LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Snaps”

537: This Makes Us Unemployable

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 03:00:00 -0800

Can we save an old Arch install? We'll attempt a live rescue, then get into our tips for keeping your old Linux install running great.

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🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
Is Arch Linux suitable for server environment? — Probably the biggest issue with Arch as a server operating system is that it's not clear where and when applications may break after an upgrade. More often than not, you have to keep up with what's going on in the wiki and on the forums before doing any sort of upgrade
Unplugged Tuxies - 2023
⚠️ DID WE MISS SOMETHING?
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Texas Linux Festival 2024 — Texas Linux Fest is the first state-wide annual community-run conference for Linux and open-source software users and enthusiasts from around the Lone Star State. Much like SCALE in Los Angeles, Ohio Linux Fest in Columbus, and Linux Fest Northwest – and an ever-growing list of successful regional shows.
Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention — On February 2nd, the base-devel package group has been replaced by a meta package of the same name.
Git migration announcement
Git migration completed — We are proud to announce that the migration to Git packaging succeeded! 🥳
[Arch News] Changes to default password hashing algorithm and umask settings
Linus’s law — In software development, Linus's law is the assertion that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".
The Linux Scheduler: a Decade of Wasted Cores — In our experiments, these performance bugs caused many-fold performance degradation for synchronization-heavy scientific applications, 13% higher latency for kernel make, and a 14-23% decrease in TPC-H throughput for a widely used commercial database.
The Linux kernel scheduler has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for the past 15 years and nobody noticed – The HFT Guy
The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores | Hacker News
sched: Update normalized values on user updates via proc · torvalds/linux@acb4a84 · GitHub — This patch updates the internally used scheduler tuning values that are normalized to one cpu in case a user sets new values via sysfs.
BackTrack Linux
Flatseal
Why you probably shouldn’t add a CLA to your open source project — Contributor license agreements (or CLAs for short) have gained a lot of visibility in recent years as some prominent open-source projects have opted to adopt them. If all the cool kids are doing it, should your open source project? Probably not. Here’s why
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518: Race To Immutability

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 18:30:00 -0700

Can Ubuntu make a great immutable desktop? We're trying the brand-new "Everything is a Snap" Ubuntu Core Desktop.

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Berlin with Brent Meetup — Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:00 PM
Berlin Buds on Matrix
Things are Changing | Office Hours 32 — We've got a radically new format idea for Office Hours and want to tell you all about it.
Linux Action News 299 — Recent advances in embedded Linux, Canonical takes full control of LXD, ZFS gets a handy Btrfs feature, and updates on the show's production.
Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base — Behind the scenes, the Canonical team has been actively exploring the benefits of Ubuntu Core beyond the realm of IoT, most notably in the context of developers and daily users.
ubuntu-core-desktop on GitHub — This directory contains an image of Ubuntu Core 22 with the GDM display manager loaded into the boot file system.
Actions · canonical/ubuntu-core-desktop - GitHub
canonical/workshops on GitHub — Workshops provides a user friendly interface to create and manage LXD containers as well as provides a full featured terminal.
Workshops on the Snap Store
Snikket Dev's take on XMPP and Embrace Extend Extinguish
snikket-server: Image builder for Snikket server
Snikket Chat — Simple, secure and private messaging.
OLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and Expo — OLF is returning on September 8-9, 2023!
Magnolia Mayhem’s CaterCloud
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Alby
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
kz6fittycent/BobRossQuotes: A bunch of quotes from Bob Ross
Bob Ross Quotes - Snap Store

456: Our Linux Regrets

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 01 May 2022 18:30:00 -0700

If we could change just one mistake in our Linux journey, what would it be?

Open a channel to our node: 037d284d2d7e6cec7623

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Office Hours 3: New Website Energy — It's a summer of projects, we get into our plans to totally rebuild our website, some new Podcasting 2.0 features and, Brent takes his first bite of the Raspberry Pi.
Website Rebuild Ideas & Explorations
Introducing early access to the Steam snap! — It’s time to do a call for testing on a new Steam snap which brings along everything you need to run Steam games via proton or, of course, native Linux games. Since this is an early access snap, expect there to be bugs and gaps, which we need assistance in identifying. We will iterate quickly, and respond to this feedback.
It looks like the trigger was pulled too fast on this. Running the latest snapd, and the steam-support socket is missing.
interfaces: add a steam-support interface by jhenstridge · Pull Request #11708 · snapcore/snapd
Level up your Linux gaming with the new Steam Snap!
Try Infrastructure as Code eBook | Terraform, Ansible, and more | Linode — A step-by-step IAC guide for Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and Salt.

323: It's Pronounced 19.10

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

We risk it all and try ZFS on root with Ubuntu 19.10, and share our first impressions and what improvements we can't live without.

Plus, exciting news for both Plasma and GNOME, coreboot laptops from System76, and too many picks.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Martin Wimpress.

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Episode 253: Personalities Happen

Jupiter Broadcasting — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 01:45:00 -0700

There is trouble at CopperheadOS, Plasma has a shiny new release, and we share the story of how Linux has powered the curiosity rover for 17 years.

Plus our stories from a weekend of Linux parties, Texas LinuxFest, SouthEast LinuxFest, and FOSS Talk Live.

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