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**LINUX Unplugged**

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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286: Ell is for Linux Jan 29, 2019

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We're playing Robin Hood with the content, and a new member of our team joins to tell you all about it.

Plus some hard details on the Librem 5, we visit the Canonical Corner, and a big batch of great Linux picks.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Ell Marquez, and Martin Wimpress.

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Choose Linux Episode 1: elementary OS and OpenMediaVault — The show that captures the excitement of discovering Linux.
Firefox 65.0 — Simplified content blocking settings give users standard, strict, and custom options to control online trackers.
What are the phone specs? – Purism
Purism's PureOS Store To Be Based Around Flatpaks — The very first application to the PureOS Store is Lollypop.
Kodi 18.0 — The Kodi team is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Kodi 18.0 "Leia" for all supported platforms.
Canonical Outs Major Linux Kernel Update for Ubuntu 18.04 — These vulnerabilities could allow attackers to either execute arbitrary code or crash the system via a denial of service attack by utilizing a maliciously crafted EXT4 image that could be mounted on the vulnerable machine.
Ubuntu Users Can Now Keep PPAs And Third Party Repositories Enabled When Upgrading To A Newer Ubuntu Version — Another recent change makes sure third party repositories support the release to which the user is trying to upgrade.
SCALE 17x — Pasadena Convention Center March 7 - 10, 2019
Privacy Could Be The Next Big Thing — Upcoming talk by Stuart Langridge at SCALE 17x
Bad Voltage Live | SCALE 17x
Ell on Twitter
Linux Academy Study Group Survey — What course should our next study group cover?
What’s Free At Linux Academy February 2019
Shortwave: Internet radio in Rust
Shortwave Hello World | Felix Häcker — I wanted to rewrite Gradio entirely from scratch using Rust and thought it’s better to start a completely new project.
fx_cast: chromecast for firefox — Enables Chromecast support for casting web apps (like Netflix or BBC iPlayer), HTML5 video and screen/tab sharing.
Cool-Retro-Term 1.1.1 is out! — Big performance improvements (and lowered resource consumption), new shiny (literally) frame, system fonts support, and more!

285: Pain the APT Jan 22, 2019

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An embarrassing vulnerability has been found in the apt package manager, we’ll break it all down. Plus Alessandro Castellani tells us about his plans to build a professional design tool for Linux.

We also have a batch of big community news, and the case for the cloud killing Open Source.

Special Guests: Alessandro Castellani and Brent Gervais.

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OggCamp 19 — OggCamp is an unconference celebrating Free Culture, Free and Open Source Software, hardware hacking, digital rights, and all manner of collaborative cultural activities.
OggCamp on Twitter
Remote Code Execution in apt-get — A vulnerability in apt allows a network man-in-the-middle (or a malicious package mirror) to execute arbitrary code as root on a machine installing any package. The bug has been fixed in the latest versions of apt.
Why does APT not use HTTPS?
Turkish ISP Swapped Downloads of Popular Software with Spyware-Infected Apps
Which block I/O scheduler is the best? We asked eBPF. — I set out expecting to see differing distributions of latencies for each block scheduler, but ultimately found that I didn’t understand low-level systems behavior to the degree I thought I did.
Want to spin up Ubuntu VMs from Windows 10's command line, eh? We'll need to see a Multipass. — Windows 10 developers have been gifted yet another way of running Linux on their desktop in the form of Canonical's Multipass.
Microsoft Employee Hints at Windows Core OS Open Source Components
TechSNAP Episode 395: The ACME Era
LinuxFest Northwest 20th Anniversary
LFNW Telegram Group
LinuxFest Northwest Parking Lot BBQ Meetup
SCALE 17x
SCALE Telegram Group
Texas Linux Fest 2019
Public Speaking: A repository of resources about public speaking, specifically in the context of software development and IT conferences.
Linux Operating System Fundamentals — Have you heard of Linux, but don't really know anything about it? Are you a non-technical person just wanting to know what this 'Linux' thing is? Then this course is for you.
Akira: Native Linux App for UI and UX Design
Akira on Kickstarter
Exponent episode 159 — Inverted Pyramids
Late Night Linux – Episode 55 — Are you better off with the elasticity of public clouds like AWS, or should you avoid lock-in by running servers on premises?
AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source
Open source confronts its midlife crisis

284: Free as in Get Out Jan 15, 2019

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ZFS on Linux is becoming the official upstream project of all major ZFS implementations, even the BSDs. But recent kernel changes prevent ZFS from even building on Linux. Neal Gompa joins us to discuss why it all matters.

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

Special Guests: Dalton Durst and Neal Gompa.

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

283: The Premiere Shell Jan 08, 2019

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Joe joins Wes to discuss the state of Adobe's Creative Cloud on Linux and why the Fish shell might be your favorite new tool.

Plus community news, a reality check on Linux gaming, and some shiny new hardware.

Special Guests: Jason Evangelho and Peter Ammon.

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Pretty much every recent Windows Phone is now hackable
Fedora 31 Isn't Expected To Be Delayed After All — Since November the developers behind Fedora Linux had been discussing whether to significantly delay or even cancel Fedora 31 so they could spend around one year working on re-tooling how the distribution is crafted and work on other fundamental changes. But it turns out now they have decided against this big shake-up delay
Fedora Planning A Per-System Unique Identifier For DNF — The proposal is quick to acknowledge the intent isn't for tracking users but only counting and this UUID wouldn't be re-used by other systems.
Linux 5.0 is on the way — The numbering change is not indicative of anything special. If you want to have an official reason, it's that I ran out of fingers and toes to count on, so 4.21 became 5.0
Track Chris and Lady Jups
GNU ed 1.15 released
Bash 5.0 release available
Fish Shell 3.0.0 — Fish 3 is a major release, which introduces some breaking changes alongside improved functionality.
Peter (@ridiculous_fish) | Twitter
"Would totally skip Linux." — We shipped Planetary Annihilation on Win, Mac, and Linux. Linux uses we're a big vocal part of the Kickstarter and forums. In the end they accounted for 20% of auto reported crashes and support tickets
Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets | Hacker News
Jason Evangelho on Twitter — Re: Adobe Premiere on Linux. I have a call next week with both Bill Roberts (Sr. Director Product Management) & Patrick Palmer (Principal Product Manager). They reached out to ME. I think a genuine effort is being made here to listen to & understand various perspectives.
Jason Evangelho @ Forbes
Entroware Apollo 14"

282: Wishing Upon a Kernel Jan 02, 2019

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We start off the new year with our hopes and dreams for Linux and open source in 2019 and beyond.

Plus Clear Linux aims to build the ultimate Linux desktop based on Xfce, and it looks like GNOME is closing the performance gap.

Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais.

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Clarity in the Desktop | Clear Linux* Project — Clear Linux* recently introduced a series of updates that incorporate a developer-optimized desktop experience. This experience is built upon Xfce 4.12, created with the goal of enabling you to get what you need perform your work quickly and efficiently.
Reiser4 File-System Port To The Linux 4.20 Kernel — Edward Shishkin, the last main Reiser4 developer involved and former employee of Hans Reiser's Namesys company, has updated his Reiser4 kernel tree where there is now the few code changes necessary to get the file-system kernel module building for Linux 4.20 along with a patch containing a fix.
Chrome OS to test early GPU support for Linux apps
The Many Features Coming To The Wine 4.0
GNOME Shell Desktop Gaming Benchmarks

281: 2019 Predictions Dec 26, 2018

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We get serious and bring in a special referee to help us lock in our Linux predictions for 2019.

Special Guest: Alan Pope.

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280: Handmade Desktop Linux Dec 17, 2018

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

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

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

279: WireGuardians of the Galaxy Dec 11, 2018

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We have a WireGuard success story to share, and it's probably not what you're expecting.

Plus we check in on Ubuntu 19.04, start the search for an Emby replacement, and how to use Reddit on the commandline.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Fire effect for the Keyboardio Model 01 keyboard
Keyboardio: heirloom-grade keyboards for serious typists
chrimbus_'s self hosted streaming questions — Yo @ChrisLAS / @ubuntupodcast I'm tired of depending on our internet to play movies for the kiddo. I was trying to rip some dvds tonight using VLC and AcidRip in hopes to run them off a home server. Either the video ends up glitchy af or no audio. Any suggestions?
Beta source code missing · Issue #3479 · MediaBrowser/Emby
Annoucing Jellyfin - a free software fork of Emby — After the announcement of Emby transitioning to a proprietary model, a number of us decided to fork it to focus on delivering a free software media solution
Streama: Self hosted streaming media server.
Ubuntu 19.04 Release Date & Planned Features — The Ubuntu 19.04 release date is scheduled for April 18, 2019.
GNOME Shell In Ubuntu 19.04 Should Be Faster
Ubuntu Desktop 19.04 Cycle | Trello
Canonical makes Kubernetes moves — Canonical wants to make it darn clear that, besides being the leading cloud Linux distributor, it's also a major Kubernetes player.
Proposed Energy Aware Scheduling For The Linux Kernel Revised A Tenth Time — The ARM Linux developers continue working on Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) for the mainline Linux kernel to better handle systems with asymmetric CPU topologies
Mike's systemd udev fix
Which two names work best for the Jupiter Broadcasting Automation system?
LinuxFest Northwest 2019
WireGuard for iOS - TestFlight
How to easily configure WireGuard - Stavros' Stuff
Use Reddit In The Terminal With RTV (Reddit Terminal Viewer)
Easily Convert Audio File Formats with SoundConverter
sshuttle: Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN
corkscrew: A tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies
Test utility for cve-2018-1002105

278: Shell in a Handbasket Dec 04, 2018

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We chat with a developer who's gotten Linux running on iOS devices, do a deep dive into Clear Linux, and discuss Xubuntu ending 32bit support.

Plus why Android in the cloud, and a bunch of community news.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Martin Wimpress, and Theodore Dubois.

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One Raspberry Pi 3 not powerful enough? Try this five Pi cluster for computing on the edge
Xubuntu Will Stop Producing 32-bit ISOs Beginning With Xubuntu 19.04 — The Xubuntu development team has now decided to go ahead and eliminate their 32-bit builds moving forward.
Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser — Microsoft is throwing in the towel with Edge and is building a new web browser for Windows 10, this time powered by Chromium.
Steam Link now in BETA on Raspberry Pi — The Steam Link app is now available in beta on the Raspberry Pi 3 and 3 B+ running Raspbian Stretch
Sputnik turns 6: Presenting the folks behind it — Thanks to the interest and support of the community, eight months later, the project became a product. On November 29, 2012 the Dell XPS 13 developer edition was born.
Running Android in the Cloud with Amazon EC2 A1 instances — W demonstrated a fully automated solution deployed by Juju to run Android within LXD containers in the cloud and stream out the display of a gaming app from an Amazon EC2 A1 instance to a mobile phone over the internet
Amazon's homegrown 2.3GHz 64-bit Graviton processor was very nearly an AMD Arm CPU
iSH: The Linux Shell on iOS — iSH is a project to get a Linux shell environment running locally on your iOS device, using a usermode x86 emulator.
iSH on GitHub
Bleeping computer's review of iSH
Bug #1759836 “systemd-udevd consumes 100% of CPU” : Bugs : systemd package : Ubuntu
High cpu usage on kernel 4.14 and 4.15 from systemd-udevd which seems to be the synaptic touchpad driver
Bluetooth adapter stopped working after upgrade to 4.14 kernel
Clear Linux Homepage — Clear Linux OS is an open source, rolling release Linux distribution optimized for performance and security, from the Cloud to the Edge, designed for customization, and manageability.
Intel's Clear Linux Ups Their Desktop Offering, Rolling Out New Installer
How to Clear — Training documentation to teach users how to make a Clear Linux OS derivative distribution.
Trying To Make Ubuntu 18.10 Run As Fast As Intel's Clear Linux
clr-boot-manager — clr-boot-manager exists to enable the correct maintenance of vendor kernels and appropriate garbage collection tactics over the course of upgrades.

Episode 277: Skipping Fedora 31 Nov 27, 2018

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Fedora might take a year off, to focus on it self. Project Lead and Council Chair Matthew Miller joins us to explain this major proposal.

Plus Wimpy shares his open source Drobo alternative, and our final Dropbox XFS hack.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Martin Wimpress, and Matthew Miller.

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NASA runs KDE
Are people forgetting what open source is? — There is a responsibility for the dev to make sure they vet what is being put into, but also a larger responsibility for large company's to vet dependency themselves, such as this package event-stream
International Space Station switches from Windows to Linux — “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable.”
LinuxFest Northwest 2019 — LinuxFest Northwest is an annual Open Source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group and the Information Technology department at Bellingham Technical College
SnapRAID — SnapRAID is a backup program for disk arrays. It stores parity information of your data and it recovers from up to six disk failures.
mergerfs — A featureful union filesystem.
Fedora 31 Will Likely Be Cancelled Or Significantly Delayed — It's about trying to re-tool the distribution and restructure the way its developed to rely more upon automated testing, improving the release processes, and related infrastructure to make it more scalable and better for the longer-term.
Fedora Mailing-Lists: Lifecycle objective - problems, solutions, and proposal
Fedora Wiki: Objectives/Lifecycle/Problem statements
Current 12-18 Month Community Objectives
Fedora Council Charter
Dropbox Filesystem Fix — Fix the filesystem detection in the Linux Dropbox client.

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