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    <title>LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Podcast”</title>
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    <itunes:subtitle>Weekly Linux talk show with no script, no limits, surprise guests and tons of opinion.</itunes:subtitle>
    <itunes:author>Jupiter Broadcasting</itunes:author>
    <itunes:summary>An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux.
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  <title>487: The Debian Debate</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>After nearly half a year of woe, Brent is ready to give Linux the go. Join us as we compare and contrast two Linux distros and end up with one going on Brent's machine.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:54:45</itunes:duration>
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  <description>After nearly half a year of woe, Brent is ready to give Linux the go. Join us as we compare and contrast two Linux distros and end up with one going on Brent's machine. 
Plus, follow-up on Chris' GrapheneOS adventures and more. 
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    <![CDATA[<p>After nearly half a year of woe, Brent is ready to give Linux the go. Join us as we compare and contrast two Linux distros and end up with one going on Brent&#39;s machine. </p>

<p>Plus, follow-up on Chris&#39; GrapheneOS adventures and more.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://linode.com/unplugged">Linode Cloud Hosting</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://linode.com/unplugged">A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. </a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://tailscale.com/linuxunplugged">Tailscale</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://tailscale.com/linuxunplugged">Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://bitwarden.com/linux">Bitwarden</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://bitwarden.com/linux">Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.</a></li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=52946">Support LINUX Unplugged</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Apple Limits iPhone AirDrop Function Used for Protests in China" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/apple-limits-iphone-file-sharing-tool-used-for-protests-in-china?leadSource=uverify%20wall">Apple Limits iPhone AirDrop Function Used for Protests in China</a></li><li><a title="Magic Earth" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.magicearth.com/">Magic Earth</a> &mdash; Free Maps &amp; Navigation App</li><li><a title="Top 10 reasons to use Debian as your Linux distro" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.fosslinux.com/46040/reasons-use-debian-linux-distro.htm">Top 10 reasons to use Debian as your Linux distro</a></li><li><a title="Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of ‘move fast and break things’, and version 11 is no different" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/16/debian_11/">Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of ‘move fast and break things’, and version 11 is no different</a></li><li><a title="ProtonPlus" rel="nofollow" href="https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.vysp3r.ProtonPlus">ProtonPlus</a> &mdash; A simple Wine and Proton-based compatiblity tools manager for GNOME.</li><li><a title="ProtonUp-Qt" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/DavidoTek/ProtonUp-Qt">ProtonUp-Qt</a> &mdash; Install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda &amp; more for Steam and Wine-GE &amp; more for Lutris with this graphical user interface.</li><li><a title="Why openSUSE - openSUSE Wiki" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Why_openSUSE">Why openSUSE - openSUSE Wiki</a></li><li><a title="The Nobara Project" rel="nofollow" href="https://nobaraproject.org/">The Nobara Project</a> &mdash; The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.</li><li><a title="Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" rel="nofollow" href="https://flathub.org/apps/details/lv.martinsz.millionaire">Who Wants To Be a Millionaire</a> &mdash; Test your knowledge to see if you can answer all questions and win $1 million. Have fun!</li><li><a title="Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Questions and Source Code" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/martinszeltins/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire/blob/master/src/millionaire-questions.c">Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Questions and Source Code</a></li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>After nearly half a year of woe, Brent is ready to give Linux the go. Join us as we compare and contrast two Linux distros and end up with one going on Brent&#39;s machine. </p>

<p>Plus, follow-up on Chris&#39; GrapheneOS adventures and more.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://linode.com/unplugged">Linode Cloud Hosting</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://linode.com/unplugged">A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. </a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://tailscale.com/linuxunplugged">Tailscale</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://tailscale.com/linuxunplugged">Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://bitwarden.com/linux">Bitwarden</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://bitwarden.com/linux">Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.</a></li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=52946">Support LINUX Unplugged</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Apple Limits iPhone AirDrop Function Used for Protests in China" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/apple-limits-iphone-file-sharing-tool-used-for-protests-in-china?leadSource=uverify%20wall">Apple Limits iPhone AirDrop Function Used for Protests in China</a></li><li><a title="Magic Earth" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.magicearth.com/">Magic Earth</a> &mdash; Free Maps &amp; Navigation App</li><li><a title="Top 10 reasons to use Debian as your Linux distro" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.fosslinux.com/46040/reasons-use-debian-linux-distro.htm">Top 10 reasons to use Debian as your Linux distro</a></li><li><a title="Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of ‘move fast and break things’, and version 11 is no different" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/16/debian_11/">Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of ‘move fast and break things’, and version 11 is no different</a></li><li><a title="ProtonPlus" rel="nofollow" href="https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.vysp3r.ProtonPlus">ProtonPlus</a> &mdash; A simple Wine and Proton-based compatiblity tools manager for GNOME.</li><li><a title="ProtonUp-Qt" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/DavidoTek/ProtonUp-Qt">ProtonUp-Qt</a> &mdash; Install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda &amp; more for Steam and Wine-GE &amp; more for Lutris with this graphical user interface.</li><li><a title="Why openSUSE - openSUSE Wiki" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Why_openSUSE">Why openSUSE - openSUSE Wiki</a></li><li><a title="The Nobara Project" rel="nofollow" href="https://nobaraproject.org/">The Nobara Project</a> &mdash; The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.</li><li><a title="Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" rel="nofollow" href="https://flathub.org/apps/details/lv.martinsz.millionaire">Who Wants To Be a Millionaire</a> &mdash; Test your knowledge to see if you can answer all questions and win $1 million. Have fun!</li><li><a title="Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Questions and Source Code" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/martinszeltins/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire/blob/master/src/millionaire-questions.c">Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Questions and Source Code</a></li></ul>]]>
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  <title>Episode 245: Microsoft of Things</title>
  <link>https://linuxunplugged.com/245</link>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2018 17:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
  <author>Jupiter Broadcasting</author>
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  <itunes:author>Jupiter Broadcasting</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Azure Sphere is Microsoft making silicon as a service with Linux at its core. We’ve chatted with the folks behind Azure Sphere and breakdown this huge announcement.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:12:51</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
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  <description>Azure Sphere is Microsoft making silicon as a service with Linux at its core. We’ve chatted with the folks behind Azure Sphere and breakdown this huge announcement.
Plus a bunch of community news, a string of app picks, and maybe even a concerned rant. 
</description>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Azure Sphere is Microsoft making silicon as a service with Linux at its core. We’ve chatted with the folks behind Azure Sphere and breakdown this huge announcement.</p>

<p>Plus a bunch of community news, a string of app picks, and maybe even a concerned rant.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://linux.ting.com">Ting</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://linux.ting.com">Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://do.co/unplugged">DigitalOcean</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://do.co/unplugged">Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit.</a> Promo Code: dounplugged</li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://linuxacademy.com/unplugged">Linux Academy</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://linuxacademy.com/unplugged">Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial.</a></li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=52946">Support LINUX Unplugged</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Utopian - Rewarding Open Source Contributors" rel="nofollow" href="https://utopian.io/">Utopian - Rewarding Open Source Contributors</a></li><li><a title="Linus Buzzkills 5.0" rel="nofollow" href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/15/201">Linus Buzzkills 5.0</a> &mdash; But v5.0 will happen some day. And it should be meaningless. You have
been warned.</li><li><a title="gotop" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/cjbassi/gotop">gotop</a> &mdash; A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop </li><li><a title="Clonezilla Live Disk Cloning OS Gets New Massive Deployment BitTorrent Mechanism" rel="nofollow" href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/clonezilla-live-disk-cloning-os-gets-new-massive-deployment-bittorrent-mechanism-520706.shtml">Clonezilla Live Disk Cloning OS Gets New Massive Deployment BitTorrent Mechanism</a> &mdash; However, one of the most interesting feature of the Clonezilla Live 2.5.5-38 release is a new massive deployment mechanism based on the BitTorrent technology. </li><li><a title="fontfinder" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/mmstick/fontfinder">fontfinder</a> &mdash; A Google font browser for your GTK desktop, written in Rust
</li><li><a title="Kdenlive in Paris" rel="nofollow" href="https://kdenlive.org/2018/04/kdenlive-in-paris/">Kdenlive in Paris</a> &mdash; Our team will dedicate this time to discuss near and long term goals, review the application workflow with professional editors, work on the major 18.08 release and much more.</li><li><a title="Microsoft&#39;s Next OS is Based on Linux, Not Windows" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.thurrott.com/internet-of-things-iot/156628/microsofts-next-os-based-linux-not-windows">Microsoft's Next OS is Based on Linux, Not Windows</a> &mdash;  Microsoft is creating here is Azure Sphere OS, a new operating system aimed at tiny MCU-based IoT devices that is based on Linux.</li><li><a title="Microsoft’s bid to secure the Internet of Things: Custom Linux, custom chips, Azure" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/04/microsofts-bid-to-secure-the-internet-of-things-custom-linux-custom-chips-azure/">Microsoft’s bid to secure the Internet of Things: Custom Linux, custom chips, Azure</a> &mdash; Azure Sphere has three components. First is a new class of microcontrollers (MCUs) that supports seven critical hardware features that Microsoft says are a necessary foundation to build secure systems. These include support for unforgeable encryption keys protected by hardware, the ability to update system software, and hardware-enforced compartmentalization between software components. </li><li><a title="Galen Hunt at Microsoft Research" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/galenh/?from=http%3A%2F%2Fresearch.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fpeople%2Fgalenh%2F">Galen Hunt at Microsoft Research</a> &mdash; I am part of the launch team for Microsoft Research New Experiences and Technologies organization (MSR NExT).  I am manager of the Operating Systems Technologies Group. </li><li><a title="The Seven Properties of Highly Secure Devices" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/seven-properties-highly-secure-devices/">The Seven Properties of Highly Secure Devices</a> &mdash; Our group has begun a research agenda to bring high-value security to low-cost devices.</li></ul>]]>
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  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>Azure Sphere is Microsoft making silicon as a service with Linux at its core. We’ve chatted with the folks behind Azure Sphere and breakdown this huge announcement.</p>

<p>Plus a bunch of community news, a string of app picks, and maybe even a concerned rant.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://linux.ting.com">Ting</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://linux.ting.com">Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://do.co/unplugged">DigitalOcean</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://do.co/unplugged">Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit.</a> Promo Code: dounplugged</li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://linuxacademy.com/unplugged">Linux Academy</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://linuxacademy.com/unplugged">Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial.</a></li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=52946">Support LINUX Unplugged</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Utopian - Rewarding Open Source Contributors" rel="nofollow" href="https://utopian.io/">Utopian - Rewarding Open Source Contributors</a></li><li><a title="Linus Buzzkills 5.0" rel="nofollow" href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/15/201">Linus Buzzkills 5.0</a> &mdash; But v5.0 will happen some day. And it should be meaningless. You have
been warned.</li><li><a title="gotop" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/cjbassi/gotop">gotop</a> &mdash; A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop </li><li><a title="Clonezilla Live Disk Cloning OS Gets New Massive Deployment BitTorrent Mechanism" rel="nofollow" href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/clonezilla-live-disk-cloning-os-gets-new-massive-deployment-bittorrent-mechanism-520706.shtml">Clonezilla Live Disk Cloning OS Gets New Massive Deployment BitTorrent Mechanism</a> &mdash; However, one of the most interesting feature of the Clonezilla Live 2.5.5-38 release is a new massive deployment mechanism based on the BitTorrent technology. </li><li><a title="fontfinder" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/mmstick/fontfinder">fontfinder</a> &mdash; A Google font browser for your GTK desktop, written in Rust
</li><li><a title="Kdenlive in Paris" rel="nofollow" href="https://kdenlive.org/2018/04/kdenlive-in-paris/">Kdenlive in Paris</a> &mdash; Our team will dedicate this time to discuss near and long term goals, review the application workflow with professional editors, work on the major 18.08 release and much more.</li><li><a title="Microsoft&#39;s Next OS is Based on Linux, Not Windows" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.thurrott.com/internet-of-things-iot/156628/microsofts-next-os-based-linux-not-windows">Microsoft's Next OS is Based on Linux, Not Windows</a> &mdash;  Microsoft is creating here is Azure Sphere OS, a new operating system aimed at tiny MCU-based IoT devices that is based on Linux.</li><li><a title="Microsoft’s bid to secure the Internet of Things: Custom Linux, custom chips, Azure" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/04/microsofts-bid-to-secure-the-internet-of-things-custom-linux-custom-chips-azure/">Microsoft’s bid to secure the Internet of Things: Custom Linux, custom chips, Azure</a> &mdash; Azure Sphere has three components. First is a new class of microcontrollers (MCUs) that supports seven critical hardware features that Microsoft says are a necessary foundation to build secure systems. These include support for unforgeable encryption keys protected by hardware, the ability to update system software, and hardware-enforced compartmentalization between software components. </li><li><a title="Galen Hunt at Microsoft Research" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/galenh/?from=http%3A%2F%2Fresearch.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fpeople%2Fgalenh%2F">Galen Hunt at Microsoft Research</a> &mdash; I am part of the launch team for Microsoft Research New Experiences and Technologies organization (MSR NExT).  I am manager of the Operating Systems Technologies Group. </li><li><a title="The Seven Properties of Highly Secure Devices" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/seven-properties-highly-secure-devices/">The Seven Properties of Highly Secure Devices</a> &mdash; Our group has begun a research agenda to bring high-value security to low-cost devices.</li></ul>]]>
  </itunes:summary>
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  <title>Episode 244: Plasma Predicament</title>
  <link>https://linuxunplugged.com/244</link>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2018 21:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
  <author>Jupiter Broadcasting</author>
  <enclosure url="https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/f31a453c-fa15-491f-8618-3f71f1d565e5/621e9715-631c-4240-bb9d-f2052bc3b657.mp3" length="63226212" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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  <itunes:author>Jupiter Broadcasting</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>We have some Plasma problems this week, but we’re still putting it into production in our most ambitious event yet. </itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:14:48</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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  <description>We have some Plasma problems this week, but we’re sticking with it and still putting it into production in our most ambitious event yet. 
But we start with a bunch of important community news, including what looks like ZFS on Linux’s first major bug, the future of Elementary OS apps, and a proposal to revamp Ubuntu’s betas. 
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    <![CDATA[<p>We have some Plasma problems this week, but we’re sticking with it and still putting it into production in our most ambitious event yet. </p>

<p>But we start with a bunch of important community news, including what looks like ZFS on Linux’s first major bug, the future of Elementary OS apps, and a proposal to revamp Ubuntu’s betas.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://linux.ting.com">Ting</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://linux.ting.com">Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://do.co/unplugged">DigitalOcean</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://do.co/unplugged">Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit.</a> Promo Code: dounplugged</li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://linuxacademy.com/unplugged">Linux Academy</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://linuxacademy.com/unplugged">Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial.</a></li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=52946">Support LINUX Unplugged</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="LinuxFest Northwest 2018" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/conferences/lfnw18">LinuxFest Northwest 2018</a> &mdash; LinuxFest Northwest, an annual Open Source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group and the Information Technology department at BTC. LFNW features presentations and exhibits on free and open source topics, as well as Linux distributions &amp; applications, InfoSec, and privacy; something for everyone from the novice to the professional!</li><li><a title="Disappearing files ZFS On Linux Bug" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7401">Disappearing files ZFS On Linux Bug</a> &mdash; Data loss when copying a directory with large-ish number of files. For example, cp -r SRC DST with 10000 files in SRC is likely to result in a couple of "cp: cannot create regular file `DST/XXX': No space left on device" error messages, and a few thousand files missing from the listing of the DST directory. </li><li><a title="The offending commit" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/cc63068e95ee725cce03b1b7ce50179825a6cda5">The offending commit</a> &mdash; Trying to solve an issue for case insensitive filesystems They limited the attempts to expand the ZAP to 2, which is not enough. </li><li><a title="Valve&#39;s Pipe Has Something Linux in it..." rel="nofollow" href="https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/1696043806550421224/">Valve's Pipe Has Something Linux in it...</a> &mdash; We also have other Linux initiatives in the pipe that we're not quite ready to talk about yet</li><li><a title="NVIDIA will end 32-bit OS GeForce support this month" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/09/nvidia-32-bit-os-support-drivers/">NVIDIA will end 32-bit OS GeForce support this month</a> &mdash; It will halt GeForce GPU driver support at the end of April, meaning users will lose access to new GeForce Experience features and game ready updates. Moreover, NVIDIA will end security updates by January 2019, so continuing to use your 32-bit OS with a GeForce card beyond that date could actually put it at risk.</li><li><a title="The New HandBrake is Great!" rel="nofollow" href="https://handbrake.fr/news.php?article=39">The New HandBrake is Great!</a> &mdash; The HandBrake Team is pleased to present HandBrake 1.1.0. This major release includes new features, as well as bug fixes and improvements for issues affecting previous HandBrake releases. </li><li><a title="Plasma-Vault" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/KDE/plasma-vault">Plasma-Vault</a> &mdash; Plasma applet and services for creating encrypted vaults </li><li><a title="Offline Vaults for an extra layer of protection" rel="nofollow" href="https://cukic.co/2018/04/10/offline-vaults-for-extra-layer-of-protection/">Offline Vaults for an extra layer of protection</a></li><li><a title="Latte-Dock" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/psifidotos/Latte-Dock">Latte-Dock</a> &mdash; Latte is a dock based on plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids</li><li><a title="Falkon" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/KDE/falkon">Falkon</a> &mdash; Cross-platform Qt Web Browser </li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>We have some Plasma problems this week, but we’re sticking with it and still putting it into production in our most ambitious event yet. </p>

<p>But we start with a bunch of important community news, including what looks like ZFS on Linux’s first major bug, the future of Elementary OS apps, and a proposal to revamp Ubuntu’s betas.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://linux.ting.com">Ting</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://linux.ting.com">Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://do.co/unplugged">DigitalOcean</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://do.co/unplugged">Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit.</a> Promo Code: dounplugged</li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://linuxacademy.com/unplugged">Linux Academy</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://linuxacademy.com/unplugged">Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial.</a></li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=52946">Support LINUX Unplugged</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="LinuxFest Northwest 2018" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/conferences/lfnw18">LinuxFest Northwest 2018</a> &mdash; LinuxFest Northwest, an annual Open Source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group and the Information Technology department at BTC. LFNW features presentations and exhibits on free and open source topics, as well as Linux distributions &amp; applications, InfoSec, and privacy; something for everyone from the novice to the professional!</li><li><a title="Disappearing files ZFS On Linux Bug" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7401">Disappearing files ZFS On Linux Bug</a> &mdash; Data loss when copying a directory with large-ish number of files. For example, cp -r SRC DST with 10000 files in SRC is likely to result in a couple of "cp: cannot create regular file `DST/XXX': No space left on device" error messages, and a few thousand files missing from the listing of the DST directory. </li><li><a title="The offending commit" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/cc63068e95ee725cce03b1b7ce50179825a6cda5">The offending commit</a> &mdash; Trying to solve an issue for case insensitive filesystems They limited the attempts to expand the ZAP to 2, which is not enough. </li><li><a title="Valve&#39;s Pipe Has Something Linux in it..." rel="nofollow" href="https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/1696043806550421224/">Valve's Pipe Has Something Linux in it...</a> &mdash; We also have other Linux initiatives in the pipe that we're not quite ready to talk about yet</li><li><a title="NVIDIA will end 32-bit OS GeForce support this month" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/09/nvidia-32-bit-os-support-drivers/">NVIDIA will end 32-bit OS GeForce support this month</a> &mdash; It will halt GeForce GPU driver support at the end of April, meaning users will lose access to new GeForce Experience features and game ready updates. Moreover, NVIDIA will end security updates by January 2019, so continuing to use your 32-bit OS with a GeForce card beyond that date could actually put it at risk.</li><li><a title="The New HandBrake is Great!" rel="nofollow" href="https://handbrake.fr/news.php?article=39">The New HandBrake is Great!</a> &mdash; The HandBrake Team is pleased to present HandBrake 1.1.0. This major release includes new features, as well as bug fixes and improvements for issues affecting previous HandBrake releases. </li><li><a title="Plasma-Vault" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/KDE/plasma-vault">Plasma-Vault</a> &mdash; Plasma applet and services for creating encrypted vaults </li><li><a title="Offline Vaults for an extra layer of protection" rel="nofollow" href="https://cukic.co/2018/04/10/offline-vaults-for-extra-layer-of-protection/">Offline Vaults for an extra layer of protection</a></li><li><a title="Latte-Dock" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/psifidotos/Latte-Dock">Latte-Dock</a> &mdash; Latte is a dock based on plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids</li><li><a title="Falkon" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/KDE/falkon">Falkon</a> &mdash; Cross-platform Qt Web Browser </li></ul>]]>
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  <title>Episode 243: The Stallman Directive</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2018 18:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
  <author>Jupiter Broadcasting</author>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Richard Stallman has some practical steps society could take to roll back the rampant and expanding invasion of our privacy.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:08:40</itunes:duration>
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  <description>Richard Stallman has some practical steps society could take to roll back the rampant and expanding invasion of our privacy. But his suggestions leave us asking some larger questions.
Plus the latest on the march to Juno, some fun app picks, a quick look at Qubes OS 4.0, community news, and more. 
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    <![CDATA[<p>Richard Stallman has some practical steps society could take to roll back the rampant and expanding invasion of our privacy. But his suggestions leave us asking some larger questions.</p>

<p>Plus the latest on the march to Juno, some fun app picks, a quick look at Qubes OS 4.0, community news, and more.</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=52946">Support LINUX Unplugged</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Valve has removed the Steam Machine section from Steam" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/valve-has-removed-the-steam-machine-section-from-steam.11505">Valve has removed the Steam Machine section from Steam</a> &mdash; In a move that's not exactly surprising, Valve has quietly removed the Steam Machine section from Steam.</li><li><a title="Apple Is Looking For Linux Kernel Developers" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Apple-Hiring-For-Linux-Kernel">Apple Is Looking For Linux Kernel Developers</a> &mdash; For reasons unknown, Apple is looking to hire Linux kernel developers in both Texas and California.</li><li><a title="Canonical&#39;s Snappy Now Supports Latest Nvidia Drivers on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS" rel="nofollow" href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-s-snappy-now-supports-latest-nvidia-drivers-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts-520506.shtml">Canonical's Snappy Now Supports Latest Nvidia Drivers on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS</a> &mdash; Snapd 2.32.2 is now available to download and should be coming soon to the stable software repositories of your favorite, Snappy-enabled GNU/Linux distribution. What's exciting about this release is that it enables Snappy the use Nvidia's most recent proprietary graphics drivers in Snap apps on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and similar operating systems.</li><li><a title="lsof to graphviz" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/zevv/lsofgraph">lsof to graphviz</a> &mdash; A small utility to convert Unix lsof output to a graph showing FIFO and UNIX interprocess communication.</li><li><a title="Old CPUs losing support in Linux, cutting size by 500,000 lines of code" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.neowin.net/news/old-cpus-losing-support-in-linux-cutting-size-by-500000-lines-of-code">Old CPUs losing support in Linux, cutting size by 500,000 lines of code</a> &mdash; The architectures which will become deprecated are Blackfin, CRIS, FRV, M32R, Metag, MN10300, Score and Tile. Although not being deprecated, the Unicore32 and Hexagon architectures are also at risk but their maintainers are working on improving the situation so their support can be continued.</li><li><a title="Juno Progress for March – elementary OS" rel="nofollow" href="https://medium.com/elementaryos/juno-progress-for-march-6fd2d553c237">Juno Progress for March – elementary OS</a> &mdash; You get more features, and you get more features, and you get more features!</li><li><a title="GnuCash 3.0 Released" rel="nofollow" href="https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-April/075866.html">GnuCash 3.0 Released</a> &mdash; GTK3!</li><li><a title="Qubes OS 4.0 has been released!" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/03/28/qubes-40/">Qubes OS 4.0 has been released!</a> &mdash; Version 4.0 includes several fundamental improvements to the security and functionality of Qubes OS</li><li><a title="oragono" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/oragono/oragono/blob/master/README.md">oragono</a> &mdash; Oragono is a modern, experimental IRC server written in Go. It's designed to be simple to setup and use, and it includes features such as UTF-8 nicks / channel names, client accounts with SASL, and other assorted IRCv3 support.</li><li><a title="A Radical Proposal to keep your personal data safe | Richard Stallman" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/facebook-abusing-data-law-privacy-big-tech-surveillance">A Radical Proposal to keep your personal data safe | Richard Stallman</a> &mdash; The surveillance imposed on us today far exceeds that of the Soviet Union. For freedom and democracy’s sake, we need to eliminate most of it. There are so many ways to use data to hurt people that the only safe database is the one that was never collected. Thus, instead of the EU’s approach of mainly regulating how personal data may be used (in its General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR), I propose a law to stop systems from collecting personal data.</li><li><a title="Overview | FreedomBox Private Cloud Server" rel="nofollow" href="https://freedombox.org/">Overview | FreedomBox Private Cloud Server</a></li></ul>]]>
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  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>Richard Stallman has some practical steps society could take to roll back the rampant and expanding invasion of our privacy. But his suggestions leave us asking some larger questions.</p>

<p>Plus the latest on the march to Juno, some fun app picks, a quick look at Qubes OS 4.0, community news, and more.</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=52946">Support LINUX Unplugged</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Valve has removed the Steam Machine section from Steam" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/valve-has-removed-the-steam-machine-section-from-steam.11505">Valve has removed the Steam Machine section from Steam</a> &mdash; In a move that's not exactly surprising, Valve has quietly removed the Steam Machine section from Steam.</li><li><a title="Apple Is Looking For Linux Kernel Developers" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Apple-Hiring-For-Linux-Kernel">Apple Is Looking For Linux Kernel Developers</a> &mdash; For reasons unknown, Apple is looking to hire Linux kernel developers in both Texas and California.</li><li><a title="Canonical&#39;s Snappy Now Supports Latest Nvidia Drivers on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS" rel="nofollow" href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-s-snappy-now-supports-latest-nvidia-drivers-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts-520506.shtml">Canonical's Snappy Now Supports Latest Nvidia Drivers on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS</a> &mdash; Snapd 2.32.2 is now available to download and should be coming soon to the stable software repositories of your favorite, Snappy-enabled GNU/Linux distribution. What's exciting about this release is that it enables Snappy the use Nvidia's most recent proprietary graphics drivers in Snap apps on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and similar operating systems.</li><li><a title="lsof to graphviz" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/zevv/lsofgraph">lsof to graphviz</a> &mdash; A small utility to convert Unix lsof output to a graph showing FIFO and UNIX interprocess communication.</li><li><a title="Old CPUs losing support in Linux, cutting size by 500,000 lines of code" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.neowin.net/news/old-cpus-losing-support-in-linux-cutting-size-by-500000-lines-of-code">Old CPUs losing support in Linux, cutting size by 500,000 lines of code</a> &mdash; The architectures which will become deprecated are Blackfin, CRIS, FRV, M32R, Metag, MN10300, Score and Tile. Although not being deprecated, the Unicore32 and Hexagon architectures are also at risk but their maintainers are working on improving the situation so their support can be continued.</li><li><a title="Juno Progress for March – elementary OS" rel="nofollow" href="https://medium.com/elementaryos/juno-progress-for-march-6fd2d553c237">Juno Progress for March – elementary OS</a> &mdash; You get more features, and you get more features, and you get more features!</li><li><a title="GnuCash 3.0 Released" rel="nofollow" href="https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-April/075866.html">GnuCash 3.0 Released</a> &mdash; GTK3!</li><li><a title="Qubes OS 4.0 has been released!" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/03/28/qubes-40/">Qubes OS 4.0 has been released!</a> &mdash; Version 4.0 includes several fundamental improvements to the security and functionality of Qubes OS</li><li><a title="oragono" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/oragono/oragono/blob/master/README.md">oragono</a> &mdash; Oragono is a modern, experimental IRC server written in Go. It's designed to be simple to setup and use, and it includes features such as UTF-8 nicks / channel names, client accounts with SASL, and other assorted IRCv3 support.</li><li><a title="A Radical Proposal to keep your personal data safe | Richard Stallman" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/facebook-abusing-data-law-privacy-big-tech-surveillance">A Radical Proposal to keep your personal data safe | Richard Stallman</a> &mdash; The surveillance imposed on us today far exceeds that of the Soviet Union. For freedom and democracy’s sake, we need to eliminate most of it. There are so many ways to use data to hurt people that the only safe database is the one that was never collected. Thus, instead of the EU’s approach of mainly regulating how personal data may be used (in its General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR), I propose a law to stop systems from collecting personal data.</li><li><a title="Overview | FreedomBox Private Cloud Server" rel="nofollow" href="https://freedombox.org/">Overview | FreedomBox Private Cloud Server</a></li></ul>]]>
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