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What caused the recent major AWS outage, the breaking changes that just arrived upstream, and a new mail client for Linux. Plus our reaction to Microsoft's Android subsystem that's in the works.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Prolonged AWS outage takes down a big chunk of the internet — Amazon noted that the issues are only affecting one of its 23 geographic AWS regions. But the problem was significant enough to take out a large number of internet services. Geoff Belknap on Twitter — “I… can’t vacuum… because us-east-1 is down.” Canonical publishes LTS Docker Image Portfolio on Docker Hub — The LTS Docker Image Portfolio comes with up to ten years Extended Security Maintenance by Canonical. Vivaldi Integrates Email Client, Feed Reader, and Calendar in a Browser — The Vivaldi team announced that they are bringing an Email client, a Feed Reader, and a Calendar – all of these together in the latest Vivaldi technical preview release.Introducing Vivaldi Mail in Technical Preview How to use the built-in GPG feature for Thunderbird Systemd 247 Released With Experimental Out-of-Memory Daemon, New Credentials Capability — systemd 247 is very heavy on new features, and one big change for udev.[systemd-devel] systemd 247 released NTFS read-write driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software — The Paragon NTFS kernel driver patch is now on its 13th iterationMicrosoft is working on an Android subsystem for Windows 10 — This new initiative is called 'Project Latte,' and similar to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), will create a virtualized Android environment running directly within Windows 10.

Mike buys a laptop live on air while Chris worries about the turkey.Support Coder RadioLinks:Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Live purchases are fun right?"Thoughts of Linus Torvalds on M1 MacsApple will reduce App Store cut to 15 percent for most developers starting January 1st — Any developer that earns less than $1 million in revenue per year is eligibleThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 with LinuxGalago Pro - System76

We have the coolest new retro tool of the year, that will turn you into a Linux powered spy. Plus the changes coming to Fedora, and what GNOME is focusing on next year.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. A Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labsSupport LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Rust Watch: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive — Utilizing an in-development Flash emulator called Ruffle, we have added Flash support to the Internet Archive’s Emularity system, letting a subset of Flash items play in the browser as if you had a Flash plugin installed.Ruffle — Flash Player emulator written in the Rust programming languageUbuntu Web Remix Wants to Be a Chrome OS Alternative, Beta Available Now - 9to5Linux — Ubuntu Web Remix uses Mozilla’s Firefox web browser, offers support for Web apps, and you can also install regular Linux applications from Ubuntu’s software repositories.FydeOS beta brings Chromium OS to the PineBook Pro (Android app support too) - Liliputing — The developers say they plan to add support for more ARM-based systems in the future.We’re Building the Future of GNOME — Our plans for 2021 are even more ambitious and involve sustaining our ongoing work while building up new initiatives and support for the growing GNOME project and community.GNOME Foundation Planning For More Initiatives In 2021 - PhoronixFedora’s i3 team is working on an official Fedora Spin for Fedora 34 : Fedorai3 Kickstart files :: Fedora Docs SiteFedora 34 to Introduce KDE Plasma Spin for 64-bit ARM - debugpoint.com — The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) approved the recent proposal to provide a Fedora 34 KDE Plasma Spin for 64-bit ARM (AArch64) architecture.Fedora 34 Might Try To Use PipeWire By Default To Replace PulseAudio/JACK - Phoronix — For a while now Fedora has offered PipeWire packages but not yet used by default when it comes to audio handling. A pending change proposal for Fedora 34 would now route all audio through PipeWire rather than the existing JACK and PulseAudio.PulseAudio 14.0 Released With Better USB Gaming Headset Support — PulseAudio 14.0 comes with many changes compared to PulseAudio 13.0 that shipped all the way back in September of 2019.PulseAudio 14.0 Release NotesASUS Offers First Motherboard Firmware Update Via LVFS+Fwupd For Linux Users - Phoronix — The ASUS P11C-C-4L is an EATX motherboard for the Intel Xeon E platform.fwupd 1.5.2 – Technical Blog of Richard Hughes — A plugin for the Pinebook Pro laptop has been added, although it needs further work from PINE64 before it will work correctly.Jasem’s Ekosphere: KStars v3.5.0 is Released — This release marks a significant milestone for KStars with the integration of StellarSolver, the Cross Platform Sextractor and Astrometry.net-Based Internal Astrometric Solver.Wave-share — Serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound.Wave-share on GitHub — A proof-of-concept for WebRTC signaling using sound. Works with all devices that have microphone + speakers. Runs in the browser.Feedback: Eric’s Wonderful WorkstationFeedback: Container Host ChoicesFeedback: PodifyPick: podify — Create podcasts from anything youtube-dl can handle.Pick: Dev FontsHear Audio From NASA's Perseverance As It Travels Through Deep Space | NASA — A microphone aboard NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has recorded the sounds of the spacecraft as it hurtles through interplanetary space.Perseverance Rover’s Interplanetary Sounds by NASA

The details behind youtube-dl's return to GitHub, our thoughts on the rumored SUSE IPO, and our concerns with Servo's new home.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back — Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown. Remove cipher algorithm and mentions of copyrighted material GitHub reinstates youtube-dl library after EFF intervention$6 billion Linux deal? SUSE IPO rumored — SUSE, the major European Linux company, may soon be spun out in a $6 billion IPO.EQT Said to Plan IPO of $6 Billion Software Developer SUSECanonical Saw ~$119M Revenue In 2019 But Still Operating At A Loss — Ubuntu maker Canonical Holdings Limited recently submitted their UK financial report for their fiscal year ending 31 December 2019. During the pre-COVID times they generated around 22% more revenue than 2018 but still operated at a loss albeit more narrowly than in prior years.Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping — Purism has begun shipping its mass-produced Librem 5 phone to customers.Servo’s new home — Servo was incubated inside Mozilla, and served as the proof that important web components such as CSS and rendering could be implemented in Rust, with all its safety, concurrency and speed.Mozilla Punts Servo Web Engine Development To The Linux FoundationStarting January 4, 2021, Google will block all sign-ins to Google accounts from embedded browser frameworks — The browser must identify itself clearly in the User-Agent. The browser must not try to impersonate another browser like Chrome or Firefox.Guidance to developers affected by our effort to block less secure browsers and applications

With rage in our hearts, we proclaim a Self-Hosted Google Photos replacement, and the only way to self-host your email. Plus our tips to manage and stream audiobooks.Sponsored By:A Cloud Guru: Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.comDatadog: Try Datadog today by starting a free 14-day trial and receive a Datadog t-shirt after creating just one dashboard.A Cloud Guru: Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.comSupport Self-HostedLinks:OpenAudible - Audio Book Manager — OpenAudible is a cross-platform audiobook manager designed for Audible users. Download, view, convert to MP3 or M4A, and manage all your audio books with our easy-to-use desktop application.Booksonic — The selfhosted audiobook server‎Prologue on the App Store — Prologue is the best (and possibly only) audiobook app for Plex.‎BookPlayer on the App Store — A wonderful player for your M4B/M4A/MP3 based audiobooks.Cozy—Linux Apps on Flathub — Cozy is a modern audio book player for Linux.MQTT - Home Assistant — MQTT (aka MQ Telemetry Transport) is a machine-to-machine or “Internet of Things” connectivity protocol on top of TCP/IP. It allows extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport.AdGuard Home — Network-wide software for blocking ads & trackingUsing Pihole with pfsense or opnsense — Pihole is a network wide ad blocker. Using DHCP we can tell every device on your network to automatically and transparently use Pihole for DNS.PhotoPrism — PhotoPrism® is a server-based application for browsing, organizing and sharing your personal photo collection. It makes use of the latest technologies to automatically tag and find pictures without getting in your way. Say goodbye to solutions that force you to upload your visual memories to the cloud.PhotoPrism: Try our demoGoogle Photos will end its free unlimited storage on June 1st, 2021 - The Verge — After 15 gigs, you’ll need to pony up for Google One

The guys deploy their sage wisdom to answer your age-old questions and solve why the latest macOS is less appealing than ever to developers. Plus our thoughts on youtube-dl's return to GitHub.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 GuruSupport Coder RadioLinks:Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back — Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown. Michael Dominick on Twitter: — "It has begun.... #macOS #BigSur @ChrisLAS the lengths I will go for show content.... Michael Dominick on Twitter — And the update has been hung for 45 minutes....Abrodolph Lincoler — Abrodolph Lincoler is a humanoid experiment who debuted in Ricksy BusinessApple Responds to macOS Privacy Concerns — “Gatekeeper performs online checks to verify if an app contains known malware and whether the developer’s signing certificate is revoked,” explains Apple. “We have never combined data from these checks with information about Apple users or their devices. We do not use data from these checks to learn what individual users are launching or running on their devices,” clarified the company.

We review the Dell Precision 5750, a born and bred MacBook killer that runs Linux. Plus a nasty reminder of how closely Apple monitors its users, and their fatal flaw that we think is outrageous.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:New device puts music in your head — no headphones requiredGreg K-H at Linux app Summit 2020: What Linux kernel developers wish application developers would do better — In this talk, a Linux kernel developer gets to complain how his normal "test case" i.e. userspace code, could do better when it comes to a whole range of different things that have been learned over time by maintaining a stable interface to the kernel for 20+ years.Linux App Summit 2020 Videos Now Available From Steam/Valve To GNOME Circle - PhoronixSeattle GNU/Linux ConferenceWhy Linux: Your Mac Isn’t Yours — On modern versions of macOS, you simply can’t power on your computer, launch a text editor or eBook reader, and write or read, without a log of your activity being transmitted and stored.macOS Big Sur launch appears to cause temporary slowdown in even non-Big Sur Macs | Ars TechnicaApple apps on macOS Big Sur bypass firewall and VPN connectionsMacs are a privacy nightmare – OSnewsApplication Trust is Hard, but Apple does it Well — Security Embedded — It comes down to an argument of trust - do you trust Apple, acting in their best interests, is sufficiently aligned with your best interests too? Or do you believe they're a malevolent entity? It's not feasible for an individual to maintain the list of trustworthy or untrustworthy parties that Apple does.Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look – Jacopo Jannone - blogNot all bad news for Arm Macs Tho, might be able to bless Linux kernels — On arm64 macs, there's no all-security-checks-are-off mode. You can however bless your unsigned kernels through kmutil, which adds their hashes to the Secure Boot policy, allowing you to boot them.Longhorn on Twitter — So how will you boot third-party operating systems on arm64 Macs? You might have seen that pongoOS has been getting a ton of work in the recent past, and even more is coming. This work will allow us to support pongoOS as a second-stage bootloader for Apple Silicon-based Macs.patrick wardle on Twitter — In Big Sur Apple decided to exempt many of its apps from being routed thru the frameworks they now require 3rd-party firewalls to use (LuLu, Little Snitch, etc.) 🧐 Q: Could this be (ab)used by malware to also bypass such firewalls? 🤔 A: Apparently yes, and trivially so 😬😱😭All Jupiter Broadcasting ShowsPrecision 5750 17 Inch Mobile Workstation Laptop with AI & VR | Dell USA — The first thin and light 17-inch mobile workstation is also the smartest. Featuring Dell Optimizer for Precision with AI, the latest Intel® Core™ or Xeon® processors and NVIDIA® graphics. Starting at $2,139.00Dell vs Ryzen desktopChrisLAS Workstation vs RyzenboxThree way shoot out Ryzen vs Dell vs Chris WksAI Benchmark Alpha Benchmark - OpenBenchmarking.orgRyzen 3600 Single/Multithreaded And RAM Tests Performance - OpenBenchmarking.orgPick: Yacht — a container management UI with a focus on templates and 1-click deployments.Lutris 0.5.8 Release

The Ubuntu bug you need to patch, PayPal's Bitcoin support goes live, and a breaking change inbound to systemd. Plus the Linux tech Greg KH is most excited about, and more.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Ubuntu fixes bugs that standard users could use to become root — A handful of commands was all it took for untrusted users to become all-powerful.Now-patched Ubuntu desktop vulnerability allows privilege escalationHow to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /homeMeet Proxmox Backup Server, a Debian-Based Open Source Enterprise Backup Solution — Proxmox launched today Proxmox Backup Server as a new edition of its Debian-based Linux distribution engineered to act as an enterprise solution for backing up and restoring physical hosts, virtual machines and containers.Proxmox RoadmapProxmox Backup ServerProxmox Backup Git RepoPayPal's crypto trading goes live in the US — Customers will be able to trade up to $20,000 a week, rather than the originally announced $10,000.Systemd catches up with bind events — Perhaps the real lesson here is that the community would be better served by closer relations between the kernel project and projects managing low-level utilities like systemd. eBPF - The Future of Networking & Security — Cilium is an open source project that has been designed on top of eBPF to address the networking, security, and visibility requirements of container workloads. It provides a high-level abstraction on top of eBPF. Cilium is to eBPF what Kubernetes and container runtimes are to Linux kernel namespaces, cgroups, and seccompLinux App Summit 2020

Our first reactions to Apple's ARM event, how these new systems will impact developers, and if we're buying one.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: This course will provide you with an understanding of Linux on Azure and practical hands-on experience performing key configuration and management tasks.Support Coder RadioLinks:Apple Event — November 10 - YouTube — Join us for a special Apple Event on November 10 at 10 a.m. PST. Set a reminder and we'll send an update before the show.New MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Still Have 720p Camera, But Apple Promises Better Quality From M1 — During today's event where Apple unveiled the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models, there was a mention of a new image signal processor for the camera, which brings some improvements to camera quality.MacBook Air and MacBook Pro M1 Chips Have Same 8-Core CPUs, No Upgrades Available — The newly announced MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models that Apple announced today are equipped with the same 8-core M1 chip that also offers an integrated GPU, with Apple offering no CPU upgrades.M1 MacBook Pro Replaces Low-End Model, Higher-End Intel Options Still Available — The new 13-inch MacBook Pro with an M1 chip replaces the lower-end ‌MacBook Pro‌ models that were previously available, and Apple is continuing to sell it right alongside higher-end models that continue to feature Intel chips.

We round up our favorite tweaks to the desktop, and apps that make it great. Plus some highlights from Arch Conf, and our reaction to Mint finally fixing their Chromium problem.Special Guest: Drew DeVore.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. A Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labsSupport LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Arch Conf 2020 Videosmedia.ccc.de - Arch Linux: Past, Present and FutureProject X - Pure Open-Source Coreboot Support On AMD Zen - Phoronix — Project X is about "eXcising binary blobs from the x86 part of Zen CPUs."OSFC 2020 - Open Source Firmware ConferenceLinux Mint pre-loads Chromium and Brings New IPTV Player — The package is available Linux Mint repository as “chromium” which you can install using standard “apt-get” or via the package manager. This is pure native Chromium and not a snap version.Monthly News – October 2020 – The Linux Mint BlogLINUX Unplugged 360: The Hard Work of HardwareStarlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the USSpaceX Starlink users provide first impressions and unboxing pictures | Ars Technica — New speed-test data collected by Ookla and published by PCMag last week found average Starlink download speeds of 79.5Mbps and average upload speeds of 13.8Mbps in OctoberAll Jupiter Broadcasting Showsprofile-sync-daemon — Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers.GPU-Viewer — A front-end to glxinfo, vulkaninfo, clinfo and es2_info.Ivan Molodetskikh: Video Trimmer — Video Trimmer cuts out a fragment of a video given the start and end timestamps. The video is never re-encoded, so the process is very fast and does not reduce the video quality.junegunn/fzf — A command-line fuzzy finderFish shell — fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family.cxreg/smartcd — Alter your bash (or zsh) environment as you cd.wting/autojump — A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.gsamokovarov/jump — Jump helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.muammar/mkchromecast — Cast macOS and Linux Audio/Video to your Google Cast and Sonos Devicesxat/castnow — commandline chromecast playerxat/dlnacast — Cast local media to your TV through UPnP/DLNAskorokithakis/catt — Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources to your Chromecast.tridactyl — A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactylphilc/vimium — The hacker's browser. Use your ~/.local folder!Liquorix kernel for Debian users — Liquorix is a distro kernel replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads. PipeWire nightly for Fedora users — PipeWire nightly builds from the projects git master. Use at your own risk. Firefox Adwaita Theme — This is a bunch of CSS code to make Firefox look closer to GNOME's native apps. Feedback: Thoughts after youtube-dlFeedback: FreeIPAFeedback: Zentyal as an AD Server