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January 03, 2019282: Wishing Upon a Kernel
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
1 hr 13 min
December 27, 2018281: 2019 Predictions
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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Predicting 2015 | LUP 73
Ghost of Predictions Past | LAS 453
2015 Linux Predictions | Linux Action Show 345
1 hr
December 18, 2018280: Handmade Desktop Linux
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
1 hr 10 min
December 12, 2018279: WireGuardians of the Galaxy
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
1 hr 7 min
December 05, 2018278: Shell in a Handbasket
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.
1 hr 5 min
November 28, 2018Episode 277: Skipping Fedora 31
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.
1 hr 1 min
November 21, 2018Episode 276: Very Long Term Support
Android and Ubuntu are working exceptionally hard to create longer support cycles. We’ll highlight the work that makes this possible, and what’s motivating these two different projects to strive for Very Long Term Support.
Plus Chris reviews how his new Thunderbolt 3 GPU docking station works under Linux, and why he’ll never be undocking again.
Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, and Martin Wimpress.
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Pioneers — Pioneers, the wonderfully addicting game based on "The Settlers of Catan"
XPRA — multi-platform screen and application forwarding system
or "screen for X11"
Valve discontinues the Steam Link — Farewell to the Steam Link, the best wireless HDMI gadget ever made
Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline — Android devices are based on the Linux kernel but, since the beginning, those devices have not run mainline kernels.
Linux Deepin 15.8 Released with Various Neat Improvements
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is getting 10-Year Support
Ubuntu Security Podcast
LINUX Unplugged Feedback: Docking Stations?
Lenovo G0A10170UL Thunderbolt 3 Graphics Dock
Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 Dock on Debian Linux | The Blog of Juho
Thunderbolt 3 device manager
prime-select: A fork of FedoraPrime enhanced for all linux distributions
Black Friday Sale | Linux Academy
Name the Automation System — Which two names work best for the Jupiter Broadcasting Automation system?
Feedback from Albert: Youtube on the Desktop?
Minitube, YouTube app for Mac, Windows and Linux
youtube-dl — youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube
webtty: Share a terminal session over WebRTC
unite-shell: Unite makes GNOME Shell look like Ubuntu Unity Shell.
WireGuard VPN Road Warrior Setup
1 hr 10 min
November 14, 2018Episode 275: Year of the Relevant Desktop
Christian F.K. Schaller from Red Hat joins us to discuss seamless Linux upgrades, replacing PulseAudio, some of the recent desktop Projects Red Hat’s been working on... And the value they get from them.
Plus a big batch of important community news, Wimpy’s Thunderbolt Dock experiments, and way to run pacman on any Linux distribution.
Special Guests: Alan Pope, Christian F.K. Schaller, and Martin Wimpress.
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Radio Garden
PlayStation Classic relies on open source emulator for its 20 games - SlashGear — Kotaku got some early hands-on time with the PlayStation Classic and discovered that it uses the PCSX ReARMed emulator.
snes9x — For those packaging the GTK+ port, note that building with GTK+ 3 is now highly recommended over GTK+ 2 and should have no regressions. Also note that Wayland compatibility is implemented, which, if enabled, also requires GTK+ to have been compiled with Wayland support.
Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth says he has no plans to sell anytime soon — “I value my independence,” he told me during a brief chat on the outskirts of the OpenStack Summit in Berlin today. In part, that’s because he simply doesn’t personally need the money but also because he’d like to see through to the end his vision for Canonical and Ubuntu
Open Invention Network Expands Linux Definition — The expansion includes 151 new packages, bringing the total number of protected packages to 2,873. “With this update to the Linux System definition, OIN continues with its well-established process of carefully maintaining a balance between stability and innovative core open source technology,” stated Mirko Boehm, OIN’s director for the Linux System definition. “While the majority of the new additions are widely used and found in most devices, the update includes a number of key open source innovations such as Kubernetes, Apache Cassandra and packages for Automotive Grade Linux.”
Bitwarden Completes Third-party Security Audit — We are pleased to announce that Bitwarden has completed a thorough security audit and cryptographic analysis from the security experts at Cure53.
Adding an optional install duration to LVFS firmware — We’ve just added an optional feature to fwupd and the LVFS that some people might find useful: The firmware update process can now tell the user how long in seconds the update is going to take.
Help wanted - SuperTuxKart networking testers
Supertuxkart
PipeWire Hackfest — The event kicked off with Wim Taymans presenting on current state of PipeWire and outlining the remaining issues and current thoughts on how to resolve them. Most of the first day was spent on a roadtable discussion about what are and should be the goals of PipeWire and what potential tradeoffs there would be going forward.
Thunderbolt 3 GPU Dock — Integrated NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card.
Automation System Name Poll — Vote on the Automation System name.
Junest — The lightweight Arch Linux based distro that runs upon any Linux distros without root access.
Wimpy’s xrandr Script
1 hr 10 min
November 07, 2018Episode 274: Open Source by Default
Have the revolutionaries won the war against proprietary software? That’s the argument being made. And we argue, what else did you expect?
Plus some performance improvements inbound to Linux, and the perfectly proportioned open source project we’ve recently discovered.
Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais.
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Celebrate Fifteen Years of Fedora — On November 6, 2003, Red Hat announced Fedora Core 1
KDE Connect — Today we released version 1.10 of the KDE Connect Android app. Therefore it’s time again to share what we’ve been working on.
Apple's New Hardware With The T2 Security Chip Will Currently Block Linux From Booting — At least until further notice, these new Apple systems sporting the T2 chip will not be able to boot Linux operating systems
ProcDump-for-Linux: A Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals tool — A Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals tool
The Faster FUSE Has Been Fused Into Linux 4.20 — Performance work for FUSE in this next version of the Linux kernel includes symlink caching, a hash table optimization, and copy file range support.
The Open Source Revolution Is Over - the Revolutionaries Won — What happens when the revolutionaries win? After they've stormed the castle, tried on the king's clothes, slept in his bed and drunk the royal wine, then what?
Hybrid Cloud Architecture: What Is It and Why You Should Care
Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. — Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!
Automation System Naming Form
CPod: An Open Source, Cross-platform Podcast App — It is an Election app, which gives it the ability to run on the largest operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS).
1 hr 14 min
October 31, 2018Episode 273: International Hat Machines
We speculate about a future where IBM owns Red Hat, and review the latest Fedora 29 release that promises a new game changing feature.
Plus Chris returns from MeetBSD with his review, and we get the inside scope on System76’s Thelio hardware.
Special Guests: Alan Pope and Martin Wimpress.
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LKML: Greg KH: Linux 4.19 — These past few months has been a tough one for our community, as it is
our community that is fighting from within itself, with prodding from
others outside of it. Don't fall into the cycle of arguing about those
"others" in the "Judean People's Front" when we are the "We're the
People's Front of Judea!" That is the trap that countless communities
have fallen into over the centuries. We all share the same goal, let us
never loose sight of that.
Samsung Open-Source Group Reportedly Shuts Down - Phoronix — Samsung has apparently shut down the Samsung Open-Source Group (Samsung OSG) as a blow to the wider free software ecosystem considering the group's prolific contributions over the years from low-level open-source projects to desktop/user-facing code-bases.
You Can Play Over 2,600 Windows Games on Linux Via Steam Play
ProtonDB
ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 Workstation Dock — The ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 WorkStation Dock is a pioneering docking solution powered by Intel Thunderbolt technology and is designed exclusively for ThinkPad Mobile Workstations, delivering up to 230W power to charge both notebook and a full range of productivity and connectivity peripherals.
System76 Shares With Us More Details On Thelio Open Hardware, Pricing Starts At $1,100 USD
System76 on US Manufacturing and Open Hardware — To further our open computer ambition, we’re working to remove functionality from the proprietary mainboard. To that end, we designed Thelio Io, a daughter board that manages thermal and chassis control while also providing a storage backplane for the drives in Thelio. It’s open hardware and open source firmware, and a big step in the right direction.
1 Billion pulls from Docker Hub.
IBM TO ACQUIRE RED HAT — IBM will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $34 billion.
Statement on the IBM acquisition of Red Hat — Nevertheless, the world has moved on. Replacing UNIX is no longer sufficient. The decline in RHEL growth contrasted with the acceleration in Linux more broadly is a strong market indicator of the next wave of open source. Public cloud workloads have largely avoided RHEL.
RHEL 7.6 Released — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 is designed to be the trusted bedrock for hybrid cloud deployments
Announcing the release of Fedora 29 — This release is particularly exciting because it’s the first to include the Fedora Modularity feature across all our different variants. Modularity lets us ship different versions of packages on the same Fedora base.
What is Modularity :: Fedora Docs Site — Different users have different needs. Developers want the latest versions possible, system administrators want stability for longer period of time. There are many Linux distributions out there, each targeting a different audience, for example Fedora vs. CentOS.
Working with modules in Fedora — This article puts one of those modules to practical use, covering installation and setup of Review Board 3.0 using modules.
Blog - Chris Goes to MeetBSD — MeetBSD 2018 took place at the sprawling Intel Santa Clara campus. The venue itself felt more like an olive branch than a simple friendly gesture by Intel. In truth it felt like a bit of an apology. You get the subtle sense they feel bad about how the BSD's were treated with the Meltdown and Specter flaws.
TAP ROOM For the Ask Noah Party
Dbxfs - Mount Dropbox Folder Locally As Virtual File System In Linux — The dbxfs officially supports Linux and Mac OS. However, it should work on any POSIX system that provides a FUSE-compatible library or has the ability to mount SMB shares.
PSA: Dropbox ext4 limitation workaround — Create a loopback!
TaskBook — Popey recommended!
1 hr 44 min