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March 13, 2019292: Cheese on the SCaLE
A new voice joins the show, and we share stories from our recent adventures at SCaLE 17x.
Plus we look at the Debian project's recent struggles, NGINX's sale, and Mozilla's new service.
Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Ell Marquez.
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On 30th anniversary of web, Amazon shares first homepage, Google keeps doodling and more – GeekWire
The Web Foundation on Twitter — In 1989, @timberners_lee submitted a proposal that would change the world.
To celebrate #Web30, for the next 30 hours we're asking everyone to contribute to a crowdsourced timeline of web milestones.
Introducing Firefox Send, Providing Free File Transfers while Keeping your Personal Information Private - The Mozilla Blog — Send makes it easy for your recipient, too. No hoops to jump through. They simply receive a link to click and download the file. They don’t need to have a Firefox account to access your file.
F5 Acquires NGINX to Bridge NetOps & DevOps, Providing Customers with Consistent Application Services Across Every Environment - NGINX — F5 is committed to continued innovation and increasing investment in the NGINX open source project to empower NGINX’s widespread user communities.
NGINX to Join F5: Proud to Finish One Chapter and Excited to Start the Next
Announcing the release of sway 1.0 | Drew DeVault’s Blog — 1,315 days after I started the sway project, it’s finally time for sway 1.0! I had no idea at the time how much work I was in for, or how many talented people would join and support the project with me. In order to complete this project, we have had to rewrite the entire Linux desktop nearly from scratch. Nearly 300 people worked together, together writing over 9,000 commits and almost 100,000 lines of code, to bring you this release.
xyproto/wallutils: Utilities for handling monitors, resolutions, wallpapers and timed wallpapers — Detect monitor resolutions and set the desktop wallpaper, for any window manager.
Winding down my Debian involvement — When I joined Debian, I was still studying, i.e. I had luxurious amounts of spare time. Now, over 5 years of full time work later, my day job taught me a lot, both about what works in large software engineering projects and how I personally like my computer systems. I am very conscious of how I spend the little spare time that I have these days.
The following sections each deal with what I consider a major pain point, in no particular order. Some of them influence each other—for example, if changes worked better, we could have a chance at transitioning packages to be more easily machine readable.
A (Partial) Defense of Debian | The Changelog — I was sad to read on his blog that Michael Stapelberg is winding down his Debian involvement. In his post, he outlined some critiques of Debian. In his post, I want to acknowledge that he is on point with some of them, but also push back on others.
Leaderless Debian - LWN.net — One of the traditional rites of the (northern hemisphere) spring is the election for the Debian project leader. Over a six-week period, interested candidates put their names forward, describe their vision for the project as a whole, answer questions from Debian developers, then wait and watch while the votes come in. But what would happen if Debian were to hold an election and no candidates stepped forward? The Debian project has just found itself in that situation and is trying to figure out what will happen next.
Chris Fisher on Twitter — Went hands on with @Azure Spehere dev kits. I would not be surprised if @linuxacademyCOM students start asking for courses in this stuff. They keep the #Linux based OS up to date for 10 years, no subscription.
System76 on Twitter — Jupiter Broadcasting meetup photo! It’s always a guaranteed great time with @ChrisLAS and @jupitersignal!
Why snaps? - Popey’s talk at SCaLE 17x
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Trying out software? - Feedback from Ken — I'm intrigued by and curious about much of the software you mention regularly. I'm tempted to try some of it, but I don't have a good sense of how easy it is to delete or clean off installed programs in a way that ensures a stable system without a lot of left over junk.
Can you give some insight about how you usually handle this. I'd rather not have to nuke-and-pave the OS over and over to insure a stable system.
Home automation tips from Paul — I have only recently started to use node-red on my ubuntu box at home. Connected it easily to Alexa and also my Broadlink IR/RF blaster. But I am hardly scraping the surface.
1 hr 13 min
March 05, 2019291: Dirty Home Directories
We reveal all and look at the mess that is our home directories. How we keep them clean, back them up, and organize our most important files.
Plus Gnome lands a long awaited feature, Firefox gets a bit more clever, and the big money being made on Open Source.
Special Guests: Alan Pope, Anthony James, Brent Gervais, Danielle Foré, Dustin Krysak, and Martin Wimpress.
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systemd-nspawn - ArchWiki — systemd-nspawn may be used to run a command or OS in a light-weight namespace container.
Transparently running binaries from any architecture in Linux with QEMU and binfmt_misc
QemuUserEmulation - Debian Wiki — This page describes how to setup and use QEMU user emulation in a "transparent" fashion, allowing execution of non-native target executables just like native ones.
Firefox 67: automatically unload unused tabs to improve memory — If things go as planned, Firefox 67 will introduce a new feature to unload unused tabs to improve memory. The initial bug report dates back eight years but work on the feature began in earnest just a short while ago.
Chrome OS 74 dev channel brings Linux app improvements (Crostini) — There’s now support for audio playback when using Linux apps. Up until now if you wanted to use Linux software to watch videos, listen to music, or do anything else that requires sound, you were out of luck.
GNOME 3.32 Lands Long-Awaited Fractional Scaling Support — Fractional scaling allows for greater control over the UI scaling than the previous integer based scaling of 2, 3, etc, to instead support fractions like 3/2 (1.5) increase in user-interfaces. Fractional scaling is primarily to improve the user experience with modern HiDPI displays.
Systemd-Free Debian "Devuan" Planning Their First Developer Gathering This Spring — Taking place in Amsterdam from 5 to 7 April will be the first Devuan conference for "init freedom lovers".
Canonical adds containerd to Ubuntu Kubernetes — Enabling Kubernetes to drive containerd directly reduces the number of moving parts, reduces latency in pod startup times, and improves CPU and memory usage on every node in the cluster.
Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups
Ubuntu Podcast Listener Get Together — We're having a Get Together in Reading, UK on Saturday March 16th. We'll meet at Breddog in Reading!
Dotfile madness — To those of you reading this: I beg you. Avoid creating files or directories of any kind in your user's $HOME directory in order to store your configuration or data. This practice is bizarre at best and it is time to end it. I am sorry to say that many (if not most) programs are guilty of doing this while there are significantly better places that can be used for storing per-user program data.
More home directory pollution — I looked in my home directory and now see (in addition to 26 dot-files) directories named go, snap and systems.
Steve Reaver on Twitter — There is so much junk in my home dir I had to ls it in column format. I've just about given up using ~ because of all the crap that application put in there!
“Please move the “$HOME/snap” directory to a less o...” : Ubuntu Bug #1575053
Why do hidden files in Unix begin with a dot? — The answer is very simple, because it's extremely easy to test if a file is hidden or not by simply testing the first character of the filename.
Yet Another Dotfiles Manager — When you live in a command line, configurations are a deeply personal thing. They are often crafted over years of experience, battles lost, lessons learned, advice followed, and ingenuity rewarded. When you are away from your own configurations, you are an orphaned refugee in unfamiliar and hostile surroundings. You feel clumsy and out of sorts. You are filled with a sense of longing to be back in a place you know. A place you built. A place where all the short-cuts have been worn bare by your own travels. A place you proudly call… $HOME.
Lyft to spend $300 million on Amazon Web Services by 2022 — Notably, Lyft said that if its usage of Amazon's cloud doesn't hit or exceed that $300 million threshold, it'll have to pay the difference. Lyft committed to spending at least $80 million in each of the three years of the deal, with the stipulation that it will spend $300 million in aggregate overall
MongoDB shares plunge on concerns that Lyft is moving to AWS
Flowblade — Flowblade is a multitrack non-linear video editor released under GPL3 license. From beginners to masters, Flowblade helps make your vision a reality of image and sound.
Shotcut — Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux. Major features include support for a wide range of formats; no import required meaning native timeline editing; Blackmagic Design support for input and preview monitoring; and resolution support to 4k.
1 hr 10 min
February 27, 2019290: Proper Pi Pedigree
We head to the Raspberry Pi corner and pick the very best open source home automation system.
Plus some great news for Gnome users, OBS studio has a new funding model, and a nostalgic chat with our study buddy Kenny.
Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Martin Wimpress.
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More GNOME Shell / Mutter Performance Optimizations & Latency Reductions Still Coming - Phoronix — Specifically on the Ubuntu front, Daniel has released a fix for Ubuntu 19.04 Disco and Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic to deal with 144/120Hz displays where GNOME's Mutter caps the rendering to 60 FPS. The fix for Ubuntu 18.10 is still being in the process of SRU'ed.
OBS Studio 23.0 Released With VA-API Video Encoding, New Audio Filters - Phoronix — OBS Studio 23.0 also has several new audio filters, batch remuxing support, multi-track audio support to FFmpeg output, and a variety of other alterations.
Open Broadcaster Software | New Ways to Support OBS Development — It’s amazing to think that the first version of OBS was publicly released over six years ago. What started out as a small side project by Hugh “Jim” Bailey to make a free and open source program to stream StarCraft 2 has grown into a powerful force in the streaming and video production industry. Hundreds of thousands of people use OBS Studio every day not just for video gaming, but also for broadcasting everything from conferences to sports competitions to school announcements. It’s a tool that can be used freely by anyone, from large studios with big budget productions to individuals who just want to engage with a community online.
Available Now: New GeForce-Optimized OBS — We have collaborated with OBS, the industry-leading streaming application, to help them release a new version with improved support for NVIDIA GPUs. The new OBS Studio, version 23.0, reduces the FPS impact of streaming by up to 66% compared to the previous version, meaning higher FPS for your games.
Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup
What’s Free at Linux Academy — March 2019 - Linux Academy Blog — Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group, allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.
LiNUX Courses - Linux Operating System Fundamentals — Kenny first encountered Solaris UNIX while I was in the military, and found out about Linux through the grapevine. He has worked with Linux in local government, fortune 500 companies, educational institutions, and by providing training. I have received Linux certifications from LPI, CompTIA, and Red Hat. Kenny has been working with Linux for nearly two decades and is passionate about sharing his knowledge with others about the system, and strives to learn more about the operating system every day.
Raspberry Pi Updates Devices to Linux 4.19
Martin Wimpress on Twitter — This week I am working on @ubuntu_mate 18.04.2 images for the @Raspberry_Pi models 2 and 3/3+
Nothing exciting to report just yet, build system is configured and the root file system is being generated. Next up is adding the kernel and boot loader.
Python Wheels for the Raspberry Pi — piwheels is a Python package repository providing Arm platform wheels (pre-compiled binary Python packages) specifically for the Raspberry Pi, making pip installations much faster.
StableReleaseUpdates - Ubuntu Wiki — Once an Ubuntu release has been completed and published, updates for it are only released under certain circumstances, and must follow a special procedure called a "stable release update" or SRU.
OpenHab vs Home Assistant vs Domoticz - Best Open Source Home Automation
Awesome Home Assistant — Awesome Home Assistant is a curated list of awesome Home Assistant resources.
Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.
openHAB — a vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for your home.
Domoticz — Domoticz is a Home Automation system design to control various devices and receive input from various sensors.
IronicBadger: Home Assistant configuration files — This repository contains all configuration used to configure my home automation setup using Home Assistant. This is a living and breathing repository and as such is subject to change.
Linux Action Show special about Home Assistant — Our founder Paulus Schoutsen is interviewed by Chris Fisher for a Linux Action Show special about home automation, Hass.io and the new Home Assistant podcast.
smacke/subsync: Automagically synchronize subtitles with video.
Podcast Generator — Podcast Generator is an open source Content Management System written in PHP and specifically designed for podcast publishing. It provides the user with the tools to easily manage all of the aspects related to the publication of a podcast, from the upload of episodes to its submission to the iTunes store.
59 min
February 20, 2019289: The Meat Factor
Will there ever be another "big" Linux distro, or has that time passed?
Plus two popular Linux desktop apps see a big upgrade, and Wes explains to Chris why he should care a lot more about cgroups.
Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Neal Gompa.
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MX-18.1 Continuum Official Release — MX-18.1 is a refresh of our MX-18 release, consisting of bugfixes and application updates since our original release of MX-18.
Bootstrap Your Snap | Snapcraft — The goal of Snapcraft Live is to bootstrap developers in building snaps and publishing them in the Snap Store
Shoreline Firewall Maintainer Retires — Shorewall 5.2.3 will be my last Shorewall release. If you find problems
with that release, I will attempt to resolve them. But, I am now
departing on an extended trip to visit some of the places in the world
that I have always dreamed of seeing.
Shoreline Firewall — Shorewall is a gateway/firewall configuration tool for GNU/Linux.
Geary 0.13.0 released! — This is a major new release, featuring a number of new features — including a new user interface for creating and managing email accounts, integration with GNOME Online Accounts (which also provides OAuth login support for some services), improvements in displaying conversations, composing new messages, interacting with other email apps, reporting problems as they occur, and number of important bug fixes, server compatibility fixes, and security fixes.
digiKam 6.0.0 is released — Dear digiKam fans and users, following the long stage of integrating a lots of work from students during the Summer of Code, and after 2 years of intensive developement, we hare proud to announce the new digiKam 6.0.0.
Fedora 31 Planning To Use Cgroups V2 By Default - Phoronix — Enabling Cgroups V2 by default will allow systemd and the various Linux container technologies along with libvirt and friends to make use of the new features and improvements over the original Cgroups like offering a unified hierarchy.
CGroupsV2 Changes - Fedora Project Wiki — The world will eventually move to CGroupsV2 and Fedora should lead the way.
Why Clear Linux OS? - YouTube — A quick introduction to why and what the Clear Linux OS is about.
Pi MusicBox - A Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Music player for the Raspberry Pi, with remote control — Welcome to the Swiss Army Knife of streaming music using the Raspberry Pi.
eta: Generic tool for monitoring ETA and progress of an arbitrary process. — A tool for monitoring progress and ETA of an arbitrary process.
netdata, the open-source real-time performance and health monitoring, released v1.12 ! : linux — Introducing netdata.cloud, the free netdata service for all netdata users
High performance plugins with go.d.plugin (data collection orchestrator written in Go)
7 new data collectors and 11 rewrites of existing data collectors for improved performance
A new management API for all netdata servers
Bind different functions of the netdata APIs to different ports
Improved installation and updates
1 hr 16 min
February 13, 2019288: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Repo
The hype around a new security flaw hits new levels. Fedora has a bunch of news, and we discover what's new in the latest Plasma release.
Plus we fall down the openSUSE rabbit hole when Ell updates us on her desktop challenge.
Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Danielle Foré, Ell Marquez, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa.
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KDE Plasma 5.15: Lightweight, Usable and Productive — Discover, Plasma's software and add-on installer, has received tonnes of improvements to help you stay up-to-date and find the tools you need to get your tasks done.
CVE-2019-5736: runc container breakout (all versions) — However, it *is* blocked through correct use of user namespaces (where the host root is not mapped into the container's user namespace).
Container Bug Allows Attackers to Gain Root Access on Host Machine — The container bug, CVE-2019-5736, affects runc, the underlying container runtime for Docker, containerd, Kubernetes, cri-o and other container software, which means that nearly everyone running containers is affected.
Doomsday Docker security hole uncovered | ZDNet
Linux Coin Miner Removes All Other Malware and Miners
Fedora logo redesign — The current Fedora Logo has been used by Fedora and the Fedora Community since 2005. However, over the past few months, Máirín Duffy and the Fedora Design team, along with the wider Fedora community have been working on redesigning the Fedora logo.
Fedora's FESCo Approves Of A "Sane" Approach For Counting Fedora Users Via DNF — Baked over the past month was a new privacy-minded plan for counting users via DNF that relies upon a "countme" bit that will be incremented weekly or so and not have any UUID as originally envisioned
Fedora 30 Will Get Bash 5.0 But Yum's Death Sentence Postponed To F31
Draft Fedora 31 schedule available – Fedora Community Blog — After some discussion before the end of the year, we decided not to go with an extended development cycle for Fedora 31.
SCALE Saturday Dinner JB Meetup — Let's eat and be merry at P.F. Changes Saturday night of SCALE17x!
Containers: What you need to know; so you know what you need to know - Ell Marquez at S
Elementary Staging COPR Repo — This repository contains packages of official elementaryOS projects which are not (yet) ready for inclusion in fedora as official packages.
Ellopunk/OSchallenge - openSUSE — Ell's openSUSE journey notes.
Pantheon Desktop on Fedora — The Pantheon desktop environment is the DE that powers elementaryOS. It builds on GNOME technologies, but utilizes components that were written from scratch in vala, using the GTK+3 toolkit.
UberWriter — It's a simple markdown editor that offers a lot of features.
solVItaire — An implementation of the classic solitaire games Klondike and Spider which has some nice to use vi(1) like keybindings, but can also be played with standard cursor keys, the number pad/row or even the mouse.
VIM Adventures — Learn VIM while playing a game!
Solvitaire As a SNAP
FireQOS Reference
FireQOS New User Tutorial
1 hr 13 min
February 06, 2019287: Clean up After Yourself
Why FOSDEM might be the quintessential community event, and our thoughts after playing with Pi-Hole.
Plus community news for everyone’s favorite video player, GNOME Shell gets a major speed boost, and why cryptocurrency might truly be dead.
Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Danielle Foré, and Martin Wimpress.
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Rename some references to GTK+ to GTK
VLC 4.0 Plans — VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf talked about their plans for version 4.0, codenamed Otto Chriek. For VLC 4.0 they want a new playlist, a redone user-interface, a new video output architecture that supports VR/3D content, and removal of old platforms.
GNOME Shell Gets a Major Speed Boost — Anyone who’s tried the latest GNOME builds on the bleeding edge can attest: these are real, perceptible improvements that give GNOME Shell the peppiness and responsiveness that users have been longing for.
Crypto Exchanges Experience Lowest Trading Since 2017 — The Bitcoin market reduced by more than 40 percent in comparison to December 2018.
JupiterDev Telegram Group
JupiterBroadcasting/fm — Simple script to receive an RTMP stream and re-stream to Icecast.
Linux Academy Study Group Survey — What course should our next study group cover?
Fifty years of Unix and Linux advances - Jon 'maddog' Hall at FOSDEM — 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Unix, but it is also the fiftieth anniversary of the ArpaNet/Internet, and people walking on the moon.
Good Will Snapping - Alan Pope at FOSDEM — Thousands of users, millions of downloads, dozens of distributions. Numbers going up and down and sideways. A look behind the scenes of Snapcraft, the highly popular universal app store for Linux.
LINUX Unplugged - Blog - Playing with Pi-hole
Pi-hole Patreon
Pi-hole v4.2 Available — In preparation of the new API we are working on, FTLDNS will now store its data in a shared-memory space, so that the API can come in and read from that memory to fulfill requests.
Prerequisites - Pi-hole documentation
PiHole-Panel — PiHole-Panel is a control panel and real-time statistics for the Pi-hole Adblocker.
Easily Overclock NVIDIA GPUs on Linux with This New App — It’s called “Green with Envy” and is a tool designed to let you manage fans of, view info on, or overclock a NVIDIA GPU on Linux.
Open Source Event Manager — An event management tool tailored to Free and Open Source Software conferences.
1 hr 15 min
January 30, 2019286: Ell is for Linux
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!
1 hr 9 min
January 23, 2019285: Pain the APT
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
1 hr 20 min
January 16, 2019284: Free as in Get Out
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.
1 hr 3 min
January 09, 2019283: The Premiere Shell
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 <0.1% of sales but >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"
1 hr 11 min