Plus a really cool new feature in Linux 5.7, and we get some answers to the recent GNOME patent settlement from the source.

Special Guests: Dan Johansen and Drew DeVore.

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• snakeware: A free Linux distro with a fully Python userspace
• GNOME gets big open-source patent win
• GNOME Patent Suite Update
• GNOME Foundation post about patent suit resolution
• Thermal Pressure in the task scheduler
• A New Kernel Patch Is Being Discussed That’s Needed For Newer Windows Games On Wine
• PINE64 on Twitter: “Everyone receiving their #PinebookPro laptops. Appears that the factory has left the WiFi privacy switches turned ON. To enable WiFi you’ll need to disengage the privacy switch"
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• XPS 13 in the Dell Store
• Wes' XPS 13 Image Gallery
• Performance comparison to Lemur Pro
• Jim’s take on the new XPS 13
• Howdy: Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
• Feedback: Why not LVM/XFS?

Plus Ubuntu's Director of Desktop Martin Wimpress covers the details everyone missed in 20.04.

Special Guests: Martin Wimpress, Matthew Miller, and Neal Gompa.

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• Red Hat Summit 2020 Virtual Experience
• Wimpy on Twitter: There are new ✨ features in #Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 that no one is aware of or talking 🙊 about, so here they are; straight from the horses mouth 🐴 Also, a little peek behind the curtain 👀 regarding how OEM requirements help shape desktop #Linux 🐧
• What’s new in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS?
• LINUX Unplugged 350: Focal Focus
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• Fedora 32 Officially Released With EarlyOOM, SSD TRIM Finally Flipped On, GNOME 3.36
• Fedora 32 Schedule: All Tasks
• Fedora Release Life Cycle
• Fedora 32 Cleared For Release Next Week
• Fedora 32 ChangeSet
• Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years — Christian F.K. Schaller
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• Login and unlock in GNOME Shell 3.36
• Enable Earlyoom
• Previously covered on LINUX Unplugged 348: OK OOMer
• Change firewalld default to nftables
• Make iptables-nft preferred iptables implementation
• Nftables: a new packet filtering engine (2009)
• The return of nftables (2013)
• Why nftables
• And maybe it will be eBPF before long anyway… (2018)
• Adopting sysusers.d format
• DNF Better Counting
• Enable FSTrim Timer
• Restart services at end of rpm transaction
• Systemd 245 Released - First Version Including Systemd-Homed
• GCC 10
• GCC’s New Static Analysis Capabilities Are Getting Into Shape For GCC 10 - Phoronix
• Static analysis in GCC 10 - Red Hat Developer
• GLIBC 2.31
• LLVM 10
• Python 3.8
• Retire Python 2
• Fedora 32 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Engaged In Some Healthy Competition Over Performance
• Initial Benchmarks Of Fedora 32 Linux Performance
• Firefox Performance On Wayland Is Looking Good - Browser Benchmarks With KDE vs. GNOME
• Fedora Alternate Architectures
• Fedora Magazine Mentions Better Rock64 Support
• Bonus Pick: bashtop

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

Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais.

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• Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?
• AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Amassing Improvements For Linux 5.8
• NVIDIA released the 440.82 stable ‘Long Lived’ Linux driver - helps DOOM Eternal on Steam Play Proton
• Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition
• Risk of Rain 2
• Raft
• Raft on Steam
• GitHub is now free for teams - The GitHub Blog
• Nat’s comment on HN
• Road to 20.04
• ZFS/Zsys Code Seeing Important Performance Fix Ahead Of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• The Resilience of the Voyagers
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• 4GB SBC ROCKPro64
• 12V 5A Power Adapter AC
• WD Blue SN550 250GB NVMe
• NVME PCIe Adapter M.2
• Manjaro ARM on the ROCKPro64
• Additional images available for the RockPro64 - Debian, Armbian, Slackware, CentOS, etc
• Benchmarking Example
• telnet.linuxunplugged.com
• RockPro64 Wiki
• RockPro64 Forum
• RockPro64 IRC
• Beets - the media library management system for obsessive music geeks.

Plus a few surpises from the System76 Super Fan event.

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

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• KDE is looking for an experienced project manager to help guide the community’s goals to completion.
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• System76 Superfan event
• https://github.com/system76
• Jupiter Extras: Brunch with Brent: Emma Marshall
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• Lakka - The DIY open source retrogaming emulation console