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Episode 256: Peering Into the Future Jul 04, 2018

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A major Internet monopoly might just be on the edge of cracking thanks to free software, a bit of initiative, and a lot of gumption. We'll follow up on a major experiment we kicked off last week.

Plus SUSE is sold again, Linux on the Nintendo Switch just got way better, Mint has a new release, we look at elementary OS Juno's first beta, and we cover a ton of community news.

Special Guest: Eric Hendricks.

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Episode 255: Fedora to the Core Jun 27, 2018

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Big changes are coming to Fedora with the merger of CoreOS. We chat with a couple project members to get the inside scope about what the future of Fedora looks like.

Plus the big feature of the new GitLab release, how Pocket might be Firefox's secret sauce, and why Chris is really excited by PeerTube.

Special Guests: Dusty Mabe and Eric Hendricks.

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Episode 254: Don’t Link to This Jun 20, 2018

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Free Software projects concerned about Article 13 are claiming it could destroy free software as we know it. We debate this controversial copyright law about to be voted on in the EU.

Plus a big batch of community news, some exciting hardware updates, and a bit of retro gaming.

Plus Chris shares what got done at Linux Academy, and more!

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Episode 253: Personalities Happen Jun 13, 2018

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There is trouble at CopperheadOS, Plasma has a shiny new release, and we share the story of how Linux has powered the curiosity rover for 17 years.

Plus our stories from a weekend of Linux parties, Texas LinuxFest, SouthEast LinuxFest, and FOSS Talk Live.

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Episode 252: Github Hubbub Jun 06, 2018

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Microsoft has purchased GitHub, sending shock-waves through the free software community. We discuss the bidding war that took place, and it leaves us questioning what the future of Electron might be.

Plus we’ve found a great batch of Linux apps you're going to want to try, NextCloud turns two, big changes to the KWin project, and the details on Samsung’s Chromebook Plus landing Linux app support.

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Episode 251: The Qt and the Ugly May 30, 2018

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After we make ourselves at Gnome, we look at some future open source goodies coming your way, look at how Canonical’s upstream pitch, and get excited about the next great Linux filesystem hope.

Plus Chris’ first wreck on the road to Texas, Thunderbolt networking, and our results from the best Linux laptop for 2018.

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Anonymous Donor Pledges $1M Donation Over Two Years – GNOME
Thunderbolt Networking on Linux
Major Release Endless OS 3.4
JB Telegram Texas Group
JB Texas Shirt! — For the first time JB will be present at Texas Linux Fest June 8 & 9. (Event info: https://2018.texaslinuxfest.org/) We'd love to see as many of these shirts (or any other JB shirt) at the fest!
Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth pulls no punches on Red Hat and VMware in OpenStack cloud
2018 KDE Connect Development Sprint
Bcachefs File-System Is Working On Going Upstream In The Linux Kernel
NetBSD Network Stack Audit
slowmoVideo: Official slowmoVideo repository
Fedora 26 end of life approaching
Some Of The Features Expected For Fedora 29
SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics now officially supports Linux with a big update
Downloads - RED Digital Cinema
This 38-inch Curved Monitor from LG has a Ryzen CPU and Supports Ubuntu
Dell Unveils New Ubuntu Laptops
Best Linux Laptop for 2018 - Results - Straw Poll
Dom's List

Episode 250: Only The Best May 23, 2018

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What is the best laptop for Linux in 2018? How about the best Evernote killer, and production setup? We cover the best of the best this week.

Plus Gnome’s performance hackfest, Mycroft goes Blockchain, and what’s behind Tesla’s big GPL dump.

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Episode 249: Home Grown FUD May 15, 2018

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The Linux community is eating its own this week, as attention seeking plucky YouTuber’s trade on free software’s good name for clicks. We learn the real story behind some of the Internet’s recent free software freak-out.

Plus a fantastic batch of community news and updates, some cool tools, and we discuss if it’s time to give up the Qt or GTK purist lifestyle.

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ArchiveOS
GNOME Is Removing the Ability to Launch Binary Apps from Nautilus
general: Don't allow launching binaries or programs in general
Deep Dive: New bookmark sync in Nightly
System76 and the LVFS – Technical Blog of Richard Hughes — tl;dr: Don’t buy System76 hardware and expect to get firmware updates from the LVFS
System76 Blog — System76 and LVFS - What Really Happened — Wednesday there was an unfortunate message posted from Richard Hughes regarding his firmware service.
GS Connect as part of 18.10
Trust and security in the Snap Store | Ubuntu blog
Malware Found on the Ubuntu Snap Store — A pair of (seemingly normal) apps hosted by the Canonical-backed app hub were discovered to contain a сryptocurrency miner disguised as the “systemd” daemon.
Plasma Sprint in Berlin | KDE.news — During the sprint, the Plasma team was joined by guests from Qt and Sway WM. Discussion topics included sharing Wayland protocols, input methods, Plasma Browser Integration, tablet mode for Plasma's shell, porting KControl modules to QtQuick, and last but not least, the best beer in Berlin.
Example Ubuntu System Report
Purism's FSP Reverse Engineering Effort Might Be Stalled - Phoronix — Intel politely asked Purism to remove this document which Intel believes may conflict with a licensing term. Since this post was informational only and has no impact on the future goals of Purism, we have complied. I
Archive: Intel FSP reverse engineering: finding the real entry point! – Purism
Is the "either all GTK or all Qt" mentality still relevant today?
The Microsoft cyber attack | DW Documentary - YouTube

Episode 248: Contain All The Things May 09, 2018

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Episode 247: Year of the Linux Desktop 😎 May 01, 2018

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Ubuntu and Fedora have new releases, and our early impressions are great. We’ll share the features that we think make these distros some of the best Linux desktop releases ever.

Plus some important community news, some Darktable tips for beginners, and some select clips from this year’s LinuxFest Northwest.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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Announcing the release of Fedora 28 — Fedora 28 Workstation has big news too. For the first time, we’re making it easy for users to enable certain third-party software sources, including proprietary Nvidia drivers.
Fedora Atomic Host — This is our first release of Fedora 28 Atomic Host!
What's New in Fedora 28 Workstation — Battery life on laptops running Fedora Workstation is improved with various hardware power-saving features now enabled by default.
Google Just Forked a Popular GTK Theme — Not just any GTK theme but one forked from the Material Design inspired Adapta GTK theme.
Why is the kernel community replacing iptables with BPF? — The Linux kernel community recently announced bpfilter, which will replace the long-standing in-kernel implementation of iptables with high-performance network filtering powered by Linux BPF
VoidLinux Serious Issues — The current project leader has disappeared. We have had no contact with him since the end of January.
darktable 2.4.3 released | darktable — We’re proud to announce the third bugfix release for the 2.4 series of darktable, 2.4.3!
LFNW 2018 - Images | Brent Gervais Photography — Great photos from LinuxFest Northwest 2018
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Top 10 Major Changes
Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 Official Flavor Debuts as First Long-Term Supported Version — Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 LTS official flavor will be supported for three years, until April 2021, and ships with the latest Budgie Desktop 10.4 "Irish Summer" desktop environment by default, accompanied by GNOME 3.28 applications.
Breeze through Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver — GNOME Initial Setup was chosen for this job as we will be exploring how to integrate more features of the tool during the 18.10 cycle.

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