LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Raspberry Pi”

659: Truth Trapper Keepers

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:00:00 -0700

The self-hosted app that turned Chris into a family Time Lord, then we iterate on a long-desired hardware hack.

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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
Keeper.sh — Keeper is a simple & open-source calendar syncing tool. It allows you to pull events from remotely hosted iCal or ICS links, and push them to one or many calendars so the time slots can align across them all.
Keeper.sh: Calendar Syncing, V2 Release
OneCal
PiBox Overview - KubeSail Docs
PiBox: A Modular Raspberry Pi Storage Server by Dan Pastusek — Kickstarter
RPi CM4 based local storage server launches on Kickstarter
KubeSail — So Long, and Thanks for All the Pods
ipetkov/nixos-pibox — NixOS modules for supporting the hardware present on the PiBox
raspberrypi/usbboot — Raspberry Pi USB device provisioning tool (RPIBOOT)
cage-kiosk/cage — A Wayland kiosk. A kiosk runs a single, maximized application.
systemd: BirthDate Field Added to JSON User Records — "Add birthDate field to JSON user records, allowing for standardized age-related logic within the userdb framework."
Azuay Province - Wikipedia
Pick: fq — fq is like jq but for binary formats, allowing you to tool, language, and decode complex binary data into human-readable structures.
Pick: file-fridge — move files that aren't accessed as often to cold storage
Pick: sigrok — Portable, cross-platform, Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite: logic analyzers, scopes, multimeters, and more!
Pick: PulseView — a Qt-based LA/scope/MSO GUI for sigrok

654: Creating Discord in the Matrix

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:15:00 -0800

We were minutes away from shutting down our Matrix server when the Discord news hit. Now we’re not just keeping it, we’re doubling down. Can open source seize this moment?

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📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
SCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"
PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
Pasadena Linux Party Meetup
Discord to roll out age verification next month
Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos
Discord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter Thiel
NULLFS and OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE Features Merged For Linux 7.0
OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE To Provide A Security and Performance Win For Dealing With Containers
All about initramfs
pivot_root implementation and constraints
TrueNAS Scale
ZimaOS — A Simplified, Focused and Open NAS OS Supports all X86-64 hardware.
Github: ZimaOS
Clan — opinionated NixOS peer-to-peer computer management framework
What is Clan? - Documentation
clan-lol/clan-core: Build your own clan
ConnecTen internet
Case Study: Fortress Outdoor Router
Pick: booklog — B{ook}log is a self-hosted, multi-user book tracking platform for avid readers. Each user maintains a personal library and wishlist, with per-user readings, stats, and timeline.
Pick: whosthere — Local Area Network discovery tool with an interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there? 🚪
Pick: Weylus — Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.

646: The Great Holiday Homelab Special 🎄

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:00:00 -0800

The Great Holiday Homelab Special! Where our community brought their absolute best, from budget busters to beautiful disasters. Plus, a boosties celebration! Grab an eggnog and join us as we attempt to choose this year’s winners.

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624: Tiny PC, Huge Problems

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 16:45:00 -0700

Everything wrong with our homelabs, and how we're finally fixing them. Plus: two self-hosted apps you didn't know you needed.

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Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.
ODROID-H4 – ODROID — A powerful and versatile board that supports Intel's latest Alder Lake processors with AVX2 extensions. It features DDR5 memory, 4 SATA ports, dual BIOS, and up to 3 display outputs.
Home Assistant Yellow
UGREEN NASync DXP2800 2-Bay Desktop NAS
MINISFORUM S100 Mini PC Stick
GEEKOM Air12 Mini PC
Nebula Quick Start
Debugging with Nebula SSH commands
Using Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula
Upgrading a Nebula network to IPv6 overlay addresses
Using Dedicated Relays for Total Connectivity
nebula NixOS Module
norohind.nebula: — Ansible role to manage nebula vpn hosts
dracut-nebula — dracut-nebula integrates the Nebula overlay networking tool (VPN, tunnel) into the initramfs
nebula-gen: — Simple script to initialize a CA and quickly sign host keys and certificates for the Nebula VPN
AndrewPaglusch/Nebula-Ansible-Role — Nebula VPN Overlay Network Installer With Ansible
nebula-lighthouse-service — This server is a public Nebula VPN Lighthouse Service. You can use it in case you don’t have a publicly accessible server to run your own Nebula Lighthouse.
nebula-vpn-helm — Helm chart for managing Nebula VPN
vpn-dashboard-react-nebula — This project demonstrates a secure, lightweight, peer-to-peer VPN architecture using the Nebula overlay network integrated with a React-based front-end dashboard.
ChrisLAS/bluenix — Build your own custom Universal Blue Image!
Linkwarden — ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters, all in one place.
Announcing Linkwarden 2.11
Linkwarden Browser Extension
neko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.
Soltros-OS — My personal RPM-OStree based OS.
Miniflux — Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Reader
miniflux/v2 — Minimalist and opinionated feed reader
[Bug]: "External link" should point to the audio file
feat(rss): fallback to enclosure URL when entry URL is missing
5 Best Reference Management Tools for Linux in 2024
Zotero — Your personal research assistant
Aeon — The Linux Desktop for people who want to "get stuff done"
winapps — Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.

545: 3,062 Days Later

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 18:45:00 -0800

Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.

Special Guest: Kent Overstreet.

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Boltz — Privacy First, Non-Custodial Bitcoin Exchange.
bcachefs — bcachefs is an advanced new filesystem for Linux, with an emphasis on reliability and robustness and the complete set of features one would expect from a modern filesystem.
bcachefs Erasure coding — Bcachefs takes advantage of the fact that it is already a copy-on-write filesystem. If we're designing our filesystem to avoid update-in-place, why would we do update-in-place in our RAID implementation?
bcachefs Caching — bcachefs can be configured for writethrough, writeback, and writearound caching, as well as other more specialized setups.
bachefs Compression — Unlike other filesystems that typically do compression at the block level, bcachefs does compression at the extent level - variable size chunks, up to (by default) 128k.
bcachefs Encryption — bcachefs uses AEAD style encryption (ChaCha20/Poly1305), where each encrypted block is authenticated with a MAC, with a chain of trust up to root (the superblock), and every encrypted block has a unique nonce.
bcachefs Snapshots — bcachefs provides Btrfs style writeable snapshots, at subvolume granularity.
(2015) [ANNOUNCE] bcachefs - a general purpose COW filesystem — It's taken a long time to get to this point - longer than I would have guessed if you'd asked me back when we first started talking about it - but I'm pretty damn proud of where it's at now.
Kent Overstreet's Patreon
Unplugged Core Membership
Jupiter Signal PROMO 2024 — $3 off a month forever.
Webamp — Winamp 2 re-implemented for the browser.
Webamp on GitHub — Winamp 2 reimplemented for the browse.
The Official JB BBS! — vt52 hosts our new official JB BBS! `telnet http://pebkac.lol`

514: Connection Established

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 20:00:00 -0700

We get the inside scoop on SouthEast LinuxFest, and share a few stories from the early days of the Linux community.

Special Guest: Noah Chelliah.

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DebianBookworm — Bookworm is the development codename for Debian 12, released on 2023-06-10.
Debian 12 “Bookworm” Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
For the LAS Time | Linux Action Show 468 - YouTube
Ask Noah
ThinLinX
JMP: Your phone number on every device
SouthEast LinuxFest — For the regulars and newbies, please review our schedule to get a feel for what’s happening at this year’s events. For the newbies, be sure to read our About Us page to understand a bit more about the event in general.
SELF 2023 Schedule
southeastlinuxfest - YouTube
Argon ONE V2 Case for Raspberry Pi 4 — The Argon ONE Case is now better than ever as it has many new features
comma — Comma runs software without installing it.
org-roam
Taking org-roam everywhere with logseq
Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition — This guide is a beginner's guide to Nix and related tooling, focusing on the newer nix command, and flake.nix compared to older tools like nix-env and default.nix. It does not require any prior Nix knowledge
SUSE Partners with Collabora to Deliver Commercial LibreOffice Support
Send a Boot from web with Alby — Top off Alby, then head over to the Podcastindex.org
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can Boost right from the web at the Podcast Index with Alby.
Fractal — Fractal is a Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust. Its interface is optimized for collaboration in large groups, such as free software projects.
fractal on GitLab
FluffyChat — FluffyChat is an open-source, nonprofit and cute matrix messenger app. The app is easy to use but secure and decentralized.
NixOS for the Impatient — This post is about how I set up NixOS.

506: Three Wild and Crazy Topics

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 19:45:00 -0700

We surprise each other with three secret topics, with one big catch.

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Fleek — Install and manage all the tools you need to be productive. Use a simple command line tool or edit one YAML file and you're off to the races.
ublue-os/fleek: Own your $HOME
Fleek First Steps — You have two choices with Fleek. You can use Fleek with a simple CLI tool and YAML file to manage your installed packages, aliases and path, or you can use Fleek as a one-time generator to create a lightly-opinionated Nix Home Manager flake for you.
nix-community/home-manager — Manage a user environment using Nix.
Home Manager - NixOS Wiki
DeterminateSystems/nix-installer — nix-installer is an opinionated alternative to the official Nix install scripts.
Sharing Fleek Configurations — You can use Fleek to share your configurations across multiple computers. This is useful if you use multiple computers and want to keep your configurations in sync.
Containers and Kubernetes Explained | Linode, now Akamai
Olympia Linux Spring Meetup — Let's have a local PNW get-together. Saturday, April 29, 2023.
Boston Harbor Marina
LinuxFest Northwest 2023: Call for Speakers
Start your NOSTR-Market with LNbits
Nostr, a Basic tour
Awesome-nostr
Nostr Apps
Bitwarden on Twitter — Is your Bitwarden vault jam-packed with entries? Here are a few tips for organizing your vault to better suit your everyday needs.
linuxserver.io — Building and maintaining community images
Raspberry Pi SD card image for NixOS on BTRFS root
Pick: difftastic — A structural diff that understands syntax.
difftastic is packaged in Nix
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Alby
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org

497: More Features? More Problems.

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 19:00:00 -0800

How Chris wasted three months tracking down a Wi-Fi problem, plus we debate if immutable distros need to be simplified.

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FOSDEM 2023 Transcribed by Whisper
The Coder Robe — The Coder Robe is back and is a one-size-fits-most robe made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear.
192 Brewing Company — Mt. Vernon is proud to offer strictly Washington-made beers, wines and ciders. We rotate through guest taps from local breweries and feature a variety of red and white wines, as well.
power-profiles-daemon Issue: Choppy GNOME animations when using “balanced power” mode on Intel platform
krunvm — Create microVMs from OCI images.
ViMusic — An Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music.
GRC SpinRite
Moonlight Game Streaming
https://github.com/Wowu/docker-rollout — Zero Downtime Deployment for Docker Compose
Podcasting 2.0 Introduction - Blubrry Podcasting
NEW in Podverse 4.12.0 🥳 — Major audio and video playback fixes, faster app performance, value-for-value streaming for videos.
boxxy — boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files.
This week in KDE: The best Plasma 5 version ever

471: The Cottonwood Disaster

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 18:45:00 -0700

Our garage Linux server has died, and this time we’re looking at data loss. We attempt to revive our zombie box and reflect on what went wrong.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Microsoft open-sources over 1,500 of its cute 3D emoji designs for anyone to use
The NEW Jupiter Broadcasting Website
Upcoming Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups
Get your name in the hat for our JPL tour
LINUX Unplugged 468: The Read Only Scenario
Operating System development tutorials in Rust on the Raspberry Pi — Learn to write an embedded OS in Rust.
Podverse — V4V is now available in Podverse F-Droid beta 🥳
FluffyChat — Open. Nonprofit. Cute. Easy to use (matrix) messenger. Secure and decentralized.
FluffyChat on Flathub
FluffyChat in F-Droid
lrn — Command-line tool for learning by repetition.
Columbus Club Ohio LinuxFest Matrix Meetup Room

468: The Read Only Scenario

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0700

A fundamental change is coming to desktop Linux, and Silverblue might be our hint at where things are going.

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Pre-show: PSATA HATs support up to four drives on Raspberry Pi 4 or Rock Pi 4 — Radxa’s Dual ($25) and Quad ($35) SATA HATs work on the Raspberry Pi 4 or Rock Pi 4 at up to 400 MB/s via USB 3.0.
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!
Fedora Silverblue User Guide — Unlike other operating systems, Silverblue is immutable. This means that every installation is identical to every other installation of the same version. The operating system that is on disk is exactly the same from one machine to the next, and it never changes as it is used.
Fedora 34 Silverblue on Raspberry Pi 4 / 400de
RPi4: Raspberry Pi 4 UEFI Firmware Images — This repository contains installable builds of the official EDK2 Raspberry Pi 4 UEFI firmware.
Self-Hosted 67: The No Container Theory
Ventoy
Endless OS
Fitting Everything Together — TLDR: Hermetic /usr/ is awesome; let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, uniformity – built from traditional distribution packages, but deployed via images.
Steam Deck Guide — A guide covering Steam Deck including the applications and tools that will make you a better and more efficient with your Steam Deck device.
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
BoostCLI — Command line tool to send and review Podcasting 2.0 Value.
Podcasting 2.0 Podcast — The Podcast Index presents Podcasting 2.0 - Upgrading Podcasting.
Podcasting 2.0: “Bells Out” — Adam & Dave discuss the week's developments on podcastindex.org with Chris Fisher from Jupiter Broadcasting.
Impervious API — Impervious API is a programmatic layer that sits on top of the Bitcoin Lightning Network
Pick: Audio Sharing — Running Audio Sharing will automatically share the current audio playback in the form of an RTSP stream. This stream can then be played back by other devices, for example using VLC.
Audio Sharing on Flathub
Bottles on Flathub — Run Windows software on Linux with Bottles! Our built-in dependency installation system grants automatic software compatibility access. Use the download manager to download the official components: the runner (Wine, Proton), DXVK, dependencies, etc.

466: The Night of a Thousand Errors

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 19:15:00 -0700

We were fixing servers all night, but at least we have a great story. A special guest joins us to help make a big show announcement.

Special Guest: Tim Canham.

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Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft
Brunch with Brent: Quentin Stafford-Fraser
Brunch With Brent: Tim Canham — Brent sits down with Tim Canham, Senior Software Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We explore topics including the hardware and software powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter; JPL's switch from Solaris to Linux; the open source projects, tools, and philosophy at JPL, ...and more.
JPL Free Public Tours
West Coast Crew Matrix Room
Jupiter.party - The JB Network Membership
ptpython — A better Python REPL.
IPython — A powerful interactive shell.
bpython
Jupyter Notebooks
Nextjournal
Joe’s minimal implementation of Git ~300 LOC
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Pick: dua-cli — View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.
dust — A more intuitive version of du in rust.
parallel-disk-usage — Highly parallelized, blazing fast directory tree analyzer.
dirstat-rs — (fastest?) disk usage cli, similar to windirstat.
dutree — a tool to analyze file system usage written in Rust.
F’ — A Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework.
quickemu
Play webtorrent’s with mpv

465: Too Nixy for My Shirt

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 19:15:00 -0700

The one shared secret behind some of the world's most powerful open-source projects.

Brent's Node : 03cf7e9b79a3230749db642ad690889065ec35b9ded184266d4fce424ab75470fc

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Git from the inside out — The essay focuses on the graph structure that underpins Git and the way the properties of this graph dictate Git’s behavior.
gitk — The Git repository browser
ungit — The easiest way to use git. On any platform. Anywhere.
Trustix — Distributed trust and reproducibility tracking for binary caches
Kexec and Kdump on Raspberry Pi
Install NixOS on Oracle Cloud
Kexec and Kdump on arm64
An update to Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye — So with this latest release, the default “pi” user is being removed, and instead you will create a user the first time you boot a newly-flashed Raspberry Pi OS image.
Build a Raspberry Pi Linux System the Hard Way — The instructions below will explain how to build a Linux environment for a Raspberry Pi 3B from scratch, focusing on extreme minimalism. I will build most components from source code and use BusyBox as the only user application on the target.
NixOS Wiki: NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi 4
Installing NixOS on a Raspberry Pi
NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi
nixos-pi — How to install NixOS on raspberry PI
Generating Raspberry Pi Images with NixOS
NixOS on a Raspberry Pi: creating a custom SD image with OpenSSH out of the box
nixos-docker-sd-image-builder — Build custom SD images of NixOS for your Raspberry Pi (or any other supported AArch64 device) in 5-20 minutes.
NixOS + Raspi4
Installing NixOS on the Raspberry Pi 4
How to Setup NixOS on a Raspberry Pi
NixOS on Raspberry Pi 4
Kernel Support for miscellaneous Binary Formats (binfmt_misc) — The Linux Kernel documentation
Cross-compiling the Raspberry Pi OS Linux kernel on macOS | Jeff Geerling
NixOS on ARM
Cross Compiling - NixOS Wiki
ARMing Yourself - Working with ARM on x86_64
Debian Wiki: qemu-user-static
ARM64/QEMU - Ubuntu Wiki
Emulating a Raspberry Pi with QEMU
Emulating ARM on Debian/Ubuntu
Raspberry Pi Documentation - Remote Access
Emulating ARM with QEMU on Debian/Ubuntu
Using QEMU to build arm64 experimental environment
How to set up an ARM64 playground on Ubuntu 18.04
Emulating ARM with QEMU on Debian/Ubuntu
NixOS — tmpfs as root
Erase your darlings — immutable infrastructure for mutable systems
Umbrel — A personal server OS for self-hosting
Umbrel Troubleshooting Guide
JB London Meetup — August 5th 6pm, Jubilee Park & Garden
Home Manager Manual — This manual will eventually describe how to install, use, and extend Home Manager.
Tutorial: Getting started with Home Manager for Nix
Merkle Tree
Git Book - Git Internals
Commits are snapshots, not diffs - The GitHub Blog — I believe that Git becomes understandable if we peel back the curtain and look at how Git stores your repository data. After we investigate this model, we’ll explore how this new perspective helps us understand commands like git cherry-pick and git rebase.
Fear Not The SHA! - Git Internals - YouTube
Git Internals by John Britton of GitHub - CS50 Tech Talk - YouTube
Merkle tree in Bitcoin - BitcoinWiki
Merkle Tree with real world examples - YouTube
What is the merkle tree in Bitcoin? - YouTube
OpenMPTCProuter — Internet connection bonding
Podverse — NEW: Embed a Podverse player on your website! 🥳
Nebula v1.6.0 — Experimental: nebula clients can be configured to act as relays for other nebula clients. Primarily useful when stubborn NATs make a direct tunnel impossible.

464: Git Happens

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 18:45:00 -0700

We're going back in time to witness the early days of a critical tool to build Linux, then jump forward 15 years and join our buddy Brent on his journey to learn that very tooling.

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WSL 2 distros are now supported on Windows Server
Ten SpaceX Starlink Updates
Dish calls out Elon Musk for tweets about Starlink and RVs, planes
Dish begs FCC to deactivate Starlink setups used in moving vehicles
SpaceX: Starlink Risks Becoming ‘Unusable’ If Dish Gets 12GHz Spectrum
JB London Meetup - Aug 5 “6pm London time”
London Colony Meetup - Matrix chat room
Linode Guides — Migrate a PostgreSQL Database to a Managed Database
Tech Talk: 2007 Linus Torvalds on git
Oh My Git! — An open source game about learning Git!
Getting started with Git: Terminology 101
Tech With Tim - Git And GitHub in ~30 Minutes
JB GitHub - Website Rebuild Ideas & Explorations · Discussion #8
Git Tutorial for Beginners - Git & GitHub Fundamentals In Depth
Cleanup by Brent · Pull Request #29
GitKraken
awesome-git — A curated list of amazingly awesome Git tools, resources and shiny things.
ungit — The easiest way to use git. On any platform. Anywhere.
Hugo: The world’s fastest framework for building websites
Celebrating 15 years of Git — An interview with Git maintainer Junio Hamano
Brunch with Brent: Quentin Stafford-Fraser — Brent sits down with Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser, computer scientist, serial-entrepreneur, inventor (perhaps) of the webcam, Augmented Reality Ph.D. who ran the very first web server at the University of Cambridge, among much more.
Office Hours 6: Peer to Peer Future — Interview with Mitch Downey, co-founder of Podverse.
Fountain 0.4.0 — Listen to Earn, Promotions & Paid Likes
gpodder.net — gpodder.net is a libre web service that allows you to manage your podcast subscriptions and discover new content. If you use multiple devices, you can synchronize subscriptions and your listening progress.
Source for gpodder.net
GPodder Sync in the Nextcloud App Store
Podverse: Podcasting 2.0 certified player for Android, F-Droid, iOS, and the web.
[Album] The New Deal
TinyPilotKVM: Control any computer remotely.

463: Humble Beginnings

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 20:45:00 -0700

One of the pioneers of the web, VNC, Webcams, and more joins us; plus we'll update you on a few projects we love.

Special Guest: Quentin Stafford-Fraser.

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Brunch with Brent: Quentin Stafford-Fraser - Jupiter Extras — Brent sits down with Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser, computer scientist, serial-entrepreneur, inventor (perhaps) of the webcam, Augmented Reality Ph.D. who ran the very first web server at the University of Cambridge, among much more. We explore topics including computer science as an art-form, the origins of the Raspberry Pi and T9 predictive text, philosophies around innovation and invention, challenging the patent system, and more.
JB London Meetup
DNS Toys — A DNS server that takes creative liberties with the DNS protocol to offer handy utilities and services that are easily accessible via the command line.
Mars helicopter needs patch to work around failed sensor — The patch inserts a small code snippet into the software running on Ingenuity's flight computer, intercepting incoming garbage packets from the inclinometer and injecting replacement packets constructed from IMU data.
Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying
Umbrel 0.5 — Umbrel 0.5 brings the very first redesign of Umbrel’s UI since we launched. We went back to the drawing board to design a completely new homepage, a refreshed UI with beautifully crafted glass-like elements, a new dock-based layout, and the option to pick and choose from one of the 16 gorgeous, hand-curated wallpapers. And, of course, there’s a dark mode.
Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser's Website — I’m a computer scientist, entrepreneur, part-time academic and full-time gadget enthusiast based in Cambridge, England.
Quentin Stafford-Fraser's Blog
Jellyfin 10.8.0 has been released!
Jellyfin Release v10.8.0 — After a rather long development cycle the Jellyfin team is proud to announce stable version 10.8! This release post will mostly cover the highlights with little prose, as there is so much to cover!
nix-bitcoin — A collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easily installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an emphasis on security.

453: Raleigh Action Show

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 19:15:00 -0700

We just wrapped up our East Coast meetup and have a bunch of great stories to share. Plus some Nix ups and downs, and more.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Microsoft Working On AMD GPU Hotplug Support For Linux Driver — Here is a combination not normally expected... Microsoft engineers have submitted patches for review enabling AMD GPU hot-plugging support with the Radeon "AMDGPU" Linux kernel driver.
webtop — Alpine, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch based containers containing full desktop environments in officially supported flavors accessible via any modern web browser.
Tea — The tools that build the Internet have steeped too long. It’s time for a fresh brew.
FreeRDP — FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license.
Rust Pick: bore — a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost.

450: It Went Real Bad

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 19:30:00 -0700

Why GNOME 42 is the release we’ve all been waiting for.

Plus, we attempt to install Linux on an M1 MacBook live on the show.

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Jupiter Broadcasting East Coast Meetup
The first Asahi Linux Alpha Release is here! — It’s been a long while since we updated the blog! Truth be told, we wanted to write a couple more progress reports, but there was always “one more thing”… So, instead, we decided to take the plunge and publish the first public alpha release of the Asahi Linux reference distribution!
Introduction to Apple Silicon · AsahiLinux/docs Wiki
OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems — It has taken a while, but I'm pleased to announce that OpenBSD/arm64 works well enough on Apple M1 systems for some wider testing.
The Best New Features in GNOME 42 — GNOME 42 features a plethora of GTK4/libawaita app ports, intros a retooled screenshot experience, and makes several notable performance upticks.
A look at what’s new in GNOME 42
GNOME MR - Dynamic triple/double buffering (v4) — Use triple buffering if and when the previous frame is running late. This means the next frame will be dispatched on time instead of also starting late.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS To Carry GNOME Triple Buffering Support
GNOME Dynamic Triple Buffering Can 2x The Desktop Performance For Intel Graphics, Raspberry Pi
Port Extensions to GNOME Shell 42
Fountain 0.3.10 — Fountain transcribes each episode so you can easily create and edit clips. With Fountain 0.3.10 we've introduced better transcription accuracy and faster processing speeds.
AntennaPod 2.5 — The key feature that we added in this release? That would be synchronisation with “GPodder Sync” app for Nextcloud, implemented by @thrillfall.
AntennaPod Issue - Support for podcast:value

446: Kudu Cores and Cloud Wars

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 21:00:00 -0800

We put the sports car of Linux laptops to the test. Is it the multi-tasking machine it claims to be?

And an essential update on the show.

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Kudu from System76 — Enjoy fast, steady progression with the Kudu’s powerful H-class AMD processor. The Kudu laptop is equipped to handle longer sessions so you can taste the victory of beating your schedule.
Kudu (kudu6) - System76 Technical Documentation
Internal Overview - System76 Technical Documentation
MBP M1 Max Machine Learning, Sys76-kudu-ML Benchmark Comparison
Sys76-kudu-amd, Sys76-kudu-nv Benchmark Comparison
Value 4 Value Calculator
Pick: Spodcast — Spodcast is a caching Spotify podcast to RSS proxy. Using Spodcast you can follow Spotify-hosted netcasts/podcasts using any player which supports RSS, thus enabling the use of older hardware which is not compatible with the Spotify (web) app.
Pick: hwatch — A modern alternative to the watch command, that records the result of command execution and can display history and diffs.
Pick: rnote — A simple drawing application to create handwritten notes.
Pick: dog dns client — dog is an open-source DNS client for the command-line. It has colourful output, supports the DoT and DoH protocols, and can emit JSON.

445: Brent's Betrayal

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 17:45:00 -0800

Linux is the master of small computers, and this week it’s going to the next level. We chat with the creator of the $15 Linux box and share some significant updates for the Raspberry Pi.

Special Guest: Brian Benchoff.

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Raspberry Pi Locator — It's a website to track Raspberry Pi 4 model B, Compute Module 4, Pi Zero 2 W, and Pico availability across multiple retailers in different countries.
It’s dire: Raspberry Pi availability tracker is launched
Ubuntu Unity Remix on Twitter — A new Raspberry Pi testing image is now available for Ubuntu Unity 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish”.
No PC Needed: How to Install Raspberry Pi OS Over the Internet — A new version of the Raspberry Pi bootloader, which is now available in beta, allows you to download and write the OS onto a microSD card, using the BIOS and an Ethernet connection.
Raspberry Pi OS Finally Going 64bit 🔥 — For those curious, here are some benchmarks looking at the performance improvement by switching from Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit to 64-bit.
Self-Hosted 3: Home Network Under $200 — How far can you get with a Raspberry Pi 4? We go all in and find out.
Self-Hosted 38: Crouching Pi, Hidden Server — Alex shocks Chris with his latest project, then lays down some quick-fire picks.
A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15 — This is a ‘Linux Swiss Army Knife’, offering maximum utility while still being able to fit in your pocket. Is it fast? No. Can it run a GUI? Also no. But it can run scripts, ping a server, toggle a few GPIOs, and interact with a USB device. This is a minimum viable computer.
LINUX Unplugged Mumble
RPMLauncher — A better Minecraft Launcher that supports multiple platforms and many functionalities for you to explore!
RPMLauncher on Flathub

438: Million-Dollar Predictions

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 20:45:00 -0800

We do our best to predict what will happen in 2022, and own up to what we thought might happen in 2021.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Drew DeVore, and Joe Ressington.

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428: Pi for the People

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 19:45:00 -0700

We try out POP!_OS on the Raspberry Pi 4, and chat with its creator Jeremy Soller from System76.

Plus our thoughts on the perfect Linux laptop right now, and the clever initiative Valve just launched for the Deck.

Special Guests: Jack Aboutboul, Jeremy Soller, and Neal Gompa.

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SpaceCadetPinball — Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows
Pop!_OS Raspberry Pi 4 Beta — THIS IS A BETA. Bugs are expected and re-installs are likely.
Pop!_OS Software Engineer Job Opening (Rust)
Valve Launches “Steam Deck Verified” Program For Games That Run Well On The Steam Deck — Valve says they are reviewing the entire Steam catalog of games and will be categorizing each game for its level of compatibility with the Steam Deck. These ratings in turn will show up within the Steam Store and for users own game libraries.
Apple Announces The M1 Pro / M1 Max, Asahi Linux Starts Eyeing Their Bring-Up — Meanwhile the Asahi Linux crew is preparing for their eventual bring-up of the new hardware. They have pre-ordered the M1 Pro MacBook Pro model and will be procuring the M1 Max model too.
Hector Martin on Twitter — Asahi Linux on M1 Pro bring-up stream ~next week. Thanks to all my Patreon supporters for making this kind of thing possible!
AlmaLinux ELevate — ELevate enables migration between major versions of RHEL® derivatives. Easily go from CentOS 7.x to any 8.x of your choice.
AlmaLinux ELevate Demo - YouTube
Bryan lets us know some neat functionality in the kernel…
UTM — UTM employs Apple's Hypervisor virtualization framework to run ARM64 operating systems on Apple Silicon at near native speeds.
ytcc — Command line tool to keep track of your favorite playlists on YouTube and many other places.
rust-motd — Beautiful, useful MOTD generation with zero runtime dependencies.
Pick: onetun — onetun opens a TCP port on your local system, from which traffic is forwarded to a TCP port on a peer in your WireGuard network. It requires no changes to your operating system's network interfaces: you don't need to have root access, or install any WireGuard tool on your local system for it to work.

427: Life Changing Virtualization

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 18:45:00 -0700

Wimpy stops by with a new tool that will change your virtualization game, and we share our thoughts on Ubuntu 21.10 and take the flavor challenge.

Special Guest: Martin Wimpress.

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Carl George on Twitter — "I’ve been playing around with matplotlib to chart this data over time. Due to the difference in scale it’s necessary to split into different ranges. The “Liberty” systems started showing up in August, with a high of 79 systems the week of 2021-09-06 to 2021-09-12."
Microsoft transforms the Windows Subsystem for Linux into a Windows 11 app — “Our goals are to make WSL in the Microsoft Store the best way to install and use WSL, as you’ll be able to get the latest updates fastest through that route, and in the long term we’d like to move WSL users to use the store version.”
A preview of WSL in the Microsoft Store is now available!
Craig Loewen on Twitter — "A preview of WSL inside of the Microsoft Store is now available for Windows 11 machines!"
Hayden Barnes on Twitter — "So many new goodies today! WSL in the Store, WSLg bundled with WSL, new WSL2 kernel version, a bunch of fixes for ARM64 👀, wsl.exe --mount, and a handful of nice refinements and fixes."
Ubuntu 21.10 Release Date & New Features — Ubuntu 21.10 will be available to download from October 14, 2021.
Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri - New Features and Release Date
Ubuntu 21.10 is upon us, and it’s small changes for major improvements
Ubuntu 19.10 To 21.10: AMD Zen 2 + Radeon Performance On Linux Over Two Years — Ubuntu 19.10 was the first release following the Zen 2 debut in the summer of 2019. The benchmarks today are looking at the Ubuntu 19.10 performance up against the Ubuntu 21.10 daily ISO in its near final form ahead of the official release on Thursday.
MATE 1.26 released | MATE — The theme for this release has been adding new functionality to the MATE Desktop while maintaining the look and feel that we all know and love. While all the added features are surely quite exciting we also did not forget to do tons of bugfixing, modernising the code base and optimizing the performance.
KDE Plasma desktop 5.22 Release Announcement — This time around, the big new feature is Adaptive Transparency: This means the panel and panel widgets will usually be pleasantly translucent, but will become entirely opaque if there are any maximized windows, to avoid any visual distractions when you need to focus.
Bug #1944468 “Electron applications all crash upon launch”
quickemu — Quickly create and run highly optimised desktop virtual machines for Linux, macOS and Windows; with just two commands. You decide what operating system you want to run and Quickemu will figure out the best way to do it for you.
A GUI for Quickemu — Provides an interface for setting up new VMs with Quickget, starting and stopping existing VMs.
PN50 review from Anandtech
Phoronix Test Suite 10.6 Released With Various Improvements For Linux Benchmarking — Windows 11 support and various Windows improvements, a wide variety of Phoromatic fixes and improvements from cleaning-up/unifying the CSS to log improvements and making use of the new log viewer, and more.
Why I have decided to step down from the AlmaLinux OS Foundation Board — "So, here we are. I am no longer on the board - and I am no longer deciding what is next for AlmaLinux OS Foundation. I will continue to be heavily involved in the day-to-day of AlmaLinux. CloudLinux and TuxCare will continue being just one of many corporate sponsors. benny Vasquez was voted to become a new chair of the board, and I am sure that the foundation and the board will flourish under her guidance."

426: This Old Linux PC

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:00:00 -0700

It's the worst time ever to upgrade or buy a new PC, so we cover our favorite tips for getting the most out of your current hardware. Then we pit a 2014 desktop against a 2021 laptop and find out if our old clunker can beat the Thinkpad.

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

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It Seems Pop OS Linux Will Soon be Available on Raspberry Pi and Other ARM Devices — System76’s Principal Engineer and maintainer of Pop!_OS, Jeremy Soller shared a teaser photo on Twitter recently.
PipeWire and fixing the Linux Video Capture stack — With PipeWire having stabilized a lot for audio now we feel the time has come to go back to the video side of PipeWire and work to improve the state-of-art for video capture handling under Linux.
PipeWire
Linux Action News 209 — Why Linus believes keeping Linux fun is critical, the massive investment Fedora is about to make in video, and why we suspect Cloudflare's R2 service will make Amazon squirm.
AlmaLinux OS Foundation Membership Opens to the Public — An individual can qualify for membership as anyone who uses AlmaLinux OS, contributes to AlmaLinux OS, provides services to the AlmaLinux OS community or otherwise supports the AlmaLinux OS. All past and present contributors or mirror maintainers would qualify as Contributor members.
What AlmaLinux Foundation Membership Means for You - AlmaLinux OS Blog — We all own AlmaLinux now and no one can change that. Forever. Not CloudLinux, not any other corporation or anyone else. Our fate and future are in the hands of every member and is ours alone to control. We're no longer bound by one person, group or entity. It can not be bought nor sold, nor transferred or fought about.
Unofficial user repositories/Repo-ck - ArchWiki
tubearchivist has a docker-compose.yml
Which “server” distro should we go with next? | StrawPoll.com
Pick: Helvum — Helvum is a GTK-based patchbay for pipewire, inspired by the JACK tool catia.
Pick: tubesync — Syncs YouTube channels and playlists to a locally hosted media server.

425: Sad Server Stories

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 17:30:00 -0700

Sometimes things go wrong; this week, we admit we've got a problem.

Plus new details about the Steam Deck everyone has missed, and an old friend stops by the show with an update.

Special Guest: Danielle Foré.

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Amazon’s Astro home robot is like having Alexa on wheels — Amazon claims the Astro can do a wide variety of things you might want from a home robot. It can map out your floor plan and obey commands to go to a specific room. It can recognize faces and deliver items to a specific person.
“Intel Software Defined Silicon” Coming To Linux For Activating Extra Licensed Hardware Features — The Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) driver is for supporting the "post-manufacturing mechanism for activating additional silicon features."
One of the Steam Deck’s biggest hurdles just disappeared: EAC has come to Linux and BattlEye is inbound — While developers would still need to patch their games, this immediately means some of the most popular games on Steam are now theoretically within reach, including Apex Legends, Dead by Daylight, and War Thunder, which are all among the top 25 games on Steam.
Syscall User Dispatch — The Linux Kernel documentation — Compatibility layers like Wine need a way to efficiently emulate system calls of only a part of their process - the part that has the incompatible code - while being able to execute native syscalls without a high performance penalty on the native part of the process. Syscall User Dispatch brings the filtering of the syscall dispatcher address back to userspace.
Steam Deck :: FAQ
Poll: Which “server” distro should we go with next? — So it's time to replace our garage server... We've been running Arch, and so far it's worked mostly great. Should we keep pushing our luck, or try something new?
PowerEdge R820 Rack Server Details
PhoneTrack - Nextcloud Apps — PhoneTrack is a Nextcloud application to track and store mobile device's locations.
Pick: tubearchivist — Your self-hosted YouTube media server.

407: And the Answer is...

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 25 May 2021 12:00:00 -0700

From our origins with Linux to preparing your home LAN for a solar storm, it’s an Ask us Anything special edition!

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Pick: termbin.com — Netcat-based command line pastebin.

402: Our Worst Idea Yet

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 19:30:00 -0700

You should never host your own email, so we’ve gone and done just that. What we learned trying to build an email server in 2021.

Plus our take on Ubuntu 21.04, become a master of your schedule with our pick, and a Garage Sale update.

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Hirsute Hippo Release Notes — These release notes for Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) provide an overview of the release and document the known issues with Ubuntu and its flavours.
Ubuntu 21.04 Release Date & New Features - OMG! Ubuntu!
Announcing the Ubuntu Desktop Team Indaba (AMA) - April 23, 2021 @ 3PM UTC — This will be a live stream featuring members of the Ubuntu Desktop Team and members of the community. We will include special guests from the community as well as take questions from via live chat.
LINUX Unplugged 396: How Linux Got to Mars — Tim Canham, the Mars Helicopter Operations Lead, shares Linux’s origins at JPL and how it ended up running on multiple boxes on Mars.
Nasa successfully flies small helicopter on Mars — The drone, called Ingenuity, was airborne for less than a minute, but Nasa is celebrating what represents the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.
NASA Helicopter Hovers Over Mars In 1st Powered Flight On Another Planet
Humans have just flown a rotorcraft on an alien planet for the first time in history.
Linux Action News 185 — The major shift in the Linux landscape this week that was hardly noticed, and our thoughts on COSMIC from System76.
Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
Jupiter Broadcasting Telegram
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docker-mailserver — A fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) using Docker.
Docker Mailserver Docs
DMARC Guide | Global Cyber Alliance | Email Authentication Made Easy
GitHub - calendso/calendso: The open-source Calendly alternative.
System76 Blog — COSMIC to Arrive in June Release of Pop!_OS 21.04 — What is COSMIC? It’s a refined solution that makes the desktop easier to use, yet more powerful and efficient for our users through customization.

398: Back in the Freedom Dimension

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 18:30:00 -0700

We share our favorite networking trick of all time, and then chat with the blokes behind a new WireGuard-powered service.

Plus our reaction to RMS's return to the FSF, some big project updates, picks, and more!

Special Guests: Dalton Durst and Danielle Foré.

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Microsoft Said to Discuss Discord Bid for Over $10 Billion — “Microsoft possibly acquiring Discord makes a lot of sense as it continues to reshape its gaming business more toward software and services”.
[Video] Richard Stallman is Back
edw · elementary Developer Weekend — This conference is our way of reaching out to app developers, sharing the knowledge we’ve all collected over the years, and providing a space to ask questions and provide feedback.
Ubuntu Touch OTA-16 Release — Today we are happy to announce the release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-16, our sixteenth stable update to the system!
Linux Action News 181
Forthcoming OpenSSL release — OpenSSL 1.1.1k is a security-fix release. The highest severity issue fixed in this release is HIGH.
Initial Support For The Rust Language Lands In Linux-Next — While no fully-baked Rust kernel driver is ready yet, the initial merge to Linux-Next does include an example kernel module written in Rust.
Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux — Torvalds thinks "Rust's primary first target seems to be drivers, simply because that's where you find just a lot of different possible targets, and you have these individual parts of the kernel that are fairly small and independent. That may not be a very interesting target to some people, but it's the obvious one."
Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust [LWN.net]
Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer | Linode
JB Telegram
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Hoppy — Hoppy provides a unique public IPv4 and IPv6 address to each of your devices, allowing connectivity without limitations. If you are behind a restrictive ISP, constantly on the move, or self-hosting services, Hoppy is for you. All major platforms are supported.
ngrok — Secure introspectable tunnels to localhost.
Gist: Assign public ipv6 to wireguard clients
WireGuard Routing and Port Forwarding
Gist: Forward all traffic to server over WireGuard VPN
Expose server behind NAT with WireGuard and a VPS
How To Forward Ports through a Linux Gateway with Iptables
FORWARD and NAT Rules
Pick: dsnet — Simple command to manage a centralised wireguard VPN. Think wg-quick but quicker: key generation + address allocation.
How to set up a wireguard VPN in minutes with dsnet
Feedback: Raspberry Pi POCKIT
Project POCKIT — PocKit is a computer made for the real, physical world. On top of its powerful, versatile Core, you can attach BLOCKS - any number of any kind - to suit your application.
Video: A small, plug-and-play Linux computer — Project POCKIT
GNOME 40’s Best New Features
FreeBSD kernel-mode WireGuard moves forward out-of-tree

393: Perfecting Our Plasma

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:00:00 -0800

Something special has been achieved this week, a new benchmark in the desktop experience. We dig in.

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

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller.

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AmpliPi - Home Audio System — Kickstarter — One thing that sets apart the AmpliPi design is that we have made it open source, from the software, to the firmware, to the schematics. The REST API and Web App are written in Python and run on a Raspberry Pi 3+ Compute Module.
The Coder — The Coder is made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear. Embroidered on the left chest with a classic white on black Coder Radio logo.
Windows Refund Day — For those who hadn't heard the story, February 15th 1999 was windows refund day. It was a worldwide day when open source OS users went to microsoft's offices to return their unused licenses of windows that they were forced to acquire since they were bundled with the machine they bought.
VLC 4.0 is coming later this year with a new UI, focus on online video and security — The new version will also focus more on playing videos from the Internet, relying on extensions to find third-party content. The team is also working on a version of VLC that will work inside the browser (based on WebAssembly).
The Movie Database (TMDb)
Facebook’s Linux Desktop Choice Is Fedora But Ramping Up CentOS Stream — Among the reasons Facebook is now pursuing CentOS Stream on the desktop is to serve as a stable rolling-release, binary compatibility, punctual security updates, and its close relationship with Fedora.
Changes to LastPass Free - The LastPass Blog — Starting March 16th, 2021, LastPass Free will only include access on unlimited devices of one type, Desktop or Mobile.
KeePass Password Safe
Bitwarden Open Source Password Manager | Bitwarden
1Password Linux
Manjaro Linux on Twitter — We updated #PlasmaMobile to the latest #Plasma 5.21 stable release. This comes with the latest 5.10 LTS kernel and updated development packages. Checkout the latest software by @kdecommunity powered by @ManjaroLinuxARM for your #Pinephone!
Manjaro on Shells.com
JupiterBroadcasting Telegram Group
The Opinion Dominion Episode 28 — A wild Chris Fisher appears… for an interview.
All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
Plasma 5.2 — Apart from the numerous improvements in stability, there are quite a few Plasma components that are getting much better support in Wayland. KRunner, for example, is now able to list all open windows in Wayland, a new component in the panel’s system tray informs you of the keyboard layout, and we now support features required for GTK 4, so all GTK 4 applications will now work.
M.2 Enclosure for SATA NGFF SSD
Feedback: Arch Upgrade Tips
Feedback: Arch on the laptop of Chris’ son
SonoBus — SonoBus is an easy to use, open-source, application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.

386: Perilously Precocious Predictions

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 19:30:00 -0800

Friends join us for a special edition of the show to review last year's predictions, and forecast the future.

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

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383: Murder of a Distro

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 19:00:00 -0800

Red Hat just made big changes to how CentOS works, we breakdown the good, and the bad.

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

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Hector Martin.

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Cast Your Nominations for the 2020 Tuxies — Nominate your favorite projects (the term used loosely here) and devices for the 2020 Tuxies.
CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream — The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release.
FAQ - CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream
CentOS Stream: Building an innovative future for enterprise Linux — Since its introduction, we’ve seen great enthusiasm from partners and contributors around CentOS Stream and the continuous stream of innovation that the project provides. Given this, we’ve informed the CentOS Project Governing Board that we are shifting our investment fully from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream.
When Red Hat bought CentOS in 2014 they said…
CentOS Git server
OG CentOS Founder Wants to build another CentOS — I am considering creating another rebuild of RHEL and may even be able to hire some people for this effort. If you are interested in helping, please join the HPCng slack (link on the website hpcng.org).
LUP 320: RHELhide
Pi-KVM — A very simple and fully functional Raspberry Pi-based KVM over IP that you can make with your own hands without any soldering!
Check out Self-Hosted — Discover new software and hardware to get the best out of your network, control smart devices, and secure your data on cloud services.
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Hector Martin is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs | Patreon — The goal is to bring Linux support on Apple Silicon macs to the point where it is not merely a tech demo, but is actually an OS you would want to use on a daily driver device.
Hector Martin
Pick: radeontop — View your GPU utilization, both for the total activity percent and individual blocks.
Pick: bpytop — Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

376: From The Factory Floor

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:15:00 -0700

We put the new Ubuntu 20.10 to the test, and chat with System76's Mechanical Engineer to get the secrets of the new Thelio Mega.

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

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

Special Guests: Lindsey Cross and Philip Muller.

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Microsoft Edge Insider
Introducing Microsoft Edge preview builds for Linux - Microsoft Edge Blog — Today’s release supports Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE distributions.
System76 unleash a quad-GPU Linux monster with the ‘Thelio Mega’ — System76 say that the Thelio Mega is the world's smallest quad-GPU workstation primarily made for deep learning and scientific computing.
Thelio Mega - System76
NVIDIA Doesn’t Expect To Have Linux 5.9 Driver Support For Another Month — Linux Kernel 5.9+ is incompatible with current and previous NVIDIA Linux GPU drivers. We advise customers to defer updating to Linux Kernel 5.9+ until mid-November when an NVIDIA Linux GPU driver update with Kernel 5.9+ support is expected to be available.
You may want to avoid Linux Kernel 5.9 if you want fully supported NVIDIA drivers
Frogging-Family/nvidia-all: Nvidia driver 450 to 396 series AIO installer
PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition | PINE64 — This community edition will ship in a custom presentation box designed by Manjaro’s development team, and the PinePhone itself will feature a sleek-looking Manjaro logo on the back-cover.
Manjaro ARM Alpha1 with Lomiri (PinePhone) - ARM / Releases - Manjaro Linux Forum
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Unfilter.show
Unplugged Core Contributors
Ubuntu 20.10 Release Date & New Features (Updated) - OMG! Ubuntu! — Desktop lead Martin Wimpress has teased full Ubuntu desktop support for the Raspberry Pi 4 (8GB), much to the delight of the Raspberry Pi fan base.
Linux 5.8 Released, This is What’s New - OMG! Ubuntu!
GNOME 3.38 Release Notes
Groovy Gorilla Release Notes
Ubuntu To Try Again In Switching IPTables To Use Nftables Backend - Phoronix
Ubuntu 20.10 Adding Active Directory Support To The Installer - Phoronix — The Ubiquity installer user interface allows specifying the domain, administrator, and password as well as a test for the domain.
Feedback: ESXi Arm Fling
Pick: badblocks — badblocks is a program to test storage devices for bad blocks.

375: Wrong About Pop!

Jupiter Broadcasting — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:30:00 -0700

We're reminded that you can't judge a distro by its screenshots. We use Pop!_OS for a few weeks and share our embarrassing discovery.

Plus our thoughts on the new Plasma release, a super handy pick, and more.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:44 Intro
0:50 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:39 Plasma 5.20
7:50 Kernel 5.9
8:05 VMware Flirts with Arm
15:28 SPONSOR: Linode
18:54 Big News for Nebula
22:10 Code-Shaming the Kernel
27:40 Housekeeping
29:31 Pop!_OS Exit Interview
31:44 Pop!_OS Full-Time Staff
34:49 Pop!_OS: The Last Ten Percent
37:46 Pop!_OS: A Very Unique Distribution
43:13 Pop!_OS: Driving Hardware Sales
47:40 Pop!_OS: Strengthening the System76 Brand
49:51 Manjaro Arm 20.10 Released
50:48 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
51:48 Feedback: TLP Magic
53:23 Feedback: Chromebooks and Education
56:16 Pick: Autotier
59:09 Pick: Antennapod 2.0.1
1:00:30 SPONSOR: Core Contributors
1:01:10 Outro
1:03:18 Post-Show

Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

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Linux_5.9 - Linux Kernel Newbies
Plasma 5.20 — One absolutely massive release!
ESXi on Arm Fling is LIVE! — The ESXi-Arm Fling supports a number of different Arm platforms ranging from a traditional Datacenter form-factor to both Near and Far Edge systems including the highly requested Raspberry Pi.
ESXi Arm Edition | VMware Flings
Great News for Nebula
Nebula for iOS and Android is now available | Defined Networking — In February of this year, Nate and I left Slack to start a company together, Defined Networking, Inc., to focus on Nebula full-time.
Mobile Nebula on the App Store
LUP 329: Flat Network Truthers
The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel — With Linux 5.9, it comes in at 2.16 million lines of code plus another 247k lines of code comments and another 109k blank lines.
AMD Graphics Driver Hacker News Thread
All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
Pop!_OS by System76
Unplugged Core Contributors
Manjaro ARM 20.10 released!
Feedback: TLP Magic
Feedback: Chromebooks and Education
PIck: autotier — A passthrough FUSE filesystem that intelligently moves files between storage tiers based on the frequency of use, file age, and tier fullness.
AntennaPod 2.0.1 Changelog

374: Perfect Nextcloud Setup

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 22:00:00 -0700

Our secrets for a low-cost bulletproof Nextcloud server that we figured out the hard way. We take you into the "server garage" and share our lessons learned.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.

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370: PipeWire Progress

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 22:30:00 -0700

We get an update from PipeWire developer Wim Taymans on the status of Linux's new audio and video subsystem.

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

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

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

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364: Linux Arm Wrestling

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 23:15:00 -0700

The past, present and future of Linux on Arm. The major challenges still facing full Linux support, and why ServerReady might be a solution to unify Arm systems.

Plus we chat with the Manjaro team about recent changes.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:58 Intro
2:01 Terminal 2.0 in ChromeOS
4:41 Manjaro's Process Problems
13:49 Manjaro Sneak Peaks
15:41 Weekend Manjaro Journey
21:02 Housekeeping
22:09 ARM on Linux
24:01 The History of ARM
28:16 Single Board Computing Revolution
31:47 ARM Reaching into the Present
33:17 The Future of ARM
36:42 Not Everyone Loves ARM
43:01 Wants and What Ifs
48:30 App Pick: tuptime
49:48 App Pick: s-tui
50:21 Outro
51:36 Post-Show

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Dalton Durst, Drew DeVore, Jeremy Soller, Marius Gripsgard, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller.

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361: Buttery Smooth Fedora

Jupiter Broadcasting — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 02:00:00 -0700

Fedora's getting to work and reconsidering some long held-assumptions.

Plus the best tool for getting things done on Linux, we take a look at openSUSE Leap 15.2, and breathe new life into an old Pebble.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Jeff Fortin Tam, and Neal Gompa.

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360: The Hard Work of Hardware

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 21:15:00 -0700

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

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

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

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354: Microsoft FINALLY Gets It

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:15:00 -0700

Windows is getting more competitive by adopting core Linux features, so we cover the latest Linux-inspired additions to Windows. Then review the new release of Pi-hole, sort through recent PINE64 updates, and read your feedback.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Drew DeVore, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller.

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347: Arm is Here

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:30:00 -0700

We discover a few simple Raspberry Pi tricks that unlock incredible performance and make us re-think the capabilities of Arm systems.

Plus we celebrate Wireguard finally landing in Linux, catch up on feedback, and check out the new Manjaro laptop.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Philip Muller.

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338: Success Through Vulnerability

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 14:00:00 -0800

How did we get from shareware to free software? We jump in the Linux powered time machine and revisit software past.

Plus a new Plasma focused laptop, and two powerful command-line picks.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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330: 'Tis the SSHession

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 18:15:00 -0800

Give the gift of remote support with our neat SSH trick. Also, Cassidy from elementary OS joins us to discuss what's great about their new release.

Plus we'll share some gadget gift ideas, and what we're building for the holidays.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Cassidy James Blaede.

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326: Dell, elementary, Fedora, oh my!

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 20:00:00 -0800

Dell expands their linux hardware lineup, why elementary OS's Flatpak support sets the bar, and we chat with Christian Schaller of Red Hat about Fedora 31 and what's around the corner.

Plus an update on Ubuntu on the Raspberry Pi 4 and a pick that's just for Wes.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Christian F.K. Schaller, Danielle Foré, and Martin Wimpress.

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325: DNF or Die

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:00:00 -0700

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

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

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

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322: Just Enough VPN

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 20:15:00 -0700

We reveal our secrets for bridging networks with WireGuard and Linux-powered networking.

Plus the future of OpenPGP in Thunderbird, a disappointing update for the Atari VCS, and a shiny new Spotify client for your terminal.

Special Guest: Martin Wimpress.

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319: Positive in the Freedom Dimension

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:30:00 -0700

Richard Stallman has resigned as president and director of the Free Software Foundation, and that's just one of the major shifts this week.

Also what makes Manjaro unique? We chat with one of the founders and find out why it's much more than a desktop environment.

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

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Richard Stallman Resigns — On September 16, 2019, Richard M. Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation, resigned as president and from its board of directors.
GNOME relationship with GNU and the FSF – Liberal Murmurs — In my capacity as the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, I have also written to the FSF. One of the most important parts of my role is to think of the well being of our community and the GNOME mission. One of the GNOME Foundation’s strategic goals is to be an exemplary community in terms of diversity and inclusion. I feel we can’t continue to have a formal association with the FSF or the GNU project when its main voice in the world is saying things that hurt this aim.
balena releases first fully functional 64-bit OS for the Raspberry Pi 4 — Today, we are excited to announce the release of 64-bit balenaOS for the Raspberry Pi 4, providing support for the full 4GB of memory and allowing the simultaneous, side-by-side running of 32-bit and 64-bit Docker containers - a first for the Raspberry Pi 4!
Nextcloud 17 scales up and improves data protection with Remote Wipe, collaborative text editor, 2FA updates, IBM Spectrum Scale support and Global Scale improvements – Nextcloud — Fresh from the Nextcloud conference stage, we are proud to announce a major release of Nextcloud, the easiest solution for secure, on-premises collaboration on documents, calendars and communication! Nextcloud 17 will introduce a series of secure collaboration features including a collaborative text editor, remote wipe, updated secure view, improved two-factor-authentication and easier access than ever with deeper integration of large-scale storage like S3 and IBM Spectrum Scale.
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Free Courses at Linux Academy — September 2019 — On September 17th Linux Torvald first released the Linux Operating System Kernel on September 17th, 1991 so we are celebrating by offering free training for you to increase your Linux Skills.
Texas Cyber Summit — October 10th to 12th in San Antonio, Texas.
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Self-Hosted 1: The First One — You've been wanting to host a Nextcloud instance (or anything else) for your family for a while now. Where on Earth do you start? We share some hard learned lessons about self-hosting, discuss the most important things to consider when building a home server, and Chris gives Alex a hard time about Arch as a Server OS.
Unofficial Hacker Family Dinner & Unbirthday Party | Meetup — Join Chris, Wes, Chz and Ell for a meet and greet with fellow Texas Cyber Summit attendees and a belated celebration of Ell and Allie's Birthdays! There will be good food, good friends, and we hope some good conversation.
Manjaro - enjoy the simplicity — Manjaro is a professionally made Linux based operating system that is a suitable replacement for Windows or MacOS. Multiple Desktop Environments are available through our Official and Community editions. We also work with manufacturers to design dedicated hardware. Visit the shop for more information.
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Linux 5.4 Cycle To Begin With exFAT Driver, EPYC Improvements & New GPU Support — Finally there will be mainline exFAT support for that Microsoft file-system with it finally being blessed to be supported under Linux/open-source. The exFAT driver still has a lot of improvements to go (the current code quality has been called horrible) but is already making progress within staging.

307: What's your NextCloud?

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 21:30:00 -0700

Go full self-hosted with our team’s tips, and we share our setups from simple to complex.

Plus what really happens on a 64-bit Linux box when you run 32-bit software, some very handy picks, our reaction to the new Raspberry Pi 4 and more.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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These 5D Glass Discs Store 360 TB Of Data For 13.8 Billion Years — Researchers at the University of Southampton have showcased their new nanostructured glass discs that have the ability to store digital data for billions of years. The university announced that they've managed to build a device that can store huge amounts of data on small glass discs using laser writing
The Raspberry Pi 4 launch site runs on a Pi 4 cluster | Ars Technica — The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B has launched. It's a pretty big upgrade from the Raspberry Pi 3, with the company claiming that the device can provide "desktop performance comparable to entry-level x86 PC systems."
Is 4 GB The Limit For The Raspberry Pi 4? | Hackaday — It’s not the lack of an Oxford comma that caught his eye, but the tantalising mention of an 8 GB Raspberry Pi 4. Could we one day see an extra model in the range with twice the memory? It would be nice to think so.
Buy a Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit – Raspberry Pi — Full desktop computer kit - just connect to HDMI display(s)
Steam is dropping support for Ubuntu, but not Linux entirely | PC Gamer — Last Friday, a developer at Valve announced that Ubuntu Linux 19.10⁠—which is due to come out this October—won't be supported by Steam. Valve is still supporting Linux, just not future versions of the Ubuntu operating system.
Pierre-Loup Griffais on Twitter — Ubuntu 19.10 and future releases will not be officially supported by Steam or recommended to our users. We will evaluate ways to minimize breakage for existing users, but will also switch our focus to a different distribution, currently TBD.
Statement on 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS | Ubuntu — Thanks to the huge amount of feedback this weekend from gamers, Ubuntu Studio, and the WINE community, we will change our plan and build selected 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS.
What it takes to run a 32-bit x86 program on a 64-bit x86 Linux system — Suppose that you have a modern 64-bit x86 Linux system (often called an x86_64 environment) and that you want to run an old 32-bit x86 program on it (a plain x86 program). What does this require from the overall system, both the kernel and the rest of the environment?
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295: Stay and Compile a While

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 20:45:00 -0700

Is there really any advantage to building your software vs installing the package? We discuss when and why you might want to consider building it yourself.

Plus some useful things Mozilla is working on and Cassidy joins us to tell us about elementary OS' big choice.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, and Martin Wimpress.

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Office Depot rigged PC malware scans to sell unneeded $300 tech support — Office Depot and a partner company tricked customers into buying unneeded tech support services by offering PC scans that gave fake results.
Bye Bye vi: GNU/Linux Distros Drop Support
The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 20 Years of Community-led Development "The Apache Way"
Reducing Notification Permission Prompt Spam in Firefox — According to our telemetry data, the notifications prompt is by far the most frequently shown permission prompt, with about 18 million prompts shown on Firefox Beta in the month from Dec 25 2018 to Jan 24 2019. Not even 3% of these prompts got accepted by users.
Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web — Today, we announce the start of a new standardization effort — WASI, the WebAssembly system interface.
A Real-Time Wideband Neural Vocoder at 1.6 kb/s Using LPCNet — It’s the first time a neural vocoder is able to run in real-time using just one CPU core on a phone (as opposed to a high-end GPU) with quality that is much better than existing very low bitrate vocoders and comparable to that of more traditional codecs using a higher bitrate.
elementary AppCenter + Flatpak — We’re excited to announce that elementary will be joining the larger independent open source movement and adopting Flatpak for AppCenter and our third-party developer ecosystem.
NGINX and F5: Our Continued Commitment to Open Source — Just to repeat that. F5 is committed to the NGINX open source technology, developers, and community.
Raspberry Pi Keyboard and Mouse — I’m delighted to announce the official Raspberry Pi keyboard with integrated USB Hub, and the official Raspberry Pi mouse.
DIY Pro Audio Kit for Raspberry Pi
Ubuntu MATE 18.04 Beta 1 for Raspberry Pi — We are preparing Ubuntu MATE 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) for the Raspberry Pi. With this Beta pre-release, you can see what we are trying out in preparation for our next (stable) version.
What’s Free at Linux Academy — April 2019
UK Open Source Awards — Now in their 6th year, UKOSA is a free non-profit event that celebrates and acknowledges the contributions from the community of technology experts that make open source such a powerful and unstoppable disruptive force in the current technology landscape.
Feedback: is compiling faster?

290: Proper Pi Pedigree

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

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

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

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

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More GNOME Shell / Mutter Performance Optimizations & Latency Reductions Still Coming - Phoronix — Specifically on the Ubuntu front, Daniel has released a fix for Ubuntu 19.04 Disco and Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic to deal with 144/120Hz displays where GNOME's Mutter caps the rendering to 60 FPS. The fix for Ubuntu 18.10 is still being in the process of SRU'ed.
OBS Studio 23.0 Released With VA-API Video Encoding, New Audio Filters - Phoronix — OBS Studio 23.0 also has several new audio filters, batch remuxing support, multi-track audio support to FFmpeg output, and a variety of other alterations.
Open Broadcaster Software | New Ways to Support OBS Development — It’s amazing to think that the first version of OBS was publicly released over six years ago. What started out as a small side project by Hugh “Jim” Bailey to make a free and open source program to stream StarCraft 2 has grown into a powerful force in the streaming and video production industry. Hundreds of thousands of people use OBS Studio every day not just for video gaming, but also for broadcasting everything from conferences to sports competitions to school announcements. It’s a tool that can be used freely by anyone, from large studios with big budget productions to individuals who just want to engage with a community online.
Available Now: New GeForce-Optimized OBS — We have collaborated with OBS, the industry-leading streaming application, to help them release a new version with improved support for NVIDIA GPUs. The new OBS Studio, version 23.0, reduces the FPS impact of streaming by up to 66% compared to the previous version, meaning higher FPS for your games.
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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.

278: Shell in a Handbasket

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 19:00:00 -0800

We chat with a developer who's gotten Linux running on iOS devices, do a deep dive into Clear Linux, and discuss Xubuntu ending 32bit support.

Plus why Android in the cloud, and a bunch of community news.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Martin Wimpress, and Theodore Dubois.

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One Raspberry Pi 3 not powerful enough? Try this five Pi cluster for computing on the edge
Xubuntu Will Stop Producing 32-bit ISOs Beginning With Xubuntu 19.04 — The Xubuntu development team has now decided to go ahead and eliminate their 32-bit builds moving forward.
Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser — Microsoft is throwing in the towel with Edge and is building a new web browser for Windows 10, this time powered by Chromium.
Steam Link now in BETA on Raspberry Pi — The Steam Link app is now available in beta on the Raspberry Pi 3 and 3 B+ running Raspbian Stretch
Sputnik turns 6: Presenting the folks behind it — Thanks to the interest and support of the community, eight months later, the project became a product. On November 29, 2012 the Dell XPS 13 developer edition was born.
Running Android in the Cloud with Amazon EC2 A1 instances — W demonstrated a fully automated solution deployed by Juju to run Android within LXD containers in the cloud and stream out the display of a gaming app from an Amazon EC2 A1 instance to a mobile phone over the internet
Amazon's homegrown 2.3GHz 64-bit Graviton processor was very nearly an AMD Arm CPU
iSH: The Linux Shell on iOS — iSH is a project to get a Linux shell environment running locally on your iOS device, using a usermode x86 emulator.
iSH on GitHub
Bleeping computer's review of iSH
Bug #1759836 “systemd-udevd consumes 100% of CPU” : Bugs : systemd package : Ubuntu
High cpu usage on kernel 4.14 and 4.15 from systemd-udevd which seems to be the synaptic touchpad driver
Bluetooth adapter stopped working after upgrade to 4.14 kernel
Clear Linux Homepage — Clear Linux OS is an open source, rolling release Linux distribution optimized for performance and security, from the Cloud to the Edge, designed for customization, and manageability.
Intel's Clear Linux Ups Their Desktop Offering, Rolling Out New Installer
How to Clear — Training documentation to teach users how to make a Clear Linux OS derivative distribution.
Trying To Make Ubuntu 18.10 Run As Fast As Intel's Clear Linux
clr-boot-manager — clr-boot-manager exists to enable the correct maintenance of vendor kernels and appropriate garbage collection tactics over the course of upgrades.