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Is Fuchsia a risk to Linux? We try out a cutting-edge Fuchsia desktop and determine if it is a long-term threat to Linux.

Plus, have we all been missing the best new Linux distribution? We give this fresh distro a spin and report.

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• Linux 5.13 Released With Apple M1 Bringup, Landlock, FreeSync HDMI + Much More — There are also new Linux 5.13 security features like the Landlock LSM, Clang CFI support, and optionally randomizing the kernel stack offset at each system call.
• The 5.13 kernel has been released
• PipeWire 0.3.31 Released — JACK has seen massive stability improvements. Locking and correctness wrt to callbacks and has been reworked. Also thread priorities have improved.
• PipeWire Project on Twitter — Important change in PipeWire 0.3.31 is that we now have a database of weird Bluetooth hardware. This allows us to apply device specific tweaks to work around issues. This database is from Android and should let us support more devices seamlessly.
• Real-time audio streaming with ROC
• Deepin Linux 20.2.2 Introduces a Brand-New App Store, Secure Boot Support — With this release, fans of Deepin Linux can enjoy a brand-new App Store that supports installation of Android apps, offers a better app management with support for batch installation of applications, and has a fresh new design with simplified interaction.
• deepin 20.2.2 – Deepin Technology Community
• Deepin Screenshots Album
• Salt Lake City Meetup
• Denver Meetup Meetup
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup(s)
• JB Telegram
• JB Mumble
• dahliaOS — dahliaOS is a modern, secure, lightweight and responsive operating system, combining the best of GNU/Linux and Fuchsia OS.
• dahliaOS Screenshots Album
• Google is releasing Fuchsia OS, starting w/ 1st-gen Nest Hub
• Here’s an easier way to try Fuchsia OS on your computer
• Reddit: A Question About Zircon And Its Capabilities
• A new version of Mixxx is out — Mixxx 2.3.0 comes with a new default skin: "LateNight" underwent a massive redesign and replaces "Deere" as default skin.
• elementary EDW videos on YouTube

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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• Salt Lake City Meetup
• Denver Meetup
• 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

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.

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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• Google Photos is so 2020—welcome to the world of self-hosted photo management | Ars Technica — Alex's comprehensive write-up for Ars.
• rclone Google Photos — The rclone backend for Google Photos is a specialized backend for transferring photos and videos to and from Google Photos.

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.

Special Guest: Aaron Bockelie.

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From our origins with Linux to preparing your home LAN for a solar storm, it’s an Ask us Anything special edition!

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• Pick: termbin.com — Netcat-based command line pastebin.

Tim Canham, Mars Helicopter Operations Lead at NASA’s JPL joins us again to share technical details you've never heard about the Ingenuity Linux Copter on Mars. And the challenges they had to work around to achieve their five successful flights.

Special Guest: Tim Canham.

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• NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight — NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet.
• NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Completes First One-Way Trip
• NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity lands at new airfield after 5th flight
• NASA’s Perseverance Captures Video, Audio of Fourth Ingenuity Flight
• Ingenuity Helicopter Operational History — Ingenuity's fifth flight succeeded on May 7, 2021, 19:26 UTC, lasting 108 seconds. Ingenuity went 5 meters (16 ft) high, just like the last three flights, and traveled to a landing site 131 meters (429 ft) to the south.
• Seeing NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Fly in 3D
• Ingenuity Spots Perseverance From the Air — NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is visible in the upper left corner of this image the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took during its third flight, on April 25, 2021. The helicopter was flying at an altitude of 16 feet (5 meters) and roughly 279 feet (85 meters) from the rover at the time.
• JB Telegram Group
• Linux Flies on Mars Sticker
• Some PeerTube Problems — For now, we plan to keep testing PeerTube behined the scenes, trying out the new releases, and searching for ways to automate deploying content to PeerTube.
• Pick: Finamp — Finamp is a music player for Jellyfin. Its main feature is the ability to download songs for offline listening.
• [GitHub] finamp: A Jellyfin music client for mobile
• Plexamp - Love your music! — A beautiful Plex music player for audiophiles, curators, and hipsters.
• Plexamp Release Notes
• plexamp on AppImageHub
• Welcoming Linux to the 1Password Family — The wait is over. 1Password for Linux is officially here.
• Behind the scenes of 1Password for Linux by Dave Teare — What makes this release even more amazing is it was created from scratch and developed using new languages and techniques most of our team never used before.

We’re taking a look at an underdog distro. We may have found a diamond in the rough with a few tricks up its filesystem.

Plus our review of the ODROID-Go Super an Ubuntu-powered handheld, and our tools for laptop battery health.

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• Sensory’s custom voice assistant debuts on a Linux-based microwave — Sensory announced that its 100 percent locally processed TrulyHandsfree technology can be used to create custom voice assistants without sacrificing privacy, as demonstrated in a new Linux-based Farberware FM11VABK microwave.
• Ask LUP Anything - AskLUP.COM
• ODROID-GO Super
• ODROID-GO Super Dim Gray
• EmulationStation — A graphical and themeable emulator front-end that allows you to access all your favorite games in one place, even without a keyboard!
• ODROID Image for ES
• SegaCD missing BIOS (linked) - ODROID
• JB Telegram
• Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
• Open Letter: DistroWatch and Nitrux — For the better part of three years, we have remained silent about your ongoing efforts to affect people’s perception of our Linux distribution continuously. We have tried our best not to engage with your evident hostility and disregard to inform your viewers and visitors about correct facts of the Linux distributions you display on your website, especially ours. However, we have decided to take a stance. It is today, the 6th of May, that we gallantly demand you to stop.
• Uri's Blog: Unpopular Opinion Penguin #3: The Empire Strikes Back — I’m here to take a look at the newest “review” that our lovely haters (let’s call them for what they are) at DistroWatch published on their website some weeks ago.
• DistroWatch.com: Nitrux
• Nitrux — Nitrux is a Linux desktop distribution directly based on Debian. It uses the Calamares installer and includes NX Desktop and NX Firewall on top of the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment and MauiKit Applications.
• Meet Nitrux: The Most Beautiful Linux Distribution Ever?
• Nitrux on Twitter
• MauiKit — A free and modular front-end framework for developing fast and compelling user experiences.
• Kirigami UI Framework — Build beautiful, convergent apps that run on phones, TVs and everything in between.
• Changelog: Nitrux 1.4.0
• NX Desktop — NX Desktop is a customization layer for Plasma 5.
• AppImageHub — Here are 1200 apps (and counting) that you can run on Linux without installation.
• Installing other DEs in Nitrux — During last month’s release of Nitrux, we made available a minimal ISO to let users install Nitrux and also install a different desktop environment and a selection of applications than the ones we include by default.
• NX Software Center — A GUI to install and manage AppImages.
• Nitrux: pnx — pnx (lowercase; originally Pacman for Nitrux) allows users to install software from Linux distributions that use the Pacman package manager on other Linux distributions that don’t use it without interfering with the distributions default package manager.
• What’s Nitrux? The future. - with Uri Herrera
• Linux Spotlight - Uri Herrera of NitruxOS
• Feedback: PrivateBin — A minimalist, open-source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES.
• PrivateBin Docker Setup
• Feedback: PIE Bin — Pre-Internet Encryption for Text.
• Feedback: CryptPad — CryptPad is the Zero-Knowledge real-time collaborative editor.
• CryptPad Installation Guide — This guide is about installing a public CryptPad instance available on the internet.
• Pick: TLP — Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life.
• Pick: TLPUI — A GTK user interface for TLP written in Python.
• Fedora — TLP 1.3.1 documentation

It's episode III, Return of the Email. Everyone says never host your own email, so we're doin it.

We just have one last job to complete.

Special Guest: Danielle Foré.

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• elementary OS 6 Beta Available Today — Developers and testers, it’s the day you’ve been waiting for: elementary OS 6 Beta is available now!
• elementary Builds
• Get Involved with elementary OS — Everything that we make is 100% open source and developed collaboratively by people from all over the world. Even if you're not a programmer, you can get involved and make a difference.
• Audacity & MuseScore Announcement! — Audacity has just joined Muse Group, a collection of brands that includes another popular open source music app called MuseScore.
• (Video) I’m now in charge of Audacity. Seriously.
• Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
• RainLoop docker-compose YAML
• roundcubemail-docker — Resources to build Docker images for Roundcube Webmail
• Documentation / Configuration / RainLoop Webmail
• (Video) PipeWire: The New Multimedia Service, Now Ready for Automotive
• (Video) LUP 272 OG PipeWire Interview Oct 23, 2018 — The lead developer of PipeWire Wim Taymans joins us to discuss Linux’s multimedia past, and its exciting future.
• Pick: Rentry.co — Rentry.co is a markdown pastebin service with preview, custom urls and editing. Fast, simple and free.
• Pick: procs — A modern replacement for ps written in Rust

The new release of Fedora has more under the hood than you might know. It's a technology-packed release, and nearly all of it is coming to a distro near you.

Plus the questions we think the University of Minnesota kernel ban raises, and more.

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• Thoughts on The University of Minnesota Kernel Ban
• Some 5.12 development statistics — By the time the 5.12 kernel was finally released, some 13,015 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline repository for this development cycle. That makes 5.12 the slowest development cycle since 5.6, which was released at the end of March 2020. Still, there was plenty of work done for 5.12.
• Linux 5.12 Release Announcement
• As Linux 5.12 released, Linus Torvalds warns next version will probably be rather large — "'Despite the extra week, this was actually a fairly small release overall. Judging by Linux-next, 5.13 will be making up for it."
• Flatpak 1.11.1 Brings Changes For Steam, Better Support For Command Line Programs — One of the changes with Flatpak 1.11.1 worth mentioning is allowing sub-sandboxes to have a different /usr and/or /app.
• steam-runtime-tools: pressure-vessel — pressure-vessel is a bit like a simplified version of Flatpak for Steam games.
• While we worry about WSLg Amazon is Positioned to Kill Server Linux
• Humble Bundle is removing their pay sliders and replacing them with two preset pay splits.
• Looking forward to Fedora 34 — In 2021, complaints about PulseAudio are scarce indeed; the quirks have long since been ironed out and, for most people, sound just works. Obviously, it must be time to rip out the audio infrastructure and start over. That is what Fedora has done in the 34 release; PulseAudio is gone, replaced by PipeWire.
• How to Upgrade to Fedora 34 from Fedora 33 Workstation
• Common Fedora 34 Bugs
• Fedora Linux 34 is officially here!
• Fedora 34 Changes
• Gnome40
• DefaultPipeWire
• XwaylandStandalone
• Some nice stuff not yet in stable that Fedora wanted
• WaylandByDefaultForPlasma
• AArch64 KDE Plasma Desktop image
• Fedora Media Writer — Write Fedora Images to Portable Media
• BtrfsTransparentCompression
• btrfs Wiki: Compression
• Fedora Workstation 34 feature focus: Btrfs transparent compression - Fedora Magazine — This article is going to go a little further under the hood and talk about data compression and transparent compression in btrfs. A term like that may sound scary at first, but less technical users need not be wary. This change is simple to grasp, and will help many Workstation users in several key areas.
• EnableSystemdOomd
• LINUX Unplugged 351: Lenovo Loves Linux
• Remove Support For SELinux Runtime Disable
• UnifyGrubConfig
• Unplugged Core Contributors
• Feedback: Running his own email for six years
• Feedback: Uses a Neat Trick with his Self Hosted Email
• Feedback PIck: Modoboa, Open Source email server
• PIck: zellij — A Rust and WebAssembly powered terminal workspace with batteries included.
• jupitergarage.com