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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

Plus some surprising community news, and a few great picks!

Special Guests: Dalton Durst and Neal Gompa.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• This Guy Made a Computer Mouse That Is Itself a Computer
• Apple’s FoundationDB open sources CloudKit database layer — The FoundationDB Record Layer is an open source library that provides a record-oriented datastore with semantics similar to a relational database, implemented on top of FoundationDB.
• FoundationDB Record Layer: A Multi-Tenant Structured Datastore
• 'Celluloid' is the new name of GNOME MPV — “The current name is a bit unelegant, and doesn’t really fit in with other apps on the GNOME platform. Good app names are usually a single noun that’s related to the app’s domain (e.g. “Fragments” for a torrent app, or “Peek” for a screen recorder).”
• Google is Adding 'Apt Search' to the ChromeOS App Launcher — Now, based on a code commit uncovered by Chrome Story, users of the Linux (beta) for Chromebooks will also be able to search for and install Linux apps from the Chrome OS launcher.
• Chrome OS to let companies use other Linux distros for apps — Device administrators will be able to designate a URL for Chrome OS to download the Linux distro, and a hash to ensure the download was successful.
• Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Release — OTA-7 is the release where we take a breath and focus on getting the launch just right.
• ZFS On Linux Runs Into A Snag With Linux 5.0 — ZFS On Linux currently fails to build against the Linux 5.0 kernel sources.
• Linux 5.0: _kernel_fpu{begin,end} no longer exported · Issue #8259 · zfsonlinux/zfs
• The future of ZFS in FreeBSD
• Datto — Datto offers business continuity and disaster recovery, networking, business management, and file backup and sync solutions, and has created a one-of-a-kind ecosystem of partners that provide Datto solutions to half a million businesses across more than 130 countries.
• Neal Gompa - DevOps Engineer II - Datto, Inc.
• Neal Gompa on Twitter @Det_Conan_Kudo
• Chezmoi: Manage your dotfiles securely across multiple machines.
• Introducing Ephemeral – Cassidy James Blaede — The always-incognito web browser for elementary OS.
• Introducing The Elementary OS 5 Linux Community Challenge
• Chris losing it on the Linux Academy Live Stream — Time code link to just before it all happens.