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• Thoughts on The University of Minnesota Kernel Ban
• Some 5.12 development statistics — By the time the 5.12 kernel was finally released, some 13,015 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline repository for this development cycle. That makes 5.12 the slowest development cycle since 5.6, which was released at the end of March 2020. Still, there was plenty of work done for 5.12.
• Linux 5.12 Release Announcement
• As Linux 5.12 released, Linus Torvalds warns next version will probably be rather large — "'Despite the extra week, this was actually a fairly small release overall. Judging by Linux-next, 5.13 will be making up for it."
• Flatpak 1.11.1 Brings Changes For Steam, Better Support For Command Line Programs — One of the changes with Flatpak 1.11.1 worth mentioning is allowing sub-sandboxes to have a different /usr and/or /app.
• steam-runtime-tools: pressure-vessel — pressure-vessel is a bit like a simplified version of Flatpak for Steam games.
• While we worry about WSLg Amazon is Positioned to Kill Server Linux
• Humble Bundle is removing their pay sliders and replacing them with two preset pay splits.
• Looking forward to Fedora 34 — In 2021, complaints about PulseAudio are scarce indeed; the quirks have long since been ironed out and, for most people, sound just works. Obviously, it must be time to rip out the audio infrastructure and start over. That is what Fedora has done in the 34 release; PulseAudio is gone, replaced by PipeWire.
• How to Upgrade to Fedora 34 from Fedora 33 Workstation
• Common Fedora 34 Bugs
• Fedora Linux 34 is officially here!
• Fedora 34 Changes
• Gnome40
• DefaultPipeWire
• XwaylandStandalone
• Some nice stuff not yet in stable that Fedora wanted
• WaylandByDefaultForPlasma
• AArch64 KDE Plasma Desktop image
• Fedora Media Writer — Write Fedora Images to Portable Media
• BtrfsTransparentCompression
• btrfs Wiki: Compression
• Fedora Workstation 34 feature focus: Btrfs transparent compression - Fedora Magazine — This article is going to go a little further under the hood and talk about data compression and transparent compression in btrfs. A term like that may sound scary at first, but less technical users need not be wary. This change is simple to grasp, and will help many Workstation users in several key areas.
• EnableSystemdOomd
• LINUX Unplugged 351: Lenovo Loves Linux
• Remove Support For SELinux Runtime Disable
• UnifyGrubConfig
• Unplugged Core Contributors
• Feedback: Running his own email for six years
• Feedback: Uses a Neat Trick with his Self Hosted Email
• Feedback PIck: Modoboa, Open Source email server
• PIck: zellij — A Rust and WebAssembly powered terminal workspace with batteries included.
• jupitergarage.com

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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.

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• Google Online Security Blog: Rust in the Android platform — We're excited to announce that the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) now supports the Rust programming language for developing the OS itself.
• Mike Kelly on Twitter — I’ve been curious to try out @rustlang and wanted to celebrate @LinuxUnplugged episode 400… so I combined both in a silly fun little project. Check it out… a mini-website powered by Rust… @ChrisLAS and @wespayne would be proud!
• Mars Helicopter Flight Delayed — During a high-speed spin test of the rotors on Friday, the command sequence controlling the test ended early due to a “watchdog” timer expiration.
• Work Progresses Toward Ingenuity’s First Flight on Mars — Over the weekend, the team considered and tested multiple potential solutions to this issue, concluding that minor modification and reinstallation of Ingenuity’s flight control software is the most robust path forward.
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• Mailcow.email — The mailserver suite with the ‘moo’ – 🐮 + 🐋 = 💕.
• Mailcow: dockerized documentation
• SOGo — SOGo is a fully supported and trusted groupware server with a focus on scalability and open standards.
• Zimbra: Open Source Secure Private Business Email & Collaboration
• Mail-in-a-Box Setup Guide
• Jupiter Garage
• GNOME Designers Explore a ‘Bottom Bar’ Layout for GNOME Shell

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• Too Much Choice | LINUX Unplugged — Does the Linux community lean on the age old excuse of choice, to brush of the real limitations of desktop Linux environments? We debate that, and then discuss the growing reasons to roll your own email server.
• Still Minty Fresh | LINUX Unplugged 100 — We reflect on 100 episodes of LINUX Unplugged, the themes from episodes past & then review Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon edition.
• Gallaghers’ Where U Brew — We are a family (and dog!) friendly tap room and brewery, working to make your DIY brewing experience a successful, positive, uplifting and rewarding pursuit of fabulously great beer, extraordinarily fine wine or cider, and even root beer!
• Cloudron Solution for Self-Hosting Web Appplications — Cloudron is a turnkey solution for running apps like WordPress, Rocket.Chat, NextCloud, GitLab, OpenVPN & many more.
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• Name the LUP 400 Beer - Straw Poll

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• 68k.news — Headlines From the Future
• Linux Action News 182 — GNOME 40 is out and we chat with the project’s Executive Director about the technical and visual improvements in the new release. Plus the facts around RMS’s return to the FSF board, and our analysis of the situation.
• Episode 118 — Stallman is back and ruffling feathers, PHP moves to GitHub, AMP might be on its way out, Audacity’s latest update gives us pause, Fairphone delivers an unlikely update, online events, and more.
• AlmaLinux OS Stable Release is live! — We are very happy to announce that today we are releasing the first AlmaLinux OS stable version. That's right, you can go right ahead and download the stable version and use it everywhere you need a stable, reliable, Linux distribution.
• Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week — Ubuntu and its flavors will be participating in another ‘Ubuntu Testing Week’ from April 1st to April 7th.
• Shells — Personal Workspaces Powered by Cloud Computers.
• An Interview With Zlatan Todoric, Open-Source Developer & Former Purism CTO
• Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer
• JB Telegram Group
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• Lutris — Open Gaming Platform
• [Mathieu's Blog] Not on the same page — The disconnect I feel between what I want to deliver in what I build and what the users asks for is now too big to ignore. In some way, I already knew it would be the case before I even started Lutris. I knew that what I was trying to achieve wasn’t in line with how Linux users usually behave…
• Feedback: Cockpit
• Feedback: Covid Appointment Script

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

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• Virtual x86 — v86 emulates an x86-compatible CPU and hardware. Machine code is translated to WebAssembly modules at runtime in order to achieve decent performance.
• The Linux desktop is boring again — Where I was once a constant "fiddler" with my desktop, I now want the interface to work how I want it to work, but still look the way I want it to look. I'm more of a minimalist now, so GNOME suits my needs on both levels quite well. However, I find myself rather bored with the Linux desktop.
• What to look for in Fedora Workstation 34 — Christian F.K. Schaller — The big ticket item we have wanted to close off on was Wayland, because while Wayland has been production ready for most of us for a while, there was still some cases it didn’t cover as well as X.org.
• Christian Schaller on Twitter — 2020 was a year where we focused a lot on polishing what we had and getting things past the finish line and Fedora Workstation 34 is going to be the culmination of that effort in many ways.
• GNOME 40 Introducing Headless Native Backend, Virtual Monitors — As part of this headless native back-end is also the ability to create virtual monitors via command-line options for debugging and other purposes. This also allows creating virtual monitor PipeWire streams.
• What’s New in Libhandy 1.2
• Reinventing tabs — In GNOME 40, Epiphany will feature a new tab bar. This isn’t just a restyling of the old one, but a ground-up rewrite.
• My geek stuff blog: Maps and GNOME 40
• GNOME 40 & your extension – GNOME Shell & Mutter
• OBS Studio on Wayland
• Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer
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• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Pick: kmon — Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor 🐧💻
• Pick: ebpfsnitch — eBPFSnitch is a Linux Application Level Firewall based on eBPF and NFQUEUE. It is inspired by OpenSnitch and Douane but utilizing modern kernel abstractions - without a kernel module.
• Feedback: Docker Socket Security
• Feedback: How to exit big picture mode
• Telegram App Is Booming but Needs Advertisers, and $700 Million Soon

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• Debian running on Rust coreutils — tldr: uutils/coreutils is now available in Debian, good enough to boot a Debian with GNOME, install the top 1000 packages, build Firefox, the Linux Kernel and LLVM/Clang.
• uutils/coreutils — An attempt at writing universal (as in cross-platform) CLI utilities in Rust.
• Steam Link now available on Linux — Special thanks to Collabora for helping make this possible.
• Steamlink Repo
• Steam Link on Flathub
• Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games to Run on Linux — Proton has been receiving many updates in the past few months as well, with the introduction of the Soldier Linux runtime container and Proton Experimental on top of the regular Proton releases.
• Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer | Linode
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• NASA’s Perseverance Drives on Mars’ Terrain for First Time — NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover performed its first drive on Mars March 4, covering 21.3 feet (6.5 meters) across the Martian landscape. The drive served as a mobility test that marks just one of many milestones as team members check out and calibrate every system, subsystem, and instrument on Perseverance.
• [Video] Cassini Burns into Saturn After Grand Finale
• Curiosity — NASA’s Mars Exploration Program
• nasa/fprime — A flight software and embedded systems framework.
• Wind River VxWorks RTOS
• Field-programmable gate array - Wikipedia
• JPL CubeSat ASTERIA — ASTERIA (Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics) was a technology demonstration and opportunistic science mission to conduct astrophysical measurements using a CubeSat.
• Pick: ocenaudio — Easy, fast and powerful audio editor.
• Pick: nativefier — Make any web page a desktop application.
• Linux Action News 179 — Canonical reveals long-term Ubuntu plans that you might have missed, and the "double ungood" warning from Linus this week.
• Post-show Pick: Jellyfin 10.7.0 — Note: Non-reversible database changes. Ensure you back up before upgrading.

Plus how Archive.org uses Linux, and more.

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

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• tsukae — Show off your most used shell commands
• GNOME Shell X11Gestures Wxtension — Enable GNOME Shell multi-touch gestures on X11 with this extension.
• TouchEgg — Touchégg is an app that runs in the background and transform the gestures you make on your touchpad or touchscreen into visible actions in your desktop.
• Apple Touch Bar Linux Driver Hopes For Upstream In 2021 — Sent out on Saturday by independent developer Ronald Tschalär was the latest reverse-engineered, open-source driver code that gets the Touch Bar and ALS support working for MacBook Pro 13,* / 14,* / 15,* models.
• Internet Archive Infrastructure — Jonah Edwards breaks down how the Internet Archive works, behind the scenes.
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• liamg/traitor — Automatic Linux privesc via exploitation of low-hanging fruit e.g. gtfobins.
• Don't expose the Docker socket (not even to a container) — Docker primarily works as a client that communicates with a daemon process (dockerd). Typically that socket is a UNIX domain socket called /var/run/docker.sock. That daemon is highly privileged; effectively having root access. Any process that can write to the dockerd socket also effectively has root access.
• Feedback: Minecraft Bedrock Bridge
• GeyserMC — Enable clients from Minecraft Bedrock Edition to join your Minecraft Java server.
• Feedback: Audio Hardware
• Feedback: Episode 394
• Feedback: Arch Discussion

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• Nvidia is nerfing its new RTX 3060 for Ethereum cryptocurrency mining — Nvidia is purposefully making its new RTX 3060 graphics cards less efficient to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency. New drivers that will accompany the release of the GPUs later this month will reduce the hash rate of Ethereum mining by around 50 percent, using software detection for cryptocurrency mining.
• Linux has made it to Mars — “It’s kind of an open-source victory, because we’re flying an open-source operating system and an open-source flight software framework and flying commercial parts that you can buy off the shelf if you wanted to do this yourself someday.”
• Linux Action News 177 — We share some exclusive details about the Linux-powered gear that just landed on Mars, and the open-source frameworks that make it possible.
• [Video] NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sends New Video and Images of the Red Planet
• Introducing Flatpak Builds - Open Build Service — OBS now supports building flatpak bundles, so you can build your own!
• Minecraft Bedrock Launcher on Flathub — The project runs the native libraries from the Android version directly on your computer.
• GNOME Shell + Mutter 40 Beta Released With Wayland Improvements, Overview Redesign — GNOME 40 beta is coming together with the GNOME Shell and Mutter components having seen new releases on Monday.
• GNOME Shell 40 and multi-monitor — Multi-monitor has come up a fair bit in conversations about the GNOME Shell UX updates that are coming in GNOME 40. There’s been some uncertainty and anxiety in this area, so we wanted to provide more detail on what the multi-monitor experience will exactly be like, so people know what to expect.
• PipeWire 0.3.22 Released With Many Improvements — PipeWire 0.3.22 was released this week with a whole lot of work in trying to see that Fedora 34 this spring can ship with it in use by default.
• PipeWire 0.3.22 Release
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• Feedback: Giving up on daily driver? — Do you sometimes wonder if it's time to give up on a Linux desktop as your daily driver?
• KXStudio — KXStudio is a collection of applications and plugins for audio production.
• Ubuntu Studio — A free and open operating system for creative people.
• ycollet/linuxmao audio packages Copr
• Drew's fedora Proaudio Copr
• yabridge — A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2 and VST3 plugins on Linux.
• ocenaudio — Easy, fast and powerful audio editor.
• Audacity — Free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.
• Avid Pro Tools
• SonoBus — SonoBus is an easy to use application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.
• PipeWire — It provides a low-latency, graph based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both pulseaudio and JACK.
• ardour — the digital audio workstation
• Airwindows Plugins
• Calf Studio Gear - GNU/Linux Audio Plug-Ins
• Linux Studio Plugins Project
• ReaPlugs for REAPER
• SWS / S&M Extension for REAPER
• Ultrasound — High-end podcasting for everyone.
• Pick: Proton-Caller — Run any Windows program through Valve's Proton.

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

Plus new insights into the future of CentOS, and Chris falls in love with a 14-inch screamer.

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• The unanswered question at CentOS community Q&A: How can we trust you now? — The CentOS board conducted a public Q&A just ahead of last week's FOSDEM 2021 open source conference – and there was an awkward silence when someone asked whether changing the end-of-life (EOL) date for a released project is something that might happen again.
• Events/Dojo/FOSDEM2021 - CentOS Wiki
• CentOS Dojo 2021: Board of Directors - YouTube
• Ubuntu Backports a Major App Update to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS — Ubuntu 20.04 LTS shipped with Thunderbird 68.x but this version is no longer supported upstream. This leaves Ubuntu developers will a problem: backport individual security fixes to Thunderbird 68, or port the newer (and still-supported) Thunderbird 78 to LTS users?
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• EndeavourOS Issues First 2021 Release For Easy-To-Use Arch-Based Linux Distro — For those that have been meaning to try out an Arch Linux based distribution that is easy-to-use and not time consuming with sensible defaults, EndeavourOS is out with its first new spin since 2021 -- and in fact their first fresh ISO release since September.
• Our first release of 2021 has arrived – EndeavourOS
• ASUS - ROG Zephyrus G14 14" Ultra-Slim Gaming Laptop
• Linux on Laptops: ASUS Zephyrus G14 with Ryzen 9 4900HS | Ars Technica
• AUR: snap-pac-grub — Pacman hook to update GRUB entries for grub-btrfs after snap-pac made snapshots.
• Feedback: Browser Sync
• xBrowserSync — Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!
• Feedback: Gaming on Wayland
• A free, open-source future for Mailspring - Information - Mailspring Community — Today, I am excited to announce that I am open-sourcing mailsync - the C++11 core of Mailspring that performs email sync - under the same GPLv3 license used by the rest of the app, making Mailspring entirely free software.
• Pick: ht — Yet another HTTPie clone, written in Rust.
• PIck: fddf — Fast data dupe finder, written in Rust.
• Pick: bottom — Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor, written in Rust.

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• VideoLAN is 20 years old!
• Refreshing the Ubuntu Desktop Installer — We have started working on the new desktop installer, and plan to have a preliminary version ready for testing in the 21.10 release; due in October 2021. This paves the way to transitioning to the new installer for the next LTS release, which will be 22.04, due for release in April 2022.
• Martin 🙂 Wimpress on Twitter — I’ll soon⏳be leaving Canonical. I’m very excited to be joining the fine people @SlimDevOps😃Despite the change, I’ll continue to lead @ubuntu_mate; it’s my passion💖project. Naturally, I’ll remain an enthusiastic #Ubuntu & Snapcraft community contributor💪
• Slim.ai
• OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T seeing work for mainline Linux kernel support — Thanks to the existing minimal mainline support for the platform, features like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and 3D Acceleration are already working at the current stage of development.
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• Unplugged Hangout Stream Live 1-26-2021 - JupiterTube
• GNOME 40 Approaches Its UI Freeze, Easy Means To Start Testing It — GNOME Shell recently merged its new horizontal workspaces, among other changes. The official GNOME Shell & Mutter development blog put out a new post on Monday highlighting their latest efforts. They are working to get the remaining big items in place over the next two weeks before the freeze and then an “intense period of polishing and bug fixing.”
• Another Shell UX Update – GNOME Shell & Mutter
• Welp, Ubuntu 21.04 Won’t Ship with GNOME 40 or GTK4 — Ubuntu devs cite the redesign of GNOME Shell in GNOME 40 and its potential impact on GNOME extensions (of which Ubuntu ships a few by default) and the Yaru GTK theme as reason to “stick” to GNOME 3.38 this cycle.
• Triple Buffering Likely Not Landing Until GNOME 42
• Ubuntu 21.04 Will Use Wayland By Default
• Quick Demo: Gnome 40 Multi-monitor Demo - JupiterTube
• Carl George on Twitter — I’ve been a @gnome fan/apologist for a long time. Dynamic virtual workspaces spanned across multiple horizontally arranged monitors are so damn wonderful to use. Productive. Efficient. Spatial.
• Carl's Workspace Layout Drawing
• Feedback: Chromium Woes
• Feedback: Ventoy
• UGREEN M.2 Enclosure for SATA NGFF SSD
• Silicon Power 256GB A55 M.2 SSD
• Pick: Ticker — Terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking

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• Security Disclosure 2: vulnerabilities in custom integrations HACS, Font Awesome and others - Home Assistant — Multiple custom integrations were found that allowed an attacker to steal any file without logging in. Previously implemented fixes were not sufficient.
• FEDORA-2021-48866282e5 — security update for chromium — Fedora Updates System — I gave a lot of thought to whether I wanted to continue to maintain the Chromium package in Fedora, given that many (most?) users will be confused/annoyed when API functionality like sync and geolocation stops working for no good reason. Ultimately, I decided to continue for now, because there were at least some users who didn't mind, and if I stopped, someone else would start over and run blindly into this problem.
• Introduction to Elasticsearch - YouTube
• Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | AWS Open Source Blog — In order to ensure open source versions of both packages remain available and well supported, including in our own offerings, we are announcing today that AWS will step up to create and maintain a ALv2-licensed fork of open source Elasticsearch and Kibana.
• AWS, as predicted, is forking Elasticsearch | ZDNet
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Jellyfin 10.7.0 Release Changelog — SyncPlay for TV shows and Music, significantly improved web performance, an upgrade to .NET SDK 5.0 for improved performance in the backend, and more!
• Jellyfin 10.7.0 RC3
• LWN.net - Wikipedia
• Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
• Jonathan Corbet - Faces of Open Source
• Pick: polybar — A fast and easy-to-use status bar
• Pick: dust — A more intuitive version of du in rust
• Pick: Waybar — Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.

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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.
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• 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.

Plus why we're excited about PeerTube again, some feedback, and more.

Special Guest: Wendell Wilson.

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• A Cloud Guru: In this course, ACG covers the skills and concepts necessary to pass the Red Hat RHCSA exam, using a mix of lessons and hands-on labs.

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• Linux Action News 171 — We explain the recent Qt upset, and then go hands-on with the new PeerTube release. Plus Wendell from Level1Techs joins us to discuss his thoughts on porting Linux to the Apple M1.
• Our new PeerTube instance
• Coder Radio 395 — Their lives change forever when they meet a handsome, tormented, laptop.
• Level1Linux: We’re ready for One GPU – Two OSs. Intel Xe, SR-IOV and thoughts on VMs
• Intel Xe MAX Needs Two Linux Kernels For Now - Meaning You Need To Use A GPU-Accelerated VM — The good news is the Xe MAX graphics can be used for a GPU-accelerated Linux virtual machine. The bad news is the Xe MAX support doesn't yet allow for dGPU usage by the host outside of a virtual machine context as it needs "two different [Linux] kernels" for operation in conjunction with the integrated graphics.
• Intel GVT-g - ArchWiki — Intel GVT-g is a technology that provides mediated device passthrough for Intel GPUs (Broadwell and newer). It can be used to virtualize the GPU for multiple guest virtual machines, effectively providing near-native graphics performance in the virtual machine and still letting your host use the virtualized GPU normally.
• Dell XPS 13 Laptop | Dell USA
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• openSUSE Feedback — I'd like to make an argument about Yast. OpenSuse definitely should be clearer in who it is intended for. But here is my humble opinion. It is not for folks who have been using Linux for years.
• openSUSE/opi: OBS Package Installer (CLI) — Search and install almost all packages available for openSUSE and SLE.
• openSUSE Docs Telegram Channel
• Richard Brown on Twitter
• Feedback: Try Alpine! — Overall, Alpine is a small, simple distro with a lot of tricks up its sleeves. It's definitely worth a look!
• Pick: GPU-Viewer for Linux — This project aims to capture all the important details of glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo in a GUI. The project is being developed using python 3 pygobject with GTK3.
• New Core Contributor Promo Code — 2021

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• bucklespring — This project emulates the sound of my old faithful IBM Model-M space saver bucklespring keyboard.
• Valve’s Steam Data For December Points To A Huge Dip For Linux Gaming Marketshare
• Valve Revises Steam’s December 2020 Linux Marketshare To 0.74% — Valve has updated their numbers and point to Linux still regressing percentage-wise but not as bad as originally reported.
• Linus Torvalds On The Importance Of ECC RAM, Calls Out Intel’s “Bad Policies” Over ECC — "The arguments against ECC were always complete and utter garbage... Now even the memory manufacturers are starting to do ECC internally because they finally owned up to the fact that they absolutely have to."
• Microsoft is building a new Outlook app for Windows and Mac powered by the web — Project Monarch is the end-goal for Microsoft's "One Outlook" vision, which aims to build a single Outlook client that works across PC, Mac, and the Web.
• Bug: Mailspring is an abandoned project. · Issue #2231 · Foundry376/Mailspring · GitHub
• Taking FOSDEM online via Matrix — FOSDEM will have its own dedicated Matrix server at fosdem.org.
• KDE Plasma 5.20.5 Released as the Last in the Series, Update Now — The Plasma-NetworkManager applet received a fix for an issue with the password entry jumping to different networks when searching for Wi-Fi networks.
• KDE Plasma 5.21 Desktop Environment to Ship with a New System Monitor App — The Plasma System Monitor app promises not only a fancier and modern user interface, but also a simpler way for monitoring system resources on your KDE Plasma-based GNU/Linux distribution.
• Get openSUSE
• SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE Wiki
• New Core Contributor Promo Code: 2021
• Planner — Task manager with Todoist support designed for GNU/Linux 🚀.
• AUR (en) - elementary-planner
• Tuxies Feedback
• Tuxies Voting Suggestion
• Feedback: Gnome 40 Changes

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

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• LINUX Unplugged 281: 2019 Predictions
• LINUX Unplugged 334: Particularly Poor Predictions
• LINUX Unplugged 335: Practically Perfect Predictions

We've tallied the audience votes for the best open source projects, desktops, distros, editors, games, and much much more.

Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Nate Graham.

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• Adventures in Linux and KDE
• DS920+ — Scalable NAS with SSD cache acceleration capability.
• find.synology.com
• Synology QuickConnect — Synology QuickConnect allows you to access your Synology NAS anytime, anywhere, from any device and browser, without having to set up port forwarding.
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• Cast Your Nominations for the 2020 Tuxies
• CloudLinux to invest more than a million dollars a year into CentOS clone — Project Lenix will be a free, open-source, community-driven, 1:1 binary compatible fork of RHEL 8 (and future releases).
• Feedback: Mike’s Stream Struggles
• Matrix Client: Fractal — Fractal is a Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust. Its interface is optimized for collaboration in large groups, such as free software projects.
• Matrix Client: nheko — The motivation behind the project is to provide a native desktop app for Matrix that feels more like a mainstream chat app.
• This Week in Matrix
• Lenovo begins rollout of Fedora Linux on their laptops, Ubuntu systems due soon — As the Fedora team mentioned in the original announcement, it's coming without any bloat as they said Lenovo "respects our open source principles". The only software they will have is from the included repositories, no extra fluff.
• ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 Spec (PDF)
• HW probe of Chris’ ThinkPad X1 Carbon
• LENOVO 20U9CTO1WW - Geekbench Browser
• chrislas’s Profile - Geekbench Browser
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• Feedback: Rob’s Academic Tuxies
• Rob’s blog: FOSS Academic
• Feedback from Marcus: The Best Top Tool
• Glances — An Eye on your system
• Pick: pbgopy — Copy and paste between devices.

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

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

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• Cast Your Nominations for the 2020 Tuxies — Nominate your favorite projects (the term used loosely here) and devices for the 2020 Tuxies.
• ZaReason is Done. The Store is Closed. — As many have noticed, our product line has been getting smaller and our tech support has been slowing down to a crawl. Unfortunately, the pandemic has been the final KO blow. It has hit our little town hard and we have not been able to recover from it. As of Tuesday, 11/24/20 17:00 EST ZaReason is no longer in business.
• Hector Martin on Twitter — Help make Linux on Apple Silicon Macs a reality! Patreon is up! I’m pausing billing until I get $4k/mo of commitment, so you won’t be charged until there is enough momentum to make the project viable.
• marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs | Patreon
• OpenZFS 2.0 Released With Unified FreeBSD/Linux Support, Many New Features — OpenZFS 2.0 has been officially released! OpenZFS 2.0 marks a major step forward for open-source ZFS file-system support for what started out as ZFSOnLinux but is now OpenZFS with unified FreeBSD and Linux support.
• GNOME 40 Mutter Moves Input Work To A Separate Thread — An exciting addition for GNOME 40 is that the Mutter compositor will be punting the input work off to a separate CPU thread.
• GNOME Circle Officially Announced For Letting More Apps/Libraries “Join GNOME” — GNOME Circle is effectively lowering the barrier for allowing new applications and libraries to become part of the GNOME project.
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• EndeavourOS — A terminal-centric distro with a dynamic and friendly community in its core.
• Feedback: Linode Linux Surprise
• Feedback: Black Friday?
• Feedback: What RF Ear Buds Does Chris Use?
• Amazon.com: Corsair Void RGB Elite Wireless Premium Gaming Headset with 7.1 Surround Sound
• Feedback: Pro1 X Smartphone
• Pro1 X Smartphone Functionality, Choice & Control | Indiegogo — A keyboard smartphone purposely designed for functionality, running Android, Lineage or Ubuntu.
• Pick: Haruna Video Player — A Qt/QML video player built on top of libmpv.
• Pick: gallery-dl — gallery-dl is a command-line program to download image-galleries and -collections from several image hosting sites. It is a cross-platform tool with many configuration options and powerful filenaming capabilities.

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• Rust Watch: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive — Utilizing an in-development Flash emulator called Ruffle, we have added Flash support to the Internet Archive’s Emularity system, letting a subset of Flash items play in the browser as if you had a Flash plugin installed.
• Ruffle — Flash Player emulator written in the Rust programming language
• Ubuntu Web Remix Wants to Be a Chrome OS Alternative, Beta Available Now - 9to5Linux — Ubuntu Web Remix uses Mozilla’s Firefox web browser, offers support for Web apps, and you can also install regular Linux applications from Ubuntu’s software repositories.
• FydeOS beta brings Chromium OS to the PineBook Pro (Android app support too) - Liliputing — The developers say they plan to add support for more ARM-based systems in the future.
• We’re Building the Future of GNOME — Our plans for 2021 are even more ambitious and involve sustaining our ongoing work while building up new initiatives and support for the growing GNOME project and community.
• GNOME Foundation Planning For More Initiatives In 2021 - Phoronix
• Fedora’s i3 team is working on an official Fedora Spin for Fedora 34 : Fedora
• i3 Kickstart files :: Fedora Docs Site
• Fedora 34 to Introduce KDE Plasma Spin for 64-bit ARM - debugpoint.com — The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) approved the recent proposal to provide a Fedora 34 KDE Plasma Spin for 64-bit ARM (AArch64) architecture.
• Fedora 34 Might Try To Use PipeWire By Default To Replace PulseAudio/JACK - Phoronix — For a while now Fedora has offered PipeWire packages but not yet used by default when it comes to audio handling. A pending change proposal for Fedora 34 would now route all audio through PipeWire rather than the existing JACK and PulseAudio.
• PulseAudio 14.0 Released With Better USB Gaming Headset Support — PulseAudio 14.0 comes with many changes compared to PulseAudio 13.0 that shipped all the way back in September of 2019.
• PulseAudio 14.0 Release Notes
• ASUS Offers First Motherboard Firmware Update Via LVFS+Fwupd For Linux Users - Phoronix — The ASUS P11C-C-4L is an EATX motherboard for the Intel Xeon E platform.
• fwupd 1.5.2 – Technical Blog of Richard Hughes — A plugin for the Pinebook Pro laptop has been added, although it needs further work from PINE64 before it will work correctly.
• Jasem’s Ekosphere: KStars v3.5.0 is Released — This release marks a significant milestone for KStars with the integration of StellarSolver, the Cross Platform Sextractor and Astrometry.net-Based Internal Astrometric Solver.
• Wave-share — Serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound.
• Wave-share on GitHub — A proof-of-concept for WebRTC signaling using sound. Works with all devices that have microphone + speakers. Runs in the browser.
• Feedback: Eric’s Wonderful Workstation
• Feedback: Container Host Choices
• Feedback: Podify
• Pick: podify — Create podcasts from anything youtube-dl can handle.
• Pick: Dev Fonts
• Hear Audio From NASA's Perseverance As It Travels Through Deep Space | NASA — A microphone aboard NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has recorded the sounds of the spacecraft as it hurtles through interplanetary space.
• Perseverance Rover’s Interplanetary Sounds by NASA

Plus a nasty reminder of how closely Apple monitors its users, and their fatal flaw that we think is outrageous.

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• New device puts music in your head — no headphones required
• Greg K-H at Linux app Summit 2020: What Linux kernel developers wish application developers would do better — In this talk, a Linux kernel developer gets to complain how his normal "test case" i.e. userspace code, could do better when it comes to a whole range of different things that have been learned over time by maintaining a stable interface to the kernel for 20+ years.
• Linux App Summit 2020 Videos Now Available From Steam/Valve To GNOME Circle - Phoronix
• Seattle GNU/Linux Conference
• Why Linux: Your Mac Isn’t Yours — On modern versions of macOS, you simply can’t power on your computer, launch a text editor or eBook reader, and write or read, without a log of your activity being transmitted and stored.
• macOS Big Sur launch appears to cause temporary slowdown in even non-Big Sur Macs | Ars Technica
• Apple apps on macOS Big Sur bypass firewall and VPN connections
• Macs are a privacy nightmare – OSnews
• Application Trust is Hard, but Apple does it Well — Security Embedded — It comes down to an argument of trust - do you trust Apple, acting in their best interests, is sufficiently aligned with your best interests too? Or do you believe they're a malevolent entity? It's not feasible for an individual to maintain the list of trustworthy or untrustworthy parties that Apple does.
• Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look – Jacopo Jannone - blog
• Not all bad news for Arm Macs Tho, might be able to bless Linux kernels — On arm64 macs, there's no all-security-checks-are-off mode. You can however bless your unsigned kernels through kmutil, which adds their hashes to the Secure Boot policy, allowing you to boot them.
• Longhorn on Twitter — So how will you boot third-party operating systems on arm64 Macs? You might have seen that pongoOS has been getting a ton of work in the recent past, and even more is coming. This work will allow us to support pongoOS as a second-stage bootloader for Apple Silicon-based Macs.
• patrick wardle on Twitter — In Big Sur Apple decided to exempt many of its apps from being routed thru the frameworks they now require 3rd-party firewalls to use (LuLu, Little Snitch, etc.) 🧐 Q: Could this be (ab)used by malware to also bypass such firewalls? 🤔 A: Apparently yes, and trivially so 😬😱😭
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• Precision 5750 17 Inch Mobile Workstation Laptop with AI & VR | Dell USA — The first thin and light 17-inch mobile workstation is also the smartest. Featuring Dell Optimizer for Precision with AI, the latest Intel® Core™ or Xeon® processors and NVIDIA® graphics. Starting at $2,139.00
• Dell vs Ryzen desktop
• ChrisLAS Workstation vs Ryzenbox
• Three way shoot out Ryzen vs Dell vs Chris Wks
• AI Benchmark Alpha Benchmark - OpenBenchmarking.org
• Ryzen 3600 Single/Multithreaded And RAM Tests Performance - OpenBenchmarking.org
• Pick: Yacht — a container management UI with a focus on templates and 1-click deployments.
• Lutris 0.5.8 Release

Plus some highlights from Arch Conf, and our reaction to Mint finally fixing their Chromium problem.

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• Arch Conf 2020 Videos
• media.ccc.de - Arch Linux: Past, Present and Future
• Project X - Pure Open-Source Coreboot Support On AMD Zen - Phoronix — Project X is about "eXcising binary blobs from the x86 part of Zen CPUs."
• OSFC 2020 - Open Source Firmware Conference
• Linux Mint pre-loads Chromium and Brings New IPTV Player — The package is available Linux Mint repository as “chromium” which you can install using standard “apt-get” or via the package manager. This is pure native Chromium and not a snap version.
• Monthly News – October 2020 – The Linux Mint Blog
• LINUX Unplugged 360: The Hard Work of Hardware
• Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US
• SpaceX Starlink users provide first impressions and unboxing pictures | Ars Technica — New speed-test data collected by Ookla and published by PCMag last week found average Starlink download speeds of 79.5Mbps and average upload speeds of 13.8Mbps in October
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• profile-sync-daemon — Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers.
• GPU-Viewer — A front-end to glxinfo, vulkaninfo, clinfo and es2_info.
• Ivan Molodetskikh: Video Trimmer — Video Trimmer cuts out a fragment of a video given the start and end timestamps. The video is never re-encoded, so the process is very fast and does not reduce the video quality.
• junegunn/fzf — A command-line fuzzy finder
• Fish shell — fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family.
• cxreg/smartcd — Alter your bash (or zsh) environment as you cd.
• wting/autojump — A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.
• gsamokovarov/jump — Jump helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.
• muammar/mkchromecast — Cast macOS and Linux Audio/Video to your Google Cast and Sonos Devices
• xat/castnow — commandline chromecast player
• xat/dlnacast — Cast local media to your TV through UPnP/DLNA
• skorokithakis/catt — Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources to your Chromecast.
• tridactyl — A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl
• philc/vimium — The hacker's browser.
• Use your ~/.local folder!
• Liquorix kernel for Debian users — Liquorix is a distro kernel replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads.
• PipeWire nightly for Fedora users — PipeWire nightly builds from the projects git master. Use at your own risk.
• Firefox Adwaita Theme — This is a bunch of CSS code to make Firefox look closer to GNOME's native apps.
• Feedback: Thoughts after youtube-dl
• Feedback: FreeIPA
• Feedback: Zentyal as an AD Server

Plus our thoughts on the bigger problem exposed by the youtube-dl takedown.

Chapters:
00:00:00 Pre-show
00:03:12 Intro
00:04:40 New LTS Kernel
00:07:16 Pop!_OS 20.10
00:08:47 The youtube-dl Problem
00:29:00 Why 1Password Matters
00:34:52 Housekeeping
00:37:09 Fedora 33 Review
00:56:44 Feedback
01:05:04 Picks
01:08:21 Post-show

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Neal Gompa.

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• XFS File-System With Linux 5.10 Punts Year 2038 Problem To The Year 2486 - Phoronix
• Linux 5.10 Is The Next LTS Kernel - Phoronix
• Thorsten ‘the Linux kernel logger’ Leemhuis on Twitter — #Linux 5.10 will be the next Longterm (aka LTS) #kernel (and thus supported for at least two years, but in the end it often are six). That’s what @gregkh said a few minutes ago in a “Ask the Expert Session” on #OSSummit Europe
• System76 Blog: What’s New in Pop!_OS 20.10
• A Look At The Performance Improvements With System76 Pop!_OS 20.10 - Phoronix
• YouTube-DL Removed From GitHub After DMCA Notice
• GitHub took down popular YouTube downloader — so devs made more copies
• 1Password for Linux beta is now open 🎊 🐧 🎊 | 1Password
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Unfilter.show
• Fedora 33 is officially here!
• Fedora 33 Review: What’s New and How to Upgrade | FOSS Linux
• Fedora 33 Released With Workstation Using Btrfs By Default - Phoronix
• Fedora 33 To Stick With systemd-resolved Following Last Minute Concerns - Phoronix
• Contribute at the Fedora Test Week for Kernel 5.9 - Fedora Magazine
• Feedback: System76 Disclosure
• Feedback: Open Source Support
• Feedback: FreeIPA
• Pick: annie — Fast, simple and clean video downloader.

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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Links:

• 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
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• 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.

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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Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

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

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.

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Links:

• KDE Begins Landing “Breeze Evolution” Refresh For Default Theme - Phoronix
• This week in KDE: Breeze Evolution work starts landing – Adventures in Linux and KDE
• Getting KDE onto commercial hardware [LWN.net]
• NVIDIA Unveils $59 USD Raspberry Pi Competitor With Jetson Nano 2GB
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Check out Coder Radio
• Unfilter.show
• LINUX Unplugged 362: The Hidden Cost of Nextcloud
• Nextcloud 20: One private cloud to rule them all | ZDNet
• New in Nextcloud 20
• Rclone — Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage
• Feedback: The Last Text Editor You’ll Ever Use
• Feedback: Next Generation of Linux Users
• Feedback: Nextcloud Todo system
• Feedback: Patreon and Memberful
• File Converter — Free and Unlimited File Conversions With No Download Needed, powered by WASM and FFMPEG
• ffmpeg.wasm: FFmpeg for browser and node, powered by WebAssembly

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:29 Intro
0:46 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:31 LVFS Hits 20 Million Downloads
4:10 Dell Precision 5750 Review Unit Coming Soon
6:27 LVFS Continued
7:29 Xen Hypervisor is Porting to Raspberry Pi 4
12:09 New Dell XPS 13 Developer Editions
14:56 Lenovo Expands its Linux-Loaded Selection
16:48 SPONSOR: Linode
19:31 WSL to Support GUI Apps
24:09 Will Microsoft Switch to Linux?
33:18 Fedora 33 Beta is Live
35:13 Housekeeping
36:13 Exploring Send and Receive
38:06 Send and Receive: Backups
39:37 Send and Receive: Setting Up the Volumes
41:00 Send and Receive: Rsync Comparison
43:40 Send and Receive: Data Retention Tests
48:10 Send and Receive: Comparing Performance
50:09 Send and Receive: Right Tool for the Job
55:29 Send and Receive: Rivaling NTFS and APFS
57:39 Feedback: Todo Apps
1:01:33 SPONSOR: Unplugged Core Contributors
1:02:30 Outro
1:04:17 Post-Show

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.

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Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 20 Million Downloads from the LVFS — Technical Blog of Richard Hughes
• Xen Project officially ports its hypervisor to Raspberry Pi 4 • The Register
• Lenovo Expands Its Range of Ubuntu Laptops - OMG! Ubuntu!
• WSLG Overview
• WSLG Slide Deck
• X.Org Developers Conference 2020 (16-18 September 2020): X11 and Wayland applications in WSL
• XDC 2020 - Day 1 - September 16, 2020 - YouTube (link with timecode)
• What’s new in the Windows Subsystem for Linux - September 2020 | Windows Command Line
• Support Wayland protocol to allow GUI apps to work. · Issue #938 · microsoft/WSL
• Announcing the release of Fedora 33 Beta - Fedora Magazine
• Phoronix Fedora 33 Beta coverage
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Deploying Btrfs at Facebook Scale - Josef Bacik, Facebook
• ZFS Send and Receive
• btrfs-send(8)
• zrepl — One-stop ZFS backup & replication solution.
• sanoid — Policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools.
• btrbk — Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes.
• Fruit Images Dataset
• Feedback: MS to Ditch Windows for Linux?
• Windows to become emulation layer atop Linux kernel, predicts Eric Raymond
• Last phase of the desktop wars?
• Feedback: Todo Apps — I'd love to hear more about todo apps, is that something you've covered before on self-hosted or LUP?
• Todoist
• Todo.txt — Future-proof task tracking in a file you control
• Taskwarrior

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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Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 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.

Plus, we debate the value that the Ubuntu community brings to Canonical, and share a pick for audiobook fans.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:48 Intro
0:54 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:25 Future of Ubuntu Community
6:51 Ubuntu Community: Popey Responds
9:31 Ubuntu Community: Stuart Langridge Responds
16:26 Ubuntu Community: Mark Shuttleworth Responds
17:30 BTRFS Workflow Developments
19:09 Linux Kernel 5.9 Performance Regression
24:48 SPONSOR: Linode
27:34 Cabin
29:48 Cabin: More Apps, Fewer Distros
33:41 Cabin: Building Small Apps
36:40 Cabin: What is a Cabin App?
44:34 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
45:20 Feedback: Fedora 33 Bug-A-Thon
47:53 Goin' Indy Update
49:40 Submit Your Linux Prepper Ideas
50:11 Feedback: Dev IDEs
54:15 Feedback: Nextcloud
58:20 Picks: Cozy
1:00:25 Outro
1:01:38 Post-Show

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Drew DeVore, and Stuart Langridge.

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Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Amiga Fast File System Return to the Linux Kernel – CubicleNate’s Techpad
• Future of Ubuntu Community - Community Council - Ubuntu Community Hub
• Mark Shuttleworth Now Plans To Restore Ubuntu’s Community Council - Phoronix — Mark Shuttleworth announced now that in cooperation with Ubuntu member (and former Community Council member) Walter Lapchynski, they are working to restore the Community Council.
• Btrfs development update | Josef Bacik’s Blog
• Deploying Btrfs at Facebook Scale - Josef Bacik, Facebook - YouTube
• The Latest On The Linux 5.9 Kernel Regression Stemming From Page Lock Fairness - Phoronix — Last week we reported on a Linux 5.9 kernel regression following benchmarks from Linux 5.0 to 5.9 and there being a sharp drop with the latest development kernel. That kernel regression was bisected to code introduced by Linus Torvalds at the start of the Linux 5.9 kernel cycle. Unfortunately it's not a trivial problem and one still being analyzed in coming up with a proper solution.
• Linux Mailing List - Re: Kernel Benchmarking
• Making apps for Linux, a proposal — I have a few thoughts on this topic, and so does Alan Pope, and so we got chatting and put together a proposal for a programming environment for making simple apps in a way that new developers could easily grasp. We were quite pleased with it as a concept, but: it didn’t get selected for further development. Oh well, never mind. But the ideas still seem good to us, so I think it’s worth publishing the proposal anyway so that someone else has the chance to be inspired by it, or decide they want it to happen.
• Direct link to Core Contributors Downloads Page
• Feedback: IDEs and Editors
• Feedback: Nextcloud (and borg too)
• GitHub - geigi/cozy — A modern audio book player for Linux using GTK+ 3.
• OpenAudible — Audio Book Manager
• Boot from USB · Issue #28 · raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom · GitHub

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

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

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

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Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• YARH.IO MKI: Raspberry Pi 3B+ Hackable Linux Handheld
• Linux Action News is BACK: Linux Action News 153
• Ubuntu 20.10 Adding Active Directory Support To The Installer
• The Problems Debian Is Facing In 2020
• PipeWire Is In Increasingly Great Shape - Ready For More User Testing
• PipeWire Late Summer Update 2020 — Christian F.K. Schaller
• Launching Pipewire! — Christian F.K. Schaller
• PipeWire GitLab
• PipeWire Homepage
• WirePlumber, the PipeWire session manager
• LUP 272: Prepare for Pipewire
• Akademy 2020 — Friday 4th to Friday 11th September
• Brunch with Brent: Aleix Pol
• Aleix Pol on Twitter
• BigBlueButton - Open Source Web Conferencing
• The Linux App Summit Call for Papers
• Coder Radio
• Unplugged Core Contributors
• ‘People Powered’ Book Club - Jono Bacon
• Feedback: Server challenge
• Feedback: Remote Office
• Self-Hosted 24: OPNsense Makes Sense
• Setup a secure (SSH) tunnel as a systemd service
• What no one needs: An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminal
• present: A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects.
• Why I Link to WayBackMachine Instead of Original Site - Hawaii GenTech - Big Island Website Management and Tech Assistance
• (WaybackMachine Link) Why I Link to WayBackMachine Instead of Original Site - Hawaii GenTech

Plus, we attempt to combine two internet connections with Linux live from the woods!

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
1:07 Intro
1:55 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:35 Lenovo Linux Laptops
11:21 Raspberry Pi Storage Speedup
13:31 SPONSOR: Linode
17:45 Linux Unplugged Core Contributors
18:58 Fedora 33 Bug-a-Thon
20:55 Using Two Internet Connections in Linux
25:11 Policy Routing
28:32 Net-ISP-Balance
31:46 Diving into Policy Routing
33:42 Speedify
39:35 Feedback
40:32 Pick: tunshell
43:16 Outro
45:46 Post-Show

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.

Sponsored By:

• A Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs.
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Lenovo begins rollout of Fedora Linux on their laptops, Ubuntu systems due soon | GamingOnLinux
• Linux Patch Proposed To Double Raspberry Pi 4 Transfer Speed To eMMC/SD Storage - Phoronix
• Unplugged Core Contributors
• (Test Week) Fedora 33 Btrfs Test Day" - Fedocal
• Dual 4G LTE Router for Public Transportation MAX Transit Duo- Peplink
• Bonding internet connections
• VPN Bonding - Simon Mott
• Aggregate internet links with mlvpn
• MLVPN Docs
• engarde: A go network utility to create a reliable IP tunnel over multiple connections
• WireGuard: Multi Link / VPN Bonding
• Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control: Routing for multiple uplinks/providers
• Net-ISP-Balance: Load-balance your Internet connection across two or more ISPs for improved bandwidth and reliability
• Improve Your Multi-Homed Servers with Policy routing
• A Quick Introduction to Linux Policy Routing
• Policy Based Routing: Concepts and Implementation
• Task-centered iproute2 user guide
• An older pure-iptables approach
• Simple policy routing load-balancing script
• Foolsm - Foobar Link Status Monitor
• Shorewall has multi-ISP support too
• How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
• Speedify
• Jupiter Broadcasting Matrix Quick Start Guide – Jay Tuckey’s Blog
• TimeToogo/tunshell: Remote shell into ephemeral environments 🐚 🦀
• Ubuntu Podcast
• The New Show

Plus our plan to help make a difference in free software, and we reunite with some old friends.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:42 Intro
1:08 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:59 Arch Update
4:13 Big News for Jupiter Broadcasting
6:58 Coder Radio Returns
8:08 Linux Action News Returns
9:45 The Future of Jupiter Broadcasting
10:23 Unplugged Core Contributors
15:01 Arch Update Part 2
16:49 Housekeeping
18:20 Arch Update Part 3
19:05 Bug Squashers Assemble
24:11 Fedora 33 Test Week
28:27 Fedora IoT
33:51 Pick: FetchCord
34:50 Wimpy's Discord Plea
37:14 Arch Update Part 4
38:16 Pick: Chowdown
40:59 Catching Up with Mike
52:21 Catching Up with Joe
54:30 Catching Up with Wimpy
1:01:19 Outro
1:03:34 Post-Show

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

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Links:

• nixCraft on Twitter: "On 25 August 1991, Linus at age 21 announced Linux project/system in a Usenet posting to the newsgroup. Here is original email that changed IT world forever."
• Coder Radio
• Linux Action News
• The New Show 10: The Smell of Arm
• Demerger FAQ
• Unplugged Core Contributors
• Founder discount
• Drew DeVore on Twitter: “Anyone looking for a talented full time audio editor/mixer/masterer? Or for a sysadmin with 20 years experience in Linux? Please DM me. Looking for a new full time gig!”
• Drew DeVore’s LinkedIn
• Drew DeVore: Podcast Producer and Audio Engineer for Jupiter Broadcasting – PES 194
• Fedora IoT becomes an edition
• (Test Week) Fedora 33 Btrfs Test Day" - Fedocal
• Feedback: Dylan’s friend made a Discord app
• chowdown: Simple recipes in Markdown format
• chowdown on GitHub
• Recipe schema
• Wimpy’s World - YouTube
• Self-Hosted
• The New Show
• 2.5 Admins
• The Mike Dominick Show

Plus we announce the official Jupiter Broadcasting Matrix server, share some great picks, and a thought-provoking email.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:35 Intro
2:03 Debian Requests Artwork
3:04 Google Kernel Code Dump
8:07 The Future of Rust
14:15 Manjaro Forum Meltdown
20:11 Matrix Server Migration
27:38 Housekeeping
28:44 Podcatcher Play-Off
29:08 Podcatcher Play-Off: Honorable Mentions
31:33 Podcatcher Play-Off: Winds
33:36 Podcatcher Play-Off: Cpod
35:33 Podcatcher Play-Off: Airsonic
38:16 Podcatcher Play-Off: Shellcaster
40:15 Podcatcher Play-Off: Castero
40:42 Podcatcher Play-Off: Castget
42:27 Podcatcher Play-Off: Pocketcasts
44:22 Podcatcher Play-Off: Antennapod
45:09 Podcatcher Play-Off: Overcast
47:22 Feedback: Mac Pro as a Daily Driver
48:38 Feedback: Internet Apocalypse
57:22 Pick: Quad SATA Kit for Raspberry Pi
1:00:01 Pick: Outrun
1:02:50 Outro
1:04:30 Post-Show

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

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Debian turns 27! - Bits from Debian
• r/linux: Debian turns 27!
• Debian Bullseye artwork call for proposals - entries must be submitted by October 15
• Google Finally Begins Their Open-Source Dance Around Linux User-Space Threading - Phoronix
• [PATCH for 5.9 0/3] FUTEX_SWAP (tip/locking/core) - Peter
• Laying the foundation for Rust’s future | Rust Blog
• Manjaro’s new Forum
• LINUX Unplugged Matrix Community
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• LUP LUG Mumble Server Info
• Fullscreen JB IRC Chat
• Gnome Podcasts
• gPodder — Media aggregator and podcast client
• brtmr/podfox
• Spotify
• Winds — Winds is a modern, open-source RSS and Podcast app built using React/Redux/Node by Stream.
• CPod — A simple, beautiful podcast app for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• AirSonic — Airsonic is a free, web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music.
• shellcaster — Terminal-based podcast manager built in Rust
• castero — TUI podcast client for the terminal
• castget — A command-line podcast downloader.
• Pocketcasts
• Pocket Casts acquired by NPR, other public radio stations, and This American Life - The Verge
• Overcast
• AntennaPod
• Feedback: ‘TheFake VIP’ still uses that same Mac Pro as his daily driver — I still, to this day, run a Mac Pro just like that as my daily driver, in Windows, macOS and Linux (Arch with i3). It's still a dream machine for me.
• Feedback: Would you still use Linux if there was no more internet? — So let me ask you an important question. Would you still use Linux if there was no more internet?
• QUAD SATA KIT for Raspberry PI — Easily build your own NAS / Media-server based on Raspberry Pi 4 Description mount up to 4x 2.5" HDD or SSD
• outrun — Execute a local command using the processing power of another Linux machine.
• Debconf 20 starts this week.
• Flipper Zero — Tamagochi for Hackers

Plus Dan and Cassidy from elementary OS join us to discuss version 6.0.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:45 Intro
2:25 KDE Neon 20.04
4:17 Mozilla Resturcturing
8:21 elementary OS 6
18:29 Housekeeping
20:00 Matrix
22:33 Silver Salvage
29:43 Matrix Server Punishment Test
33:04 Clients Galore
35:06 Secure By Default
43:56 Outro
45:08 Post-Show

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks
• KDE neon rebased on 20.04
• Mozilla is laying off 25% of their employees
• Large part of Mozilla’s Sec Team Laid Off
• Let’s Talk elementary OS 6 ⋅ elementary Blog
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• LUP LUG Mumble Server Info
• Fullscreen JB IRC Chat
• Chris Fisher on Twitter: "Pulled an old Mac Pro out of storage for today’s @LinuxUnplugged live test.
• 2009 Mac Pro | eBay
• apple-history.com / Mac Pro (Early 2009, Dual CPU)
• Matrix - An open network for secure, decentralized communication
• Element - encrypted group video calls end-to-end encryption team messaging
• Element Web App

Plus community news, feedback, and more.

Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Neal Gompa.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Eight Great Features Of Linux 5.8 - Phoronix
• Feedback from David: Trackball for RSI
• Standing Desks from Autonomous
• MX Vertical Advanced Ergonomic Mouse
• Debian: GRUB2 UEFI SecureBoot vulnerability - ‘BootHole’
• A long list of GRUB2 secure-boot holes
• There’s a Hole in the Boot
• Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole patches
• Valve Hires Former Emulator Developer To Work On Open-Source Graphics For Linux
• Nvidia-Arm Deal Would Be a Technology ‘Disaster’
• Invitation to Play Along | PINE64
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• LUP LUG Mumble Server Info
• Fullscreen JB IRC Chat - bit.ly/jupiterchat
• Jabra Elite Active 65t Tech Specs
• Amazon.com: Jabra Elite Active 65t Earbuds
• PulseAudio Loopbacks and Virtual Sinks
• PulseAudio Hacks for Zoom
• Shure SM58-LC Cardioid Dynamic Vocal Microphone
• Corsair Void RGB Elite Wireless Premium Gaming Headset
• ATR2100-USB - Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone | Audio-Technica
• Booth Junkie Review: Audio Technica ATR-2100 USB review
• Feedback: Another reason to love MX Linux

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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Links:

• Say hello to the Linux Terminal 2.0 for Chrome OS
• Change in manjaro team composition - Manjaro Linux Forum
• Phil’s version of the story
• Notebook for Package Building · Expense #22477 - Open Collective
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• LUP LUG Mumble Server Info
• Fullscreen JB IRC Chat - bit.ly/jupiterchat
• Intel’s 7nm is busted, chips delayed, may have to use rival foundries to get GPUs out for US govt exascale super • The Register
• Intel Restructuring: Murthy Leaves, Ann Kelleher Takes Over 7nm And 5nm Development
• Arash Massoudi on Twitter: “Huge tech deal: Japan’s SoftBank to buy UK’s ARM Holdings for $32.4bn tomorrow"
• Hermann Hauser on Twitter: “ARM is the proudest achievement of my life. The proposed sale to SoftBank is a sad day for me and for technology in Britain.” /
• Brit chip biz ARM legs it to Softbank for $32bn • The Register
• Some facts about the Acorn RISC Machine - Google Groups
• Linux Devs had Arm builds are early as spring of 1994.
• Arch Linux ARM first released March 11, 2002
• Raspberry Pi - Single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Mainly using Broadcom SoCs
• Pine64 - initially Pine Microsystems, founded by TL Lim, the inventor of the PopBox and Popcorn Hour series of media players. Mainly using RockChip SoCs
• Beaglebone - a low-power open-source single-board computer produced by Texas Instruments in association with Digi-Key and element14. Using Texas Instruments SoCs
• Odroid - a series of single-board computers and tablet computers created by Hardkernel, located in South Korea. Mainly using Amlogic SoCs
• Orange Pi - an open source single board computer, based on Raspberry Pi but generally lower in price and manufactured by Shenzhen Xunlong Software. Mainly using Allwinner based SoCs
• Banana Pi - a line of low-cost credit card-sized single-board computers produced by the Chinese company Shenzhen SINOVOIP Co., Ltd. Using various SoCs including Realtek, Mediatek, Allwinner, etc
• NanoPi - a single board computer computer company based out of GuangDong, China. Mainly shipping with Samsung, Allwinner, and RockChip SoCs
• PINEBOOK Pro | PINE64
• Dual-display version of RK3399-based Rock Pi 4 starts at $59
• This is what HoneyComb LX2K 16-core Arm Workstation Looks Like (Video)
• Kobol Helios64 - Will your next NAS be ARM powered?
• Ubports - Linux on your phone!
• Amazon’s Graviton - 40% better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances
• YouTube: Making Pi ServerReady - Time for cheap Arm Infrastructure be Standards-Compliant — Even if you don't care about IoT, getting this class of devices to be standards-compliant will provide developers, tech evangelists and early adopters with $50-$100 ServerReady platforms, solving a real headache today around pricing/availability of systems in the market.
• Server systems – Arm Developer
• Arm announces ServerReady compliance program - Processors blog - Processors - Arm Community
• Raspberry Pi 4 Strides Towards ServerReady Status via SBBR-Compliant UEFI Firmware Effort - Hackster.io
• s-tui - Stress-Terminal UI, monitors CPU temperature, frequency, power and utilization with built in stress testing options
• Tuptime – A CLI Utility To Find Linux System Uptime

Plus an easy way to remotely watch movies with others, and a bunch of your feedback.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:29 Intro
2:34 RSI Woes
7:21 Jellyfin
13:12 Proxmox Backup Server
16:22 ProcMon for Linux
20:16 Fedora 33 Defaults to Btrfs
24:27 systemd-oomd
26:38 Housekeeping
28:41 Riot Becomes Element
32:36 Mysterious Microsoft Job Posting
39:19 Picks: Polybar
40:57 Picks: ytop
42:43 Feedback
48:50 Outro
50:06 Post-Show

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.

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Links:

• GNOME Opens an Official Merch Shop Selling T-Shirts, More
• GNOME Shop – GNOME’s very own merch shop!
• Jellyfin Release - v10.6.0 - Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
• Proxmox Backup Server (beta) | Proxmox Support Forum
• GitHub - microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux:
• Approved: Fedora 33 Desktop Variants Defaulting To Btrfs File-System
• Feedback: Stephen uses Btrfs to ensure safe upgrades on openSUSE
• Issue #2429: F33 System-Wide Change: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants
• systemd-oomd Looks Like It Will Come Together For systemd 247
• Welcome to Element!
• Job details | Microsoft Careers
• Guadec 2020 July 22nd – 28th, 2020
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• LUP LUG Mumble Server Info
• Fullscreen JB IRC Chat
• GitHub - polybar/polybar: A fast and easy-to-use status bar
• GitHub - cjbassi/ytop: A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop written in rust
• Feedback: Follow-up Questions About Nextcloud
• Feedback: Rick had a suggestion about our crazy storage costs too
• Feedback: Advait wants time stamps
• Feedback: An open source space industry tracking app for Linux
• GitHub - shiroininjaTech/AstroNinja-Alpha: an all-around tracker of the space industry.
• Your desktop everywhere - ubiDesktop

Plus why Linus Torvalds has become the master of saying no.

Special Guest: Drew DeVore.

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Links:

• Linus Torvalds Says He’s No Longer a Programmer: My Job Is to Say No
• Keynote: Linus Torvalds in conversation with Dirk Hohndel
• List of Linux kernel names - Wikipedia
• Implementing S3 Compatible Primary Storage for NextCloud
• Alone (TV series) - Wikipedia
• Feedback: LVFS fwupdmgr updates on Thinkpads
• Feedback: Chas wonders if we would change anything about our Thinkpad configuration
• DPL elections 2020, congratulations Jonathan Carter! - Bits from Debian
• Debian Mailing Lists -- Complete Index
• Free Software Activities for 2020-05 – Jonathan Carter
• DebConf20 Moves Online
• Chris Tries i3 for the First Time... LIVE

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

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

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Links:

• Show & Tell: A steampunk desktop background radiation monitor
• Getting Things GNOME 0.4 released!
• Getting Things GNOME - GNOME Wiki
• Getting Things GNOME on Flathub
• Stirring things up for Fedora 33
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• openSUSE Leap 15.2 Release Notes
• Leap 15.2 - openSUSE Wiki
• openSUSE Leap 15.2 Released With Focus on Containers and AI
• Rebble.io: Bring life back to your Pebble
• Zettlr: A Markdown Editor for the 21st century.
• Roam Research: A note-taking tool for networked thought.
• Athens Research: An open source take on Roam
• Org-roam: a Roam replica built on top of the all-powerful Org-mode.
• Doom Emacs: Doom is a configuration framework for GNU Emacs
• Spacemacs: A community-driven Emacs distribution

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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Links:

• CutiePi Tablet - Raspberry Pi, Untethered by Phoebus Torralba — Kickstarter
• CutiePi Is World’s Thinnest, Hackable Raspberry Pi Tablet, Available for Pre-Order Now
• CutiePi Shell - The UI for the CutiePi tablet
• GNOME’s Window Rendering Culling Was Broken Leading To Wasted Performance
• Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon RELEASED
• linuxmint/warpinator: Share files across the LAN
• Snap Store — Linux Mint User Guide documentation
• Monthly News – May 2020 – The Linux Mint Blog
• The Hunt for the Oryx Pro [Video]
• System76 Blog — Things We Love About the New Oryx Pro
• Oryx Pro - System76 Store
• New high-end Linux laptop: System76’s Oryx Pro packs latest Intel Core i7 H-series CPU
• Jeremy Soller on Twitter: “Spying on I2C traffic”
• Ubuntu Touch Q&A 78
• UBports GSI brings Ubuntu Touch to any Project Treble-supported Android device
• cadmus: A GUI frontend for @werman’s Pulse Audio real-time noise suppression plugin
• werman/noise-suppression-for-voice: Noise suppression plugin based on Xiph’s RNNoise
• RNNoise: Learning Noise Suppression
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!

Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Neal Gompa.

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• Generating cooking recipes using TensorFlow and a LSTM Recurrent Neural Network
• ARM-based Japanese supercomputer is now the fastest in the world
• Ampere donates Arm64 server hardware to Debian to fortify the Arm ecosystem
• Google’s Bringing Its Apple AirDrop Rival to Linux, Windows, and Mac
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions
• Apple is switching Macs to its own processors starting later this year
• Tim Cook says first Mac with Apple Silicon shipping to consumers by end of this year
• r/linux: How will Apple’s ARM announcement affecting Linux going forward?
• r/linux: Let’s suppose Apple goes ARM, MS follows its footsteps and does the same. What will happen to Linux then? Will we go back to “unlocking bootloaders”?
• Jared Domínguez on Twitter — Today’s cynical take: Apple supporting Linux VMs is a way to make devs feel good with minimal effort (offload the work to Parallels/BSD community) while allowing Apple to deprecate their already super stale Unix userland. macOS itself will become less accessible.
• unsilence: Console Interface and Library to remove silent parts of a media file 🔈

Today's Btrfs is not yesterday's hot mess, but a modern battle-tested filesystem, and we'll prove it.

Plus our thoughts on GitHub dropping the term "master", and the changes Linux should make NOW to compete with commercial desktops.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.

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Links:

• SpaceX: We’ve launched 32,000 Linux computers into space for Starlink internet
• Issue #54: Default disk partitioning layout for Workstation - fedora-workstation - Pagure.io
• 16 Jun, MEETING AGENDA - desktop - Fedora Mailing-Lists
• [Discussion] What do we think about Github’s decision to start using main instead of master as a branch name?
• ZFS co-creator boots ‘slave’ out of OpenZFS codebase, says ‘casual use’ of term is ‘unnecessary reference to a painful experience’
• OpenZFS: Remove unnecessary references to slavery
• GitHub will no longer use the term ‘master’ as default branch because of negative association - r/programming
• Community Central: Welcoming Nomenclature - YouTube
• PinePhone: postmarketOS community edition
• PineTab sold out in 72 hours.
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions

Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Jill Bryant Ryniker.

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Links:

• BunsenLabs Linux
• Puppy Linux Home
• The FreeBSD Project
• SparkyLinux
• KolibriOS official site
• antiX Linux

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

Special Guests: Dan Johansen and Drew DeVore.

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Links:

• snakeware: A free Linux distro with a fully Python userspace
• GNOME gets big open-source patent win
• GNOME Patent Suite Update
• GNOME Foundation post about patent suit resolution
• Thermal Pressure in the task scheduler
• A New Kernel Patch Is Being Discussed That’s Needed For Newer Windows Games On Wine
• PINE64 on Twitter: “Everyone receiving their #PinebookPro laptops. Appears that the factory has left the WiFi privacy switches turned ON. To enable WiFi you’ll need to disengage the privacy switch"
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions
• Introducing the 2020 XPS 13 Developer Edition — (this one goes to 32!)
• XPS 13 in the Dell Store
• Wes' XPS 13 Image Gallery
• Performance comparison to Lemur Pro
• Jim’s take on the new XPS 13
• Howdy: Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
• Feedback: Why not LVM/XFS?

Special Guest: Drew DeVore.

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Links:

• VIMKiller: Exiting VIM is hard; sometimes we need to take drastic measures
• How to Boot Raspberry Pi 4 From a USB SSD or Flash Drive
• USB Boot Forum post announcement
• rpi-eeprom-update usage
• The default boot mode is now 0xf41 which means continuously try SD then USB mass storage.
• Raspberry Pi’s firmware master branch on Github
• Put Btrfs in my Pi Last Night...
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions
• netdiscover
• nmap
• MAC Address Lookup Tool
• WiFi Analyzer (open-source) - Apps on Google Play
• WiFiAnalyzer on F-Droid
• LinSSID - WiFi Analyzer for Linux
• wavemon: an ncurses-based monitoring application for wireless network devices
• Your COVID-19 Internet problems might be COVID-19 Wi-Fi problems
• The Ars Technica semi-scientific guide to Wi-Fi Access Point placement
• How Ars tests Wi-Fi gear (and you can, too)
• Jim’s network-testing tools
• Home router: one option is to build it yourself!
• FireHOL and FireQoS - Linux firewalling and traffic shaping for humans
• SuperShaper-SOHO: Packet filtering / QoS setup for typical home/small office
• Throttle network bandwidth on Linux
• Dnsmasq - network services for small networks.
• smokeping
• vaping: a healthy alternative to SmokePing!
• speedtest: self-hosted speedtest
• Self-Hosted Podcast
• Feedback: A big thank you

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

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Links:

• WireGuard patchset for OpenBSD
• Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source
• Craig Loewen on Twitter: "@satyanadella has just announced that WSL will include GPU compute support, and GUI application support! Get ready for more WSL announces and details today
• Craig Loewen on Twitter: “@Kiview @thezigpc @cinnamon_msft @satyanadella Our initial prototypes use Wayland”
• Hayden Barnes on Twitter: “WSL2 is getting GUI support, pass-through GPU support, and a new way to easily install.”
• Hayden Barnes on Twitter: "More glimpses of GUI support for WSL 2 from @shanselman and @cinnamon_msft
• DirectX ❤ Linux | DirectX Developer Blog
• Windows Terminal 1.0
• Windows 10 Is Getting Its Own Built-In Package Manager
• PineTab pre-orders open in late May
• PineTab running UBPorts with 5.6 kernel and Lima graphics drivers
• ManjaroBook AMD Ryzen
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• Join us on Telegram
• Pi-hole v5.0 is here!
• Inside the Brotherhood of Pi-hole Ad Blockers
• Linux Mint Success from Zachary
• Pi Boot question from Kamil
• Raspberry Pi 4 USB Boot Config Guide for SSD / Flash Drives
• XPS Feedback Request
• Pick: multi-boot ISO USB
• Ventoy: just copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it!

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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Links:

• Jessie Frazelle on Twitter: “You are stranded in a weird shell and you are only allowed to bring three commands, which ones do you choose: Mine -> | (gotta have pipes) awk sed”
• Ubuntu’s Server Installer Leaked Encrypted Storage Passphrase to Its Log
• Gnome is Not the Default
• Telegram annoucnes the discontinuation of blockchain project
• ELF Libs Updates
• Check out eLive Beta
• Elive info from Founder
• Elive Beta With Enlightenment Is Brilliant, but Don’t Get Lost in the Maze
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
• Infinite Escape Room Podcast
• Infinite Escape Room Podcast on Twitter
• System76 Blog — What’s New with Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS
• Jack Wallen’s Take on Pop!_OS 20.04
• Tiling and PaperWM from Cris
• PaperWM
• Gnome and Tiling from Richard
• Gamma’s Dotfile Tool
• git-crypt: Transparent file encryption in git

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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Links:

• Inkscape 1.0
• Promo video: Inkscape 1.0 is here! - YouTube
• Return of the Lite - an impressively powerful, lightweight and compact 11” Linux laptop - Manjaro Linux Forum
• Compare Laptops - Find the best Linux Laptop – Star Labs®
• Buy a Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera – Raspberry Pi
• Cloud Playground now supports Ubuntu 20.04!
• Cloud Playground comes to ACG for Business
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• Televised Table Reads Promo
• Televised Table Reads Twitter
• Lemur Pro Pictures on @instachrislas
• Lemur Pro Speakers Question from Eddie
• Internal Overview - System76 Technical Documentation
• Lemur Pro Peformance Benchmarks
• Chris Fisher on Twitter: “Just got done putting @system76’s Lemur Pro through the ultimate battery endurance test. 12 hours of working from the woods, no power outlets, live streaming with @OBSProject. I’ll tell you how it went on tomorrow’s @LinuxUnplugged
• Ovenell’s Heritage Inn
• Useful Lemur Pro docs
• Audio Recorder Tip from Mike
• Audio Recorder
• sound - Capturing ONLY desktop audio with ffmpeg - Ask Ubuntu
• FFmpeg Devices Documentation: PulseAudio
• Feedback from Jason: New Hosted Wireguard Service
• Tailscale: Private networks made easy

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

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

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Links:

• Red Hat Summit 2020 Virtual Experience
• Wimpy on Twitter: There are new ✨ features in #Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 that no one is aware of or talking 🙊 about, so here they are; straight from the horses mouth 🐴 Also, a little peek behind the curtain 👀 regarding how OEM requirements help shape desktop #Linux 🐧
• What’s new in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS?
• LINUX Unplugged 350: Focal Focus
• Lenovo is Bringing Fedora Linux to its ThinkPad Laptops
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• ACG launches Cloud Playgrounds for B2B
• Fedora 32 Officially Released With EarlyOOM, SSD TRIM Finally Flipped On, GNOME 3.36
• Fedora 32 Schedule: All Tasks
• Fedora Release Life Cycle
• Fedora 32 Cleared For Release Next Week
• Fedora 32 ChangeSet
• Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years — Christian F.K. Schaller
• GNOME 3.36
• Login and unlock in GNOME Shell 3.36
• Enable Earlyoom
• Previously covered on LINUX Unplugged 348: OK OOMer
• Change firewalld default to nftables
• Make iptables-nft preferred iptables implementation
• Nftables: a new packet filtering engine (2009)
• The return of nftables (2013)
• Why nftables
• And maybe it will be eBPF before long anyway… (2018)
• Adopting sysusers.d format
• DNF Better Counting
• Enable FSTrim Timer
• Restart services at end of rpm transaction
• Systemd 245 Released - First Version Including Systemd-Homed
• GCC 10
• GCC’s New Static Analysis Capabilities Are Getting Into Shape For GCC 10 - Phoronix
• Static analysis in GCC 10 - Red Hat Developer
• GLIBC 2.31
• LLVM 10
• Python 3.8
• Retire Python 2
• Fedora 32 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Engaged In Some Healthy Competition Over Performance
• Initial Benchmarks Of Fedora 32 Linux Performance
• Firefox Performance On Wayland Is Looking Good - Browser Benchmarks With KDE vs. GNOME
• Fedora Alternate Architectures
• Fedora Magazine Mentions Better Rock64 Support
• Bonus Pick: bashtop

Plus our thoughts on the new KWin fork, if Bleachbit is safe, and a quick Fedora update.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.

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Links:

• Logging Into Linux With A 1930s Teletype
• TUXEDO Computers Launches A Power/Thermal Control Center For Their Linux Systems
• System76 Lemur Pro
• KDE’s window manager KWin gets forked with ‘KWinFT’ to accelerate the development and better Wayland
• BleachBit 4.0.0
• Fedora 32 Final is NO-GO
• Brunch with Brent: Sri Ramkrishna
• Linux Spotlight EP44 - Drew DeVore of Jupiter Broadcasting
• Linux Spotlight EP43 - An Interview with Tyler Brown longtime JB fan
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Ubuntu 20.04 Flavours Hit Beta, But What’s New?
• Gnome 3.34 vs Gnome 3.36 Visual Comparison
• The ‘GameMode’ performance tool from Feral Interactive makes it into Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 20.04 and WSL 1 - WSL2 - Ubuntu Community Hub
• Ubuntu Server 20.04 CPU Security Mitigation Performance Impact
• Kernel 5.4: VirtIO-FS
• Grub boot menu bug
• Folder under applications menu doesn’t show text below last line of icons.
• Daniel Kerkow on Twitter: Migrating to a later LTS should be easily possible, so I would maybe stick to 18.04 for now if in doubt."
• pacat: Play back or record raw or encoded audio streams on a PulseAudio sound server
• 3mux: Imagine tmux with a smaller learning curve, i3-like keybindings, and more sane defaults.

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

Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais.

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Links:

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

Plus we debate if OpenWrt is still the best router solution, and chew on Microsoft's new SELinux competitor.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Neal Gompa.

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Links:

• Window Maker Version 0.95.9 Released
• Microsoft announces IPE, a new code integrity feature for Linux — Microsoft says that IPE is not intended for general-purpose computing. The IPE LSM was designed for very specific use cases where security is paramount, and administrators need to be in full control of what runs on their systems. Examples include embedded systems, such as network firewall devices running in a data center, or Linux servers running strict and immutable configurations and applications.
• OpenWrt - Opkg susceptible to MITM
• Brent sits down with Daniel Foré, founder of elementary OS
• Know when we're going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Fedora nightly compose finder
• Fedora 32 Looking At Using EarlyOOM By Default To Better Deal With Low Memory Situations — The oom-killer generally has a bad reputation among Linux users. This may be part of the reason Linux invokes it only when it has absolutely no other choice. It will swap out the desktop environment, drop the whole page cache and empty every buffer before it will ultimately kill a process. At least that's what I think that it will do. I have yet to be patient enough to wait for it, sitting in front of an unresponsive system.
• earlyoom - Early OOM Daemon for Linux — The oom-killer generally has a bad reputation among Linux users. This may be part of the reason Linux invokes it only when it has absolutely no other choice. It will swap out the desktop environment, drop the whole page cache and empty every buffer before it will ultimately kill a process. At least that's what I think that it will do. I have yet to be patient enough to wait for it, sitting in front of an unresponsive system.
• rfjakob/systembus-notify: systembus-notify - system bus notification daemon
• oomd — Out of memory killing has historically happened inside kernel space. On a memory overcommitted linux system, malloc(2) and friends usually never fail. However, if an application dereferences the returned pointer and the system has run out of physical memory, the linux kernel is forced to take extreme measures, up to and including killing processes. This is sometimes a slow and painful process because the kernel can spend an unbounded amount of time swapping in and out pages and evicting the page cache. Furthermore, configuring policy is not very flexible while being somewhat complicated.
• low-memory-monitor on GitLab
• low-memory-monitor — low-memory-monitor, as its name implies, monitors the amount of free physical memory on the system and will shoot off signals to interested user-space applications, usually session managers, or sandboxing helpers, when that memory runs low, making it possible for applications to shrink their memory footprints before it's too late either to recover a usable system, or avoid taking a performance hit.
• Nohang — Nohang is a highly configurable daemon for Linux which is able to correctly prevent out of memory (OOM) and keep system responsiveness in low memory conditions.
• Better interactivity in low-memory situations - devel - Fedora Mailing-Lists
• EnableEarlyoom - Fedora Project Wiki
• Nushell - The Unix philosophy of shells, where pipes connect simple commands together, and bring it to the modern style of development.
• Timekpr - simple and easy to use time managing software that helps optimizing time spent at computer.

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

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Philip Muller.

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Links:

• Raspberry Pi Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) Daily Build
• WireGuard 1.0.0 for Linux 5.6 Released
• LUP Started Covering WireGuard in June of 2016
• Manjaro InfinityBook Pro 15
• Manjaro Linux on Twitter — "Our #Intel based @ManjaroLinux by @TUXEDOComputers is now available for pre-orders.
• Linux 5.6 Ships With Broken Intel WiFi Driver After Network Security Fixes Go Awry
• Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features
• Btrfs Ready For Linux 5.6 With Async Discard For Better Efficiency + Performance
• EXT4 Gets Performance Work While XFS Gets 32-Bit Fixes For Linux 5.6
• F2FS Experimental Compression Is Ready For Extending Flash Storage Life
• Multipath TCP Support Is Working Its Upstream - First Bits Landing With Linux 5.6
• USB4 Support Lands In The Linux 5.6 Kernel
• Linux 5.6 Is The First Kernel For 32-Bit Systems Ready To Run Past Year 2038
• VirtualBox Shared Folder Driver Seeks Inclusion In Linux 5.6
• User Error 88
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Feedback: Arch to FreeBSD?
• Feedback: Pi4 Fixes
• Raspberry Pi 4 Rev 1.2 Fixes USB-C Power Issues, Improves SD Card Resilience
• Feedback: Pi4 Projects
• Raspberry Pi NAS SATA Adapter Stackable X828 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD Cluster – Geekworm
• Feedback: Downsides of JSON in the Shell
• LINUX Unplugged 341: Long Term Rolling
• JC: JSON in the Shell
• Long Term Rolling Feedback
• Feedback: Try NixOS already!
• Feedback: Timeshift Story and Question
• Armbian – Linux for ARM development boards

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

Plus our impressions of the latest GNOME release, community news, app picks, and more.

Special Guests: Hayden Barnes, Neal Gompa, and Sohini Bianka Roy.

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• Linux Kernel’s Floppy Disk Code Is Seeing Improvements In 2020
• elementary #AppCenterForEveryone on Twitter — Due to travel restrictions and for the safety and well-being of our contributors, we are postponing the AppCenter for Everyone sprint that was planned to take place March 12–19. We are coordinating making alternate arrangements with attendees and will provide more info soon
• Daniel Foré on Twitter — I’m really bummed that we had to postpone an in-person sprint, but we still hit the ground running today and got a lot done.
• Eager Beavers vs the Winter Storm — Work, Life, and RV Podcast
• Manjaro KDE will be factory-default of PinebookPro - Manjaro ARM / Announcements - Manjaro Linux Forum
• npm is joining GitHub - The GitHub Blog — Looking further ahead, we’ll integrate GitHub and npm to improve the security of the open source software supply chain, and enable you to trace a change from a GitHub pull request to the npm package version that fixed it.
• Protect our Speech and Security Online: Reject the Graham-Blumenthal Bill — The so-called EARN IT Act (S. 3398) is anti-speech, anti-security, anti-innovation, and unnecessary. Let’s tell Congress to reject it.
• Government ist trying to ban encryption again : linux
• GNOME 3.36 Release Notes
• GNOME 3.36 Released with New Lock Screen, Better Performance - OMG! Ubuntu! — The new release even manages to sneak in a couple of unexpected, but very welcome, changes too, like a new GNOME Extensions app.
• Jupiter Extras: Behind the Scenes: LINUX Unplugged
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• No LFNW this year
• WSLConf: The first conference dedicated to Windows Subsystem for Linux goes virtual
• El Reg gets some unexpected lessons from WSLConf — Microsoft celebrated the conclusion of a successful - and suddenly virtual - Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) conference by switching the forthcoming Build event to a digital affair as well. The Register spoke to those behind the first WSLConf about hitting the big red button with mere days to go.
• Microsoft Reactor. Learn. Connect. Innovate.
• pivpn — The Simplest VPN installer, designed for Raspberry Pi.
• Break Timer

Plus the big new feature coming to Ubuntu, why Chris is going to Denver, and more.

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

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• OpenSilver: a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplementation of Silverlight, that runs on current browsers via WebAssembly.
• Ubuntu 20.04’s zsys adds ZFS snapshots to package management
• Didier Roche on Twitter: “@jrssnet Thanks for your great article on zsys. Just one little precision: you can actually revert system state (with/without user states) in grub, which is the main UI for now. Hope you will love the feature and how we present them :)”
• Chris is going to Denver
• #AppCenterForEveryone
• AppCenter for Everyone | Indiegogo
• Some AppCenter for Everyone stats!
• Chris Fisher on Twitter: “We’ll never beat the Mac if developers can’t eat. @elementary’s #appcenterforeveryone is our best shot in years. Why I’m driving to Denver to cover it, and my @lfnw backup plans”
• Chz’s markdown pick: quilter - Focus on your writing.
• Don’t forget about DST!
• FOSS Talk Live - June 20th at The Harrison near King’s Cross in London
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• How to make Windows 10 USB install media in Linux
• USB install media with WIM file larger than 4GB – Win10.Guru
• pbatard/uefi-ntfs: UEFI:NTFS - Boot NTFS partitions from UEFI
• slacka/WoeUSB: WoeUSB is a simple tool that enable you to create your own usb stick windows installer from an iso image or a real DVD. It is a fork of Congelli501’s WinUSB.
• Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows
• microsoft/terminal: The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!
• WSLconf
• Introducing the Docker Desktop WSL 2 Backend - Docker Blog
• Running k8s on WSL
• Safely Backup Google Photos | Ubuntu
• Plasmoid for managing Docker Containers : kde

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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• GNOME Shell 3.36 release Looking Great
• Firefox 75 On Wayland Now To Have Full WebGL, Working VA-API Acceleration - Phoronix
• Don’t forget about DST!
• FOSS Talk Live - June 20th at The Harrison near King’s Cross in London
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Late Night Linux – Episode 84 – Late Night Linux
• How Docker Makes All Linux Distros Look Alike - Container Journal
• Docker Desktop for Mac - Docker Hub
• Docker Desktop for Windows
• Simon Ferquel on Twitter: “We just updated @docker desktop edge channel with a build supporting Windows 10 Home Insider (you need WSL2 to run it on Home). So happy to see this at last!” / Twitter
• Yong Sheng on Twitter: “running #docker on #wsl2 from a fresh reboot of #windows10 20H1: 9 sec startup, 1.1gb of ram, no hyper-v MobyVM required. passthrough support into my existing ubuntu wsl instance. been waiting for this for years! https://t.co/6ernWi4Hoz” / Twitter
• Chris Tries a Mac and it Makes him Think
• Steam Survey Updated For February 2020 With Latest Linux Figures - Phoronix
• Carl Richell on Twitter: Pop!_OS tiling is shaping up nicely. We’re hoping to have a 20.04 beta release available in about a month.
• pop-os/shell: Pop!_OS Tiling GNOME Extension
• catt - Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources to your Chromecast.
• The Silver Searcher - A code searching tool similar to ack, with a focus on speed.
• Ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern

Plus community news, a concerning issue for makers, an Arch server follow up, and more.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Jeremy Stott, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa.

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• The makers of Jif peanut butter team up with Giphy to try to settle the GIF/Jif debate once and for all
• Manjaro Linux on Twitter: After several months of development we are happy to announce Manjaro Linux 19.0 release, named Kyria!
• Get in the C: Raspberry Pi 4 can handle a wider range of USB adapters thanks to revised design’s silent arrival
• Brunch with Brent: Heather Ellsworth
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Alex’s Blog: FAA Remote ID Proposal
• FPVFC FAQ on FAA Remote ID NPRM - December 2019
• Proposed Rule: Remote Identification of Unmanned Aircraft Systems
• Introducing the Uber SSH Certificate Authority - Uber Security + Privacy - Medium
• bless: Repository for BLESS, an SSH Certificate Authority that runs as a AWS Lambda function
• How Uber, Facebook, and Netflix Do SSH
• stoggi/sshrimp: 🦐SSH Certificate Authority in a Lambda (on the barbie)
• “Zero Trust SSH” - Jeremy Stott (LCA 2020) - YouTube
• linux.conf.au 2020 | Presentation: Zero Trust SSH
• Keybase SSH
• hallow: A SSH Certificate Authority designed for use with AWS native environments
• BeyondCorp: A New Approach to Enterprise Security – Google Research
• collascii - A collaborative ascii canvas
• Ly - a TUI display manager
• ChrisLAS Cast
• Ubuntu Podcast

Plus an easy way to snapshot any workstation, some great feedback, and an extra nerdy command-line pick.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.

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• Google slams Samsung for making changes to Linux kernel code
• Mitigations are attack surface, too
• Regular Release Distributions Are Wrong (archive.org cache)
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Timeshift: system restore tool for Linux
• Timeshift 19.08.1 does not apply file/folder exclude/include settings
• New Users and Linux Mint
• T480 Fingerprint Reader?
• Cockpit and ZFS
• Bcachefs prediction feedback
• jc: This tool serializes the output of popular gnu linux command line tools and file types to structured JSON output. This allows piping of output to tools like jq.
• Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century | Brazil’s Blog
• Regular Release Distributions Are Wrong

And a bunch of community news, app picks, and much more.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, and Dusty Mabe.

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• KDE Plasma 5.18: More Convenient and with Long Term Stability - KDE.org
• What’s New in KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS? - OMG! Ubuntu!
• System76 Launches Impressive Line Of Thelio Major Linux Workstations Powered By AMD Ryzen Threadripper - Including The 3990X - Phoronix
• oreboot: oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust.
• Rust's Freedom Flaws
• FS#736 - [rust][cargo] trademark agreement affects user freedom
• AppCenter for Everyone | Indiegogo
• Work, Life, and RV Podcast
• Our Accidental Home Base — Work, Life, and RV Podcast
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• PDP-7
• FOSDEM 2020 - Events
• FOSDEM 2020 - Interview with James Bottomley - The Selfish Contributor Explained
• FOSDEM 2020 - The next generation of contributors is not on IRC
• FOSDEM 2020 - The Hidden Early History of Unix
• FOSDEM 2020 - Do Linux Distributions Still Matter with Containers?
• FOSDEM 2020 - How Containers and Kubernetes re-defined the GNU/Linux Operating System
• The Meteoric Rise Of Fwupd+LVFS For Linux Firmware Updates - Phoronix
• hollywood.computer: multiple panes of genuine technical melodrama
• shairport-sync: AirPlay audio player. Shairport Sync adds multi-room capability with Audio Synchronisation