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Jan 26, 2021 • 0sec
Eating the License Cake | LINUX Unplugged 390
Successful open-source projects all seem to struggle with one major gorilla. Who it is, and what their options are now.Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Jonathan Corbet.Sponsored By:Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Oh Dear: Oh Dear monitors uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, scheduled tasks, and more. We send out notifications when something's wrong. All that paired with a developer-friendly API and kick-ass documentation. Promo Code: LINUXA Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Security Disclosure 2: vulnerabilities in custom integrations HACS, Font Awesome and others - Home Assistant — Multiple custom integrations were found that allowed an attacker to steal any file without logging in. Previously implemented fixes were not sufficient.FEDORA-2021-48866282e5 — security update for chromium — Fedora Updates System — I gave a lot of thought to whether I wanted to continue to maintain the Chromium package in Fedora, given that many (most?) users will be confused/annoyed when API functionality like sync and geolocation stops working for no good reason. Ultimately, I decided to continue for now, because there were at least some users who didn't mind, and if I stopped, someone else would start over and run blindly into this problem.Introduction to Elasticsearch - YouTubeStepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | AWS Open Source Blog — In order to ensure open source versions of both packages remain available and well supported, including in our own offerings, we are announcing today that AWS will step up to create and maintain a ALv2-licensed fork of open source Elasticsearch and Kibana.AWS, as predicted, is forking Elasticsearch | ZDNetAll Jupiter Broadcasting ShowsJellyfin 10.7.0 Release Changelog — SyncPlay for TV shows and Music, significantly improved web performance, an upgrade to .NET SDK 5.0 for improved performance in the backend, and more!Jellyfin 10.7.0 RC3LWN.net - WikipediaWelcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]Jonathan Corbet - Faces of Open SourcePick: polybar — A fast and easy-to-use status barPick: dust — A more intuitive version of du in rustPick: Waybar — Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.

Jan 24, 2021 • 0sec
Linux Action News 173
Why we don't think Red Hat's expanded developer program is enough, our reaction to Ubuntu sticking with an older Gnome release, and a tiny delightful surprise.Sponsored By:Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Datadog: Datadog - the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:New Year, new Red Hat Enterprise Linux programs: Easier ways to access RHEL — When we announced our intent to transition to CentOS Stream, we did so with a plan to create new programs to address use cases traditionally served by CentOS Linux. Staying on GTK3 and GNOME 3.38 this cycle - Desktop - Ubuntu Community Hub — The topic of what to do about the new GNOME started being discussed and after some consideration, we decided to stick to GTK3 and GNOME 3.38 this cycle.
Welp, Ubuntu 21.04 Won’t Ship with GNOME 40 or GTK4 - OMG! Ubuntu!
Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | AWS Open Source Blog — In order to ensure open source versions of Elasticsearch and Kibana remain available and well supported, including in our own offerings, we are announcing today that AWS will step up to create and maintain a ALv2-licensed fork of open source Elasticsearch and Kibana.AWS, as predicted, is forking Elasticsearch | ZDNet
The Next Gen Database Servers Powering Let’s Encrypt - Let’s Encrypt - Free SSL/TLS Certificates — By going with AMD EPYC, we were able to get 64 physical CPU cores while keeping clock speeds high: 2.9GHz base with 3.4GHz boost. More importantly, EPYC provides 128 PCIe v4.0 lanes, which allows us to put 24 NVMe drives in a single machine.Ubuntu Can Run on Apple Silicon, Devs Say It’s ‘Completely Usable’ - OMG! Ubuntu! — Developers at ARM virtualisation company Corellium have managed to get Ubuntu 20.04 up and running on the new Apple Silicon Mac Mini.
How We Ported Linux to the M1
[RFC PATCH 0/7] Linux on Apple Silicon [LWN.net]
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with custom chip | TechCrunch — It has a dual-core Arm processor (running at 133MHz), 264KB of RAM, 26 GPIO pins including three analog inputs, a micro-USB port, and a temperature sensor.Raspberry Pi Foundation Release Their Own Silicon, the Raspberry Pi Pico - 9to5Linux

Jan 20, 2021 • 0sec
Electron Ennui | Coder Radio 397
Is performance the ultimate requirement? What amount of compromise are we comfortable with?Sponsored By:Datadog: Try Datadog free by starting a your 14-day trial and receive a free t-shirt once you install the agent.Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coderA Cloud Guru: A Cloud Guru now includes Cloud Playground. Azure, AWS, or GCP Sandboxes at your fingertips.Support Coder RadioLinks:Electron package guidelines — Arch Linux provides global electron and versioned electron* packages that can be used to run an electron application via a shellscript wrapper.Intel has to be better than ‘lifestyle company’ Apple at making CPUs, says new CEO — “We have to deliver better products to the PC ecosystem than any possible thing that a lifestyle company in Cupertino” makes, Gelsinger reportedly told Intel employees. “We have to be that good, in the future.”Intel suggests it will wait for new CEO to make critical decisions to fix manufacturing crisis - oregonlive.comMacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, M1 Rumors — This week was sure a busy one in the Apple world, with a flurry of announcements out of CES early in the week followed by a rash of Mac- and iPhone-related rumors later in the week.The Shape of Code » Software effort estimation is mostly fake research

Jan 19, 2021 • 0sec
Harder Butter Faster Stronger | LINUX Unplugged 389
We showcase a tool that will change your Linux game.
Plus our thoughts on the recent Btrfs FUD, a bunch of feedback, and a handy pick.Sponsored By:Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Oh Dear: Oh Dear monitors uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, scheduled tasks, and more. We send out notifications when something's wrong. All that paired with a developer-friendly API and kick-ass documentation. Promo Code: LINUXA Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:[ANNOUNCE] nano-5.5 is releasedUbuntu 21.04 Will Finally Stop Making New Home Directories World-Readable — Ubuntu 21.04 will do away with the existing practice on Ubuntu Linux systems of making new user home directories world-readable.Linux 5.10.8 Kernel Released - Finally Fixes That Btrfs Performance Regression — Linux 5.10.8 is out today as the latest stable release for the Linux 5.10 LTS series. Making this point release notable is that it finally addresses the 5.10 Btrfs performance regression.All Jupiter Broadcasting ShowsVentoy — An open-source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.Ventoy on GitHubFeedback: openSUSE and FOSS AdventuresFeedback: Neon Success StoryFeedback: Next TuesdayFeedback: ThinkPad X12 DetachableThinkPad X12 Detachable | Windows Tablet | Lenovo USFeedback: Google forms?!Feedback: System76 PredictionPick: PGHoard — pghoard is a PostgreSQL backup daemon and restore tooling that stores backup data in cloud object stores.

Jan 17, 2021 • 0sec
Linux Action News 172
Impressive updates for some beloved open source projects, and AlmaLinux—a leading CentOS alternative—is born.
Plus Google's surprise for Chromium users, and we go hands-on with Podman's docker-compose support.Sponsored By:Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Datadog: Datadog - the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:KDE Plasma 5.21 Brings Low-latency Compositing, New Kickoff Menu, and Wallpaper — A major addition is a complete redesign of the main KDE Plasma Application Launcher.
This week in KDE: new KWin compositing, new Kickoff, new recording level visualization! — This week KWin’s compositing code was almost totally rewritten! It should broadly reduce latency throughout all compositing operations, and also adds a user-facing control in the System Settings Compositing page so people can choose for themselves whether they prefer lower latency or smoother animations.
Check out our interview with Nate Graham in LUP 385
Plasma Gitlab MR: Add fingerprint manager
Fedora Proposed Change: Wayland By Default For Plasma
Xfce 4.16 Released — Today, after 1 year and 4 months of work, we are happy to announce the release of the Xfce desktop 4.16, a new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.14.
XFCE Nation on Twitter — Reminder to @ChrisLAS and @wespayne that Xfce 4.16 has been out since December 22nd but hasn’t been mentioned on @LinuxActionNews or @LinuxUnplugged.Xfce 4.16 Changelog
Intel Preparing New Driver Option To Disable GPU Security Mitigations
Wine 6.0 released — This release is dedicated to the memory of Ken Thomases, who passed away just before Christmas at the age of 51. Ken was an incredibly brilliant developer, and the mastermind behind the macOS support in Wine. We all miss his skills, his patience, and his dark sense of humor.Grab a Glass, Wine 6.0 Has Been Released
The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 6.0 — The core DLLs, including NTDLL, KERNEL32, GDI32, USER32, etc. are built in PE format. This should help a number of copy protection schemes that check that the DLL files on disk match the in-memory contents.CloudLinux readies CentOS Linux replacement: AlmaLinux — AlmaLinux will be a free, open-source, community-driven, 1:1 binary compatible fork of RHEL 8 (and future releases). For CentOS users, the company promises Lenix will provide an uninterrupted way to convert existing CentOS servers with absolutely zero downtime or need to reinstall anythingAlmaLinux is born!!
AlmaLinux - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System
Using Podman and Docker Compose — Up to now, support for Docker Compose, the command-line utility that orchestrates multiple Docker containers for local development, was missing. With Podman 3.0 now in development upstream, we have begun to support Compose.Chromium Blog: Limiting Private API availability in Chromium — During a recent audit, we discovered that some third-party Chromium-based browsers were able to integrate Google features, such as Chrome sync and Click to Call, that are only intended for Google’s use. We are limiting access to our private Chrome APIs starting on March 15, 2021.PSA: Vanilla Chromium ending some of Google’s API access such as syncing and spelling check starting on March 15, 2021
MacOS update enables third party OSes on M1 — It's happening... macOS Big Sur 11.2 beta 2 is out with full custom kernel support.iBoot - Wikipedia — iBoot is the stage 2 bootloader for all Apple products. It replaces the old bootloader, BootX.

Jan 15, 2021 • 0sec
Google Docs Replacement | Self-Hosted 36
Our favorite Google Docs killer with markdown support has a big update. We explain how we host it and why we love it.
Plus Chris reviews the Home Assistant Blue.Sponsored By:CloudFree.shop: CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTEDLinode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshA Cloud Guru: Go through a series of hands-on labs picked to showcase Docker and gain experience with it.Support Self-HostedLinks:HedgeDoc - The best platform to write and share markdown. — HedgeDoc (formerly known as CodiMD) is an open-source collaborative markdown editor. With HedgeDoc you can easily collaborate on notes, graphs and even presentations in real-time. All you need to do is to share your note-link to your co-workers, and they’re ready to go.Home Assistant Blue! — Hardware that is affordable and fast, packed in a gorgeous case and powered by the most powerful home automation software on the planet: Home Assistant.Actiontec MoCA 2.5 Network Adapter for Ethernet Over Coax — With the reliability of a wired network, MoCA 2.5 technology upgrades your network for latency, reliability, and more. MoCA adapters use the same coaxial cables as your cable TV or fiber-optic service.

Jan 13, 2021 • 0sec
Everyone Fools Around with Linux in College | Coder Radio 396
Mike and Chris discuss the recent JetBrains FUD and ponder the impact of recent AWS policy enforcement.
Plus a bunch of cool setups sent in by our audience.Sponsored By:Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coderDatadog: Try Datadog free by starting a your 14-day trial and receive a free t-shirt once you install the agent.A Cloud Guru: In this course, we cover the skills and concepts necessary to pass the Red Hat RHCSA exam, using a mix of lessons and hands-on labs.Support Coder RadioLinks:code-server: VS Code in the browser — Run VS Code on any machine anywhere and access it in the browser.Homebrew on Apple Silicon — The biggest issue for me was Homebrew. According to this issue “There won’t be any support for native ARM Homebrew installations for months to come.” No big deal though. Homebrew can work just fine with Rosetta 2 and some things work natively.Download Visual Studio Code Insiders — Get the latest release each day.Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S. Hacking - The New York Times — Russian hackers may have piggybacked on a tool developed by JetBrains, which is based in the Czech Republic, to gain access to federal government and private sector systems in the United States.Question on Quora that Captures the Impact — Are creators of IntelliJ, the JetBrains company, a project of Russian secret services stealing secrets from all the Western software shops? Parler is officially offline after AWS suspension — True to its word, Amazon Web Services (AWS) suspended services to ParlerAmazon Is Suspending Parler From AWSParler sues Amazon for kicking it off the internet — Parler compares itself to ‘a hospital patient on life support’Apple M1 Docker Tech Preview — This tech preview is aimed at early adopters of Apple M1 machines, who would like to try an experimental build of Docker Desktop.

Jan 12, 2021 • 0sec
Waxing On With Wendell | LINUX Unplugged 388
Wendell joins the show to cover the state of graphics on Linux, and what Intel has in store for the future.
Plus why we're excited about PeerTube again, some feedback, and more.Special Guest: Wendell Wilson.Sponsored By:Oh Dear: Oh Dear monitors uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, scheduled tasks, and more. We send out notifications when something's wrong. All that paired with a developer-friendly API and kick-ass documentation. Promo Code: LINUXLinode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Linux Action News 171 — We explain the recent Qt upset, and then go hands-on with the new PeerTube release. Plus Wendell from Level1Techs joins us to discuss his thoughts on porting Linux to the Apple M1.Our new PeerTube instanceCoder Radio 395 — Their lives change forever when they meet a handsome, tormented, laptop.Level1Linux: We’re ready for One GPU – Two OSs. Intel Xe, SR-IOV and thoughts on VMsIntel Xe MAX Needs Two Linux Kernels For Now - Meaning You Need To Use A GPU-Accelerated VM — The good news is the Xe MAX graphics can be used for a GPU-accelerated Linux virtual machine. The bad news is the Xe MAX support doesn't yet allow for dGPU usage by the host outside of a virtual machine context as it needs "two different [Linux] kernels" for operation in conjunction with the integrated graphics.Intel GVT-g - ArchWiki — Intel GVT-g is a technology that provides mediated device passthrough for Intel GPUs (Broadwell and newer). It can be used to virtualize the GPU for multiple guest virtual machines, effectively providing near-native graphics performance in the virtual machine and still letting your host use the virtualized GPU normally.Dell XPS 13 Laptop | Dell USAAll Jupiter Broadcasting ShowsopenSUSE Feedback — I'd like to make an argument about Yast. OpenSuse definitely should be clearer in who it is intended for. But here is my humble opinion. It is not for folks who have been using Linux for years.openSUSE/opi: OBS Package Installer (CLI) — Search and install almost all packages available for openSUSE and SLE.openSUSE Docs Telegram ChannelRichard Brown on TwitterFeedback: Try Alpine! — Overall, Alpine is a small, simple distro with a lot of tricks up its sleeves. It's definitely worth a look!Pick: GPU-Viewer for Linux — This project aims to capture all the important details of glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo in a GUI. The project is being developed using python 3 pygobject with GTK3.New Core Contributor Promo Code — 2021

Jan 10, 2021 • 0sec
Linux Action News 171
We explain the recent Qt upset, and then go hands-on with the new PeerTube release.
Plus Wendell from Level1Techs joins us to discuss his thoughts on porting Linux to the Apple M1.Special Guest: Wendell Wilson.Sponsored By:Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Datadog: Datadog - the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:LTS versions of Qt going closed-source — The Qt Company is making LTS releases commercial only and thus closed-source. "The problem is that these releases are in effect no longer maintained. If there is a security issue, or a fix needed to support some change in one of the target operating systems, open-source users will not get that fix other than in the not-ready version 6.0."QT 5.15 Commercial-only LTS phase starts: Closing the 5.15 branch(es) on 5th January : linux
LTS versions of Qt going closed-source : linux
A shell UX update – GNOME Shell & Mutter — The new design has prompted a lot of interest and comment, which we’re all really thrilled about. In this post I wanted to provide an update of where the initiative is at. I also want to take the opportunity to answer some of the common questions that have come up.
Progress On The GNOME 40 Shell Continues At Full Speed - Phoronix
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part I — A few weeks ago, I purchased a Mac Mini with an M1 GPU as a development target to study the instruction set and command stream, to understand the GPU’s architecture at a level not previously publicly understood, and ultimately to accelerate the development of a Mesa driver for the hardware. Today I’ve reached my first milestone: I now understand enough of the instruction set to disassemble simple shaders with a free and open-source tool chain, released on GitHub.Early Work Is Underway On Reverse-Engineering The Apple M1 GPU
NVIDIA getting geared up to support hardware accelerated XWayland — NVIDIA’s Erik Kurzinger has submitted a Merge Request to the xserver GitLab titled “Xwayland: Support hardware accelerated rendering with the proprietary NVIDIA driver”, with the two patches included “intended to accompany upcoming support in the proprietary NVIDIA driver for hardware accelerated GL and Vulkan rendering with Xwayland”. Kurzinger continues to mention that once a driver is out with the needed hooks, this code should “just start working”.NVIDIA Prepares XWayland OpenGL/Vulkan Acceleration Support
Xwayland: Support hardware accelerated rendering with the proprietary NVIDIA driver (!587) · Merge Requests · xorg / xserver · GitLab
PeerTube v3: it’s a live, a liiiiive ! – Framablog — Today we are releasing a major new version of PeerTube, our alternative to centralized video platforms like YouTube.

Jan 6, 2021 • 0sec
50 Shades of M1 | Coder Radio 395
Their lives change forever when they meet a handsome, tormented, laptop.Sponsored By:Datadog: Try Datadog free by starting a your 14-day trial and receive a free t-shirt once you install the agent.Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coderA Cloud Guru: A Cloud Guru now includes Cloud Playground. Azure, AWS, or GCP Sandboxes at your fingertips.Support Coder RadioLinks:Plain Text Accounting, a guide to Ledger and friends - plaintextaccounting.org — Plain text accounting means doing accounting with plain text data formats and scriptable software, in the style of Ledger, hledger, beancount, and co. Beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files. — A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.Fava - web interface for Beancount — Fava is a web interface for the double-entry bookkeeping software Beancount with a focus on features and usability.Michael Dominick on Twitter — Interesting! It looks like @jetbrains is already on the M1 train.Dell.com/linux — With Canonical and Red Hat certification, Dell validation, and factory install options, you can be assured that your system just works.Dell XPS 13 Laptop As Built for the Show — + “Tiger Lake” 11th-gen CPU up to 4.2 GHz
+ Ubuntu Linux 20.04
+ Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics (more on this)
+ 16GB 4267MHz LPDDR4x Memory Onboard (Max of 32GB possible)
+ 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive (Max of 2TB Possible)
+ 1080p touch edge to edge infinity display (4k optional)XPS 13 vs ThinkPad X1 Carbon Machine Learning BenchmarkXPS 13 ML Base Benchmark - Compare your system to this one — Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the Phoronix Test Suite by running the command: phoronix-test-suite benchmark 2101015-FI-CODERRADI28Intel Xe Graphics' Incredible Performance Uplift From OpenCL To oneAPI Level Zero To Vulkan — It's quite a straight-forward comparison with the Gen9/11/12 all using the Dell XPS of their time and running Ubuntu 20.10 with the above mentioned graphics driver stack configurationIntel's Iris Xe Graphics Preview: Is Real Gaming Power in Reach for Thin-and-Light Laptops?Intel Xe Graphics: Puts its GPU Stakes in the Ground


