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The Best of Both OSs | LINUX Unplugged 411 Jun 22, 2021

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Is it possible to have Arch’s best feature on other Linux distros? We attempt it and report our findings. Plus our reaction to NVIDIA’s beta Wayland support–is this the milestone we’ve been waiting for?

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A Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.

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Christian Schaller on Twitter — We been working closely with NVidia over the last year to prepare the ground for full NVidia driver Wayland support, including XWayland. Today NVidia released the first beta driver of that work.
Xwayland support in Fedora with the NVIDIA 470 series driver — Please help us test this support for hardware acceleration with the NVIDIA proprietary driver in Xwayland, and report issues for Xwayland in Fedora bugzilla.
NVIDIA DRIVERS Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver BETA
Fedora Cloud Btrfs By Default - Fedora Project Wiki — For cloud installs of Fedora, we want to provide advanced file system features to users in a transparent fashion. Thus, we are changing the file system for the Cloud Edition to Btrfs so we can leverage its features and capabilities to improve the quality of experience for Cloud users.
Pagure Commit: Use Btrfs for Fedora Cloud Edition
Pacstall — The AUR for Ubuntu
pacstall on GitHub
pacstall-programs
Henryws on GitHub
makedeb — Create Debian archives from PKGBUILDs.
mpm — makedeb package manager
junest — The lightweight Arch Linux based distro that runs upon any Linux distros without root access.
x11docker — Run GUI applications and desktops in docker. Focus on security.
How to Run GUI Applications in a Docker Container
jessfraz/dockerfiles — Various Dockerfiles I use on the desktop and on servers.
Nix, the purely functional package manager
NixOS
pacapt — An ArchLinux’s pacman-like wrapper for many package managers.
Can I make use of other containers like debian or arch - Desktop / Silverblue - Fedora Discussion
Martin Pitt's Blog — Public lightweight sway developer desktop with OSTree and podman/toolbox.
Fedora 34 Toolbox Containerfile
Running Wine in Archlinux-based podman container

Linux Action News 194 Jun 20, 2021

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Linux's résumé got a nice boost this week; why Google is paying for more kernel development, and how CloudLinux might be pulling ahead of the CentOS pack.

Plus, our thoughts on Steam possibly coming to ChromeOS and the game-changing feature coming to ZFS.

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Rust in the Linux kernel just got a big boost from Google — The main goal of the push to bring Rust to Linux is to wipe out an entire class of memory-related security bugs in the kernel. This is important because, as Microsoft has recently highlighted, 70% of all bugs it fixes are memory-related. Historically, key Linux drivers that make up the kernel have been written in C, which is not memory-safe.
Supporting Miguel Ojeda’s Work on Rust in the Linux Kernel — While this is the first memory safety effort we’ve announced under our new Prossimo project name, our memory safety work began in 2020. You can read about our efforts to bring memory safety to curl and the Apache HTTP server, and to add improvements to the Rustls TLS library.
ZFS fans, rejoice—RAIDz expansion will be a thing very soon — OpenZFS founding developer Matthew Ahrens opened a PR for one of the most sought-after features in ZFS history—RAIDz expansion—last week. The new feature allows a ZFS user to expand the size of a single RAIDz vdev.
June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit - YouTube
openzfs Pull Request: RAIDZ Expansion feature by ahrens
ZFS 101—Understanding ZFS storage and performance
Systemd 249-rc1 Released — The first release candidate of systemd 249 is now available for testing with yet more new and improved features.
Systemd 249 release candidate includes better support for immutable OSes and provisioning images — The journey from RC1 to full release is likely to take a month or so, judging by past releases, so we can expect systemd 249 sometime in July.
CloudLinux releases UChecker security tool for Linux servers — This newly open-sourced program, part of the company's TuxCare security services, scans Linux servers for out-of-date libraries both on disk and in memory.
kernelcare.com — Live patching for Linux kernels & shared libraries, vulnerability scanners reporting & patch management assistance.
cloudlinux/kcare-uchecker — A simple tool to detect outdated shared libraries
Steam on ChromeOS: Not a Rumor Anymore — There are now some QA testers being hired to work on the “ChromeOS Steam Launch Team” to triage games, find defects and test performance in specific configurations.
🎉 nano-5.8 is released — "Why is it necessary to be special?"

Whose License Is It Anyway? | Self-Hosted 47 Jun 18, 2021

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We take a look at a self-hosted TeamViewer alternative, give you our take on some Home Assistant drama and discuss the effects of a new crypto coin on hard drive prices.

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A Cloud Guru: You will learn what containers are and why use them; how to manage containers, pods, and images using Podman.

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RustDesk - Yet another remote desktop software — A great alternative to TeamViewer and AnyDesk! You have full control of your data, with no concerns about security. You can use our rendezvous/relay server, set up your own, or write your own rendezvous/relay server.
RustDesk-server
rustdesk-server-demo: A working demo of RustDesk server implementation
Home Assistant drama
“Please don't add any of my stuff to this project” | Hacker News
Home Assistant Forum Thread
Shuck 'em if you got 'em — WD external drive price tracker.
Chia Network — Chia Network develops a blockchain and smart transaction platform created by the inventor of BitTorrent, Bram Cohen. It implements the first new Nakamoto consensus algorithm since Bitcoin in 2008. Proofs of Space and Time replace energy intensive “proofs of work.”
ESPHome - Version 1.19.0 — Wow. Ok, so this release may not look big, but there are a number of new features that are not new components.
ESP Web Tools — ESP Web Tools is a set of open source tools to allow working with ESP devices in the browser
Tasmota v9.5.0 Release
Monica - Personal CRM done right — Monica helps you organize the social interactions with your loved ones.
tinyhome: Static homepage generator — tinyhome generates a static HTML homepage via shell script.

I'm a Teapot | Coder Radio 418 Jun 16, 2021

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We get a bit skeptical about Stripe Identity, how it works, and precisely why we don't like some of their privacy trade-offs.

Plus, a tool we're calling "game-changing" that probably makes anyone a master developer.

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Ultimate Road Warrior Bundle — Complete Mobile Internet Solution with Dual LTE-A Pro CAT-12 Cellular and 2.4/5.8ghz WiFi Designed for Power Users
Cellular Data Plans - Mobile Internet Resource Center — Cellular data plans are offered for smartphones, mobile hotspot devices and cellular embedded routers. They come direct from the carriers, prepaid & postpaid and through 3rd parties. Unlimited doesn't always mean unlimited either.
Stripe Identity: Verify identities with confidence — Stripe Identity lets you programmatically confirm the identity of global users so you can prevent attacks from fraudsters while minimizing friction for legitimate customers.
Zhuowei Zhang on Twitter — Virtualization.framework even emulates DFU mode when booting macOS 12 Apple Silicon as a guest, over virtio-usb, using AVPBooter.
These macOS 12 Monterey features do not work on Intel — According to Apple, here are the macOS 12 Monterey features available only on Mac computers with Apple Silicon (currently, the M1 chip)
Clippy - Visual Studio Marketplace — It shows you your mistakes! It's annoying! it moves!
Sublimerge — The professional diff & merge tool for Sublime Text

Ye Olde Linux Distro | LINUX Unplugged 410 Jun 15, 2021

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We revisit the seminal distros that shaped Linux’s past. Find out if these classics still hold up.

Plus the outrageous bounty on a beloved Linux desktop app.

Special Guest: Gary Kramlich.

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Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web’s inventor is selling its original code as an NFT — Comprising over 9.500 lines of code, the files contain the basis of the languages and protocols underpinning the internet as we know it: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Universal Document Identified (URI).
Meetup: Salt Lake City — Saturday, August 7, 2021, 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM PDT.
Meetup: Denver — Friday, August 20, 2021, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM PDT.
Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup Page
Pidgin: the universal chat client — Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on XMPP and sitting in an IRC channel at the same time.
Pidgin contributors: grim — Long time contributor, author of Guifications, and a founding member of the plugin pack.
Zerodium on Twitter — We’re looking for #0day exploits affecting Pidgin on Windows and Linux. Bounty: $100,000.
ZERODIUM — Limited-Time Bug Bounties and Temporarily Increased Payouts
Linux 5.14 Mainline Should Work With The Raspberry Pi 400 — No kernel driver changes were needed since it's basically very close to the Raspberry Pi 4 but the updated DTS configuration is needed for the 1.8GHz clock rate, a different WiFi chip, and power off handling via GPIO.
XFS To Enjoy Big Scalability Boost With Linux 5.14 — The big numbers are seeing the transaction rate go up from around 700k to 1.7M commits per second and a reduction in flush operations by 2~x orders of magnitude less for metadata heavy workloads that don't enforce fsync.
Archive of old versions of Linux — Thanks to Mediactive Network for hosting this website.
Mandrake 10.1 Visual Tour
Xandros 3.0 Desktop Gallery
Red Hat 9’s Classic Look
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS — Ubuntu 6.06 LTS introduces functionality that simplifies common Linux server deployment processes. For system administrators setting up large numbers of web, mail and related servers, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS offers the fastest and most consistent path to deployment, combined with the availability of global commercial support where needed.
Damn Small Linux — Damn Small Linux is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution.
BackTrack Linux — BackTrack was a Linux distribution that focused on security, based on the Knoppix Linux distribution aimed at digital forensics and penetration testing use.
TLP — Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life
auto-cpufreq — Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux based on active monitoring of laptop's battery state, CPU usage, CPU temperature and system load. Ultimately allowing you to improve battery life without making any compromises.
Did you know that you can 100% legally get & run WordPerfect for free? — But there is a catch – of course: they're both very old and hard to run on a modern computer. I'm here to tell you how to get them and how to install and run them.

Linux Action News 193 Jun 13, 2021

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The premier Linux desktops get some futuristic new features, and we break down the seven-year-old vulnerability in your Linux box revealed this week.

Plus the critical kernel feature that lacks funding, and our take of helloSystem, a FreeBSD-based macOS alternative.

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Plasma 5.22 — Plasma 5.22 improves its stability and usability across the board.
KDE Plasma 5.22 Arrives with Miscellany of Usability Improvements
Plasma 5.22 arrives but I bet you’ll want 5.23 once I show you this – Adventures in Linux and KDE
GNOME 40.2 Released with Better Flatpak Support, Improved Screencasting, and More — The GNOME Project released today GNOME 40.2 as the second minor point release to the latest and greatest GNOME 40 desktop environment series.
GNOME 40.2 Release News
Privilege escalation with polkit — The vulnerability enables an unprivileged local user to get a root shell on the system. It’s easy to exploit with a few standard command line tools
Real-Time Support "PREEMPT_RT" For Linux Held Up Due To Lack Of Funding — These "RT" patches have long been maintained out-of-tree but it turns out that while in the past it was seemingly close for merging, that effort has stalled for lack of funding.
helloSystem Release r0.5.0 — This release is based on FreeBSD 12.2
helloSystem 0.5 Released For macOS-Inspired FreeBSD Desktop
FOSDEM 2021 - hello... again? — helloSystem is FreeBSD preconfigured as a desktop operating system. Its design follows the “Less, but better” philosophy. It is intended as a system for “mere mortals”, welcoming to switchers from a world in which a global menu bar exists, the Command key is used rather than Control, and applications are contained in .app bundles.
Bearded Tux Unisex Joggers - Jupiter Garage — Get ready for that 10K run or take it slow in your backyard—these joggers are sure to make you feel comfortable either way while making a low key statement that Linux is awesome.

Why Would Developers Care? | Coder Radio 417 Jun 09, 2021

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Our takes on the important bits from Apple's WWDC 2021 keynote and State of the Union.

None of the fluff, just the stuff the mattered.

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FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows — Apple is turning FaceTime into a bit more of a Zoom-like video calling service with this update. FaceTime is also going to allow you to grab a link to a scheduled call so that you can share it with people in advance and join in at the right time.
iPadOS 15 Preview - Features - Apple — A menu at the top of apps lets you enter Split View, Slide Over, full screen, or center window with just a tap. You can also quickly close a window from the menu.
Siri coming to third-party devices for the first time
iOS 15 adds offline Siri for faster query recognition — With iOS 15, Siri will now be able to handle a variety of requests without an Internet connection.
iPadOS 15: You can now build apps on the iPad — For the first time, you can code, iterate and build apps on the iPad itself. Using Swift Playgrounds on iPadOS 15.
Xcode Cloud Overview — Xcode Cloud is a continuous integration and delivery service built into Xcode and designed expressly for Apple developers.
iOS 15 Includes Built-In Password Authenticator With Autofill — One of these new features is a built-in authenticator that will let iOS devices be used to generate verification codes for additional sign-in security.
Sébastien Page on Twitter — So, Apple totally Sherlocked my app in iOS 15.
Peter Steinberger on Twitter — VPNs sherlocked
Apple Updates App Store Review Guidelines — First, developers who appeal an app rejection can now specify if they believe their app was rejected due to unfair treatment by the App Review team, including political bias or other forms of bias. Second, developers can now report other apps if they believe they present trust or safety concerns, or otherwise violate the App Store Review Guidelines.
Apple’s new App Store Guidelines aim to crack down on fraud and scams

Launch Your Memories Into the Future | LINUX Unplugged 409 Jun 08, 2021

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

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

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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

Linux Action News 192 Jun 06, 2021

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An old Linux distro gets a new trick, and all Linux users get a few excellent quality of life updates.

Plus, the new initiative that has Apple, Google, and Microsoft all working together.

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Pastebin Alternative | Self-Hosted 46 Jun 04, 2021

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We'll share how we deployed a painless, Self-Hosted Pastebin replacement, and what we like the most about it.

Plus Chris enters the "No Change Zone" with a Project Off-Grid Update.

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Alex's Loop Buster
Exbin: A pastebin clone written in Elixir/Phoenix. — Post pastes publicly and privatley List of all public pastes Use nc to pipe text and get the URL. (e.g., cat file.txt | nc exbin.call-cc.be 9999) "Raw View" where text is presented as is, ideally to share code for copy and pasting. Syntax highlighted view. "Reader View" where text is presented in a more readable manner. Better suited to share prose text.
ExBin Demo
awesome-selfhosted — A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
Greyhole — An application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives, and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails.
Perfect Media Server
FolderSync
LINUX Unplugged 408: Linux Road Warrior — We’re joined by a special guest who’s built his very own Linux battle bus. We get the technical details on how Linux is at the core of this open road machine.

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