LINUX Unplugged

The FreeBSD community shares the hard lessons learned from systemd, we play some great clips from a recent event.

Plus our work-arounds for Dropbox dropping support for anything but vanilla ext4, the return of an old friend, and a ton of community news and updates.

Special Guests: Eric Hendricks and Martin Wimpress.

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• Barnard is a terminal-based client for the Mumble voice chat software
• LKML: Linus Torvalds: Linux 4.18
• Introducing the new lead for Android Open Source Project
• KDE Neon Powered By Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Now Available For Testing
• XDG Shell Stable Supported by Mir
• Introducing Blender Benchmark
• OpenBenchmarking.org
• Libre Application Summit
• The Tragedy of systemd - BSDCan2018
• MeetBSD California 2018 - www.meetbsd.com
• Dropbox Dropping Support for non-Ext4
• Sparse file
• Convert file systems with Fstransform

GNOME is discussing big changes, Elementary OS has big news, and a big bug has been found in Linux.

Plus an update on our PeerTube efforts, our take Android P, and Lenovo’s big commitment to ThinkPad’s running Linux.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, and Eric Hendricks.

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• July ended with 3.97M startups of #PowerShell Core 6!. ~82% of it on #Linux!
• Linux Kernel TCP implementation vulnerable to Denial of Service
• Common Fedora Workstation Crashes Traced Back to GNOME JavaScript Extensions
• GNOME Might Need To Crack Down On Their JavaScript Extensions
• Moving Beyond Themes
• Daniel Foré on Twitter
• A New Chapter – Cassidy James Blaede
• Please welcome Lenovo to the LVFS
• Recently added PeerTube videos
• Android 9 Pie
• Install Transitions DJ for Linux, Linux apps in seconds
• GPG Sync v0.2

We get an update from Dell’s Barton George on their Linux initiative Sputnik, cover some important community news, and the uncomfortable questions raised by Krita’s new financial boost.

And some simple tips to improve your security at the edge.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Barton George, Brent Gervais, and Eric Hendricks.

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• Bootable CD + retro game in a tweet
• KDE neon Bionic Update – Jonathan Riddell's Diary
• With DaaS Windows coming, say goodbye to your PC as you know it | Computerworld
• Microsoft's got a new plan for managing Windows 10 devices for a monthly fee | ZDNet
• Security Begins at the Home Router
• OpenWRT 18.06 Released, Their First Update Since Merging With LEDE - Phoronix
• Krita in the Windows Store: an update | Krita
• Get started for free with $100 over 60 days
• New DevOps & Azure Content | 150+ Releases Live Show - YouTube
• Ting GSM SIM card for your unlocked mobile phone
• Dell XPS13 Developer Edition ships with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS pre-installed | Ubuntu blog
• Welcome the new Dell Precision developer editions! Gen 3 of the beefy line up | Barton's Blog
• The XPS 13 Developer Edition goes Bionic, Welcome 18.04! | Barton's Blog
• Monitor Linux CPU temperature, frequency, power in a graphical way - nixCraft
• odio
• Subscribe to a podcast from the beginning - ⏪ rewind.website

Another potential desktop Linux app is scared away by an aggressive free software community, and we struggle to find the balance between our moral ideals, and getting work done.

Plus some community news, old friends return, and much more.

Special Guest: Martin Wimpress.

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• YouTube page load is 5x slower in Firefox and Edge
• YouTube Classic – Add-ons for Firefox
• ReactOS 0.4.9 released
• Introducing New AppCenter Sharing URLs
• New SteamOS Stable Release
• Project Crostini progressing towards GPU acceleration
• Desktop team report from GUADEC 2018
• PowerShell launches as a snap
• Open The Cosmic Gate
• Slackware Needs Help
• A year on — our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux.
• REAPER 5.93 Brings New Linux-Native Builds
• Hiri best email client for Windows, Mac and Linux

Atari has released details about its upcoming Linux powered console, some of us are sold… And some of us are rather skeptical.

Plus how SSH got its port, Mir goes to the farm, and what happens when Linus retires?

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• The oldest active Linux distro, Slackware turns 25 | Opensource.com
• SSH Port | SSH.COM
• Humble Book Bundle: Linux Geek by No Starch Press (pay what you want and help charity)
• Yum Won't Be Dropped For Fedora 29 - Phoronix
• Mir 0.32.1 Released With Launcher For Internal Wayland Clients, Fixes - Phoronix
• Graphical environments in the world of IoT | Ubuntu blog
• Monitoring a Greenhouse with Ubuntu · LinuxUK
• More Mutter Performance Tuning Work Landing For GNOME 3.30 - Phoronix
• GTK+ 4.0 Likely Being Released In Spring Of 2019 - Phoronix
• Sirin Finney - a dual-screen blockchain phone endorsed by Lionel Messi - IoT Gadgets
• HTC’s blockchain-powered Exodus smartphone is a risky bet that needs to pay off - The Verge
• Atari VCS Product Q&A #1 – Atari VCS – Medium
• Librem 5 progress report #15 – Purism
• Our #tingsummer photo contest starts today: Share your summer fun with us!
• Christmas in July: Over 150 New Ways to Train - Linux Academy Blog
• Newsboat: A Snazzy Text-Based RSS Feed Reader - LinuxLinks
• Browsh is the Text-based Web Browser You've Been Dreaming Of - OMG! Ubuntu!
• Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader [LWN.net]

We reflect on recent FOSS security screw ups and ponder a solution powered by community.

Plus get you caught up on community news, Firefox changes, and poke the new minimal Ubuntu.

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• Slack client for Commodore 64
• Kdenlive's Significantly Refactored Video Editor Is Now Ready For Testing
• The Purpose of things – New Share Menu
• Arch Linux AUR Repository Found to Contain Malware
• Firefox for Android enters maintenance phase as team prepares new browser
• Firefox Test Pilot - Firefox Lockbox
• Mozilla Firefox 61 "Quantum" Web Browser Is Now Available for Ubuntu Linux Users
• Minimal Ubuntu
• Meet the Astronaut AI that Runs on Ubuntu
• Wine has run Microsoft Solitaire on Linux for 25 years
• Notes From WineConf 2018: x86 On ARM Progress
• Wine development release 3.12 is now available.
• Christmas in July: Over 150 New Ways to Train - Linux Academy Blog
• Linux Academy - Jobs
• Gentoo GitHub repo hack made possible by these 3 rookie mistakes
• Project:Infrastructure/Incident Reports/2018-06-28 Github - Gentoo Wiki

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

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

Special Guest: Eric Hendricks.

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• Every question we have about Sony uploading an entire movie to YouTube instead of the trailer - The Verge
• Breaking News! SUSE Linux Sold for $2.5 Billion
• Developer Preview: Juno Beta 1 Is Here
• Hackers Discover Cause Of Linux Battery Desync Issue In Nintendo Switch
• Yum Set To Be Retired In Fedora 29
• Linux Mint 19 “Tara” Cinnamon released!
• New features in Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon
• MintBox Mini 2 Pro
• "Stylish" browser extension steals all your internet history
• After using Chrome OS for four months, I never want to go back
• Using the Chrome OS* graphics stack on Intel-based Linux desktops
• UbuntuStudio Audio Handbook
• Christmas in July: Over 150 New Ways to Train - Linux Academy Blog
• We review Moto G6 Play
• How To Secure Nginx with Let's Encrypt on FreeBSD
• TrueOS to Focus on Core Operating System
• Jupiter Broadcasting PeerTube
• JB Community - PeerTube
• AMA with Framasoft and Peertube, send your questions in!
• The Humble Store: DRM-Freedom Sale

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

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

Special Guests: Dusty Mabe and Eric Hendricks.

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• YouTube UNBLOCKS Belnder Videos... But now what?
• Framasoft presents PeerTube, a free and federated — KissKissBankBank
• Report from the GNOME Software design sprint | Ubuntu blog
• Flatpak – a history – Alexander Larsson
• Welcome to Fedora CoreOS - Fedora Magazine
• Hello from your new Fedora Program Manager - Fedora Community Blog
• A GTK+ 3 update – GTK+ Development Blog
• Neon testing 18.04
• Google Ignores Windows and Releases its VR Video Editing Tool for Linux
• How 2,000 Droplets Broke the Enigma Code in 13 Minutes
• Christmas in July: Over 150 New Ways to Train - Linux Academy Blog
• $1 Ting GSM SIM cards
• Firefox Is Back. It’s Time to Give It a Try. - The New York Times
• How Firefox is using Pocket to try to build a better news feed than Facebook
• Debian 8.11 Released As The End Of The Line For Jessie
• Auphonic Blog: Codec2: a whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk
• GitLab 11.0 released with Auto DevOps and License Management | GitLab
• Coder Radio Episode 313: GitLab’s CEO

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

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

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

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• YouTube's Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More (Updated)
• YouTube Blocks Blender Videos Worldwide
• #DeleteArt13 | UBports
• Free software is at risk in the EU -- take action now — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
• Tex Update
• Deepin 15.6 Released with New App Launcher + More - OMG! Ubuntu
• Librem 5 Continues Working On Its Wayland Software Stack, Testing Vibration Motors, Chargers
• Purism's Librem 5 To Rely On Secondary Processor For Binary Blobs
• Features That Didn't Make It For The Mainline Linux 4.18 Kernel
• Bing Maps Streetside Imagery Now Integrated into OpenStreetMap iD Editor
• GPD Pocket 2: 7-Inch Laptop Gets a Faster Processor
• ownphotos: Self hosted Google Photos clone
• Christmas in July: Over 150 New Ways to Train
• Our #tingsummer photo contest starts today: Share your summer fun with us!
• Write for DOnations
• Diablo devolved - magic behind the 1996 computer game
• quake-shareware for Linux
• You Can Now Play 'TrackMania Nations Forever'
• Make. It. Simple. Linux Desktop Usability 
• Install gog-galaxy-wine for Linux snap

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

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

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• Creepy, fascinating demo gets inside a cat
• Trouble at CopperheadOS
• KDE Plasma 5.13: Fast, Lightweight and Full Featured.
• Winepak Could Make it Easier to Install Windows Apps on Linux
• Acer Chromebook 13 & Chromebook Spin 13 will apparently support Linux apps at launch
• Mars Opportunity rover is in danger of dying from a dust storm
• Driving the Mars Rovers | Linux Journal
• July Content Launch is COMING SOON!
• Refer a friend contest starts today, June 11 and ends July 11, 2018
• Write for DOnations
• How to Verify Downloaded Files | DigitalOcean
• Texas LinuxFest: Where’s the Linux?
• frp: A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.