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May 22, 2019 • 56min
Episode 128: Building The Future with Open Source
Melanie Shimano is our guest this hour. Melanie is an educator who uses open source tools to help students realize that they can impact the world.
Project Links:
Website: https://foodcomputerprogram.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/melanieshimano
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Jack - Wireguard Worked!
Joel - ThnkPad with Ryzen
Charlie - 19.04
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Support Ask Noah ShowLinks:Google Glass still exists: Meet Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 | Ars Technica — Qualcomm Snapdragon XR1 platform," which contains a quad-core 1.7Ghz CPU built on a 10nm manufacturing process. Google calls this a "significantly more powerful multicore CPU (central processing unit)" than the old Intel Atom SoC in the first Enterprise Edition of Google Glass. The company says, "This enables significant power savings, enhanced performance, and support for computer vision and advanced machine-learning capabilities."
Besides the new SoC, there are 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, an 8MP camera, USB-C, and Bluetooth 5. The display is listed as a "640x360 Optical Display Module," which sounds identical to the original Google Glass display component. The OS is only Android 8.0 Oreo, not the latest Android 9 Pie release.Introducing GopenPGP, an open source encryption library for native applications - ProtonMail BlogLenovo's ThinkPad X395: A 13.3-Inch AMD Ryzen Pro-Based UltraportableMS Project Alternative · Slexy.org PastebinAntergos Linux Project Ends | Antergos LinuxSouth Korea's Government is Switching to Linux - OMG! Ubuntu!Food Computer Program | Teaching students how to effectively use technology when designing solutions to challenges in Baltimore communitiesLeviton T5635-W USB Dual Type-C with Power Delivery (PD) In-Wall Charger with 15 Amp, 125 Volt Tamper-Resistant Outlet, White - - Amazon.com — USB Type-C with Power Delivery is the most advanced, powerful in-wall charger on the market, capable of charging up to 30W on a single port! Perfect for power hungry laptops, tablets and smartphones.

May 15, 2019 • 56min
Episode 127: Everything You Need to Know about RHEL 8
We're back from Red Hat Summit and we've got a first-hand look at what you need to know about RHEL 8. Scott McCarty joins us and shares everything you've wanted to know about the latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Project Links:
Website: https://developers.redhat.com/rhel8/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RedHat
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Special Guest: Scott McCarty.Support Ask Noah ShowLinks:Taiga.ioHow To Setup WireGuard (Video Tutorial) — Want a secure way to remotely connect to your home or office network but don't have the time for the overhead? WireGuard is for you! WireGuard is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. We'll walk you step-by-step setting WireGuard up on a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Production-Grade Container Orchestration - Kubernetes — Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.Introducing the Red Hat Universal Base Image — Containers offer a lighter-weight version of the Linux operating system’s userland stripped down to the bare essentials, but it’s still an operating system and the quality of a container matters just as much as the host operating system. Skopeo — Skopeo is a command line utility that performs various operations on container images and image repositories.OpenShift: Container Application Platform by Red Hat — The Kubernetes platform for big ideas
Empower developers to innovate and ship faster with the leading hybrid cloud, enterprise container platformBuildah — A tool that facilitates building OCI images

May 8, 2019 • 56min
Episode 126: Host it At Home
This hour we talk to Alex Tselegidis, owner and founder of EasyAppointments - a highly customizable web application that allows your customers to book appointments with you via the web. Moreover, it provides the ability to sync your data with Google Calendar so you can use them with other services. We catch up with Lutris and chat about gaming on Linux!
Project Links:
Website: https://easyappointments.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EasyAppts
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May 2, 2019 • 56min
Episode 125: Snapcraft with Alan Pope
Publish your app for Linux users for desktop, cloud, and Internet of Things. That's the promise of Snaps but what exactly are snaps, what do they do, and why do they mean the future for the Linux desktop? Alan Pope joins us to discuss!
-- Side Notes --
Project Spotlight:
negit-ng: https://github.com/eteran/nedit-ng
nedit-ng is a a Qt5 port of the NEdit using modern c++14 released under a GPL-2.0 license. nedit-ng is a Qt port of the Nirvana Editor (NEdit) version 5.6.
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Apr 23, 2019 • 56min
Episode 124: Protonmail with Dr. Andy Yen
Dr. Andy Yen, the visionary Founder and CEO of ProtonMail, takes center stage as he delves into the world of encrypted email services. He discusses how ProtonMail uses client-side encryption to protect user data, setting it apart from typical providers. Andy tackles the challenges of maintaining privacy in a digital age and shares insights on the future of email security, including implications of quantum computing. Additionally, he reveals ProtonMail's ambitious plans for expanding privacy-focused services like ProtonDrive and VPN.

Apr 17, 2019 • 56min
Episode 123: Locking it Down with Yubikey
Venkat Venkataraju principal software engineer from Yubico joins us this hour to share the exciting new features and functionality Yubico is bringing to the table!
Project Links:
Website: https://www.yubico.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Yubikey
Github: https://github.com/yubico
Twitter: https://twitter.com/yubico
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Yubico
Project Links:
Website: https://www.yubico.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Yubico
-- Side Notes --
Gimp : https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/04/07/gimp-2-10-10-released/
Gnome : https://feaneron.com/2019/04/05/rewarding-our-friends-of-gnome/
Project Spotlight:
The Shell: https://github.com/vicr123/theshell
"theShell" is a GPL-3.0 licensed Desktop Environment written using the Qt toolkit for those wanting a simple desktop. theShell is only tested on Arch Linux. Your mileage may vary on other distributions.
-- Calls --
Chaz - Ubuntu 19.04 NVidia Drivers
Nathan - DMX Lighting
Carey - Church Wifi Question
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Apr 9, 2019 • 56min
Episode 122: Innovative Podcast Workflows
This week Michael Tunnell from Tux Digital joins us to share a creative new workflow for automating podcast production. Suse is claiming to be the largest independent Linux company and UBPorts has officially formalized their foundation.
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Project Spotlight:
Featherpad: https://github.com/tsujan/FeatherPad
Featherpad is a standalone lightweight Qt5 Plain-Text Editor for Linux under the GPL-3.0 license.
-- Calls --
Max - How to add NFS Share to Libvirtd
Lyle - How to display live weather radar
Eduardo - How to monitor "per app" bandwidth on Linux
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Apr 2, 2019 • 56min
Episode 121: Sway and Wlroots with Drew DeVault
This hour Drew DeVault joins us from sway and wlroots. OpenSSH 8.0 is about to be released and we'll tell you why this means a big increase in security for those that use SSH!
-- Side Notes --
NSA-B-Gone: A Thinkpad X220 board that disconnects the webcam and microphone data lines
https://github.com/zakqwy/NSA-B-GONE
Project Spotlight:
NeXTSTEP: https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace
NEXTSPACE is a desktop environment that brings a NeXTSTEP look and feel to Linux.
--LUG Alert--
April 1 - Zürich, Switzerland : https://www.meetup.com/Embedded-GNU-Linux-Developer/events/xgtstpyzgbcb/
April 1 - Annapolis, MD : https://www.meetup.com/AnnapolisLUG/events/djjqhgyzgbcb/
April 2 - Montréal, QC, Canada : https://www.meetup.com/Linux-Montreal/events/kxlpjlyzgbdb/
April 2 - Chicago, IL : https://www.meetup.com/wclug-org/events/qnffmfyzgbdb/
April 3 - London, England, UK : https://www.meetup.com/londonlinux/events/dcsdmlyzgbfb/
April 4 - Chicago, IL : https://www.meetup.com/wclug-org/events/qcjbhfyzgbgb/
April 4 - Hunstville, AL : https://www.meetup.com/hsvlug/events/dbwqnpyzgbgb/
April 4 - Chelmsford, MA : https://www.meetup.com/linux-393/events/wkrshqyzgbgb/
April 4 - Akron, OH : https://www.meetup.com/linux-393/events/wkrshqyzgbgb/
April 4 - Saint Louis, MO : https://www.meetup.com/Saint-Louis-Unix-Users-Group/events/gmkjzpyzgbgb/
April 4 - Fort Wayne, IN : https://www.meetup.com/Fort-Wayne-Linux-Users-Group/events/rpxvnpyzgbgb/
April 6 - Delhi, India : https://www.meetup.com/ilugdelhi/events/jkbtdqyzgbrb/
April 9 - Perth, Australia : https://www.meetup.com/Perth-Linux-Users-Group-PLUG/events/259053239/
April 10 - Saint Louis, MO : https://www.meetup.com/Saint-Louis-Unix-Users-Group/events/ggprsqyzgbnb/
April 11 - Phoenix, AZ : https://www.meetup.com/Phoenix-Linux-Users-Group/events/hhkbdlyzgbpb/
April 11 - Austin, TX : https://www.meetup.com/linuxaustin/events/jbxcnqyzgbpb/
April 11 - Raleigh, NC : https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/zmzvnqyzgbpb/
April 11 - Landshut, Germany : https://www.meetup.com/LALUG-Landshuter-Linux-User-Group-Stammtisch/events/gsmfnlyzgbpb/
April 12 - Oklahoma City, OK : https://www.meetup.com/OKC-LUGnuts/events/257934211/
April 12 - Moscow, Russia : https://www.meetup.com/Moscow-Linux-User-Group/events/xbgccqyzgbqb/
April 13 - Green Bay, WI : https://gettogether.community/events/999/gblug-meeting-3/
April 13 - Mc Lean, VA : https://www.meetup.com/novalug/events/lkbntqyzgbrb/
April 13 - Dublin, Ireland :https://www.meetup.com/Dublin-Linux-User-Group/events/ktmpsqyzgbrb/
April 14 - Chicago, IL : https://www.meetup.com/wclug-org/events/qsznvfyzgbsb/
April 15 - Seattle, WA : https://www.meetup.com/seattlelinux/events/cgrpkpyzgbtb/
April 16 - Bridgeport, WV : https://www.meetup.com/Bridgeport-WV-Linux-User-Group-Meetup/events/nbcvcpyzgbvb/
April 16 - Fort Lauderdale, FL : https://www.meetup.com/South-Florida-Linux-Users-Group-FLUX/events/dsxbqqyzgbvb/
April 18 - Lancaster, PA : https://www.meetup.com/LancLUG/events/rcfmbnyzgbxb/
April 18 - Hunsville, AL : https://www.meetup.com/hsvlug/events/fdhdwpyzgbxb/
April 20 - Lawrence, KS : https://www.meetup.com/Lawrence-Linux-User-Group/events/ccxmglyzgbbc/
April 24 - London, England, UK : https://www.meetup.com/londonlinux/events/dcsdmlyzgbgc/
April 27 - Moscow, Russia : https://www.meetup.com/Moscow-Linux-User-Group/events/tngqtqyzgbkc/
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Lucas - The best way to virtualize an enviorment
James - The best way to archive data
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Mar 27, 2019 • 56min
Episode 120: The Power of OpenPower
In this weeks episode we air out interview with Hugh Blemings the executive director of the OpenPower Foundation. The OpenPOWER Foundation is an open technical membership organization that will assist data centers in rethinking their approach to technology. Google, Tyan, Nvidia and Mellanox are all founding members of the OpenPOWER Foundation. OpenPower is an “open source” model for hardware, launched by IBM. It's goals are to expand the open innovation to a Chip-System-Software platform relying on the same advantages as Open Source Software.
Website: https://openpowerfoundation.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/openpowerorg
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNVcHm09eXVbvUzZkQs0_Sg/featured
Follow Hugh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hughhalf
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Lets GetTogether with Michael Hall
Project Links:
Website: https://gettogether.community/
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/AlruIk5yiQizaJ0YtYehzA
Github: https://github.com/GetTogetherComm/GetTogether
Personal Website: https://mhall119.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mhall119?lang=en
Project Spotlight:
inxi: https://github.com/smxi/inxi
inxi is a full featured CLI system information tool. While inxi was originally written in bash, with Version 3 inxi has been re-written in PERL.
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Mar 20, 2019 • 57min
Episode 119: Google Stadia
Google announced its biggest move into the gaming space at GDC. Stadia, a streaming game service is designed to run on everything from PCs and Android phones to Google's own Chromecast devices. DasGeek (Ryan) join us to discuss!
** -- Spotlight -- **
The new Jetson Nano: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-nano/
Background on the Jetson series: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems-dev-kits-modules/
Direct Nvidia purchase link: https://developer.nvidia.com/buy-jetson
-- Side Notes --
Project Spotlight - Easy Appointments: https://github.com/alextselegidis/easyappointments
For Laughs: https://github.com/AMEE/8XX-rfc
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Chaz (NY) - Can LVM be persistent though re-installs?
Chris (OH) - Whats the best choice for WiFi?
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