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Welcome to Episode 84 of Destination Linux

On this episode of Destination Linux, we are still making some changes to the show, please let us know what you think so far. This week, we discussed some of the most interesting topics around the Linux community including the KDE Neon Bionic Preview, Linux Mint Debian Edition, OpenWRT, i3 and Sway window managers. We also take a look at an interesting opinion piece regarding GTK Themes and the potential to move beyond them. We’ve got some more Tips & Tricks as well as a couple cool Software Spotlights. All that and much more!

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Topics covered in this episode:

KDE Neon – Bionic Preview Ready To Test – Beta

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 3 ‘Cindy’ BETA available for download

OpenWrt Gets First Major Release In Two Years

Fresh Snaps From July 2018

i3 Tiling Window Manager – 5 reasons It Makes Linux Better

Sway 1.0 Alpha Released

(Opinion) Moving Beyond Themes

Phoronix Does Another Round Of 100+ Benchmarks Intel/AMD CPU’s

Chromebooks May Make 2018 Year Of Linux

It Looks Like A Steam 64-Bit Client Could Finally Be Near

TO4 Tactical Operations Will Come to Linux

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Software Spotlights: GNOME Logs, KSystemLogs, & others.

DL Community Email:

hi,

many thanks for your great podcast. It is a trusted companion when looking at the tail lights of the car in front of me, every day when I drive to work.

My question may be stupid, but Google doesn’t give me a direct answer to following question:

I want to reinstall my Linux Mint. When I make a backup of all my files (from /home) onto eg. a EXT4 USB drive (copy/paste), then I nuke the Mint install and reinstall from scratch,

when I then restore the backed up /home data files, what happens with the rights on the file? (ownership & file permissions)

Are they being brought across from the original install, or are they set correctly for the new install?

Are there backup tools which make sure that file permissions are set correctly when restored on a new system?

Many thanks in advance for your help.

Welcome to Episode 83 of Destination Linux

On this episode of Destination Linux, as we are down 1 host, we’ve made quite a few changes to the show. We are still in the process of making these changes so please bear with us still but I think there is a lot of potential for the future. This week, we discussed the latest news such as the Solus 10 Hour Hackfest, new releases of Netrunner, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, and X.Org. We also got some cool new games in the Linux Gaming section and we are continuing with our new segments for Tips & Tricks as well as Software Spotlights. All that and much more!

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Topics covered in this episode:

Summertime Solus

Netrunner Rolling 2018.08 Is Here

KDE Plasma 5.14 Adds New Feature To Upgrade Firmware

X.Org Server 1.20.1 Released

Gnome 3.30 Automatic Updates

Firefox Experiments With Recommending Articles

Thunderbird 60 Has Been Released

LibreOffice 6.1 Released

AMD Threadripper 2 Preorder Start Now

AMDGPU LRU Bulk Patches OpenCL and Vulkan Boosts

Dead Cells – The best Linux Game This Year Is Now Out?

Forsaken Remastered Comes To Linux

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Terminal type time:

at 9:45 AM 08/07/2018

[Enter]

## Type command you want to execute

ls

## CTRL+D to kill prompt and it will be scheduled

Software Spotlight: GPick & KColorChooser

DL Community Email:

I stumbled across the podcast at a time in my life when I was struggling with the worst depression and anxiety I’ve ever experienced in my life. I am so grateful that I did find it though. The very first episode I saw had Martin Wimpress on as a guest. The banter between Ryan and wimpy was the first thing that was able to make me laugh in months. I can’t describe how much I appreciate all of the hard work from the past and current lineup.

You guys renew my passion and excitement for Linux every week. Thanks for helping create and maintain a community that cares about a project that is actually making a difference in the world. And a community where I can remain silent but still feel like I’m surrounded by friends in discord and telegram. Friends who love to talk about Linux and computers as much as I do and won’t perceive me as just some nerd that isn’t worth talking to. I feel home.

All of your hard work is what keeps us going and drives us to want to learn more! I genuinely can’t thank you guys enough for everything you do. I’ll be around as long as DL is around.

Welcome to Episode 82 of Destination Linux

On this episode of Destination Linux, as we are down 1 host, we’ve made quite a few changes to the show. We are still in the process of making these changes so please bear with us still but I think there is a lot of potential for the future. This week, we discussed the latest news such as Ubuntu 18.04’s First Point Release, The Return Of Korora, Firefox Delivering Out-Of-Process Extensions To Linux, Windows may soon be gone with Desktop as a Service Replacing it, and we’ll talk about some Linux Gaming topics like the cool Battle Royale game, Crazy Justice coming to Linux. We are also adding a brand new segment for Tips & Tricks as well as Software Spotlights. All that and much more!

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Topics covered in this episode:

Engineering Plasma: Extensions and stability — Present and future

Linux Kernel 4.18 Slated for Release on August 12th as Linus Torvalds Outs Last RC

The Return Of Korora 28

Firefox Delivering Out-Of-Process Extensions To Linux

Google Chrome Picture In Picture Mode

Canonical Announced That Opera and Chromium Are Now Available As A Snap

With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It

GPD Pocket 2 Crowdfunding is Live

Valve Will Release Artifact for Linux On Nov 28th

Crazy Justice Steam Page Is Up

Tip: Easy Window Resizing (in most desktop environments)

Software Spotlight: Guvcview

DL Community Email:

Greetings,

I just wanted to throw you a quick note about some really good news and great

These are some exciting times!

CubicleNate

Welcome to Episode 81 of Destination Linux

DL Email

Hey, Destination Linux crew,

I love the show, but one thing greatly troubles me…

Ryan “CLAIMS” his car ‘runs linux’, but I am thinking he means that his car ‘boots’ linux.   I refuse to believe these outrageous claims until I see a logo of some sort that Ryan has produced ACTUALLY USING this ‘linux’ on his car.  That’s right. I’m calling ‘bogus’ on this, until Ryan offers proof-positive that his car RUNS linux by producing something with inkscape or gimp USING HIS CAR.

I admit, I was skeptical when he professes his love for linux, but uses an iPhone to make phone calls. (Android, as google-fied as it may be, is certainly closer to the linux family than iOS)

Seriously, though. Thank you for the show each week! I don’t miss an episode, and, like Ryan, I also work telecom… It’s a welcome relief to hear the friendly linux-centric banter while I go about my I&R (install and repair) business day.

PS: I’m not sure if Michael knew this, but KDE is SO customizable,  I’ve even found an option that you can ‘like it’ or ‘not like it’ in the settings!!!

Thanks,

-Andy

Distro News

Canonical Fixes Boot Failures on 16.04 and 18.04 LTS

Linux kernel security update for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.18-Random-Boot-Fix

Debian Based Slax 9.5 Released

Slax

The Ultimate Linux Distro Is Here

LXQt

Neptune OS 5.4 Released

About Neptune

Modicia: Ultimate Linux with a Twist

Modicia O.S.

Lubuntu Taking A New Direction

Software News

Launching A Paid Application On Linux

Hardware News

Dell XPS Developer Edition w/ Ubuntu

Forbes Gives 5 Reasons To Switch To Linux Now

Jason Evangelho

Gaming

Minecraft SNAP Get’s Updated

PolyGod FPS Launches Next Month

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I would like to thank each and every one of you for listening and watching every week. It has been some of the best times doing this show with Ryan, Zeb and Michael.

Rocco

Destination Linux is going to continue. But the format naturally has to change as Rocco handled many critical tasks of the show specific to editing.

During this transition period we’re going to have to do some testing and maneuvering with the show format and how we bring the content to you each week. Our primary focus will continue to be the podcast itself and making sure we’re keeping the patrons and our audience informed.

Welcome to Episode 80 of Destination Linux

This week our special guest is Marc Di Luzio

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Unity 2018.2 has been released

Thanks to Marc for all the work he has done for the Linux community now and in the future. We really appreciated talking with him

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Everybody have a great week and remember the Journey ITSELF is just as important as the Destination

Welcome to Episode 79 of Destination Linux

I’m Rocco and with me today is Ryan, Zeb and Michael

This episode was live streamed on Youtube & Twitch Sunday July 15th at 12 noon EST

DL Email

We got lots of great feedback on our Ryan Sipes episode including some additional questions people want us to ask him next time. So looks like we need to have him back on in the near future.

Karl Schneider 6 days ago

“I haven’t use Thunderbird in years. Ryan’s Jedi mind trick must have worked because I’m downloading it right now!”

Johan B. 6 days ago

“I’ m one of the 26 million. Thunderbird 60 beta 9 with square tabs aaaand with Lightning agenda. Only thing missing is CSD support like in Firefox to tick of the titlebar. Yes mobile Thunderbird please. I already use Firefox (beta) on my Pixel 2. Imagine if all 26 million gave 1 dollar;)”

Mastodon

Mr. Matt

“@DestinationLinux I basically dropped everything I was doing and downloaded today’s episode. As a long time Thunderbird user, I have got to hear this!”

Distro News

The Sheer Scale Of Ubuntu Is Mindblowing

Kubuntu 18.04 Users Get Plasma 5.12.6

Ubuntu Minimal Released

ArcoLinux-D-B Gets 6.9 Kirk Release

AUR Malware Discovered

Security Flaw Found For Ubuntu

New Intel Spectre Advisory

Red Hat Celebrates 25 Year Anniversary

Another 25 Year Anniversary With Wine

Deepin Official Response On Spyware

Quidsup has made several videos on this matter via Youtube.

Reddit

Software News

Firefox Launches Mobile Test Pilot Tools Lockbox and Notes

Six IDE’s You Should Be Aware Of

Terminal Lovers Will Be Happy To Know About Browsh

How About Weather From The Terminal

CPU Fetch

Gaming

Unity 2018.2 Released w/ Vulkan and HiDPI Support in Editor

CS-GO Panorama UI Now Available For Linux

Hero-U Rogue To Redemption Out for Linux

Chicken Assassin Reloaded

Destination Linux Steam Group Now Available – Community Run

Ballistic Overkill Gets Some Exciting Updates

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Rocco can be found at www.bigdaddylinux.com

Ryan can be found on youtube at www.youtube.com/dasgeek

Zeb can be found on youtube at www.youtube.com/zebedeeboss

Michael can be found at www.tuxdigital.com

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Everybody have a great week and remember the Journey ITSELF is just as important as the Destination

This episode was live streamed on Youtube and Twitch on Sunday July 8th

DL Emails

We were corresponding with Yannick, a.k.a. the French guy from Switzerland recently and he brought to our attention the Raspberry Pi turning Raspbian into a complete desktop OS. We love when our listeners bring these cool projects to our attention and giving us some of the use cases for them. Here is what he has to say:

As for your last question : the Raspberry Pi Foundation took Raspbian – the awesome OS that runs on all of my seven Raspberry Pis – and turn it into a complete OS for PCs and Macs, and they named it Raspberry Pi Desktop – go figure…

It looks exactly the same as Raspbian, but runs on x86 architecture – and also x64 but there are no 64 bits ISO. It is definitely one of those “lightweight” distro. It runs super fast – even in a VM -, but it’s not really sexy.

The main advantage I see with that distro is the fact that I can test my programs – did I mention I am a Linux developer ? – with the comfort of my PC before I transfer them to the Pi. That, and the fact that I can install it and make it run on my mum’s 10-year old laptop !

Anyway, you don’t have to take my word for it, go check it out by yourself !

https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspberry-pi-desktop/

Thanks again for your message and for the great show ! It’s always a pleasure to notice a new episode in my podcast app.

Cheers !

Yannick, a.k.a. the French guy from Switzerland

Distro News

Developer Preview: Juno Beta 1 Is Here

For those of you who caught the livestream and want to know. The elementaryOS Juno wallpaper is a diagonal gradient between 2 colors going from top left to bottom right.

The top left color is:

RGB = 69,41,129

Hex = #452981

CMYK = 47,68,0,49

The bottom right color is:

RGB = 113,53,178

Hex = #7139b2

CMYK = 37,68,0,30

Redcore Linux Hardened 1806 released

Linux Mint 19 “Tara” Officially Released, It’s Based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Linux Mint Blog

Upgrade Instructions from 18.3

Mintbox Mini 2 Ready to Ship

Xfce 4.13  Now With More Xfce

Manjaro 17.1.11 Released

Fedora 29 to Change DNF Repository Metadata Compression

Phoronix Yum Thing

YUM thing

SUSE Linux Sold for 2.5 Billion

Swedish private equity group EQT

Software News

‘Next Gen’ Kdenlive Is Almost Here — But It Needs Your Help

Kdenlive bug tracker.

This week in Usability & Productivity, part 25

GitHub Repositories of Gentoo Linux Hacked!

Gmail App Developers Are Reading Your Email

YouTube Music Support Arrives in Google Play Music Desktop Player

Google is Now a Platinum Member of The Linux Foundation

Free Video Editor OpenShot 2.4.2 Released With 7 New Effects, Improved Stability

Gaming

Play OverWatch on Linux

Steam Linux Use For June 2018 Comes In At 0.52%

AntVentor

The very sweet looking point & click adventure ‘AntVentor’ now has Linux support

Never-ending shoot ’em up ‘I Hate Running Backwards’ is now on Linux

Playing Spelunky Classic HD on Linux is now just a Snap away

GamingOnLinux is officially 9 years old this week

Support Gaming on Linux with any of the links below

Google Reportedly Planning To Enter The Gaming Market

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A big thank you to each and every one of you for supporting us by watching or listening to Destination Linux

Welcome to Episode 77 of Destination Linux

Our special guest today is Ryan Sipes of Thunderbird

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A big thank you to each and every one of you for supporting us by watching or listening to Destination Linux. Contact us through [email protected] and we also look forward to responding to your comments on disqus at www.destinationlinux.org

Everybody have a great week and remember the Journey ITSELF is just as important as the Destination

Welcome to Episode 76 of Destination Linux

This episode was live streamed on Youtube and Twitch on Sunday June 23rd

Email Comments:

Thank you for your show, long time listener, first time commenter. I am a regular openSUSE user and contributor to the project and it seems like the review of the distro was greatly glossed over and viewed from a very “Ubuntu” lens. For starters, YaST, a tool that an Ubuntu user wouldn’t be familiar with, once you use it, it is a fantastic collection of system configuration tools. It is a central “shop” to get things configured very nicely. In contrast, to make configurations in Ubuntu, I have to search through a menu of items that may or may not be system or root level settings. If you are used to hunting around for system configurations, it’s not a big deal but for me, I could never consider many distributions because of the lack of a tool LIKE YaST. Also, if you want to live in the terminal, the ncures interface is just as useful. From a sysadmin perspective, this capability makes managing remote systems even easier through the terminal where I do not have to remember all the commands.

The package manager, Zypper, was also glossed over. Zypper’s ability to manage multiple repositories and so very cleanly perform updates or even downgrades is the best I have ever used. Very stable, reliable and on the rolling model gives you spectacular control over your upgrades.

Another feature of openSUSE that seems to be glossed over is the ability to test out multiple Desktop Environments on the same install. I can have KDE Plasma, Gnome, MATE and Budgie installed concurrently and switch between them without any consequences.

As far as your challenges go with installing openSUSE, I can’t speak for that. I haven’t had issues but I am not one to dual boot. I will give other distros a spin in virtual machine. I use BTRFS on root but I do have a sizable partition in order to allow for the snapshots to be made upon each round of package installs.

I know you guys have a good relationship with a lot of the Ubuntu crowd but it would have been nice to have had someone from the openSUSE crowd to be able to discuss the features with you, like Richard Brown. Just a thought

Thanks for your show, I do enjoy it.

CubicleNate

*We want to apologize to those who sent us e-mails we missed in April. Apparently our SPAM filters got excited.

Distro News:

Peppermint 9 Announcement

Deepin 15.6 Launches With New Features

Sparky Linux Needs Your Support

Ubuntu Releases Desktop Metrics

Fedora Atomic Workstation Gets A Name Change

OpenSuse Tumbleweed Now Powered By Kernel 4.17

Linux Kernel 4.18 Rich With Features

Canonical To Announce IPO For Reals?

Software News

VR Editing Tool For Linux And Mac Only

Ephiphany Browser 3.29.3 Now With Reader Mode

Top 30 Themes For Ubuntu

Gaming

What We’ve been playing: Ballistic Overkill

Turok Remastered Comes to Linux

Total Warhammer II Announced By Feral For Linux

Steam Summer Sales Are Live

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Everybody have a great week and remember the Journey ITSELF is just as important as the Destination

Welcome to Episode 75 of Destination Linux

Your hosts this week are Rocco, Ryan, Michael, and Zeb.

Viewer Email

Hi,

Big fan of the show, i listen as soon as i can to each new episode.

I thought you would be interested to know that Linux is already dominant in the high end VFX world. I work for a small animation studio where Linux is the pro-dominant OS, but is the industry standard, not the exception.

There are several high-end products which work on Linux, including Autodesk Maya, Mudbox, Foundry Modo, Nuke, Davinci Resolve, Fusion, SideFX Houdini. The large VFX Studios including Pixar, Dreamworks, ILM, Weta also use linux. (CentOS is the main distro used, i heard ILM just switched to CentOS 7 from 6.).

While Video editing is still a mix of Mac/Windows/Linux, with linux being the weaker for video editing it is still possible to create high-end work from start to finish on Linux using industry leading software.

Also Ryan should try EXWM, i now use that after having used i3 for about 7 years.

Regards,

Richard

Thank you for the email Richard,

Distro News

Linux Mint 19 New Features

KDE 5.13 Release Announcement

KDE Plasma 5.13 Officially Released with Revamped Lock & Login Screens, Settings

KDE Maintainer Martin Floser Stepping Down

VDG does not exist Article as a response to Martin

Cannonical Keep Us Safe With New Kernel Patch

Software News

Private Internet Access’ “No-Logging” Claims Proven True Again in Court

Gitlab Rejoices – Github gets bought

Linux Foundation Response

Hardware News

Intel Announces i7 8086k with 28 Cores

Gaming

What I’ve been playing: Rise of the Tomb Raider

Winepak Is A Flatpak Repository For Windows (Wine) Games And Applications

Games Coming to Linux

Nvidia 390.67 Linux Driver Has Been Released

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Rocco can be found at www.bigdaddylinux.com

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Zeb can be found on youtube at www.youtube.com/zebedeeboss

Michael can be found at www.tuxdigital.com

All of us can be found on Big Daddy Linux Live! Which is on every Saturday night on the BigDaddyLinux Youtube channel

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Everybody have a great week and remember the Journey ITSELF is just as important as the Destination