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An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux.

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386: Perilously Precocious Predictions Dec 29, 2020

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Friends join us for a special edition of the show to review last year's predictions, and forecast the future.

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

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385: The 2020 Tuxies Dec 22, 2020

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We reveal the winners of the 2020 Tuxies.

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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384: Born To Run Fedora Dec 15, 2020

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It's light as a feather, fast as hell, and everything is upstream. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon ships with Fedora, and this week we put it to the test.

Plus community news, feedback, and a great pick.

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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.

383: Murder of a Distro Dec 08, 2020

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Red Hat just made big changes to how CentOS works, we breakdown the good, and the bad.

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

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Hector Martin.

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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

382: A New Endeavour Dec 01, 2020

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A problem that just kept getting worse and worse. What it was, and why it led us to "check in" on EndeavourOS.

Plus some important community news, handy picks, feedback, and more!

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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.
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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.

381: Secret Modem Sounds Nov 24, 2020

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We have the coolest new retro tool of the year, that will turn you into a Linux powered spy.

Plus the changes coming to Fedora, and what GNOME is focusing on next year.

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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

380: No Sur, No Thank You Nov 17, 2020

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We review the Dell Precision 5750, a born and bred MacBook killer that runs Linux.

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

379: Favorite Linux Tweaks Nov 10, 2020

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We round up our favorite tweaks to the desktop, and apps that make it great.

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

Special Guest: Drew DeVore.

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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
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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

378: All in One Pi Nov 03, 2020

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Why we think the new Raspberry Pi 400 is just the beginning.

And we chat with the CTO of the Uno Platform, a new way to bring native apps to Linux.

Chapters:
00:00:00 Pre-show
00:01:01 Intro
00:02:23 Meet the Raspberry Pi 400
00:11:21 Manjaro Update
00:16:59 State of Linux Gaming
00:23:11 GNOME 40
00:27:36 Building Native Apps on Linux
00:48:16 Housekeeping
00:50:05 Feedback
00:58:47 Pick
01:04:23 Post-show

Special Guest: Jérôme Laban.

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Happy birthday VIM! — 29 years ago the very first version of Vim was built and distributed.
vim-mario: Mario on Vim
Meet the Raspberry Pi 400, a $70 Linux PC Hiding Inside a Keyboard - OMG! Ubuntu! — At the heart of the Raspberry Pi 400 is a 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A72. This quad-core chip is similar to last year’s Raspberry Pi 4 but clocked to run slightly faster.
The Raspberry Pi 400 - Teardown and Review | Jeff Geerling
Collabora expect their Linux Kernel work for Windows game emulation in Kernel 5.11 | GamingOnLinux — One of the key points that Gabriel Krisman Bertazi went over is their work on system call emulation, which is now required because DRM and anti-cheat tech "are issuing system calls directly from the Windows game code and that bypasses Wine."
GNOME 40 Desktop Environment Slated for Release on March 24th, 2021 — Only three development milestones will be published in six months, an alpha, a beta and a Release Candidate.
Uno Platform — The first and only UI Platform for single-codebase applications for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux.
Uno Platform 3.1 Released
The Windows Calculator on Linux with Uno Platform | Ubuntu — The good folks in the Uno Platform community have ported the open-source Windows Calculator to Linux. The calculator is published in the snapstore and can be downloaded right away.
Porting Windows Calculator
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Feedback: Falling for Fedora
Feedback: First Time Fedora User
Feedback: Distro Debate
Pick: NewsFlash — A modern feed reader designed for the GNOME desktop.
Miniflux is a minimalist and opinionated feed reader.

377: Buttered-Up Fedora Oct 27, 2020

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Fedora 33 is a bold release, and we’ve put it through the wringer. We tell you what’s great, and what you should know before diving in.

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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