rob’s Academic Tuxies
• Rob’s blog: FOSS Academic
• Feedback from Marcus: The Best Top Tool
• Glances — An Eye on your system
• Pick: pbgopy — Copy and paste between devices.

Plus some important community news, handy picks, feedback, and more!

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• Cast Your Nominations for the 2020 Tuxies — Nominate your favorite projects (the term used loosely here) and devices for the 2020 Tuxies.
• ZaReason is Done. The Store is Closed. — As many have noticed, our product line has been getting smaller and our tech support has been slowing down to a crawl. Unfortunately, the pandemic has been the final KO blow. It has hit our little town hard and we have not been able to recover from it. As of Tuesday, 11/24/20 17:00 EST ZaReason is no longer in business.
• Hector Martin on Twitter — Help make Linux on Apple Silicon Macs a reality! Patreon is up! I’m pausing billing until I get $4k/mo of commitment, so you won’t be charged until there is enough momentum to make the project viable.
• marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs | Patreon
• OpenZFS 2.0 Released With Unified FreeBSD/Linux Support, Many New Features — OpenZFS 2.0 has been officially released! OpenZFS 2.0 marks a major step forward for open-source ZFS file-system support for what started out as ZFSOnLinux but is now OpenZFS with unified FreeBSD and Linux support.
• GNOME 40 Mutter Moves Input Work To A Separate Thread — An exciting addition for GNOME 40 is that the Mutter compositor will be punting the input work off to a separate CPU thread.
• GNOME Circle Officially Announced For Letting More Apps/Libraries “Join GNOME” — GNOME Circle is effectively lowering the barrier for allowing new applications and libraries to become part of the GNOME project.
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• EndeavourOS — A terminal-centric distro with a dynamic and friendly community in its core.
• Feedback: Linode Linux Surprise
• Feedback: Black Friday?
• Feedback: What RF Ear Buds Does Chris Use?
• Amazon.com: Corsair Void RGB Elite Wireless Premium Gaming Headset with 7.1 Surround Sound
• Feedback: Pro1 X Smartphone
• Pro1 X Smartphone Functionality, Choice & Control | Indiegogo — A keyboard smartphone purposely designed for functionality, running Android, Lineage or Ubuntu.
• Pick: Haruna Video Player — A Qt/QML video player built on top of libmpv.
• Pick: gallery-dl — gallery-dl is a command-line program to download image-galleries and -collections from several image hosting sites. It is a cross-platform tool with many configuration options and powerful filenaming capabilities.

Plus Alexi Pol joins us for two big updates from the KDE community.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
1:30 Intro
1:49 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:56 Linux Action News Returns!
4:17 Ubuntu 20.10 Embraces Active Directory
7:26 DebConf 2020
12:58 Pipewire Progress with Wim Tayman
23:26 SPONSOR: Linode
25:28 Akademy 2020
33:41 Housekeeping
36:19 SPONSOR: Unplugged Core Contributors
38:08 Jono Bacon's Book Club
39:05 Feedback: Alpine Server Challenge
40:15 Feedback: Remote Office
44:05 Picks: SC-IM
45:11 Picks: Present
47:30 Outro
48:49 Post-Show

Special Guests: Aleix Pol, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Neal Gompa, and Wim Taymans.

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• YARH.IO MKI: Raspberry Pi 3B+ Hackable Linux Handheld
• Linux Action News is BACK: Linux Action News 153
• Ubuntu 20.10 Adding Active Directory Support To The Installer
• The Problems Debian Is Facing In 2020
• PipeWire Is In Increasingly Great Shape - Ready For More User Testing
• PipeWire Late Summer Update 2020 — Christian F.K. Schaller
• Launching Pipewire! — Christian F.K. Schaller
• PipeWire GitLab
• PipeWire Homepage
• WirePlumber, the PipeWire session manager
• LUP 272: Prepare for Pipewire
• Akademy 2020 — Friday 4th to Friday 11th September
• Brunch with Brent: Aleix Pol
• Aleix Pol on Twitter
• BigBlueButton - Open Source Web Conferencing
• The Linux App Summit Call for Papers
• Coder Radio
• Unplugged Core Contributors
• ‘People Powered’ Book Club - Jono Bacon
• Feedback: Server challenge
• Feedback: Remote Office
• Self-Hosted 24: OPNsense Makes Sense
• Setup a secure (SSH) tunnel as a systemd service
• What no one needs: An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminal
• present: A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects.
• Why I Link to WayBackMachine Instead of Original Site - Hawaii GenTech - Big Island Website Management and Tech Assistance
• (WaybackMachine Link) Why I Link to WayBackMachine Instead of Original Site - Hawaii GenTech

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!

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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• Unix Turns 50
• Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie Explain UNIX (Bell Labs) - YouTube
• Fedora at 15: Why Matthew Miller sees a bright future for the Linux distribution
• How a business was built on podcasts for Linux: The story of Jupiter Broadcasting
• Introducing Steam Remote Play Together
• Donate to the Gnome Foundation Patent Troll Defense Fund
• Texas Cyber Summit - Extras 24
• Texas Cyber Summit - Blog Post
• Texas Cyber Summit - Photo Gallery
• Bug #1848790 “USB not working under arm64 on Pi4”
• EXT4 Stock Benchmarks
• ZFS on Root Benchmarks
• EXT vs ZFS Comparison
• ZFS on Root Lowmem Benchmarks
• ZFS on Root vs EXT4 Lowmem Comparison
• All tests compared
• Phoronix tests
• Kernel Parameters, see mem=
• Carl’s Deets about 19.10
• Tensorman
• thinkpad-tools: Tools to manage Thinkpad properties

Plus a REALLY weird PC, and our command line picks.

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

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• Netflix Uncovers TCP Bugs Within The Linux & FreeBSD Kernels - Phoronix — As Netflix's first security bulletin for 2019, they warned of TCP-based remote denial of service vulnerabilities affecting both Linux and FreeBSD. These vulnerabilities are rated "critical" but already being corrected within the latest Git code.
• Initial Benchmarks Of Microsoft's WSL2 - Phoronix — Since the release of WSL2 as a Windows 10 Insider Preview update this week, we've been putting the new Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 under some benchmarks compared to WSL1 and bare metal Linux. While WSL2 has improved the I/O performance thanks to the new Hyper-V-based virtualization approach employed by WSL2, the performance has regressed in other areas for running Linux binaries on Windows 10.
• The Future of Docker Desktop for Windows - Docker Engineering Blog — ith WSL 2 integration, you will still experience the same seamless integration with Windows, but Linux programs running inside WSL will also be able to do the same. This has a huge impact for developers working on projects targeting a Linux environment, or with a build process tailored for Linux. No need for maintaining both Linux and Windows build scripts anymore! As an example, a developer at Docker can now work on the Linux Docker daemon on Windows, using the same set of tools and scripts as a developer on a Linux machine
• Check Out the Snap Store's New Distro Install Pages - OMG! Ubuntu! — In an effort to improve the experience for users wishing to install Snap apps on non-Ubuntu distributions, the Snapcraft team have launched distro-specific store pages for Snap apps.
• Call for testing: chromium-browser deb to snap transition - Desktop - Ubuntu Community Hub — The chromium browser has been available as a deb package for all supported Ubuntu releases and as a snap since version 60, and the time has come to start transitioning away from the debs.
• Atari VCS goes on $250 pre-order with Linux running on Ryzen R1000 — Atari has opened $250 pre-orders for its Atari VCS retro game console, which will run Linux on the new AMD Ryzen R1000 SoC. Indiegogo backers are set for a December release while new orders will be fulfilled in Mar. 2020.
• A EALLY Weird PC… - System76 Thelio Review — There’s more than one company that makes its own operating system and hardware, and today, we’re taking a look at System76’s Thelio, an open source design you can build yourself.
• Fedora · zfsonlinux/zfs Wiki — Only DKMS style packages can be provided for Fedora from the official zfsonlinux.org repository. This is because Fedora is a fast moving distribution which does not provide a stable kABI. These packages track the official ZFS on Linux tags and are updated as new versions are released.
• Replacing a failed drive in ZFS on FreeBSD – Dan Langille's Other Diary — One of my new hard 3TB drives was acting up. I removed it and sent it off to be replaced. In the meantime, I received some 5TB drives and I added one of them into the existing vdev of the zpool.
• Sharing ZFS Datasets Via NFS | Programster's Blog — The great thing about ZFS is that it is very easy to split your "pool" into as many datasets as you like. Each dataset is treated like its own filesystem, with its own rules and settings, which means with regards to sharing over NFS, that you can share more securely as client's will not be able to reach out of the bounds of that dataset/filesystem that you decided to share.
• How to easily configure WireGuard - Stavros' Stuff — At its core, all WireGuard does is create an interface from one computer to another. It doesn’t really let you access other computers on either end of the network, or forward all your traffic through the VPN server, or anything like that. It just connects two computers, directly, quickly and securely.
• Use Public Key Authentication with SSH — Password authentication is the default method most SSH (Secure Shell) clients use to authenticate with remote servers, but it suffers from potential security vulnerabilities, like brute-force login attempts. An alternative to password authentication is public key authentication, in which you generate and store on your computer a pair of cryptographic keys and then configure your server to recognize and accept your keys
• rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc. - phiresky's blog — rga is a line-oriented search tool that allows you to look for a regex in a multitude of file types. rga wraps the awesome ripgrep and enables it to search in pdf, docx, sqlite, jpg, zip, tar.*, movie subtitles (mkv, mp4), etc.
• pindexis/marker: The terminal command palette — Marker is a command palette for the terminal. It lets you bookmark commands (or commands templates) and easily retreive them with the help of a real-time fuzzy matcher.

Plus Clear Linux aims to build the ultimate Linux desktop based on Xfce, and it looks like GNOME is closing the performance gap.

Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais.

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• Clarity in the Desktop | Clear Linux* Project — Clear Linux* recently introduced a series of updates that incorporate a developer-optimized desktop experience. This experience is built upon Xfce 4.12, created with the goal of enabling you to get what you need perform your work quickly and efficiently.
• Reiser4 File-System Port To The Linux 4.20 Kernel — Edward Shishkin, the last main Reiser4 developer involved and former employee of Hans Reiser's Namesys company, has updated his Reiser4 kernel tree where there is now the few code changes necessary to get the file-system kernel module building for Linux 4.20 along with a patch containing a fix.
• Chrome OS to test early GPU support for Linux apps
• The Many Features Coming To The Wine 4.0
• GNOME Shell Desktop Gaming Benchmarks