LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “System76”

657: Slop to Slap

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:45:00 -0700

After experiencing Planet Nix and SCaLE, we come back convinced the next phase of Linux is already taking shape.

Special Guests: Carl Perry, Cindy Cohn, Graham Christensen, Jason Spisak, Jonas Chevalier, Kelsey Hightower, Ron Efroni, and Yuning Liang.

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PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
SCaLE 23x — SCALE is North America's largest community-run open source conference.
SCaLE 23x - YouTube — SCaLE 23x live streams, talks, and more.
LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
Flox.dev
Flox: Developer environments you can take with you - GitHub — Flox is a virtual environment and package manager all in one. With Flox you create environments that layer and replace dependencies just where it matters, making them portable across the full software lifecycle.
Keynote: Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALE
Cindy Cohn | SCALE
noblepayne/nix-anywhere-else-talk — A Slidev presentation about the "dark arts" of ELF surgery and Nix, built entirely with Nix. This talk explores how patchelf and a deep understanding of the Executable and Linkable Format can make binaries portable in both directions: bringing foreign tools into NixOS, and taking Nix-built artifacts out to the rest of the world.
DeepComputing — Advancing the adoption and implementation of RISC-V
Roxane Fischer - Anyshift.io
Determinate is the future of Nix today: Wasm, provenance, and flake schemas
Electronic Frontier Foundation - Defending your rights in the digital world
llama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++
mangowm - Mango Wayland Compositor — Practical and powerful wayland compositor (dwm but wayland)
The Open Source AI Definition 1.0 - Open Source Initiative
Pick: sone — Native TIDAL desktop client for Linux. Modern UI, custom themes, and bit-perfect lossless audio up to 24-bit/192kHz via exclusive ALSA. License: GPL-3
Pick: qmd — mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local. License: MIT
Pick: mtr — Combines the functionality of 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single network diagnostic tool. License: GPL-2
MTR - Welcome Home Brent

645: COSMIC Christmas

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:45:00 -0800

We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex. Then, we talk COSMIC stable with System76’s CEO.

Special Guest: Carl Richell.

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Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released — This year, System76 turned twenty. For twenty years we have shipped Linux computers. For seven years we’ve built the Pop!_OS Linux distribution. Three years ago it became clear we had reached the limit of our current potential and had to create something new. Today, we break through that limit with the release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with the COSMIC Desktop Environment.
Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams and EPG data with elegance and control.
IPTV Link Search — Public IPTV live channels, m3u8 links are updated daily.
Streamtest.in
ptv-org/iptv — Collection of publicly available IPTV channels from all over the world
iptv/PLAYLISTS.mdb
epg — Utilities for downloading the EPG (Electronic Program Guide) for thousands of TV channels from hundreds of sources.
iptv-epg.org
TiviMate IPTV Player — Easy to use for beginners and deeply customizable for power users, TiviMate blends speed, clarity, and control into a seamless viewing experience.
M3U IPTV — Stream your IPTV channels on the go or on Android TV.
DangoPlayer — A fast video player and IPTV client for Android and TV
iPlayTV - IPTV/M3U Player App — IPTV/M3U player for Apple TV. The one Chris has used the longest
Chillio IPTV Smart Player App — New app, paid if you want quad box
Open TV — IPTV player with many features.
html-iptv-player — HTML IPTV Player with EPG viewer for M3U8 playlist
hypnotix — An M3U IPTV Player
IPTVnator
VidGrid — watch multiple news channels in your browser
M3U Magic • Free Private IPTV Player
ErsatzTV — Your Personal IPTV Server
kptv-fast — A high-performance streaming service aggregator that combines multiple free streaming platforms into a single M3U playlist and EPG. Perfect for use with Channels DVR, Plex, or any IPTV client.
Pick: Jellify-Music — A cross-platform, free and open source music player for Jellyfin, powered by React Native
Pick: DockerComposeMaker — DockerComposeMaker (DCM) is a self-hostable website to help you pick and create a docker-compose.yml file for your home server. Discover new containers, discover and share a config in a couple of clicks!
Demo Docker Compose Generator
Pick: Leantime — Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.

636: Engineering the Future

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:45:00 -0700

We're back from Texas just in time to chat with Jon Seager, Canonical’s VP of Engineering, and their new era with Ubuntu 25.10. On the way, we visit System76 in Denver where the COSMIC team has surprises waiting for us.

Special Guests: Carl Richell, Jeremy Soller, and Jon Seager.

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COSMIC — Next generation Cosmic desktop environment. Use it on your favorite distro!
System76 — Powerful Linux computers designed by nerds, engineered by experts, handcrafted by humans in the US.
GitHub - pop-os/cosmic-epoch: Next generation Cosmic desktop environment
GitHub - pop-os/cosmic-applets: WIP applets for cosmic-panel
Pop!_OS 24.04 (with COSMIC Desktop) Just Hit Beta - OMG! Ubuntu
Canonical releases Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka
Ubuntu Engineering in 2025: A Retrospective · Jon Seager
Ubuntu 25.10 Fix Pending For Broken Flatpak Support - Phoronix
LINUX Unplugged 634: Config Confessions
Hybrid Pick: ncspot
Pick: poop (Performance Optimizer Observation Platform) — This command line tool uses Linux's perf_event_open functionality to compare the performance of multiple commands with a colorful terminal user interface.
sharkdp/hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool

612: 25 Years of LinuxFest Northwest

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 18:15:00 -0700

We're live from LinuxFest Northwest 2025. We're joined by guests from the audience, try our hand at Linux trivia and share our experiences from the best fest in the West.

Special Guest: Carl Richell.

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LinuxFest Northwest 2025 Day 1
LFNW2025 - LinuxFest Norhtwest Homepage — 25 Years of Community Excellence.
See how far COSMIC has come this year by Carl Richell - LinuxFest Northwest 2025
COSMIC Desktop
COSMIC Alpha 7 — ISO excited for the latest COSMIC alpha release! We’ve been busy clearing up scores of bugs while soldering together the features that we absolutely must include before the Big Betahemoth descends upon the Earth. Let COSMIC Alpha 7 commence!
pop-os/cosmic-epoch: Next generation Cosmic desktop environment
COSMIC Desktop Alpha 7 Brings More New Features
The best-looking Linux desktop I've seen so far in 2025 — The creators of one of the coolest Linux distros just released a new version - and it puts the old one to shame.
Blind Penguin - Software Development with José Ibañez
Accessibility Talk: Blind Penguin at LFNW 2025
Beyond ARIA Labels: What a Blind Film Enthusiast Can Teach Us About Open Source
Trimui Smart Pro 128G Handheld Game Console with Pre Loaded Games
Sausage — sausage is a terminal word forming game, written in Bash.
James Sundquist's Linux Prepper Podcast

606: Nix's Magic Cookbook

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:15:00 -0700

We have stories to share, guests joining us, insights from our week at Planet Nix, and Brent's big bombshell.

Special Guests: Aneesh Agrawal, Eelco Dolstra, Kelsey Hightower, Mike Kelly, Ron Efroni, and Ross Turk.

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Flox - Nix for Simplicity & Scale — Flox is all about simplifying your development workflow—think reproducible, portable dev environments powered by Nix, but without the steep learning curve. Whether you’re a solo coder or part of a big team, Flox lets you manage and share environments effortlessly, so you can focus on building great software instead of wrestling with setup headaches.
Planet Nix
Talk - Kelsey Hightower's Perspective on Nix
Talk - Aneesh from Anthropic - Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It
Talk - Eelco Dolstra Intros Configurable Flakes
Talk - Mike Kelly - Building a Chromebook replacement with NixOS
Eelco Dolstra - Configurable Flakes
Aneesh Agrawal - Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production
Fireside Chat with Kelsey Hightower: An Outsider’s Look at Nix
Building a Chromebook replacement with NixOS
Why do people love NixOS so much? | Mike Kelly
How to convert an old ChromeBook into a NixBook | Mike Kelly
Olympia Mike's Nixbook | GitHub
Flox | Nix in the Wild
The NixOS Foundation Board Announced
Guilty Pleasures | The Launch 🚀 13
Pick: pyatv: A client library for Apple TV and AirPlay devices — This is an asyncio python library for interacting with Apple TV and AirPlay devices. It mainly targets Apple TVs (all generations, including tvOS 15 and later), but also supports audio streaming via AirPlay to receivers like the HomePod, AirPort Express and third-party speakers. It can act as remote control to the Music app/iTunes in macOS.
Pick: atv-desktop-remote: A simple app to allow you to control an Apple TV from your desktop — The latest version works with tvOS 15 and up. It requires Python 3 to be installed on the system to work properly.

574: COSMIC Encounter

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 19:00:00 -0700

The COSMIC desktop is just around the corner. We get the inside scoop from System76 and go hands-on with an early press build.

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System76 tips Fedora Cosmic spin for 2025 release with Fedora 42 — It looks like System76's exciting new Rust-based Cosmic DE will get an official Fedora spin in the upcoming Fedora 42, potentially giving Linux users with bleeding-edge hardware an official way to try Cosmic.
Pop!_OS Mattermost — An excellent place to engage if you want to bring COSMIC to a distro near you.
iced — A cross-platform GUI library for Rust
Smithay — A smithy for rusty wayland compositor
Testing COSMIC — The easiest way to test COSMIC DE currently is by building a systemd system extension.
Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!
Portal:Kalpa - openSUSE Wiki — openSUSE MicroOS Desktop Gnome was renamed to openSUSE Aeon, and the Plasma Desktop version is being renamed to openSUSE Kalpa.
pop-os/kernelstub: A simple EFI boot manager manager for Linux
Alpaca — GTK App to Chat with local AI models
Alpaca on FlatHub

559: Linux is Bigger in Texas

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 20:00:00 -0700

We're back from Austin, with interviews and stories to share. Plus, it's Gentoo week and we take our first look at Fedora 40.

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Fedora 40 beta is fastest operating system I’ve tested — Apps opened in the blink of an eye. The Overview appeared instantly. Everything seemed to be built around the idea that the user works at the speed of madness and the OS is there to help make it happen.
Fedora Linux 40 Docs
Fedora Linux 40 Cleared For Release — Fedora 40 thus will see its official release happen next Tuesday, 23 April.
F40 Change Proposal: Drop Delta RPMs — According to early feedback from Release Engineering, it looks like it will not be feasible to address the shortcomings of Delta RPMs as they are currently implemented, and since they often no longer result in a net reduction in download sizes for upgrades, this Change proposes both to disable the generation of DeltaRPMs during the compose process, and to disable the deltarpm support in dnf / dnf5 by default.
Berlin with Brent May Meetup — May 11, 2024
LinuxFest Northwest 2024 — April 26 - 28, 2024
System76 and Jupiter Broadcasting Epic Parking Lot BBQ — Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 12:00 PM
LFNW Talk: 5 Reasons to Love NixOS — NixOS seems to be everywhere these days and has the fanatic energy usually reserved for Arch users. But WHY is it so popular? In this talk, I'll go over 5 reasons I love NixOS and you might too.
LFNW Talk: Deploying NixOS Anywhere — In this talk, we'll unlock the full potential of NixOS by exploring how its unique architecture enables installation just about anywhere—from bare metal and VMs to a VPS provider near you.
LFNW Talk: LINUX Unplugged LIVE — We're recording a live edition of LINUX Unplugged in person. Our weekly Linux talk show with no script, no limits, surprise guests, and tons of opinions.
Scinary Cybersecurity — Founded in 2015, we are proud to be one of few full-service cybersecurity firms focused on small and midsized governmental entities. Serving clients in mutiple states, we provide quality services and solutions that best fit your needs.
Jupiter Extras — Texas LinuxFest Day 1
Jupiter Extras — Texas LinuxFest Day 2
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.
MIL-STD-1553 — MIL-STD-1553 is a military standard published by the United States Department of Defense that defines the mechanical, electrical, and functional characteristics of a serial data bus.
Chris’ Cave Pictures
Buc-ees — If you’ve been to Buc-ee’s, you may already know that this friendly neighbor along the highways has the cleanest restrooms in America. In 2012, Cintas ran a nationwide restroom contest and made it official!
Street Fighter 2 Music — Arcade Intro
Street Fighter 2 Music — OC Remix
UEFI Boot Standalone NixOS (2024-04-20) — This guide will explain how to install NixOS on the internal NVMe drive of an Apple Silicon Mac using a customized version of the official NixOS install ISO, then boot it without the help of another computer.
TeX Shinobi Keyboard
nixos-conf-editor — A libadwaita/gtk4 app for editing NixOS configurations.
nix-software-center — A simple gtk4/libadwaita software center to easily install and manage nix packages.
bhh32's app installer
dharple/detox — Tames problematic filenames
Jovian NixOS — NixOS on the Steam Deck
Pick: Shortwave — Shortwave is an internet radio player that provides access to a station database with over 30,000 stations, including Jupiter Broadcasting.

494: Updating Our Fiddly Bits

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 19:00:00 -0800

Today we are finally taking on a project months in the making, and we're switching to an entirely new generation of Linux tech in the process.

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This week in KDE: The best Plasma 5 version ever — Plasma 5 has officially branched for the beta version of its 5.27 release. Go check out the announcement and test out the beta!
BorgWarehouse — BorgBackup Web UI for your central repository server.
Vorta — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty BorgBackup with your desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft.
BorgBase — Simple and Secure Offsite Backups
borgmatic — Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations.
Emborg — Front-End to Borg Backup
emborg on GitHub
Office Hours 21: Boiling the Frog — If you've noticed something a little off about your favorite podcasts, we might know why.
aj-snapshot — Tool for storing/restoring JACK and/or ALSA connections to/from a file.
jack-matchmaker — Auto-connect new JACK ports matching the patterns given on the command line.
qpwgraph — qpwgraph is a graph manager dedicated to PipeWire, using the Qt C++ framework, based and pretty much like the same of QjackCtl.
qpwgraph on Flathub
streamdeck-ui — A Linux compatible UI for the Elgato Stream Deck.
obsws-python — A Python SDK for OBS Studio WebSocket v5.0
kirino — A lightweight media server that adapts to you
BackupPC — Open Source Backup to disk
Fedora 38 Change: Modernize Live Media
rsync.net — We give you an empty UNIX filesystem to access with any SSH tool. Built on ZFS for data security and fault tolerance.
ZnapZend — Open source ZFS backup with mbuffer and ssh support.
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
Pick: Jellyfin Server Flatpak
Jellyfin Release 10.8.9

491: 2023 Spoilers

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 12:00:00 -0800

We assemble to predict what will happen in 2023 and score how our 2022 predictions turned out.

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The Matrix Holiday Update 2022
Steam Linux Market Share
Ideas on growing the Flathub Community in 2022
Heroic Games Launcher | Flathub Beta Site
Flathub-Codethink Collaboration
[GNOME Software Mock-up] Patronage by Tobias Bernard
How (and why) I minted 314 NFTs To Support Open Source Projects
The Log4j security flaw could impact the entire internet. Here’s what you should know
Log4j Vulnerability Detection: One year after Log4Shell
LibRedirect
Get Together — Get Together is an open source event manager for local communities.

485: Mystery Box

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 22:15:00 -0800

We dig into Shufflecake, a tool that lets Linux users hide data with plausible deniability, then let our live stream SSH into our server and see if they can discover our secret data.

Plus, we follow up on Brent's never-ending desktop distro search and Chris' new Linux rig.

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Just a bunch of idiots having fun—a photo history of the LAN party
Introducing Shufflecake — Shufflecake is a tool for Linux that allows creation of multiple hidden volumes on a storage device in such a way that it is very difficult, even under forensic inspection, to prove the existence of such volumes. Each volume is encrypted with a different secret key, scrambled across the empty space of an underlying existing storage medium, and indistinguishable from random noise when not decrypted.
Hidden Filesystem Design and Improvement - Elia Anzuoni — We propose a novel design, a scheme called Shufflecake, which targets a more balanced compromise between performance and security. The level of deniability it offers, while not protecting against attacks in the most stringent threat model, is sufficient in many practical scenarios.
Tommaso Gagliardoni’s Homepage
Linux kernel module for Shufflecake
Shufflecake Userland Tools
Fedora upgrade failed due to dep failure
Comparing openSUSE MicroOS and Fedora Silverblue 37
Scaling Mastodon is Impossible
Using Mastodon for comments on a static blog
TwitterToNitter — Bookmarklet that shows the current Twitter page on Nitter. On every click it choses a random Nitter instance.
libredirect — A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.

480: Taming the Beast

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 20:15:00 -0700

Linus Tech Tips blows it again, and we clean up. Plus, we push System76's updated Thelio Workstation to the breaking point.

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Intel Arc GPUs NOT supporting Linux any time soon
Please Buy Intel GPUs. - LTT
Intel Arc Graphics Running On Fully Open-Source Linux Driver - Phoronix — A common misconception or confusion I've heard many times over the past number of months has been questioning whether Intel's discrete GPU driver support on Linux is open-source or is closed-source, etc. Well, it's fully open-source aside from the usual firmware caveat and running on Linux.
The new Thelio — We believed that we could make an open hardware desktop that’s powerful, compact, quiet, beautiful, upgradable, backed by lifetime support, and manufactured in the United States—so we did. Customize your components, your software, even your aesthetic with swappable accents made for any mindset.
System76 Thelio AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 24, X250-kernel, Devone-kernel Benchmark Comparison
System76 Thelio vs Dev One - Workstation Benchmark
Thelio, Devone, X250 - Workstation Benchmark Comparison
System76 Thelio AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 24 - Time Linux Kernel Benchmark
Unigene Superposition
UNIGINE Superposition Video - 8K 60 FPS - YouTube
Why do people love NixOS so much?
Nix team creation - Announcements - NixOS Discourse

479: Good Software, Bad Blood

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 19:45:00 -0700

What the heck is going on? Fedora is dropping features, GNOME is getting Iced, and the mistake we'll never make again. We've got a lot to sort out.

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Tasks - Nextcloud Apps — Tasks can be shared between users. Tasks can be synchronized using CalDAV (each task list is linked to an Nextcloud calendar, to sync it to your local client: Thunderbird, Evolution, KDE Kontact, iCal … - just add the calendar as a remote calendar in your client). You can download your tasks as ICS files using the download button for each calendar.
Home Assistant Yellow — Home Assistant Yellow integrates 1,000+ different devices and services, allowing you to create powerful automations and get insight into your energy usage. All from an easy-to-use interface that runs 100% locally without anything in the cloud.
Oh No!😱Fedora is Dropping Support for Popular Video Codecs — Primarily, it will affect AMD GPU users using open-source drivers, preventing them using GPU acceleration to play video content that requires using these codecs. Additionally, it also affects any user who uses open-source graphics drivers, even if they run iGPUs on Intel chips.
recent commit to Mesa on Fedora
Tom Callaway on Twitter
System76’s Pop!_OS COSMIC Desktop To Make Use Of Iced Rust Toolkit — The UX team has been carefully designing widgets and applications over the last year. We are now at the point where it is critical for the engineering team to decide upon a GUI toolkit for COSMIC. After much deliberation and experimentation over the last year, the engineering team has decided to use Iced instead of GTK.
Reddit Comment That Kicked All this Off
Iced toolkit — A cross-platform GUI library for Rust focused on simplicity and type-safety. Inspired by Elm.
Comment thread on Reddit that kicked it all off
Jeremy Soller on Twitter
Jeremy Soller on Twitter
Jeremy Soller on Twitter
Checklist of things going into Iced for Cosmic
Acastus — Acastus Photon is a completely private, free and open source Address / POI lookup application for android.
photon.komoot.io — Search as you type with OpenStreetMap
pelias.io
Auto Move Windows - GNOME Shell Extensions
Podcasting 2.0 Apps

477: The Feeling of Fast

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 12:00:00 -0700

We finally give Brent his new laptop and get his reaction. Plus our best pick for replacing stock Android with something private.

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GrapheneOS — The private and secure mobile OS.
Nokia 2760 Flip feature mobile phone
KaiOS Devices
Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups
West Coast Crew Matrix Room
LUP 462: One Cosmic Collaboration — From skeptic to buyer, why the HP Dev One is the best Linux laptop yet.
HP Dev One — From preinstalled Linux Pop!_OS to a tuned Linux keyboard with a Super key, HP Dev One is designed with powerful features and tools to help you code your way.
Pop!_OS Tutorials
Phoronix Test Suite for Docker
Workstation Test Suite - OpenBenchmarking.org
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Benchmark - OpenBenchmarking.org
Unigine Superposition Benchmark - OpenBenchmarking.org
Superposition benchmark - UNIGINE
Phoronix Test Suite — Linux Testing & Benchmarking Platform, Automated Testing, Open-Source Benchmarking.
Geekbench5
Brent’s Hugo Build Times · Issue #349
Linux Kernel Build Benchmark Comparison - X250 vs. Dev One
Workstation Benchmark Comparison - X250 vs. Dev One
Geekbench CPU - LENOVO X250 vs HP Dev One
Geekbench Vulkan Score - LENOVO X250 vs HP Dev One
Unigine Superposition Benchmark - LENOVO X250 vs HP Dev One
Pointiest Stick — Adventures in Linux and KDE
dwm — dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts.
Pick: systeroid — A more powerful alternative to sysctl(8) with a terminal user interface.

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.

462: One Cosmic Collaboration

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 17:00:00 -0700

From skeptic to buyer, why the HP Dev One is the best Linux laptop yet. This is the one review you don't want to miss.

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Starlink RV Mounting & Storage Options
HP Dev One — From preinstalled Linux Pop!_OS to a tuned Linux keyboard with a Super key, HP Dev One is designed with powerful features and tools to help you code your way.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U Processor
HP Dev One CPU Bench Benchmarks
Blender Test On HP DEV One Benchmarks
Podverse — Podcasting 2.0 certified player for Android, F-Droid, iOS, and the web. Share created clips, highlights, playlists, and chapters, sync your queue and more!
Office Hours 6 — Peer to Peer Future
Office Hours on Podverse
LINUX Unplugged on Podverse
Podverse on Twitter
Podverse on GitHub

459: Better than Butter

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 22 May 2022 19:45:00 -0700

We take a sneak peek at some future tech coming to Linux, and share details on HP's new laptop that runs POP!

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London Meetup — Alex from Self-Hosted will be in the UK in August and is proposing a meetup in London on August 6th at 2pm GMT (meetup.com is based off JBs Pacific Time).
HP Dev One — Get ready for a laptop that’s customized for the way you code. Featuring preinstalled Pop!_OS Linux and a tuned Linux keyboard with a Super key, HP Dev One was designed with developers in mind.
HP Preparing An AMD-Powered Linux Laptop Powered By Pop!_OS
HP teamed up with System76 for the HP Dev One laptop with Pop!_OS Linux
Bringing bcachefs to the mainline — Bcachefs is a longstanding out-of-tree filesystem that grew out of the bcache caching layer that has been in the kernel for nearly ten years. Based on a session led by Kent Overstreet at the 2022 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM), though, it would seem that bcachefs is likely to be heading upstream soon. He intends to start the process toward mainline inclusion over the next six months or so.
Bcachefs Principles of Operation
Tow-Boot — Tow-Boot a user-friendly, opinionated distribution of U-Boot, where there is as few differences in features possible between boards, and a "familiar" user interface for an early boot process tool.
OpenSats — Support contributors to Bitcoin and other free and open source projects.
Pick: Briar — Secure messaging, anywhere.

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.

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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436: Hop on Pop

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 19:45:00 -0800

We each try out the new Pop_OS! and Carl Richell from System76 joins us to get into the details.

Plus why we feel Pop might be the new Ubuntu.

Special Guest: Carl Richell.

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Amazon Is Hiring DXVK, Mesa & Proton Linux Developers For Luna Cloud Gaming - Phoronix — As part of the work on Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service, the company has put out job openings of great match to our audience... An Amazon engineer did confirm that this indeed is for genuine Linux gaming engineers.
New Server Christening Get Together — Lets get together, share some foods, and power up the new Jupiter Broadcasting local server. Then stick around and listen in to a live recording of LINUX Unplugged from the studio.
System76 Blog — Pop!_OS 21.10 has landed!
Pop!_OS 21.10 Introduces Mini Application Menu
Jeremy Soller on Twitter — Pop switched the build system and repositories away from http://launchpad.net to our own system http://apt.pop-os.org/release for 21.10 in order to improve our control of package updates and reduce the time to build, test, and release them. It is not related to changing bases.
Linode Security Digest December 12-19, 2021
Pop!_OS Auto Tiling Tutorial
Recovery Partition - System76 Support — The Recovery Partition is a full copy of the Pop!_OS installation disk. It can be used exactly the same as if a live disk copy of Pop!_OS was booted from a USB drive.
Add Recovery To Your Pop!_OS — If you like me, fellow reader, you may be using a more custom partition setup. Unfortunately, anything other than the default clean install on Pop!_OS means you do not get the automatically generated recovery partition of goodness. Here's a small guide over how to get the setup on an already existing install.
casper — A hook for initramfs-tools to boot live systems.
pop-os/launcher — Modular IPC-based desktop launcher service.
Raycast — Raycast is a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher. It lets you complete tasks, calculate, share common links, and much more.
Pick: n.eko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.
Ventoy — With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly.

431: Command Line Love

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 18:15:00 -0800

Is the true path to mastering Linux fully embracing the command line? Why it's time to change our mindset about the terminal.

Special Guests: Martin Wimpress and Neal Gompa.

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Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 15th Red Planet flight
2021 Tuxie Nominations are Open
System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based On GNOME — Word of System76 making their "own" desktop not based on GNOME does follow some recent friction between Pop!_OS and GNOME developers over their approach to theming and customizations.
System76 Engineer Confirms Work on New Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based on GNOME
Carl Richell on Twitter — We celebrated 16 years of @system76 today. It was a nice surprise. This is about a third of the team. While we’ve adapted to remote work well, I miss full-company events and hope we can get back to those soon.
It’s Been 9 Years Since Valve Rolled Out The Steam Linux Beta — Over the past nine years Valve has done an incredible job advancing gaming for Linux and allowing it to reach heights never once imagined. As we move into 2022 and ten years of Steam on Linux it will be incredibly exciting to see how Steam Deck performs in the marketplace and ultimately its impact on the Linux ecosystem.
BattlEye Support In Good Shape With Steam Client Beta + Proton Experimental
Kalendar is out! — Note that this is still an in-development release and that there will be bugs, features still to be added, and so on. We want your feedback — especially bug reports! These will help us improve Kalendar as much as we possible can before we can release a truly stable 1.0 version.
Linux HATES Me – Daily Driver CHALLENGE Pt.1 - YouTube — This is part 1 in a series where Linus and Luke migrate their home workstation to Linux. In this episode, each decides which Distro they'll use, and then tries to run a game on it.
JupiterGarage.com
Linux Action News 214
Self-Hosted 57
How to fix the GSP 670 headset to make it work properly on Linux
Akselmo’s Game
ESOLinuxAddonManager
Vorta for BorgBackup — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty Borg Backup with your favorite desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft.
Vorta — Linux Apps on Flathub
Vorta | Memory Alpha

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.

419: What's Cookin' at System76

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 20:45:00 -0700

Live from Denver, we chat with old friends and new. We get the inside scope on what has been going on at System76, and what's coming up next.

Plus we catch up with a few members of our crew, and find out what Linux tech they're loving these days.

Special Guests: Aaron Honeycutt, Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Carl Richell, Cassidy James Blaede, Ian Santopietro, and chzbacon.

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Gadgetbridge for android — Gadgetbridge is an Android (4.4+) application which will allow you to use your Pebble, Mi Band, Amazfit Bip and HPlus device (and more) without the vendor's closed source application and without the need to create an account and transmit any of your data to the vendor's servers.
tldr: Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands — The tldr-pages project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools, that aims to be a simpler, more approachable complement to traditional man pages.
Energy Management in Home Assistant — Today’s release of Home Assistant Core 2021.8 contains a new energy dashboard. The goal is to make it super easy for users to get insight into their energy usage.
Death of man pages? — "I'm seeing a sad pattern lately. Software for Linux is being distributed for Linux as containers such as flatpaks, appimages, etc. or as straight binaries but the documentation that come with these formats in very limited or non-existent. I've also not seen any applications distributed this way contain man pages."
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409: Launch Your Memories Into the Future

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 18:45:00 -0700

We discuss old and new ways to manage, organize, index, and search your photo collection. It's our favorite Google Photo's alternatives.

Plus Chris' hands-on review of System76's customizable Launch keyboard.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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Google Photos is so 2020—welcome to the world of self-hosted photo management | Ars Technica — Alex's comprehensive write-up for Ars.
rclone Google Photos — The rclone backend for Google Photos is a specialized backend for transferring photos and videos to and from Google Photos.
Launch keyboard — The Launch Configurable Keyboard is engineered to be comfortable, fully customizable, and make your workflow more efficient.
Updated storage policy for Google Photos
Plans & Pricing - Google One
Install Google Photos Sync on Linux with a Snap
How To Backup Google Photos To Your Computer With gphotos-sync
Google Photos Sync — Google Photos Sync downloads your Google Photos to the local file system. It will backup all the photos the user uploaded to Google Photos, but also the album information and additional Google Photos 'Creations' (animations, panoramas, movies, effects and collages).
Sync Google Photos to your Linux Desktop
Photonix Photo Manager — Photonix is a photo management application that streamlines the process of storing, presenting and re-discovering photos.
Photonix Demo
LibrePhotos — A self-hosted open source photo management service.
PhotoStructure — Self-hosted, easy to install, and effortless to run. PhotoStructure is your cloud that runs on your computer. Your data stays yours.
Chevereto — Get your own turnkey image hosting system today. Start your own image sharing website with your own rules.
Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right.
PhotoPrism — PhotoPrism is a privately hosted app for browsing, organizing, and sharing your photo collection. It makes use of the latest technologies to tag and find pictures automatically without getting in your way.
Piwigo — Piwigo is open source photo gallery software for the web. Designed for organisations, teams and individuals.
FileRun File Manager — Self-Hosted File Sync and Sharing.
exiftool - bulk join json with jpg from Google Takeout
How To Correctly Export And Migrate Away From Google Photos
FakeSlice — Discharge USB-C Power Banks before internal battery on newer ThinkPads.
FOSS Talk Live — FOSS Talk Live 2021 is happening on 12th June at 7pm UK time!
JB Telegram
The Seasoned Tux Tee is on Sale

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
All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
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.

389: Harder Butter Faster Stronger

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:45:00 -0800

We showcase a tool that will change your Linux game.

Plus our thoughts on the recent Btrfs FUD, a bunch of feedback, and a handy pick.

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[ANNOUNCE] nano-5.5 is released
Ubuntu 21.04 Will Finally Stop Making New Home Directories World-Readable — Ubuntu 21.04 will do away with the existing practice on Ubuntu Linux systems of making new user home directories world-readable.
Linux 5.10.8 Kernel Released - Finally Fixes That Btrfs Performance Regression — Linux 5.10.8 is out today as the latest stable release for the Linux 5.10 LTS series. Making this point release notable is that it finally addresses the 5.10 Btrfs performance regression.
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Ventoy — An open-source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
Ventoy on GitHub
Feedback: openSUSE and FOSS Adventures
Feedback: Neon Success Story
Feedback: Next Tuesday
Feedback: ThinkPad X12 Detachable
ThinkPad X12 Detachable | Windows Tablet | Lenovo US
Feedback: Google forms?!
Feedback: System76 Prediction
Pick: PGHoard — pghoard is a PostgreSQL backup daemon and restore tooling that stores backup data in cloud object stores.

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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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
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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

372: Distro Triforce

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

What would it really take to get you to switch Linux distributions? We debate the practical reasons more and more people are sticking with the big three.

Plus Carl from System76 stops by to surprise us with some firmware news.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
2:22 Intro
2:36 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
4:24 USB Booting the Pi 4
10:10 System76 Open Firmware Update
23:14 SPONSOR: Linode
25:28 OpenPOWER Summit 2020
29:23 EndeavourOS ARM
30:14 Housekeeping
30:53 SPONSOR: Unplugged Core Contributors
32:59 It's Really Just a Three Distro World
46:37 Feedback: systemd Skepticism
50:50 Feedback: EmacsConf2020
51:40 Picks
52:12 Pick: Cloud Hypervisor
53:51 Pick: SongRec
54:45 Pick: tmpmail
55:55 Pick: MyPaas
57:16 Outro
59:11 Post-Show

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Carl Richell, and Neal Gompa.

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Second-hand TV wipes out broadband for entire village
Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB | Hacker News
Raspberry Pi USB Boot - UASP, TRIM, and performance | Jeff Geerling
Switching Between Proprietary Firmware and System76 Open Firmware - System76 Support — System76 Open Firmware is designed to be lightweight and performant with a simple and straightforward user interface.
OpenPOWER Summit 2020 Was This Week With Many Interesting Hardware/Software Talks - Phoronix — Roberto Innocenti provided an update on the POWER64 laptop that is still being worked on via community donations as an open hardware platform.
Open Hardware GNU/Linux PPC64 Laptop Potential - Roberto Innocenti, Power Progress Community - YouTube
Donation Campaign for Signal Integrity Analysis of the PCB Design - GNU/Linux Open Hardware PowerPC notebook
Arch Linux-Based EndeavourOS ARM Launches for ARM Devices - 9to5Linux
Deepin 20 Review — Gorgeous Distro Becomes Even More Beautiful.
Feedback: systemd skepticism
EmacsConf2020 — Have you heard about the recent announcement for EmacsConf 2020? It's a free two-day online Emacs conference scheduled for the weekend of November 28th and 29th, 2020.
cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor — A rust-vmm based cloud hypervisor.
marin-m/SongRec — An open-source Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust.
almarklein/mypaas — Run your own PaaS using Docker, Traefik, and great analytics.
sdushantha/tmpmail — A temporary email right from your terminal.

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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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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353: Feeling Elive

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 12 May 2020 20:15:00 -0700

We're blown away by the Enlightenment desktop, and its little known features, and we share a quick way for you to try it out yourself.

Plus our experience with Pop!_OS 20.04, Telegram's recent embarrassment, and some feedback.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Jill Bryant Ryniker.

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352: Three Course Battery

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 05 May 2020 20:15:00 -0700

Manjaro has a new hardware partner so Phillip joins to share the details, and we have the Lemur Pro in house for a battery endurance test like no other.

Plus an Arch server update, and Chris orders the new Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Jeremy Soller, and Philip Muller.

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346: The One-Click Trap

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:30:00 -0700

We debate the dangers and advantages of one-click deployments. Then Dan from elementary OS shares an AppCenter for Everyone update.

Plus a big batch of feedback that kicks off some wide-ranging discussions.

Special Guests: Danielle Foré and Neal Gompa.

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FOSS Responders — COVID-19 is impacting the open source industry in many ways. If you or your community has been impacted, please let us know
Seems that NVIDIA silently axed their GTC talk about Nouveau?
Update: NVIDIA GTC 2020 Announcements Postponed Entirely
Lemur Pro - System76
Brunch with Brent: Stuart Langridge
Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
FOSS Talk Live 2020 has been cancelled. — It seems very unlikely that London will be functioning by June so I have made this difficult call. I'm very sorry to anyone who has made travel and accommodation arrangements but I trust that everyone will understand why this had to be done.
TXLF 2020 Rescheduled — Given the recommendations by public health officials, we have decided to not have Texas Linux Fest on May 2020 at the Palmer Events Center in Austin, TX. We are currently investigating opportunities to bring parts of Texas Linux Fest online.
Unfilter is Back
TurnKey GNU/Linux — a free Debian based library of system images that pre-integrates and polishes the best free software components into secure, easy to use solutions.
Sandstorm — an open source project built by a community of volunteers with the goal of making it really easy to run open source web applications
Bitnami Stack
YunoHost — easily manage a server for your friends, association or enterprise.
Dedicated Platform Package Manager — an easy way to install and manage server applications.
Home Assistant Add-ons - Home Assistant
Feedback: Backup software tips?
Feedback: mac Apps and Little Snitch
Little Snitch and the Deprecation of Kernel Extensions
Feedback: Life at Microsoft
Feedback: Mint Success
Feedback: Mastodon
Feedback: The Windows Burden

343: What Linux is Best At

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 18:30:00 -0800

We try the Mac desktop for 30 days, find out what we think it does best, and where Linux will always have it beat.

This episode kicks off the start of a bigger conversation series.

Plus community news, very handy picks, and more.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Maria Komarova, and Michael Aaron Murphy .

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329: Flat Network Truthers

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:30:00 -0800

Build one flat network across cloud providers, personal networks, with even thousands of nodes. We feature two amazing open source solutions, and the creators behind them.

Plus community news, first impressions of Google Stadia, listener feedback, and some great picks.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Guus Sliepen, and Ryan Huber.

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328: My Mighty Fine Pine

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 18:15:00 -0800

The Pinebook Pro gets put through the travel test, while we get an update on Pine64 projects straight from the source.

Plus a few surpises from the System76 Super Fan event.

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

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324: RAMburglars

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 20:15:00 -0700

Is the ZFS tax too high? We pit ZFS on root against ext4 in our laptop pressure cooker and see how they perform when RAM gets tight.

Plus we take a look at Pop!_OS 19.10, complete our Ubuntu 19.10 review, cover community news, and lots more.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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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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320: RHELhide

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 20:30:00 -0700

CentOS goes rolling and announces version 8. Find out why we're excited to take a dip in this stream.

Plus we review what might just be your next Linux laptop, and explain why systemd is coming for your /home.

Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

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Ubuntu Touch on the Pinebook
CentOS 8.1905 — Hello and welcome to the first CentOS-8 release. The CentOS Linux distribution is a stable, predictable, manageable and reproducible platform derived from the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
CentOS Stream — CentOS Stream will be a rolling-release Linux distro that exists as a midstream between the upstream development in Fedora Linux and the downstream development for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It is a cleared-path to contributing into future minor releases of RHEL while interacting with Red Hat and other open source developers. This pairs nicely with the existing contribution path in Fedora for future major releases of RHEL.
Transforming the development experience within CentOS — The CentOS Stream project sits between the Fedora Project and RHEL in the RHEL Development process, providing a "rolling preview" of future RHEL kernels and features. This enables developers to stay one or two steps ahead of what’s coming in RHEL, which was not previously possible with traditional CentOS releases
Reinventing Home Directories — The concept of home directories on Linux/UNIX has little changed in the last 39 years. It's time to have a closer look, and bring them up to today's standards, regarding encryption, storage, authentication, user records, and more.
Twitch Becomes Premiere Sponsor of the OBS Project | OBS — We are excited to announce that Twitch is now officially sponsoring my work on the OBS Project! Since 2012 we've maintained a great relationship with Twitch and their engineers. They've always been good to us, and we've always helped each other whenever needed. Twitch has always been one of the biggest supporters of our project, and now it's official.
Free Courses at Linux Academy — 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 the 12th in San Antonio Texas.
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.
System76 Adder Workstation — For content creators, researchers, and gamers.
Adder WS Quickstart Guide
Sys76addws-memspeed Benchmarks
Sys76AdderWS-fio Benchmarks
Sys76AdderWS-graphics-magick Benchmarks
Clevo PB50RC-G
Starship Is A Minimal And Fast Shell Prompt Written In Rust - Linux Uprising Blog
Starship — The cross-shell prompt for astronauts

315: Wayland Buddies

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 20:00:00 -0700

We spend our weekend with Wayland, discover new apps to try, tricks to share, and dig into the state of the project.

Plus System76's new software release, and Fedora's big decision.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.

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System76 Blog — The New Firmware Manager — we’re excited to announce that you can now check and update firmware through Settings on Pop!_OS, and through the firmware manager GTK application on System76 hardware running other Debian-based distributions.
pop-os/firmware-manager — Generic framework and GTK UI for firmware updates from system76-firmware and fwupd, written in Rust.
Richard Brown on Twitter — Today I’m stepping down as openSUSE Chairman, leaving the Project in the fine hands of the openSUSE board and it’s new Chair, @GeraldPfeifer.
Approved: Fedora 31 To Drop i686 Everything/Modular Repositories - Phoronix — The FESCo group gave their formal approval today for permitting these i686 repositories to be removed beginning with Fedora 31
Jupiter Extras: Chris and Wes React to LINUX Unplugged — Nothing is worse than your past self. So we play old clips of LINUX Unplugged and react.
Scan for network vulnerabilities w/ Nmap - Linux Academy YouTube — With data breaches becoming so common, it's vital to be proactive in finding and patching severe vulnerabilities on our system. One of the free/open-source ways you can scan for these vulnerabilities is by using Nmap.
How to copy directories with SCP recursively tutorial - Linux AcademyYouTube — When working with servers you will often find yourself in a situation where you need to copy files from one machine to another. You can package them into a tarball and then copy a tarball over to a remote machine and then unpack it there. This is not a bad option but you can also use SCP to copy the files as they are and preserve the directory structure, without the need for packaging.
Linux Archives – Linux Academy
What’s Taking Wayland So Long? » Linux Magazine — Over the years, the project’s goals have evolved, but more or less remained: the development of a simpler, more efficient, and more secure display server.
pp3345/gnome-with-patches Copr — This repo contains gnome-shell and mutter builds based on the official Fedora ones with some additional patches (mainly to improve performance).
rafaelmardojai/firefox-gnome-theme — A GNOME👣 theme for Firefox🔥
Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator — Tilix is an advanced GTK3 tiling terminal emulator that follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines.
GNOME 3.34 Works Out Refined XWayland Support For X11 Apps Run Under Sudo - Phoronix — This allows the X11 clients to now work from a different VT without any extra environment variables set besides the DISPLAY. In other words, the same user on the same system can now more easily run clients with XWayland thanks to this commit coming late in the 3.34 cycle.
The MATE Desktop Is Becoming Quite Usable On Wayland Via Mir - Phoronix — The MATE desktop is seeing Wayland support thanks to Mir doing the heavy lifting. This is also becoming one of the leading examples of Mir's use-case following Canonical engineers re-tooling their display server with Wayland support after pulling back from their original design goals around Ubuntu Touch and mobile/convergence.
Plasma/Wayland Showstoppers - KDE Community Wiki — This page tracks the Wayland showstoppers through out the stack .
Wayland misconceptions debunked | Drew DeVault’s Blog — This article has been on my backburner for a while, but it seems Wayland FUD is making the news again recently, so I’ve bumped up the priority a bit. For those new to my blog, I am the maintainer of wlroots, a library which implements much of the functionality required of a Wayland compositor and is arguably the single most influential project in Wayland right now; and sway, a popular Wayland compositor which is nearing version 1.0.
Flameshot — Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software.
Auto Move Windows - GNOME Shell Extensions — Move applications to specific workspaces when they create windows.
Ed Therriault on Twitter — @ChrisLAS I’ve been out of the loop for a bit as I’ve been focusing on work and family but I need to know what’s a good incremental backup solution that will use very little storage. I’ll be uploading them to google drive. Ubuntu server 19. Thank you for your time.
seemoo-lab/opendrop — An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python
anirudhajith/process-wallpaper — Shell and python scripts that set the desktop wallpaper to a word cloud of the most resource-hungry processes.
Huge Survey of Firmware Finds No Security Gains in 15 Years – The Security Ledger — A survey of more than 6,000 firmware images spanning more than a decade finds no improvement in firmware security and lax security standards for the software running connected devices by Linksys, Netgear and other major vendors.

314: Bigger. Faster. Harder to Maintain.

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 21:30:00 -0700

It's huge, and it's getting bigger every month. How do you test the Linux Kernel? Major Hayden from Red Hat joins us to discuss their efforts to automate Kernel bug hunting.

Plus our honest conversation about which Linux works best for us.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Ell Marquez, Major Hayden, and Neal Gompa.

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Unpatched KDE vulnerability disclosed on Twitter — When a user opens the KDE file viewer to access the directory where these files are stored, the malicious code contained within the .desktop or .directory files executes without user interaction.
KDE rips out ability for KConfig to run shell code — KDE responded on Wednesday by removing the feature to have shell commands as values in the KConfig files, which was described as an intentional feature that allowed for flexibility.
First modern coreboot server platform — This platform is the first modern upstream coreboot server platform on the market with an Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 processor also known as Kabylake-DT.
Open-source firmware is the future - Blog | Mullvad VPN — This is the first time a modern off-the-shelf server platform gains coreboot support, and it is an integral part of realizing our vision of transparent and independently auditable VPN servers.
Adder WS - System76
System76 Preparing To Roll Out Their First Coreboot-Enabled Laptop - Phoronix — Ahead of this year's Open-Source Firmware Conference (OSFC) being held from 3 to 6 September at the Google and Facebook offices in Mountain View, System76 announced the Darter Pro OSFC Edition that ships with Coreboot.
System76 Granted A Thunderbolt License To Integrate Into Their Open Firmware - Phoronix — System76 has been granted a Thunderbolt license, meaning that we can now integrate Thunderbolt compatibility into our open firmware.
Jupiter Extras — New ideas, great interviews, events, and other content you will love. We bring you the Extras.
Free Courses at Linux Academy — August 2019 – Linux Academy
major.io — words of wisdom from a systems engineer
Continuous integration testing for the Linux kernel | Opensource.com — The call for continuous integration (CI) grows for more and more projects, the Continuous Kernel Integration (CKI) team forges ahead with a single mission: prevent bugs from being merged into the kernel.
Major's Continuous Kernel Integration Talk at Texas Linuxfe 2019
CKI Project — Continuous Kernel Integration
Continuous Kernel Integration project on GitHub
CKI hackfest agenda for Plumbers
0-Day Continuous Integration (CI) Test Service from Intel — With so much code contributed to each release, it’s impossible to avoid potential regressions. To eliminate them, you must first find the bugs that cause them, which can be like finding a needle in the proverbial haystack. This is what makes the 0-Day Continuous Integration (CI) Test Service so important. 0-Day delivers comprehensive, automated and continuous integration testing that monitors the Linux mainline and 800+ developer trees for regressions, helping find bugs before they reach the Linux kernel so problems can be fixed before they impact users. Simply put, 0-Day helps ensure Linux kernel quality in a highly complex development environment.
Snowpatch: continuous-integration testing for the kernel — The Linux kernel project lags many others in its use of CI testing for a number of reasons, including a fundamental mismatch with how kernel developers tend to manage their workflows. At linux.conf.au 2019, Russell Currey described a CI system called Snowpatch that, he hopes, will bridge the gap and bring better testing to the kernel development process.
Kernel CI Dashboard — FAQ
Linux Test Project — Linux Test Project is a joint project started by SGI, OSDL and Bull developed and maintained by IBM, Cisco, Fujitsu, SUSE, Red Hat, Oracle and others. The project goal is to deliver tests to the open source community that validate the reliability, robustness, and stability of Linux.
patchwork — Patchwork is a web-based patch tracking system designed to facilitate the contribution and management of contributions to an open-source project.
Kernel Patch-Evaluated Testing — KPET is a framework which will execute targeted testing based on changes introduced in the patch, e.g. a network driver or similar would trigger network related testing to be invoked, or a filesystem change would invoke filesystem testing.
Beaker lab automation project — Beaker is open-source software for managing and automating labs of test computers.
google/syzkaller — syzkaller is an unsupervised, coverage-guided kernel fuzzer
openQA | Introduction to the heart of openSUSE's automated testing — OpenSUSE is way too versatile for humans to test even the most common configurations. Therefore openQA was introduced and became an indispensable part of the openSUSE development and release processes. openQA is an automated test tool for operating systems. It allows to test the whole installation process of an operating system in a wide range of software and hardware configurations by leveraging qemu. This talk gives an introduction to openQA and explains how openQA works to help understand what it's output means.
OpenQA - Fedora Project Wiki — Fedora uses the openQA automated testing system as a significant part of the release validation testing process, and for testing updates. On this page you can find more information about openQA, how Fedora uses it, and how to install your own instance of openQA so you can try it out and contribute to test development.
AppImage by probonopd · Pull Request #72 · JupiterBroadcasting/CasterSoundboard — This PR, when merged, will compile this application on Travis CI upon each git push, and upload an AppImage to your GitHub Releases page.
TeleCast with popey — An experiment in lean audio delivery via Telegram. TeleCast with popey is an informal short-form audio podcast-like show
LINUX Unplugged 202: Halls of Endless Linux — Michael Hall from Endless joins us to discuss his new role, Endless’ involvement with Gnome & the unique approach they are taking with EndlessOS.
End of life - Fedora Project Wiki — Fedora Project maintains each release of Fedora according to the Fedora Release Life Cycle. The following releases have reached End of Life, and are no longer maintained and do not receive any updates.
quicktile — Adds window-tiling keybindings to any X11-based desktop.

306: Flipping FreeNAS for Fedora

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 20:15:00 -0700

We attempt something you never should, we live flip our FreeNAS ZFS install to a Fedora server.

Plus a REALLY weird PC, and our command line picks.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa.

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Netflix Uncovers TCP Bugs Within The Linux & FreeBSD Kernels - Phoronix — As Netflix's first security bulletin for 2019, they warned of TCP-based remote denial of service vulnerabilities affecting both Linux and FreeBSD. These vulnerabilities are rated "critical" but already being corrected within the latest Git code.
Initial Benchmarks Of Microsoft's WSL2 - Phoronix — Since the release of WSL2 as a Windows 10 Insider Preview update this week, we've been putting the new Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 under some benchmarks compared to WSL1 and bare metal Linux. While WSL2 has improved the I/O performance thanks to the new Hyper-V-based virtualization approach employed by WSL2, the performance has regressed in other areas for running Linux binaries on Windows 10.
The Future of Docker Desktop for Windows - Docker Engineering Blog — ith WSL 2 integration, you will still experience the same seamless integration with Windows, but Linux programs running inside WSL will also be able to do the same. This has a huge impact for developers working on projects targeting a Linux environment, or with a build process tailored for Linux. No need for maintaining both Linux and Windows build scripts anymore! As an example, a developer at Docker can now work on the Linux Docker daemon on Windows, using the same set of tools and scripts as a developer on a Linux machine
Check Out the Snap Store's New Distro Install Pages - OMG! Ubuntu! — In an effort to improve the experience for users wishing to install Snap apps on non-Ubuntu distributions, the Snapcraft team have launched distro-specific store pages for Snap apps.
Call for testing: chromium-browser deb to snap transition - Desktop - Ubuntu Community Hub — The chromium browser has been available as a deb package for all supported Ubuntu releases and as a snap since version 60, and the time has come to start transitioning away from the debs.
Atari VCS goes on $250 pre-order with Linux running on Ryzen R1000 — Atari has opened $250 pre-orders for its Atari VCS retro game console, which will run Linux on the new AMD Ryzen R1000 SoC. Indiegogo backers are set for a December release while new orders will be fulfilled in Mar. 2020.
A EALLY Weird PC… - System76 Thelio Review — There’s more than one company that makes its own operating system and hardware, and today, we’re taking a look at System76’s Thelio, an open source design you can build yourself.
Fedora · zfsonlinux/zfs Wiki — Only DKMS style packages can be provided for Fedora from the official zfsonlinux.org repository. This is because Fedora is a fast moving distribution which does not provide a stable kABI. These packages track the official ZFS on Linux tags and are updated as new versions are released.
Replacing a failed drive in ZFS on FreeBSD – Dan Langille's Other Diary — One of my new hard 3TB drives was acting up. I removed it and sent it off to be replaced. In the meantime, I received some 5TB drives and I added one of them into the existing vdev of the zpool.
Sharing ZFS Datasets Via NFS | Programster's Blog — The great thing about ZFS is that it is very easy to split your "pool" into as many datasets as you like. Each dataset is treated like its own filesystem, with its own rules and settings, which means with regards to sharing over NFS, that you can share more securely as client's will not be able to reach out of the bounds of that dataset/filesystem that you decided to share.
How to easily configure WireGuard - Stavros' Stuff — At its core, all WireGuard does is create an interface from one computer to another. It doesn’t really let you access other computers on either end of the network, or forward all your traffic through the VPN server, or anything like that. It just connects two computers, directly, quickly and securely.
Use Public Key Authentication with SSH — Password authentication is the default method most SSH (Secure Shell) clients use to authenticate with remote servers, but it suffers from potential security vulnerabilities, like brute-force login attempts. An alternative to password authentication is public key authentication, in which you generate and store on your computer a pair of cryptographic keys and then configure your server to recognize and accept your keys
rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc. - phiresky's blog — rga is a line-oriented search tool that allows you to look for a regex in a multitude of file types. rga wraps the awesome ripgrep and enables it to search in pdf, docx, sqlite, jpg, zip, tar.*, movie subtitles (mkv, mp4), etc.
pindexis/marker: The terminal command palette — Marker is a command palette for the terminal. It lets you bookmark commands (or commands templates) and easily retreive them with the help of a real-time fuzzy matcher.

292: Cheese on the SCaLE

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 22:30:00 -0700

A new voice joins the show, and we share stories from our recent adventures at SCaLE 17x.

Plus we look at the Debian project's recent struggles, NGINX's sale, and Mozilla's new service.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Ell Marquez.

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On 30th anniversary of web, Amazon shares first homepage, Google keeps doodling and more – GeekWire
The Web Foundation on Twitter — In 1989, @timberners_lee submitted a proposal that would change the world. To celebrate #Web30, for the next 30 hours we're asking everyone to contribute to a crowdsourced timeline of web milestones.
Introducing Firefox Send, Providing Free File Transfers while Keeping your Personal Information Private - The Mozilla Blog — Send makes it easy for your recipient, too. No hoops to jump through. They simply receive a link to click and download the file. They don’t need to have a Firefox account to access your file.
F5 Acquires NGINX to Bridge NetOps & DevOps, Providing Customers with Consistent Application Services Across Every Environment - NGINX — F5 is committed to continued innovation and increasing investment in the NGINX open source project to empower NGINX’s widespread user communities.
NGINX to Join F5: Proud to Finish One Chapter and Excited to Start the Next
Announcing the release of sway 1.0 | Drew DeVault’s Blog — 1,315 days after I started the sway project, it’s finally time for sway 1.0! I had no idea at the time how much work I was in for, or how many talented people would join and support the project with me. In order to complete this project, we have had to rewrite the entire Linux desktop nearly from scratch. Nearly 300 people worked together, together writing over 9,000 commits and almost 100,000 lines of code, to bring you this release.
xyproto/wallutils: Utilities for handling monitors, resolutions, wallpapers and timed wallpapers — Detect monitor resolutions and set the desktop wallpaper, for any window manager.
Winding down my Debian involvement — When I joined Debian, I was still studying, i.e. I had luxurious amounts of spare time. Now, over 5 years of full time work later, my day job taught me a lot, both about what works in large software engineering projects and how I personally like my computer systems. I am very conscious of how I spend the little spare time that I have these days. The following sections each deal with what I consider a major pain point, in no particular order. Some of them influence each other—for example, if changes worked better, we could have a chance at transitioning packages to be more easily machine readable.
A (Partial) Defense of Debian | The Changelog — I was sad to read on his blog that Michael Stapelberg is winding down his Debian involvement. In his post, he outlined some critiques of Debian. In his post, I want to acknowledge that he is on point with some of them, but also push back on others.
Leaderless Debian - LWN.net — One of the traditional rites of the (northern hemisphere) spring is the election for the Debian project leader. Over a six-week period, interested candidates put their names forward, describe their vision for the project as a whole, answer questions from Debian developers, then wait and watch while the votes come in. But what would happen if Debian were to hold an election and no candidates stepped forward? The Debian project has just found itself in that situation and is trying to figure out what will happen next.
Chris Fisher on Twitter — Went hands on with @Azure Spehere dev kits. I would not be surprised if @linuxacademyCOM students start asking for courses in this stuff. They keep the #Linux based OS up to date for 10 years, no subscription.
System76 on Twitter — Jupiter Broadcasting meetup photo! It’s always a guaranteed great time with @ChrisLAS and @jupitersignal!
Why snaps? - Popey’s talk at SCaLE 17x
Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup Page
Trying out software? - Feedback from Ken — I'm intrigued by and curious about much of the software you mention regularly. I'm tempted to try some of it, but I don't have a good sense of how easy it is to delete or clean off installed programs in a way that ensures a stable system without a lot of left over junk. Can you give some insight about how you usually handle this. I'd rather not have to nuke-and-pave the OS over and over to insure a stable system.
Home automation tips from Paul — I have only recently started to use node-red on my ubuntu box at home. Connected it easily to Alexa and also my Broadlink IR/RF blaster. But I am hardly scraping the surface.

280: Handmade Desktop Linux

Jupiter Broadcasting — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:30:00 -0800

We’re just back from touring System76’s new factory, and getting the inside scoop on how they build their Thelio desktop. This is our story about walking in as skeptics, and walking out as believers.

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

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ProtonMail is auctioning a Lifetime Account to support WireGuard
Mir 1.1 Released With EGLStreams Support To Work With NVIDIA's Binary Driver
ASUS is releasing encrypted kernel sources for the ZenFone Max Pro M1, Max Pro M2 and Max M2
Keyboardio: A Startling Discovery — On the one hand, there's a lot of money missing. We think there's a decent chance that money has vanished never to be seen again. Products that we said we sent you...simply never existed. We're genuinely sorry about that.
User Error
Linux Academy supports St. Jude's — For each Learning Activity that you complete between 12/16 and 12/26, Linux Academy will donate $1 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital this holiday season.
LinuxFest Northwest — 20th Anniversary! Past, Present & Future
LINUX Unplugged Blog - System76 Factory Tour
Meet the New Linux Desktop Champion: System76 Thelio
Feedback: Xrandr tip for wimpy
Feedback: Try minidlna
ReadyMedia - ArchWiki
Feedback: How can we tolerate systemd?
Microsoft/ethr: Ethr is a Network Performance Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP & HTTP.
remove.bg: A tool to remove background from image
Streama - Self hosted media server

Episode 273: International Hat Machines

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:30:00 -0700

We speculate about a future where IBM owns Red Hat, and review the latest Fedora 29 release that promises a new game changing feature.

Plus Chris returns from MeetBSD with his review, and we get the inside scope on System76’s Thelio hardware.

Special Guests: Alan Pope and Martin Wimpress.

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LKML: Greg KH: Linux 4.19 — These past few months has been a tough one for our community, as it is our community that is fighting from within itself, with prodding from others outside of it. Don't fall into the cycle of arguing about those "others" in the "Judean People's Front" when we are the "We're the People's Front of Judea!" That is the trap that countless communities have fallen into over the centuries. We all share the same goal, let us never loose sight of that.
Samsung Open-Source Group Reportedly Shuts Down - Phoronix — Samsung has apparently shut down the Samsung Open-Source Group (Samsung OSG) as a blow to the wider free software ecosystem considering the group's prolific contributions over the years from low-level open-source projects to desktop/user-facing code-bases.
You Can Play Over 2,600 Windows Games on Linux Via Steam Play
ProtonDB
ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 Workstation Dock — The ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 WorkStation Dock is a pioneering docking solution powered by Intel Thunderbolt technology and is designed exclusively for ThinkPad Mobile Workstations, delivering up to 230W power to charge both notebook and a full range of productivity and connectivity peripherals.
System76 Shares With Us More Details On Thelio Open Hardware, Pricing Starts At $1,100 USD
System76 on US Manufacturing and Open Hardware — To further our open computer ambition, we’re working to remove functionality from the proprietary mainboard. To that end, we designed Thelio Io, a daughter board that manages thermal and chassis control while also providing a storage backplane for the drives in Thelio. It’s open hardware and open source firmware, and a big step in the right direction.
1 Billion pulls from Docker Hub.
IBM TO ACQUIRE RED HAT — IBM will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $34 billion.
Statement on the IBM acquisition of Red Hat — Nevertheless, the world has moved on. Replacing UNIX is no longer sufficient. The decline in RHEL growth contrasted with the acceleration in Linux more broadly is a strong market indicator of the next wave of open source. Public cloud workloads have largely avoided RHEL.
RHEL 7.6 Released — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 is designed to be the trusted bedrock for hybrid cloud deployments
Announcing the release of Fedora 29 — This release is particularly exciting because it’s the first to include the Fedora Modularity feature across all our different variants. Modularity lets us ship different versions of packages on the same Fedora base.
What is Modularity :: Fedora Docs Site — Different users have different needs. Developers want the latest versions possible, system administrators want stability for longer period of time. There are many Linux distributions out there, each targeting a different audience, for example Fedora vs. CentOS.
Working with modules in Fedora — This article puts one of those modules to practical use, covering installation and setup of Review Board 3.0 using modules.
Blog - Chris Goes to MeetBSD — MeetBSD 2018 took place at the sprawling Intel Santa Clara campus. The venue itself felt more like an olive branch than a simple friendly gesture by Intel. In truth it felt like a bit of an apology. You get the subtle sense they feel bad about how the BSD's were treated with the Meltdown and Specter flaws.
TAP ROOM For the Ask Noah Party
Dbxfs - Mount Dropbox Folder Locally As Virtual File System In Linux — The dbxfs officially supports Linux and Mac OS. However, it should work on any POSIX system that provides a FUSE-compatible library or has the ability to mount SMB shares.
PSA: Dropbox ext4 limitation workaround — Create a loopback!
TaskBook — Popey recommended!