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• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• nebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.
• Nebula - Apps on Google Play
• Texas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TX
• JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party, Sat Oct 4 - Meetup.com
• JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony Events
• Turnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TX
• bitchat — bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over bluetooth mesh networks.
• Texas Linux Festival Trip Support (Fake boost)
• Jupiter Broadcasting Garage - New swag available!
• KDE Linux
• KDE Linux - KDE Community Wiki
• Announcing the Alpha release of KDE Linux
• GitHub - ChrisLAS/hyprvibe: A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.
• Hyprland 0.51 dropped! — The gesture system has been reworked and is now way more flexible.
• Nixtcloud: Self-Hosted Cloud in One Command — Nextcloud with NixOS in the backend and P2P connectivity enabled
• holesail-nix: Holesail package for the Nix package manager — A comprehensive Nix package and NixOS module collection for Holesail - the peer-to-peer tunnel that lets you create instant, secure connections between devices without port forwarding or exposing ports.
• Pick: lazyssh — A terminal-based SSH manager inspired by lazydocker and k9s — but built for managing your fleet of servers directly from your terminal.
• Pick: term.everything — Run every GUI app in the terminal!

Special Guest: Tristan Ross.

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

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LINUX Unplugged TUI Challenge Rules — Help shape the challenge - what did we miss?
• TUI Challenge Rules Discussion Thread
• The Launch 🚀 21: Bigfoot As a Service — We rescued Brent's van that should've stayed retired, dodged cops and fuel leaks, and learned why outsourcing navigation to ChatGPT was a terrible idea.
• Tristan Ross
• Release Managers - NixOS Release Wiki
• NixOS 25.05 – Release schedule
• release-notes/rl-2505.section.md
• Nixos-rebuild-ng: a nixos-rebuild rewrite
• marytts/marytts: MARY TTS -- an open-source, multilingual text-to-speech synthesis system written in pure java — This is the source code repository for the multilingual open-source MARY text-to-speech platform (MaryTTS). MaryTTS is a client-server system written in pure Java, so it runs on many platforms.
• PostgREST — A standalone web server that turns your PostgreSQL database directly into a RESTful API. Available as services.postgrest.
• asciimoo/omnom: A webpage bookmarking and snapshotting service — Access & share previously visited pages without worrying about modifications or availability.
• uMurmur by umurmur — uMurmur is a minimalistic Mumble server primarily targeted to run on embedded computers, like routers, with an open OS like e.g. OpenWRT.
• Actual Budget — a local-first personal finance app.
• gokapi — Lightweight selfhosted Firefox Send alternative without public upload. AWS S3 supported
• Cursor — a vscode-based editor that uses AI to help you write code faster.
• Pinchflat — a selfhosted YouTube media manager used to track channels and download videos on release.
• Traccar — a modern GPS Tracking Platform.
• crab-hole — a cross platform Pi-hole clone written in Rust using hickory-dns/trust-dns.
• nostr-rs-relay — a nostr relay, written in Rust.
• haven — a high availability vault for events on nostr.
• immich-public-proxy — a proxy for sharing Immich albums without exposing the Immich API.
• strfry — a relay for the nostr protocol.
• TSDProxy — Very simple proxy for virtual services in Tailscale
• Pick: Switcheroo — Convert between different image filetypes and resize them easily.
• Switcheroo on Flathub
• Switcheroo is packaged in nixpkgs
• Pick: mazanoke — MAZANOKE is a simple image optimizer that runs in your browser, works offline, and keeps your images private without ever leaving your device.
• jolheiser/mazanoke-nix: Nix derivation/flake for mazanoke

Sponsored By:

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

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature for Windows 11 could already be in legal hot water
• Apple GPT — What We Know About Apple's Work on Generative AI
• Chris' BeeLink — Beelink Ryzen 7 5700U Up to 4.3GHz 8C/16T
• RV BeeLink Nix configuration.nix
• Slack - NixOS Wiki
• Chris' Win 7 Inspired Look
• musnix — Real-time audio in NixOS
• Boost Pick: nh — NH reimplements some basic nix commands. Adding functionality on top of the existing solutions, like nixos-rebuild, home-manager cli or nix itself.
• Pick: gridplayer — Simple VLC-based media player that can play multiple videos at the same time. You can play as many videos as you like, the only limit is your hardware. It supports all video formats that VLC supports (which is all of them). You can save your playlist retaining information about the position, sound volume, loops, aspect ratio, etc.

Sponsored By:

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

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Fedora 40 beta is fastest operating system I’ve tested — Apps opened in the blink of an eye. The Overview appeared instantly. Everything seemed to be built around the idea that the user works at the speed of madness and the OS is there to help make it happen.
• Fedora Linux 40 Docs
• Fedora Linux 40 Cleared For Release — Fedora 40 thus will see its official release happen next Tuesday, 23 April.
• F40 Change Proposal: Drop Delta RPMs — According to early feedback from Release Engineering, it looks like it will not be feasible to address the shortcomings of Delta RPMs as they are currently implemented, and since they often no longer result in a net reduction in download sizes for upgrades, this Change proposes both to disable the generation of DeltaRPMs during the compose process, and to disable the deltarpm support in dnf / dnf5 by default.
• Berlin with Brent May Meetup — May 11, 2024
• LinuxFest Northwest 2024 — April 26 - 28, 2024
• System76 and Jupiter Broadcasting Epic Parking Lot BBQ — Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 12:00 PM
• LFNW Talk: 5 Reasons to Love NixOS — NixOS seems to be everywhere these days and has the fanatic energy usually reserved for Arch users. But WHY is it so popular? In this talk, I'll go over 5 reasons I love NixOS and you might too.
• LFNW Talk: Deploying NixOS Anywhere — In this talk, we'll unlock the full potential of NixOS by exploring how its unique architecture enables installation just about anywhere—from bare metal and VMs to a VPS provider near you.
• LFNW Talk: LINUX Unplugged LIVE — We're recording a live edition of LINUX Unplugged in person. Our weekly Linux talk show with no script, no limits, surprise guests, and tons of opinions.
• Scinary Cybersecurity — Founded in 2015, we are proud to be one of few full-service cybersecurity firms focused on small and midsized governmental entities. Serving clients in mutiple states, we provide quality services and solutions that best fit your needs.
• Jupiter Extras — Texas LinuxFest Day 1
• Jupiter Extras — Texas LinuxFest Day 2
• Texas Linux Festival 2024 — Texas Linux Fest is the first state-wide annual community-run conference for Linux and open source software users and enthusiasts from around the Lone Star State.
• MIL-STD-1553 — MIL-STD-1553 is a military standard published by the United States Department of Defense that defines the mechanical, electrical, and functional characteristics of a serial data bus.
• Chris’ Cave Pictures
• Buc-ees — If you’ve been to Buc-ee’s, you may already know that this friendly neighbor along the highways has the cleanest restrooms in America. In 2012, Cintas ran a nationwide restroom contest and made it official!
• Street Fighter 2 Music — Arcade Intro
• Street Fighter 2 Music — OC Remix
• UEFI Boot Standalone NixOS (2024-04-20) — This guide will explain how to install NixOS on the internal NVMe drive of an Apple Silicon Mac using a customized version of the official NixOS install ISO, then boot it without the help of another computer.
• TeX Shinobi Keyboard
• nixos-conf-editor — A libadwaita/gtk4 app for editing NixOS configurations.
• nix-software-center — A simple gtk4/libadwaita software center to easily install and manage nix packages.
• bhh32's app installer
• dharple/detox — Tames problematic filenames
• Jovian NixOS — NixOS on the Steam Deck
• Pick: Shortwave — Shortwave is an internet radio player that provides access to a station database with over 30,000 stations, including Jupiter Broadcasting.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 🎉 Alby - Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
• ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org - You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
• CCCamp23 — Chaos Communication Camp 2023
• Framework — The time has come for consumer electronics products that are designed to last: products that give you back the power to upgrade, customize, and repair them. We’re excited for the opportunity to fix the consumer electronics industry together.
• Framework 13 — Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition (13th Gen Intel® Core™)
• Nextcloud Conference 2023
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Fundraising Merch is Live — Your fest is back! Support its return with a shirt and/or donation.
• I use NixOS for the same reason. Cleanliness is empowering.
• zap
• The Blog Index — TheGoldenDragon and I have hashed out some basic ideas about what Boost 4 Blogs should be and in a moment of glory I decided to mimic The Podcast Index by registering blogindex.org!
• Linus Torvalds Comments On Bcachefs Prospects For Linux 6.6 — That very much means *NOT* continuing this "I'll just do it my way". You need to show that you can work with others, that you can work within the framework of upstream, and that not every single thread you get into becomes an argument.
• Box64 — Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64 Linux devices.
• Podcasting 2.0 Top 100 (Music) — This chart is a ranking of the music tracks played on podcasts that have been boosted the most over the last 7 days. It is recalculated hourly. Thank you to Nathan Gathright for the page design. ❤
• Neo-Store — An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.
• Obtainium — Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source.

Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

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

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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• The Sprinkler Geeks
• Suicide Linux — It's a game. Like walking a tightrope. You have to see how long you can continue to use the operating system before losing all your data.
• Suicide-linux — now available on Docker!
• Suicide Linux bashrc
• JupiterBroadcasting.com, hugo-based and community-driven!
• Hugo — The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
• The Determinate Nix Installer. — nix-installer is an opinionated alternative to the official Nix install scripts.
• NixOS Package Search: Hugo
• Hugo in nixpkgs
• Mike Kelly on Twitter — Dammit @ChrisLAS, @wespayne, and @brentgervais, I could have won yesterday's challenge, had I only embraced Nix-Shell. Better late than never?
• Notes for Dom C’s setup using Podgrab and AudiobookShelf
• podgrab — A self-hosted podcast manager/downloader/archiver tool to download podcast episodes as soon as they become live with an integrated player.
• audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
• nala — a wrapper for the apt package manager.
• pacstall — An AUR-inspired package manager for Ubuntu
• Dendron — The personal knowledge management (PKM) tool that grows as you do!
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups — Two April Meetups: Raleigh - April 8th and Olympia - April 29th.
• LinuxFest Northwest on Twitter — Call for Speakers is open from March 5th through June 4th, so if you are interested in being a speaker please submit a proposal now!
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023: Call for Speakers
• Logseq — A privacy-first, open-source knowledge base. Logseq is the open toolbox for workflows that deal with lots of information.
• logseq-publish — Publish your Logseq graph with a GitHub Action.
• logseq-schrodinger — A plugin to export pages in Logseq to Hugo.
• logseq-searchable — A quick utility to conduct OCR parsing on images and insert the result as a property.
• SimpleX Chat — The first messenger without user IDs.
• SimpleX on Google Play
• SimpleX APK
• SimpleX on iOS
• SimpleX TestFlight preview for iOS
• SimpleX CLI
• SimpleXMQ — A reference implementation of the SimpleX Messaging Protocol for simplex queues over public networks.
• LFNW Matrix Chat
• gping — Ping, but with a graph.
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Pick: Codex.docs — Free Docs app powered by Editor.js ecosystem
• Editor.js — Free block-style editor with a universal JSON output

Plus, Brent's extended stay in Berlin has led to some developments you won't want to miss.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• c-base interface — welcome onboard c-base
• matelight: — Show text and gifs on mate crates.
• Raleigh-Durham Pizza Party! — Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 3pm EST
• Olympia Linux Spring Meetup — Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 1:00 PM PDT
• Podverse Call for Help
• LINUX Unplugged 486: Goodbye, Google
• Immich — Self-hosted photos and videos backup solution from your mobile phone
• KDE Connect — Enabling communication between all your devices. Made for people like you.
• iodé — The Eco Friendly Smartphone Protecting Your Privacy
• Berlin Buds Matrix Room
• LibreSign — Libre digital signature app for Nextcloud.
• Develop for Nextcloud — Have you always wanted to learn how to develop apps for your Nextcloud? These tutorials should flatten your learning curve.
• Berlin with Brent | LINUX Unplugged 503
• Nextcloud Cookbook on iOS
• nextcloud/cookbook — A library for all your recipes. It uses JSON files following the schema.org recipe format.
• Nextcloud AIO — Nextcloud AIO stands for Nextcloud All In One and provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup, Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PM — Come celebrate episode 500 with some brews the night before!
• BorgBase — Hosting for Borg and Restic Repositories
• Vorta for BorgBackup — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops.
• BorgBackup — Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption
• Why should I switch from Restic to Borg? - r/BorgBackup
• Moonlight Game Streaming — Play Your PC Games Remotely
• LizardByte/Sunshine — Sunshine is a Gamestream host for Moonlight.
• Sunshine documentation
• KRDC — KRDC is a client application that allows you to view or even control the desktop session on another machine that is running a compatible server. VNC and RDP is supported.
• Krfb — Krfb Desktop Sharing is a server application that allows you to share your current session with a user on another machine, who can use a VNC client to view or even control the desktop.
• Hook up keyevents on Wayland (!44) Krfb · GitLab
• wayvnc — A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors
• Waypipe — waypipe is a proxy for Wayland clients. It forwards Wayland messages and serializes changes to shared memory buffers over a single socket. This makes application forwarding similar to ssh -X feasible.
• TeamViewer Support on Wayland - Experimental State
• Add a InputCapture portal by whot · Pull Request #714 · flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal
• PiKVM — Open and inexpensive DIY IP-KVM on Raspberry Pi
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• weihanglo/sfz — A simple static file serving command-line tool written in Rust.
• sfz is packaged in nix

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• VIM Homepage
• Visual Studio Cod — Code Editing. Redefined.
• Kate — Get an Edge in Editing.
• Pop!_OS by System76 — Pop!_OS is an operating system for STEM and creative professionals who use their computer as a tool to discover and create.
• NixOS — Reproducible builds and deployments.
• COSMIC by System76 — Computer Operating System Main Interface Components
• KDE Plasma — Do it all in a beautiful environment that adapts to your needs, and with the safety, privacy-protection and peace of mind that the best Free Open Source Software has to offer.
• Ubuntu Server
• Debian — The Universal Operating System
• Jellyfin — The Free Software Media System
• Nextcloud — Online collaboration platform
• Steam Deck
• HP Dev One
• Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
• mastodon — Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community.
• Asahi Linux — Asahi Linux aims to bring you a polished Linux® experience on Apple Silicon Macs.
• AbdBarho/stable-diffusion-webui-docker — Easy Docker setup for Stable Diffusion with user-friendly UI
• Umbrel — A personal server OS for self-hosting.
• immich — Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 2022 Tuxies — GO VOTE!
• Tasks.org — Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders
• nolooking — Joining the lightning network is daunting.
• Join the Podverse beta
• GrapheneOS Update
• Nextcloud Notes
• Three Tumbleweed Temptations | LINUX Unplugged 432
• wipegpt
• wipefs
• OpenSUSE Build Service
• opi: openSUSE Package Installer (CLI) — Search and install almost all packages available for openSUSE and SLE
• tumbleweed-cli — Command line interface for interacting with Tumbleweed snapshots.
• twups — Tumbleweed Update Scrutinizer
• Tumbleweed Snapshots
• GPSLogger for Android
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps

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

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• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• Apple Limits iPhone AirDrop Function Used for Protests in China
• Magic Earth — Free Maps & Navigation App
• Top 10 reasons to use Debian as your Linux distro
• Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of ‘move fast and break things’, and version 11 is no different
• ProtonPlus — A simple Wine and Proton-based compatiblity tools manager for GNOME.
• ProtonUp-Qt — Install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda & more for Steam and Wine-GE & more for Lutris with this graphical user interface.
• Why openSUSE - openSUSE Wiki
• The Nobara Project — The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.
• Who Wants To Be a Millionaire — Test your knowledge to see if you can answer all questions and win $1 million. Have fun!
• Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Questions and Source Code

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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• Computer Chronicles - Intel 486 — In 1992, the big issue was - is it worth the money to upgrade my 386 PC to the new 486 chip? This program looks at the performance of the new Intel 486 and helps users decide.
• GrapheneOS — The private and secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility. Developed as a non-profit open source project.
• GrapheneOS: Supported Phones
• GrapheneOS: Features Overview
• Sandboxed Google Play overview for GrapheneOS
• Lockscreen bypass fixed in November’s update - discovered by GrapheneOS in June
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — We independently discovered the Android lockscreen bypass fixed in Android's November security update while working on features like a duress PIN/password.
• A week with GrapheneOS exposed my over-reliance on Google
• GrapheneOS Initial Impressions
• Banking Applications Compatibility with GrapheneOS
• HERE WeGo — Maps & Navigation
• Fountain on Twitter — More sats = higher signal⚡️📡
• Hot on Fountain
• DAVx⁵ — CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV for Android
• Bitwarden: Top 10 Burning Questions on 2FA
• n.eko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.
• Install NVIDIA Drivers on Debian 11
• deemix — deemix is a barebone deezer downloader library built from the ashes of Deezloader Remix.
• lidarr-on-steroids
• nostr — The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all.
• Pick: Upscaler — Upscale and enhance images.
• Frog by Tender Owl
• Frog on Flathub
• A Science Project — “Make the 486 Great Again!”
• Linus Torvalds bids 486 Linux adieu — It's been fun, but Linus Torvalds thinks it's time for 486 Linux to leave computers behind and go to museums.

Sponsored By:

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• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
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• OsmAnd — Carry highly detailed, fully offline maps of any region world wide on your device!
• Garmin RV 780 & Traffic
• Office Hours 12 — Don’t Clip and Drive
• JB Meetups
• West Coast Crew Matrix Room
• Möbius Sync — Bringing Syncthing to iOS. Sync files between all your devices.
• PhotoSync — Photo Transfer and Backup App. For iOS & Android
• PhotoPrism — PhotoPrism® is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web.
• Storj — Fast, secure cloud storage at a fraction of the cost.
• Storj Warrant Canary
• How Decentralized Storage Works
• Duplicati — Free backup software to store encrypted backups online.
• Backup With Duplicati | Storj Docs
• Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes.
• Stingle Photos — Stingle Photos is a convenient, easy to use Gallery/Camera application with Backup and Sync functionality for your photos and videos which seamlessly provides strong security, privacy and encryption.
• Recommended way to use Syncthing for Photos Sync
• Lomorage — Free private photo cloud solution that puts you in control of your photos and videos.
• Lomorage and Photoprism
• pigallery2 — A fast directory-first photo gallery website, with rich UI, optimized for running on low resource servers.
• Photoview — Photoview is a simple and user-friendly photo gallery that's made for photographers and aims to provide an easy and fast way to navigate directories, with thousands of high-resolution photos.
• LibrePhotos — A self-hosted open source photo management service.
• LibrePhotos Feature Comparison
• UhuruPhotos — Android client for LibrePhotos
• docker-s3fs-client
• s3fs — FUSE-based file system backed by Amazon S3.
• rclone to Glacier
• CasaOs — Community-based open source software focused on delivering simple home cloud experience around Docker ecosystem.
• Nabu Casa
• Wazuh — Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.
• CrowdSec — Open-source and participative IPS able to analyze visitor behavior & provide an adapted response to all kinds of attacks.
• LINUX Unplugged at the Podcastindex.org

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• Pull Request #378 by DECbot — "JB is live!" indicator - on page load, call the script to highlight the #livebutton red if jupiter.tube is live
• NASA Selects SiFive and Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions — SiFive X280 delivers 100x increase in computational capability with leading power efficiency, fault tolerance, and compute flexibility to propel next-generation planetary and surface missions.
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup
• West Coast Crew Matrix Room
• Submit Your Baller Boost Jingles
• Fountain 0.4.8 - Referrals, Search Editorial and Other Improvements
• Fountain.fm Charts
• KDE Official Response to creation of GNOME Foundation (2000)
• Report: Default Desktop Environments for Linux and Unix
• How Much Does KDE Pay Developers?
• KDE Issue Reporting Guidelines - Have Realistic Expectations
• KDE neon
• Plasma Activities
• All bugs submitted by Brent during Kubuntu Jammy beta testing
• Firefox icon missing from panel following Kubuntu upgrade 20.04->22.04
• kdesu fails to authenticate with sudo from Jammy
• KDE Issue Reporting
• Fedora Workstation bug - Kate
• Fedora Workstation bug - Network - gnome-control-centre
• Fedora Workstation bug - Guake
• PhotoPrism — PhotoPrism is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web
• Git Large File Storage — Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server like GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• PhotoSync — Photo Transfer and Backup App
• iDrive — Cloud backup solutions for home and business.
• Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program.
• FolderSync — FolderSync enables simple sync to cloud based storage to and from local folders on the device SD cards.

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• New Flathub Site in Beta - Big Things Coming — [...] next steps are to flesh out the donation infrastructure with the aim to allow app pages to have their own link to donation/purchase.
• Win32 Is The Only Stable ABI on Linux — I think this whole situation shows why creating native games for Linux is challenging. It’s hard to blame developers for targeting Windows and relying on Wine + friends. It’s just much more stable and much less likely to break and stay broken.
• The Offending glibc Commit
• A glibc Bug
• The ABI status of ELF hash tables — If EAC were free software, of course, chances are there would already be a patch circulating to deal with the problem. As it is, only its owner can deal with this problem directly. Meanwhile, though, there is another workaround available: distributors can easily patch the glibc build to restore the DT_HASH section and make the problem go away for now.
• Jupiter JPL Meetup Form
• JB Meetups
• West Coast Crew Matrix Room
• Endless OS — The Endless Operating System is simple and easy for anyone to use. It is fully equipped with essential apps to learn, play, work and connect.
• Different methods to run a non-NixOS executable on NixOS — What are the different methods to run a non-NixOS executable on NixOS? I'd like to see also the manual methods.
• nix-ld: Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS
• vscode with extensions nix package
• vscode FHS compatible
• toolbox-vscode — Toolbox Visual Studio Code integration
• Self-Hosted 67: The No Container Theory — Why Chris is moving away from using Containers, Alex's new project, and some great follow-up.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps — Grab a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app, and boost into the show.
• Heroic Games Launcher — Heroic is an Open Source GOG and Epic games launcher for Linux, Windows and macOS. Also available on the Steam Deck!
• Heroic Games Launcher | Flathub

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• JPL Lottery — Join the JB Crew at JPL! We only have 15 spots. Please enter your info, and our happy little python script might just pick your name from the virtual hat. - If you don't get picked, don't worry. We're having another meetup while we are in town!
• Jupiter Broadcasting - Meetup.com
• London Meetup, Fri, Aug 5, 2022 - Meetup.com
• Google’s in-house desktop Linux - Computerworld — The best-known Google operating system is Chrome OS, but inside Google itself, the company also uses its own Linux desktop distro — gLinux.
• X220 - ThinkWiki — An overview of the ThinkPad X220
• The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love — I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But I’ve come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. But I just can’t stick with it. I always end up back on macOS. And I’m starting to understand why.
• Run Chrome in Toolbox on Silverblue
• Distrobox — Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with.
• Rclone — Rclone is a command-line program to manage files on cloud storage.
• Cryptomator - Free Cloud Encryption for Dropbox & Co — Cryptomator encrypts your data quickly and easily. Afterwards you upload them protected to your favorite cloud service.
• Cryptomator— Linux Apps on Flathub
• New Podcast Apps

Special Guests: Martin Wimpress and Neal Gompa.

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• Do You Put Linux/Distro Stickers On Your Machine?
• ChrisLAS Birthday Party Hang and Chow
• Jupiter Extras — Why Linux Will Win in 20 Years
• Denver Road Trip Memories — During our summer road trip to Denver we had the microphone's recording and captured some great moments.
• Denver Road Trip Tech — Our road trip machine is loaded up from solar to networking, the tech that made working, living, and recording from the road possible for 44 days and over 2,200 miles.
• Dev corrupts NPM libs ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ breaking thousands of apps
• Crypto Theses for 2022
• Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
• ZFS has a history of not handling 15+ drive vdevs well.
• bismuth — KDE Plasma extension, that lets you tile your windows automatically and manage them via keyboard, just like in classical tiling window managers (i3, dwm or XMonad).
• Ideas on growing the Flathub Community in 2022

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

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

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

Plus our review of the ODROID-Go Super an Ubuntu-powered handheld, and our tools for laptop battery health.

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• MailRoute: Try out MailRoute today and get 10% off the lifetime of your account and start with a 30-day free trial, no credit card required.

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• Sensory’s custom voice assistant debuts on a Linux-based microwave — Sensory announced that its 100 percent locally processed TrulyHandsfree technology can be used to create custom voice assistants without sacrificing privacy, as demonstrated in a new Linux-based Farberware FM11VABK microwave.
• Ask LUP Anything - AskLUP.COM
• ODROID-GO Super
• ODROID-GO Super Dim Gray
• EmulationStation — A graphical and themeable emulator front-end that allows you to access all your favorite games in one place, even without a keyboard!
• ODROID Image for ES
• SegaCD missing BIOS (linked) - ODROID
• JB Telegram
• Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
• Open Letter: DistroWatch and Nitrux — For the better part of three years, we have remained silent about your ongoing efforts to affect people’s perception of our Linux distribution continuously. We have tried our best not to engage with your evident hostility and disregard to inform your viewers and visitors about correct facts of the Linux distributions you display on your website, especially ours. However, we have decided to take a stance. It is today, the 6th of May, that we gallantly demand you to stop.
• Uri's Blog: Unpopular Opinion Penguin #3: The Empire Strikes Back — I’m here to take a look at the newest “review” that our lovely haters (let’s call them for what they are) at DistroWatch published on their website some weeks ago.
• DistroWatch.com: Nitrux
• Nitrux — Nitrux is a Linux desktop distribution directly based on Debian. It uses the Calamares installer and includes NX Desktop and NX Firewall on top of the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment and MauiKit Applications.
• Meet Nitrux: The Most Beautiful Linux Distribution Ever?
• Nitrux on Twitter
• MauiKit — A free and modular front-end framework for developing fast and compelling user experiences.
• Kirigami UI Framework — Build beautiful, convergent apps that run on phones, TVs and everything in between.
• Changelog: Nitrux 1.4.0
• NX Desktop — NX Desktop is a customization layer for Plasma 5.
• AppImageHub — Here are 1200 apps (and counting) that you can run on Linux without installation.
• Installing other DEs in Nitrux — During last month’s release of Nitrux, we made available a minimal ISO to let users install Nitrux and also install a different desktop environment and a selection of applications than the ones we include by default.
• NX Software Center — A GUI to install and manage AppImages.
• Nitrux: pnx — pnx (lowercase; originally Pacman for Nitrux) allows users to install software from Linux distributions that use the Pacman package manager on other Linux distributions that don’t use it without interfering with the distributions default package manager.
• What’s Nitrux? The future. - with Uri Herrera
• Linux Spotlight - Uri Herrera of NitruxOS
• Feedback: PrivateBin — A minimalist, open-source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES.
• PrivateBin Docker Setup
• Feedback: PIE Bin — Pre-Internet Encryption for Text.
• Feedback: CryptPad — CryptPad is the Zero-Knowledge real-time collaborative editor.
• CryptPad Installation Guide — This guide is about installing a public CryptPad instance available on the internet.
• Pick: TLP — Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life.
• Pick: TLPUI — A GTK user interface for TLP written in Python.
• Fedora — TLP 1.3.1 documentation

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• Virtual x86 — v86 emulates an x86-compatible CPU and hardware. Machine code is translated to WebAssembly modules at runtime in order to achieve decent performance.
• The Linux desktop is boring again — Where I was once a constant "fiddler" with my desktop, I now want the interface to work how I want it to work, but still look the way I want it to look. I'm more of a minimalist now, so GNOME suits my needs on both levels quite well. However, I find myself rather bored with the Linux desktop.
• What to look for in Fedora Workstation 34 — Christian F.K. Schaller — The big ticket item we have wanted to close off on was Wayland, because while Wayland has been production ready for most of us for a while, there was still some cases it didn’t cover as well as X.org.
• Christian Schaller on Twitter — 2020 was a year where we focused a lot on polishing what we had and getting things past the finish line and Fedora Workstation 34 is going to be the culmination of that effort in many ways.
• GNOME 40 Introducing Headless Native Backend, Virtual Monitors — As part of this headless native back-end is also the ability to create virtual monitors via command-line options for debugging and other purposes. This also allows creating virtual monitor PipeWire streams.
• What’s New in Libhandy 1.2
• Reinventing tabs — In GNOME 40, Epiphany will feature a new tab bar. This isn’t just a restyling of the old one, but a ground-up rewrite.
• My geek stuff blog: Maps and GNOME 40
• GNOME 40 & your extension – GNOME Shell & Mutter
• OBS Studio on Wayland
• Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer
• JB Telegram Group
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Pick: kmon — Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor 🐧💻
• Pick: ebpfsnitch — eBPFSnitch is a Linux Application Level Firewall based on eBPF and NFQUEUE. It is inspired by OpenSnitch and Douane but utilizing modern kernel abstractions - without a kernel module.
• Feedback: Docker Socket Security
• Feedback: How to exit big picture mode
• Telegram App Is Booming but Needs Advertisers, and $700 Million Soon

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

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• Oh Dear: Oh Dear monitors uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, scheduled tasks, and more. We send out notifications when something's wrong. All that paired with a developer-friendly API and kick-ass documentation. Promo Code: LINUX

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

Plus Microsoft's path to dominating the Linux desktop becomes clear.

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• bucklespring — This project emulates the sound of my old faithful IBM Model-M space saver bucklespring keyboard.
• Valve’s Steam Data For December Points To A Huge Dip For Linux Gaming Marketshare
• Valve Revises Steam’s December 2020 Linux Marketshare To 0.74% — Valve has updated their numbers and point to Linux still regressing percentage-wise but not as bad as originally reported.
• Linus Torvalds On The Importance Of ECC RAM, Calls Out Intel’s “Bad Policies” Over ECC — "The arguments against ECC were always complete and utter garbage... Now even the memory manufacturers are starting to do ECC internally because they finally owned up to the fact that they absolutely have to."
• Microsoft is building a new Outlook app for Windows and Mac powered by the web — Project Monarch is the end-goal for Microsoft's "One Outlook" vision, which aims to build a single Outlook client that works across PC, Mac, and the Web.
• Bug: Mailspring is an abandoned project. · Issue #2231 · Foundry376/Mailspring · GitHub
• Taking FOSDEM online via Matrix — FOSDEM will have its own dedicated Matrix server at fosdem.org.
• KDE Plasma 5.20.5 Released as the Last in the Series, Update Now — The Plasma-NetworkManager applet received a fix for an issue with the password entry jumping to different networks when searching for Wi-Fi networks.
• KDE Plasma 5.21 Desktop Environment to Ship with a New System Monitor App — The Plasma System Monitor app promises not only a fancier and modern user interface, but also a simpler way for monitoring system resources on your KDE Plasma-based GNU/Linux distribution.
• Get openSUSE
• SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE Wiki
• New Core Contributor Promo Code: 2021
• Planner — Task manager with Todoist support designed for GNU/Linux 🚀.
• AUR (en) - elementary-planner
• Tuxies Feedback
• Tuxies Voting Suggestion
• Feedback: Gnome 40 Changes

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

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

Plus our thoughts on the bigger problem exposed by the youtube-dl takedown.

Chapters:
00:00:00 Pre-show
00:03:12 Intro
00:04:40 New LTS Kernel
00:07:16 Pop!_OS 20.10
00:08:47 The youtube-dl Problem
00:29:00 Why 1Password Matters
00:34:52 Housekeeping
00:37:09 Fedora 33 Review
00:56:44 Feedback
01:05:04 Picks
01:08:21 Post-show

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Neal Gompa.

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• XFS File-System With Linux 5.10 Punts Year 2038 Problem To The Year 2486 - Phoronix
• Linux 5.10 Is The Next LTS Kernel - Phoronix
• Thorsten ‘the Linux kernel logger’ Leemhuis on Twitter — #Linux 5.10 will be the next Longterm (aka LTS) #kernel (and thus supported for at least two years, but in the end it often are six). That’s what @gregkh said a few minutes ago in a “Ask the Expert Session” on #OSSummit Europe
• System76 Blog: What’s New in Pop!_OS 20.10
• A Look At The Performance Improvements With System76 Pop!_OS 20.10 - Phoronix
• YouTube-DL Removed From GitHub After DMCA Notice
• GitHub took down popular YouTube downloader — so devs made more copies
• 1Password for Linux beta is now open 🎊 🐧 🎊 | 1Password
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Unfilter.show
• Fedora 33 is officially here!
• Fedora 33 Review: What’s New and How to Upgrade | FOSS Linux
• Fedora 33 Released With Workstation Using Btrfs By Default - Phoronix
• Fedora 33 To Stick With systemd-resolved Following Last Minute Concerns - Phoronix
• Contribute at the Fedora Test Week for Kernel 5.9 - Fedora Magazine
• Feedback: System76 Disclosure
• Feedback: Open Source Support
• Feedback: FreeIPA
• Pick: annie — Fast, simple and clean video downloader.

Plus Dan and Cassidy from elementary OS join us to discuss version 6.0.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:45 Intro
2:25 KDE Neon 20.04
4:17 Mozilla Resturcturing
8:21 elementary OS 6
18:29 Housekeeping
20:00 Matrix
22:33 Silver Salvage
29:43 Matrix Server Punishment Test
33:04 Clients Galore
35:06 Secure By Default
43:56 Outro
45:08 Post-Show

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.

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• Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks
• KDE neon rebased on 20.04
• Mozilla is laying off 25% of their employees
• Large part of Mozilla’s Sec Team Laid Off
• Let’s Talk elementary OS 6 ⋅ elementary Blog
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• LUP LUG Mumble Server Info
• Fullscreen JB IRC Chat
• Chris Fisher on Twitter: "Pulled an old Mac Pro out of storage for today’s @LinuxUnplugged live test.
• 2009 Mac Pro | eBay
• apple-history.com / Mac Pro (Early 2009, Dual CPU)
• Matrix - An open network for secure, decentralized communication
• Element - encrypted group video calls end-to-end encryption team messaging
• Element Web App

Plus our thoughts on the new KWin fork, if Bleachbit is safe, and a quick Fedora update.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.

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• Logging Into Linux With A 1930s Teletype
• TUXEDO Computers Launches A Power/Thermal Control Center For Their Linux Systems
• System76 Lemur Pro
• KDE’s window manager KWin gets forked with ‘KWinFT’ to accelerate the development and better Wayland
• BleachBit 4.0.0
• Fedora 32 Final is NO-GO
• Brunch with Brent: Sri Ramkrishna
• Linux Spotlight EP44 - Drew DeVore of Jupiter Broadcasting
• Linux Spotlight EP43 - An Interview with Tyler Brown longtime JB fan
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Ubuntu 20.04 Flavours Hit Beta, But What’s New?
• Gnome 3.34 vs Gnome 3.36 Visual Comparison
• The ‘GameMode’ performance tool from Feral Interactive makes it into Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 20.04 and WSL 1 - WSL2 - Ubuntu Community Hub
• Ubuntu Server 20.04 CPU Security Mitigation Performance Impact
• Kernel 5.4: VirtIO-FS
• Grub boot menu bug
• Folder under applications menu doesn’t show text below last line of icons.
• Daniel Kerkow on Twitter: Migrating to a later LTS should be easily possible, so I would maybe stick to 18.04 for now if in doubt."
• pacat: Play back or record raw or encoded audio streams on a PulseAudio sound server
• 3mux: Imagine tmux with a smaller learning curve, i3-like keybindings, and more sane defaults.

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

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

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• OpenSilver: a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplementation of Silverlight, that runs on current browsers via WebAssembly.
• Ubuntu 20.04’s zsys adds ZFS snapshots to package management
• Didier Roche on Twitter: “@jrssnet Thanks for your great article on zsys. Just one little precision: you can actually revert system state (with/without user states) in grub, which is the main UI for now. Hope you will love the feature and how we present them :)”
• Chris is going to Denver
• #AppCenterForEveryone
• AppCenter for Everyone | Indiegogo
• Some AppCenter for Everyone stats!
• Chris Fisher on Twitter: “We’ll never beat the Mac if developers can’t eat. @elementary’s #appcenterforeveryone is our best shot in years. Why I’m driving to Denver to cover it, and my @lfnw backup plans”
• Chz’s markdown pick: quilter - Focus on your writing.
• Don’t forget about DST!
• FOSS Talk Live - June 20th at The Harrison near King’s Cross in London
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• How to make Windows 10 USB install media in Linux
• USB install media with WIM file larger than 4GB – Win10.Guru
• pbatard/uefi-ntfs: UEFI:NTFS - Boot NTFS partitions from UEFI
• slacka/WoeUSB: WoeUSB is a simple tool that enable you to create your own usb stick windows installer from an iso image or a real DVD. It is a fork of Congelli501’s WinUSB.
• Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows
• microsoft/terminal: The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!
• WSLconf
• Introducing the Docker Desktop WSL 2 Backend - Docker Blog
• Running k8s on WSL
• Safely Backup Google Photos | Ubuntu
• Plasmoid for managing Docker Containers : kde

And a bunch of community news, app picks, and much more.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, and Dusty Mabe.

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• KDE Plasma 5.18: More Convenient and with Long Term Stability - KDE.org
• What’s New in KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS? - OMG! Ubuntu!
• System76 Launches Impressive Line Of Thelio Major Linux Workstations Powered By AMD Ryzen Threadripper - Including The 3990X - Phoronix
• oreboot: oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust.
• Rust's Freedom Flaws
• FS#736 - [rust][cargo] trademark agreement affects user freedom
• AppCenter for Everyone | Indiegogo
• Work, Life, and RV Podcast
• Our Accidental Home Base — Work, Life, and RV Podcast
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• PDP-7
• FOSDEM 2020 - Events
• FOSDEM 2020 - Interview with James Bottomley - The Selfish Contributor Explained
• FOSDEM 2020 - The next generation of contributors is not on IRC
• FOSDEM 2020 - The Hidden Early History of Unix
• FOSDEM 2020 - Do Linux Distributions Still Matter with Containers?
• FOSDEM 2020 - How Containers and Kubernetes re-defined the GNU/Linux Operating System
• The Meteoric Rise Of Fwupd+LVFS For Linux Firmware Updates - Phoronix
• hollywood.computer: multiple panes of genuine technical melodrama
• shairport-sync: AirPlay audio player. Shairport Sync adds multi-room capability with Audio Synchronisation

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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• Q&A with Sam K - Acquisition Announcement Follow Up
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram
• My recent Plasma Basic to Brilliant video is out
• Mac Pro case clone
• No More Secrets - This project provides a command line tool called nms that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen on screen in the 1992 hacker movie Sneakers.
• hollywood - launch Byobu, open a random number of splits with random sizes, in each split run a noisy text app
• cool-retro-term: A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display

Plus community news, first impressions of Google Stadia, listener feedback, and some great picks.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Guus Sliepen, and Ryan Huber.

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

Plus a few surpises from the System76 Super Fan event.

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

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

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

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

Plus the big little updates coming to Ubuntu MATE, some Pi pontification, and some significant changes for Wireguard.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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• openSUSE Election Commitie Set to Open Vote on Project Name
• Ubuntu MATE 19.10 Release Notes
• Fedora Workstation 31 – Whats new — Christian F.K. Schaller
• GameMode improvements for GNOME 3.34 and Fedora 31 by Christian Kellner
• WireGuard to port to existing Crypto API
• Oggcamp 19 - Panel questions needed
• October Free Courses
• Texas Cyber Summit
• Birthday Party at Two Brothers BBQ
• How old is the #Linux install on your current computer?
• What I do after a fresh install of Fedora Workstation : Fedora
• GitHub - e-minguez/laptop_install: Utils to reinstall a new laptop easily
• yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager
• Direnv - unclutter your .profile
• Ncurses Telegram Client
• GitHub - X0rg/CPU-X: CPU-X is a Free software that gathers information on CPU, motherboard and more.
• CentOS7 Raspberry Pi 4 4GB Support - CentOS
• CentOS Mirror
• Raspberry Pi 4 Ubuntu Server / Desktop 18.04.3 Image (unofficial)

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

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.

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• System76 Blog — The New Firmware Manager — we’re excited to announce that you can now check and update firmware through Settings on Pop!_OS, and through the firmware manager GTK application on System76 hardware running other Debian-based distributions.
• pop-os/firmware-manager — Generic framework and GTK UI for firmware updates from system76-firmware and fwupd, written in Rust.
• Richard Brown on Twitter — Today I’m stepping down as openSUSE Chairman, leaving the Project in the fine hands of the openSUSE board and it’s new Chair, @GeraldPfeifer.
• Approved: Fedora 31 To Drop i686 Everything/Modular Repositories - Phoronix — The FESCo group gave their formal approval today for permitting these i686 repositories to be removed beginning with Fedora 31
• Jupiter Extras: Chris and Wes React to LINUX Unplugged — Nothing is worse than your past self. So we play old clips of LINUX Unplugged and react.
• Scan for network vulnerabilities w/ Nmap - Linux Academy YouTube — With data breaches becoming so common, it's vital to be proactive in finding and patching severe vulnerabilities on our system. One of the free/open-source ways you can scan for these vulnerabilities is by using Nmap.
• How to copy directories with SCP recursively tutorial - Linux AcademyYouTube — When working with servers you will often find yourself in a situation where you need to copy files from one machine to another. You can package them into a tarball and then copy a tarball over to a remote machine and then unpack it there. This is not a bad option but you can also use SCP to copy the files as they are and preserve the directory structure, without the need for packaging.
• Linux Archives – Linux Academy
• What’s Taking Wayland So Long? » Linux Magazine — Over the years, the project’s goals have evolved, but more or less remained: the development of a simpler, more efficient, and more secure display server.
• pp3345/gnome-with-patches Copr — This repo contains gnome-shell and mutter builds based on the official Fedora ones with some additional patches (mainly to improve performance).
• rafaelmardojai/firefox-gnome-theme — A GNOME👣 theme for Firefox🔥
• Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator — Tilix is an advanced GTK3 tiling terminal emulator that follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines.
• GNOME 3.34 Works Out Refined XWayland Support For X11 Apps Run Under Sudo - Phoronix — This allows the X11 clients to now work from a different VT without any extra environment variables set besides the DISPLAY. In other words, the same user on the same system can now more easily run clients with XWayland thanks to this commit coming late in the 3.34 cycle.
• The MATE Desktop Is Becoming Quite Usable On Wayland Via Mir - Phoronix — The MATE desktop is seeing Wayland support thanks to Mir doing the heavy lifting. This is also becoming one of the leading examples of Mir's use-case following Canonical engineers re-tooling their display server with Wayland support after pulling back from their original design goals around Ubuntu Touch and mobile/convergence.
• Plasma/Wayland Showstoppers - KDE Community Wiki — This page tracks the Wayland showstoppers through out the stack .
• Wayland misconceptions debunked | Drew DeVault’s Blog — This article has been on my backburner for a while, but it seems Wayland FUD is making the news again recently, so I’ve bumped up the priority a bit. For those new to my blog, I am the maintainer of wlroots, a library which implements much of the functionality required of a Wayland compositor and is arguably the single most influential project in Wayland right now; and sway, a popular Wayland compositor which is nearing version 1.0.
• Flameshot — Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software.
• Auto Move Windows - GNOME Shell Extensions — Move applications to specific workspaces when they create windows.
• Ed Therriault on Twitter — @ChrisLAS I’ve been out of the loop for a bit as I’ve been focusing on work and family but I need to know what’s a good incremental backup solution that will use very little storage. I’ll be uploading them to google drive. Ubuntu server 19. Thank you for your time.
• seemoo-lab/opendrop — An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python
• anirudhajith/process-wallpaper — Shell and python scripts that set the desktop wallpaper to a word cloud of the most resource-hungry processes.
• Huge Survey of Firmware Finds No Security Gains in 15 Years – The Security Ledger — A survey of more than 6,000 firmware images spanning more than a decade finds no improvement in firmware security and lax security standards for the software running connected devices by Linksys, Netgear and other major vendors.

Plus our honest conversation about which Linux works best for us.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Ell Marquez, Major Hayden, and Neal Gompa.

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• Unpatched KDE vulnerability disclosed on Twitter — When a user opens the KDE file viewer to access the directory where these files are stored, the malicious code contained within the .desktop or .directory files executes without user interaction.
• KDE rips out ability for KConfig to run shell code — KDE responded on Wednesday by removing the feature to have shell commands as values in the KConfig files, which was described as an intentional feature that allowed for flexibility.
• First modern coreboot server platform — This platform is the first modern upstream coreboot server platform on the market with an Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 processor also known as Kabylake-DT.
• Open-source firmware is the future - Blog | Mullvad VPN — This is the first time a modern off-the-shelf server platform gains coreboot support, and it is an integral part of realizing our vision of transparent and independently auditable VPN servers.
• Adder WS - System76
• System76 Preparing To Roll Out Their First Coreboot-Enabled Laptop - Phoronix — Ahead of this year's Open-Source Firmware Conference (OSFC) being held from 3 to 6 September at the Google and Facebook offices in Mountain View, System76 announced the Darter Pro OSFC Edition that ships with Coreboot.
• System76 Granted A Thunderbolt License To Integrate Into Their Open Firmware - Phoronix — System76 has been granted a Thunderbolt license, meaning that we can now integrate Thunderbolt compatibility into our open firmware.
• Jupiter Extras — New ideas, great interviews, events, and other content you will love. We bring you the Extras.
• Free Courses at Linux Academy — August 2019 – Linux Academy
• major.io — words of wisdom from a systems engineer
• Continuous integration testing for the Linux kernel | Opensource.com — The call for continuous integration (CI) grows for more and more projects, the Continuous Kernel Integration (CKI) team forges ahead with a single mission: prevent bugs from being merged into the kernel.
• Major's Continuous Kernel Integration Talk at Texas Linuxfe 2019
• CKI Project — Continuous Kernel Integration
• Continuous Kernel Integration project on GitHub
• CKI hackfest agenda for Plumbers
• 0-Day Continuous Integration (CI) Test Service from Intel — With so much code contributed to each release, it’s impossible to avoid potential regressions. To eliminate them, you must first find the bugs that cause them, which can be like finding a needle in the proverbial haystack. This is what makes the 0-Day Continuous Integration (CI) Test Service so important. 0-Day delivers comprehensive, automated and continuous integration testing that monitors the Linux mainline and 800+ developer trees for regressions, helping find bugs before they reach the Linux kernel so problems can be fixed before they impact users. Simply put, 0-Day helps ensure Linux kernel quality in a highly complex development environment.
• Snowpatch: continuous-integration testing for the kernel — The Linux kernel project lags many others in its use of CI testing for a number of reasons, including a fundamental mismatch with how kernel developers tend to manage their workflows. At linux.conf.au 2019, Russell Currey described a CI system called Snowpatch that, he hopes, will bridge the gap and bring better testing to the kernel development process.
• Kernel CI Dashboard — FAQ
• Linux Test Project — Linux Test Project is a joint project started by SGI, OSDL and Bull developed and maintained by IBM, Cisco, Fujitsu, SUSE, Red Hat, Oracle and others. The project goal is to deliver tests to the open source community that validate the reliability, robustness, and stability of Linux.
• patchwork — Patchwork is a web-based patch tracking system designed to facilitate the contribution and management of contributions to an open-source project.
• Kernel Patch-Evaluated Testing — KPET is a framework which will execute targeted testing based on changes introduced in the patch, e.g. a network driver or similar would trigger network related testing to be invoked, or a filesystem change would invoke filesystem testing.
• Beaker lab automation project — Beaker is open-source software for managing and automating labs of test computers.
• google/syzkaller — syzkaller is an unsupervised, coverage-guided kernel fuzzer
• openQA | Introduction to the heart of openSUSE's automated testing — OpenSUSE is way too versatile for humans to test even the most common configurations. Therefore openQA was introduced and became an indispensable part of the openSUSE development and release processes. openQA is an automated test tool for operating systems. It allows to test the whole installation process of an operating system in a wide range of software and hardware configurations by leveraging qemu. This talk gives an introduction to openQA and explains how openQA works to help understand what it's output means.
• OpenQA - Fedora Project Wiki — Fedora uses the openQA automated testing system as a significant part of the release validation testing process, and for testing updates. On this page you can find more information about openQA, how Fedora uses it, and how to install your own instance of openQA so you can try it out and contribute to test development.
• AppImage by probonopd · Pull Request #72 · JupiterBroadcasting/CasterSoundboard — This PR, when merged, will compile this application on Travis CI upon each git push, and upload an AppImage to your GitHub Releases page.
• TeleCast with popey — An experiment in lean audio delivery via Telegram. TeleCast with popey is an informal short-form audio podcast-like show
• LINUX Unplugged 202: Halls of Endless Linux — Michael Hall from Endless joins us to discuss his new role, Endless’ involvement with Gnome & the unique approach they are taking with EndlessOS.
• End of life - Fedora Project Wiki — Fedora Project maintains each release of Fedora according to the Fedora Release Life Cycle. The following releases have reached End of Life, and are no longer maintained and do not receive any updates.
• quicktile — Adds window-tiling keybindings to any X11-based desktop.

Plus some good Debian news, our tips for better battery life, and we play a little Hot SUSE Potato.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Ell Marquez.

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• Google Stadia announced, a game streaming service for Chrome, Android, and TVs — Powered by Linux, it supports the Vulkan graphics API and Google partnered with Unreal to fully support the Stadia platform.
• Chris on Instagram — We found a great spot to work for the day, great signal. Just one problem. We sorta got taken hostage for a few hours.
• Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Candidates — We're now into the campaigning period. We have 5 candidates.
• Linux Laptop Battery Optimization Tool TLP 1.2 Released — TLP 1.2 was released today after being in development for more than a year, and it brings support for NVMe, and removable drives like USB and IEEE1394 devices, support for multi queue I/O schedulers (blk-mq), and other significant enhancements.
• TLP – Configuration
• Suse is once again an independent company — Few companies have changed hands as often as Suse and yet remained strong players in their business. Suse was first acquired by Novell in 2004. Novell was then acquired by Attachmate in 2010, which Micro Focus acquired in 2014. The company then turned Suse into an independent division, only to then announce its sale to EQT in the middle of 2018.
• SUSE is now an independent company after being acquired by EQT for $2.5 billion | Packt Hub — As the company has been owned by EQT, so according to few users it’s still not independent. One of the users commented on HackerNews, “Being owned by a Private Equity fund can really not be described as being “independent”.
• MATE 1.22 released — Wanda the Fish now works properly on HiDPI displays
• Albert Vaca Cintora on Twitter — KDE Connect has been removed from @GooglePlay for violating their new policy on apps that access SMS. The policy has an explicit exception for companion apps (like KDE Connect), but it was removed anyway and *there's no way to talk to Google*
• Use of SMS or Call Log permission groups - Play Console Help
• Full-system dynamic tracing on Linux using eBPF and bpftrace — What if you want to trace what happens inside a system call or library call? What if you want to do more than just logging calls, e.g. you want to compile statistics on certain behavior? What if you want to trace multiple processes and correlate data from multiple sources? In 2019, there's finally a decent answer to that on Linux: bpftrace, based on eBPF technology.
• Learn eBPF Tracing: Tutorial and Examples — eBPF can be used for many things: network performance, firewalls, security, tracing, device drivers, and more!
• IO Visor Project — The IO Visor Project is an open source project and a community of developers to accelerate the innovation, development, and sharing of virtualized in-kernel IO services for tracing, analytics, monitoring, security and networking functions. It builds on the Linux community to bring open, flexible, distributed, secure and easy to operate technologies that enable any stack to run efficiently on any physical infrastructure.
• IO Visor Project on GitHub — Organization that hosts the repos for bpftrace, bcc, and other tools.
• BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more — BCC is a toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs, and includes several useful tools and examples.
• bpftrace: High-level tracing language for Linux eBPF
• Install bpftrace for Linux using the Snap Store
• BCC Tool Diagram — Diagram that breaks down useful tools in BCC
• eBPF Perf Tools 2019: Slides
• eBPF Perf Tools 2019: Video (resynced by Squigly)
• eBPF Perf Tools 2019: Video (original)

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

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

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

Plus Wimpy shares his open source Drobo alternative, and our final Dropbox XFS hack.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Martin Wimpress, and Matthew Miller.

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• NASA runs KDE
• Are people forgetting what open source is? — There is a responsibility for the dev to make sure they vet what is being put into, but also a larger responsibility for large company's to vet dependency themselves, such as this package event-stream
• International Space Station switches from Windows to Linux — “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable.”
• LinuxFest Northwest 2019 — LinuxFest Northwest is an annual Open Source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group and the Information Technology department at Bellingham Technical College
• SnapRAID — SnapRAID is a backup program for disk arrays. It stores parity information of your data and it recovers from up to six disk failures.
• mergerfs — A featureful union filesystem.
• Fedora 31 Will Likely Be Cancelled Or Significantly Delayed — It's about trying to re-tool the distribution and restructure the way its developed to rely more upon automated testing, improving the release processes, and related infrastructure to make it more scalable and better for the longer-term.
• Fedora Mailing-Lists: Lifecycle objective - problems, solutions, and proposal
• Fedora Wiki: Objectives/Lifecycle/Problem statements
• Current 12-18 Month Community Objectives
• Fedora Council Charter
• Dropbox Filesystem Fix — Fix the filesystem detection in the Linux Dropbox client.

Then community news, a preview of upcoming Ubuntu 18.10, and we announce our own free software project. Plus a chat with Dalton about the new Ubuntu Touch release and we find a real Photoshop replacement for Linux.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Dalton Durst, Danielle Foré, and Martin Wimpress.

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• Tiny Palm smartphone baffles gadget fans - BBC News — A tiny Android smartphone designed to be a "companion phone".
• KDE e.V. receives a sizeable donation from Handshake Foundation | KDE.news — We are excited to announce that the KDE e.V. received a donation of 300,000 USD from the Handshake Foundation.
• elementary OS 5 Juno is Here — Refinement, Productivity, & an Improved Developer Platform.
• Allen questions the Flatpak FUD - Pastebin.com
• Flatpaks, sandboxes and security — What Flatpak brings to this is understanding of the specific desktop app problem space
• Should GNOME Drop Support for GTK3 Themes? — It seems that our love of customisation is merely an illusion
• Restyling apps at scale — tl;dr: If you want to change how an app looks, you need a designer in the loop.
• DXVK 0.90 released : linux
• Pumpkin Carving Contest #JackOLinux — Submission deadline is October 24, 2018, and the top 3 winners will be announced on October 31st!
• Chrome OS Stable Channel Gets Linux Apps
• Did Microsoft Really Just “Open Source All Its Patents”?? — This means the company can use or distribute ‘Linux System’ technologies without risk that another OIN participant may assert their patents against such ‘Linux System’ technologies.
• Ubuntu 18.10 Release Date and New Features [Updated] | It's FOSS
• GPD Pocket 2 Preview — The GPD Pocket 2 is a handheld computer that looks like a laptop, but which is small enough to fold up and slide into your pocket.
• UBports — Ubuntu Touch is the touch-friendly mobile version of Ubuntu. This operating system is developed and maintained by UBports: An international community of passionate volunteers. This means Ubuntu Touch is 100% community driven and independent. Read more about the OS
• Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 — While many have already joined the community on 16.04 with OTA-4, in addition to the long-term support of upstream Ubuntu development, OTA-5 will include a more stable experience, new tweaks, and new features to show off this next stage of Ubuntu Touch development.
• Dalton Durst's GitHub
• DaltonDurst - Ubuntu Wiki
• Automation System Naming
• Jupiter Broadcasting · GitHub
• Photopea

Also Google subtracts Plus, some KDE and GNOME news, and a bit of forgotten Linux history.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Andy Grover, and Martin Wimpress.

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• IRL Glasses
• Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public — Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social network and then opted not to disclose the issue this past spring, in part because of fears that doing so would draw regulatory scrutiny and cause reputational damage, according to people briefed on the incident and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
• Project Strobe — The consumer version of Google+ currently has low usage and engagement: 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds.
• Google Has 'No Plans' to Enable Chrome Hardware Acceleration on Linux
• KDE Plasma 5.14 — A lot of work has gone into improving Discover, Plasma's software manager, and, among other things, we have added a Firmware Update feature and many subtle user interface improvements to give it a smoother feel.
• Farewell, application menus! — These menus have been with us since the beginning of the GNOME 3.0 series, but we’re planning on retiring them for the next GNOME release (version 3.32).
• Creative Selection (Audiobook) by Ken Kocienda
• Eazel - Wikipedia — Eazel was founded by Andy Hertzfeld in August 1999 in Mountain View, California. It had 22 initial employees and raised $12 million from a number of venture capital investment companies
• Eazel launches Nautilus software then lays off 40 workers — After releasing the first version of its new Nautilus open-source desktop software with much fanfare Monday, Eazel Inc. bit the bullet just a day later and laid off more than half of its 70-member staff
• Jobs at Linux Academy
• Andy Grover (@iamagrover) — Hacks on @StratisStorage at Red Hat, and has other creative dreams too. Bass. Rustlang. Mostly cat and political retweets these days.
• Stratis Storage (@StratisStorage) — Easy to use local storage for Linux.
• Stratis Storage Project Page
• Stratis: Easy local storage management for Linux [LWN.net] — Stratis is a new local storage-management solution for Linux. It can be compared to ZFS, Btrfs, or LVM. Its focus is on simplicity of concepts and ease of use, while giving users access to advanced storage features. Internally, Stratis's implementation favors tight integration of existing components instead of the fully-integrated, in-kernel approach that ZFS and Btrfs use.
• XFS vs EXT4 – Comparing MongoDB Performance on AWS EC2 — In performance terms, XFS is indeed a force multiplier when paired with high speed disks that it can take real advantage from. For low to mid-end systems, it doesn’t seem to be able to do much to improve your performance.
• Todoist for Linux, an electron wrapper for the official Todoist web app. — Todoist for Linux, an electron wrapper for the official Todoist web app.

Plus community news, our thoughts on building a market for Linux apps, the latest from UBPorts, and more good news from LVFS!

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

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• Benchmarks Of Intel's Latest Linux Microcode Update
• Organizing a Market for Applications
• Libre Application Summit
• Origin of the name Proton — We've been working on this for a long time. We needed an internal codename we could use that wouldn't tip our hand if it leaked (so Wine puns are out), and that we wouldn't be embarrassed to continue using after release (sorry, BadgerBadgerBadger). A bunch of ideas were tossed around the CodeWeavers office one afternoon, and I ended up picking Proton because it's short, easy to remember, sounds cool, and is hard to Google for. Although, I like your explanation too :)
• Wine and Steam - A Major Milestone — We have been working directly with Valve for two years on this effort,
• How do I use Proton via command line?
• Protontricks: A simple wrapper that does winetricks things for Proton enabled games, requires Winetricks.

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• Download Docker CE without logging in
• Flatpak 1.0
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• KDE.news: dot.kde.org
• OggCamp 18
• fosscon.us
• intel-microcode: Update intel-microcode to 20180807
• Imad Sousou: "This is not true."
• Um: Create and maintain your own man pages so you can remember how to do stuff

Plus an update on our PeerTube efforts, our take Android P, and Lenovo’s big commitment to ThinkPad’s running Linux.

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• July ended with 3.97M startups of #PowerShell Core 6!. ~82% of it on #Linux!
• Linux Kernel TCP implementation vulnerable to Denial of Service
• Common Fedora Workstation Crashes Traced Back to GNOME JavaScript Extensions
• GNOME Might Need To Crack Down On Their JavaScript Extensions
• Moving Beyond Themes
• Daniel Foré on Twitter
• A New Chapter – Cassidy James Blaede
• Please welcome Lenovo to the LVFS
• Recently added PeerTube videos
• Android 9 Pie
• Install Transitions DJ for Linux, Linux apps in seconds
• GPG Sync v0.2

Plus some important community news, some Darktable tips for beginners, and some select clips from this year’s LinuxFest Northwest.

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• Announcing the release of Fedora 28 — Fedora 28 Workstation has big news too. For the first time, we’re making it easy for users to enable certain third-party software sources, including proprietary Nvidia drivers.
• Fedora Atomic Host — This is our first release of Fedora 28 Atomic Host!
• What's New in Fedora 28 Workstation — Battery life on laptops running Fedora Workstation is improved with various hardware power-saving features now enabled by default.
• Google Just Forked a Popular GTK Theme — Not just any GTK theme but one forked from the Material Design inspired Adapta GTK theme.
• Why is the kernel community replacing iptables with BPF? — The Linux kernel community recently announced bpfilter, which will replace the long-standing in-kernel implementation of iptables with high-performance network filtering powered by Linux BPF
• VoidLinux Serious Issues — The current project leader has disappeared. We have had no contact with him since the end of January.
• darktable 2.4.3 released | darktable — We’re proud to announce the third bugfix release for the 2.4 series of darktable, 2.4.3!
• LFNW 2018 - Images | Brent Gervais Photography — Great photos from LinuxFest Northwest 2018
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Top 10 Major Changes
• Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 Official Flavor Debuts as First Long-Term Supported Version — Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 LTS official flavor will be supported for three years, until April 2021, and ships with the latest Budgie Desktop 10.4 "Irish Summer" desktop environment by default, accompanied by GNOME 3.28 applications.
• Breeze through Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver — GNOME Initial Setup was chosen for this job as we will be exploring how to integrate more features of the tool during the 18.10 cycle.

Plus Google moves to block GApps on “uncertified devices”, Red Hat turns 25, a new Wayland contender, a few app picks, and much more.

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• Red Hat at 25 — A lot has changed since 1993
• Red Hat Summit 2018 — The Grammy Award-winning band Weezer will be performing at this year’s Red Hat Summit party. Join us for a night of food, drinks, and music, at the San Francisco Armory at 7:00 p.m.
• Google now blocks GApps on uncertified devices, but lets custom ROM users be whitelisted — arlier this week, we received an anonymous tip from a person claiming to be within the industry. This person, who said they worked for an OEM/ODM, notified us that Google has started entirely locking out newly built firmware from accessing Gapps.
• Microsoft Open-Sources WSL Sample To Let More Linux Distributions Run On Windows — The WSL-DistroLauncher is what is now open-source and is a C++ code-base offering a launcher that can be customized for particular distributions for the steps to get to a log-in shell, running commands, and setting configuration values.
• Wayfire — 3D wayland compositor
• People Are Using Old Laptop Batteries to Build Their Own Versions of Tesla's Powerwall — Consumers have constructed their own powerwalls by utilizing old, recycled batteries from laptops.
• Rant launches Eric Raymond's next project: open-source the UPS — ESR opened up the work-in-progress on GitLab: the Upside project is currently defining requirements and developing a specification for a “high quality UPS that can be built from off-the-shelf parts in any reasonably well-equipped makerspace or home electronics shop”.
• Eric S. Raymond / upside · GitLab
• Hyper™ — JS/HTML/CSS Terminal
• Upterm — A terminal emulator for the 21st century.
• MP4Tools — MP4Tools is a collection of cross-platform free tools to manipulate MP4 files.
• Slax Linux — Despite its small size, Slax provides nice graphical user interface and the only two programs everyone really needs: a Web browser and a Terminal.
• Debian-Based Slax 9.4 Linux OS Adds Easier App Install Method, More Improvements — According to the developer, Slax will now show launchers for not-installed apps, which, when clicked, they will fetch and install the respective application from the official software repositories. The first such app installer are available for the VLC Media Player and VoteCoin anonymous cryptocurrency wallet.
• Slax 9.4 Released With Updated Debian Packages, One-Click-To-Install Launchers — Besides syncing against Debian stable, Slax 9.4 adds RFKILL support for toggling WiFi/Bluetooth connections