LINUX Unplugged

We do our best to predict what will happen in 2022, and own up to what we thought might happen in 2021.Special Guests: Alan Pope, Drew DeVore, and Joe Ressington.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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Updated Rust Code For Linux Kernel Patches PostedDell Technologies Announces Completion of VMware Spin-offPop!_OS's GNOME Shell RepoSteam Tracker

It's the second annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, desktops, and services of 2021.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. Support LINUX Unplugged

We each try out the new Pop_OS! and Carl Richell from System76 joins us to get into the details. Plus why we feel Pop might be the new Ubuntu.Special Guest: Carl Richell.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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Amazon Is Hiring DXVK, Mesa & Proton Linux Developers For Luna Cloud Gaming - Phoronix — As part of the work on Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service, the company has put out job openings of great match to our audience... An Amazon engineer did confirm that this indeed is for genuine Linux gaming engineers.New Server Christening Get Together — Lets get together, share some foods, and power up the new Jupiter Broadcasting local server. Then stick around and listen in to a live recording of LINUX Unplugged from the studio.System76 Blog — Pop!_OS 21.10 has landed!Pop!_OS 21.10 Introduces Mini Application MenuJeremy Soller on Twitter — Pop switched the build system and repositories away from http://launchpad.net to our own system http://apt.pop-os.org/release for 21.10 in order to improve our control of package updates and reduce the time to build, test, and release them. It is not related to changing bases.Linode Security Digest December 12-19, 2021Pop!_OS Auto Tiling TutorialRecovery Partition - System76 Support — The Recovery Partition is a full copy of the Pop!_OS installation disk. It can be used exactly the same as if a live disk copy of Pop!_OS was booted from a USB drive.Add Recovery To Your Pop!_OS — If you like me, fellow reader, you may be using a more custom partition setup. Unfortunately, anything other than the default clean install on Pop!_OS means you do not get the automatically generated recovery partition of goodness. Here's a small guide over how to get the setup on an already existing install.casper — A hook for initramfs-tools to boot live systems.pop-os/launcher — Modular IPC-based desktop launcher service.Raycast — Raycast is a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher. It lets you complete tasks, calculate, share common links, and much more.Pick: n.eko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.Ventoy — With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly.

This was not the year of the Linux Desktop. We’ve been slacking on the mailbag, so we go on a feedback frenzy and answer some hard questions about desktop Linux.Special Guests: Carl George and Martin Wimpress.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. Jupiter Signal Network Membership: Support all the shows, get all the perks, and save a bit for the holidays. Use promo code: thesignalSupport LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Jupiter Extras: Cryptocurrency Chat with ChrisIntroducing CentOS Stream 9 — CentOS Stream is a continuous-delivery distribution providing each point-release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)EPEL 9 is now available! — This is the culmination of five months of work between the EPEL Steering Committee, the Fedora Infrastructure and Release Engineering team, and other contributors.Linux Action News 218Linux Action News 064LINUX Unplugged 387: Tumbling Into the New Year!Changes/Switch RPMs to zstd compression - Fedora Project WikiSearch through all the show notes of all the shows!Pick: audapolis — An editor for spoken-word audio with automatic transcription.

The Director of EndlessOS joins us to respond to recent Flatpak criticism. We take the opportunity to expand on the overall effort to solve Linux fragmentation.Special Guests: Martin Wimpress, Neal Gompa, and Will Thompson.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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Pocket Popcorn Computer — Finally, a handheld Linux device with a high-definition 1080p display and large battery life. Pocket P.C. is your hacker terminal on-the-go.On Flatpak disk usage and deduplication – Will Thompson’s GNOME-ish blog — There is a blog post doing the rounds asserting that Flatpak Is Not The Future. The post is really long, and it seems unlikely that I and the author will ever agree on this topic, so I’m only going to talk about a couple of paragraphs about disk usage and sharing of runtimes between apps which caught my eye.Bustle — Graphical D-Bus message analyser and profiler.Gnome Initial SetupEndless OS Foundation — Our mission is to help all people and communities connect with technology.Will sometimes does other stuff and writes about itFlatpak Is Not the Future - Ludocode — Flatpak calls itself “the future of application distribution”. I am not a fan. I’m going to outline here some of the technical, security and usability problems with Flatpak and others. I’ll try to avoid addressing “fixable” problems (like theming) and instead focus on fundamental problems inherent in their design. I aim to convince you that these are not the future of desktop Linux apps.docker-slim — Don’t change anything in your Docker container image and minify it by up to 30xFlatseal — Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify permissions from your Flatpak applications.Bruch with Brent with Stuart Langridge — Brent sits down with Stuart Langridge, co-host of Bad Voltage, for an exploration of open source’s “final mile”, the text and language interface as a UX opportunity, terminals vs. search engines, Darwinian processes and crab-bucketism in software development, and more.Seeking contractors for work on Flathub project — GNOME has a donor who is interested in supporting financial sustainability for app developers and removing barriers to an inclusive ecosystem. Flathub would like to use these funds to work with a contractor for a short-term project and make steps towards supporting application developers being able to request payments (whether donations or subscriptions).

We revisit some old assumptions about the open-source Plex-alternative, Jellyfin. We each try it out, and along the way, gain a few insights about open source.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: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Register for Ohio LinuxFest 2021Kodi “Matrix” 19.3 Release — Okay, we know that we've only just released 19.2, and some of you are probably even still waiting for that, but that's a big part of the reason we need to push out a new build. We still had some challenges with the Xbox release, and some other issues came to light that we didn't want to ignore - so, rather than get into platform-specific point releases, we thought we'd just nudge up to 19.3 and go for it.Jellyfin — Jellyfin is the volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached. Your media, your server, your way.Plex — Plex brings together all the media that matters to you. Your personal collection will look beautiful alongside stellar streaming content.Dual Gigabit Ethernet Carrier Board for Raspberry Pi CM4 4 with 4GB RAM/ 32GB eMMC — It features a variety of I/O peripherals such as MIPI CSI, MIPI DSI, micro-HDMI to connect displays/ cameras, a standard 9-pin USB 3.0 header for more USB expansion, a micro-SD card slot, and an FPC connector while maintaining a compact form factor! This board is ideal for HTPC makers, Linux developers, software router enthusiasts, and the majority of regular Raspberry Pi users.Client Spotlight: Infuse for tvOS and iOS - Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System — With Infuse, it's easy to connect to with automatic server discovery. Once connected, you can enjoy direct playback (no transcoding required) for almost all formats.Jellyfin Plugin for Kodi — The Jellyfin for Kodi add-on combines the best of Kodi - ultra smooth navigation, beautiful UIs and playback of any file under the sun, and Jellyfin - the most powerful open source multi-client media metadata indexer and server. You can now retire your MySQL setup in favor of a more flexible setup.catt — Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources to your Chromecast.Self-Hosted Podcast — Discover new software and hardware to get the best out of your network, control smart devices, and secure your data on cloud services.Perfect Media Server — Perfect Media Server began life as a series of blog posts over at blog.linuxserver.io. Those posts continue to be very popular but a blog post (or three) can only get you so far... I therefore introduce perfectmediaserver.com - a wiki format information repository detailing all you need to know to build a free, open and modular media server that will last for many, many years.Jellyfin Android AppJellyfin for Android TVJellyfin Roku AppJellyfish Bitrate Test Filesjellyfin-mpv-shim — MPV Cast Client for Jellyfin.Pick: Junction — Set Junction as the default application for a resource and let it do the rest. Junction will pop up and offer multiple options to handle it.Junction on Flathub

Can we live with openSUSE Tumbleweed? We try three different builds and prepare ourselves for our journey into SUSE land. Our setups, what we liked, and what we still need to figure out.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:2021 Tuxie Nominations are Open!SteamOS 3.0 will have an immutable filesystem - a first for arch? — During the Steam Deck Development live steam, Valve finally gave us some good news and said that SteamOS 3.0 will be generally available for everyone to install on their computers. They also revealed that SteamOS 3.0 will have an immutable root file system to prevent unauthorized access and use PipeWire for audio.Greg’s Company Buys Ads openSUSE Search Results — "Hey, @openSUSE have you been seeing a drop in downloads recently? I might know why..."They did this to AlmaLinux at the end of July.AlmaLinux AMASetting up a containerized environment - openSUSE User Documentation ProjectUsing the Linode Graphical Shell (Glish)How to switch from OpenSUSE Leap to Tumbleweed?Transactional Updates | Administration Guide | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1The Transactional Update GuideManpage for transactional-update — Transactional-update updates the system in a transactional way; this means updates are atomic, so either the patches are fully applied or nothing is changed. The update does not influence the running system and it can be rolled back. To activate the changes, the system needs to be rebooted. To achieve this transactional-update is using Btrfs' snapshot mechanism, combined with the default distribution toolsYaST Online UpdateOpenSUSE System UpdatesSnapper rollback with btrfsopenSUSE/transactional-update — Do transactional updates on openSUSE/SUSE Linux Enterprise products with btrfs, snapshots and rollback.Open Build ServiceOpenSUSE Conference 2017Post that explains some of the drawbacks of transaction updatesZypper cheat sheet VERY handy and recommend itJupiterGarage.comPick: mp4grep — Command-line tool that searches audio/video files.JB All Shows Feed

Is the true path to mastering Linux fully embracing the command line? Why it's time to change our mindset about the terminal.Special Guests: Martin Wimpress and Neal Gompa.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: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 15th Red Planet flight2021 Tuxie Nominations are OpenSystem76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based On GNOME — Word of System76 making their "own" desktop not based on GNOME does follow some recent friction between Pop!_OS and GNOME developers over their approach to theming and customizations.System76 Engineer Confirms Work on New Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based on GNOMECarl Richell on Twitter — We celebrated 16 years of @system76 today. It was a nice surprise. This is about a third of the team. While we’ve adapted to remote work well, I miss full-company events and hope we can get back to those soon.It’s Been 9 Years Since Valve Rolled Out The Steam Linux Beta — Over the past nine years Valve has done an incredible job advancing gaming for Linux and allowing it to reach heights never once imagined. As we move into 2022 and ten years of Steam on Linux it will be incredibly exciting to see how Steam Deck performs in the marketplace and ultimately its impact on the Linux ecosystem.BattlEye Support In Good Shape With Steam Client Beta + Proton ExperimentalKalendar is out! — Note that this is still an in-development release and that there will be bugs, features still to be added, and so on. We want your feedback — especially bug reports! These will help us improve Kalendar as much as we possible can before we can release a truly stable 1.0 version.Linux HATES Me – Daily Driver CHALLENGE Pt.1 - YouTube — This is part 1 in a series where Linus and Luke migrate their home workstation to Linux. In this episode, each decides which Distro they'll use, and then tries to run a game on it.JupiterGarage.comLinux Action News 214Self-Hosted 57How to fix the GSP 670 headset to make it work properly on LinuxAkselmo’s GameESOLinuxAddonManagerVorta for BorgBackup — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty Borg Backup with your favorite desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft.Vorta — Linux Apps on FlathubVorta | Memory Alpha

We check-in with Fedora Project lead Matthew Miller on the state of the project, then conduct our exit interview with Fedora 34, and review Fedora 35. What's new, what's changed, and what's broken. It's a Fedora special.Special Guests: Matthew Miller and Neal Gompa.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. Core Contributor Membership: Use promo code summer - Support the show, and take $1 off the lifetime of your membership! Promo Code: SummerA Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust — I've been working on a new operating system kernel Kerla, written from scratch in Rust which aims to be Linux-compatible at the ABI level. In other words, support running unmodified Linux binaries!Roving With Perseverance - NASA Mars — Displays including full-scale models of Perseverance and the Ingenuity Mars helicopter will be on exhibit in museums across the countryThe Museum of Flight – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program — NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter models will be on display, October 30, 2021 - April 3, 2022Remote desktop and screen casting in Wayland - GNOME Wiki! — Remote desktop functionality is not implemented in mutter but in GNOME Remote Desktop. GNOME Remote Desktop currently supports "screen share", also known as "remote assistance" mode through VNC or RDP. VNC support is provided via LibVNCServer and RDP support is provided via FreeRDP.GNOME remote desktop RDP setup guide — The RDP server in gnome-remote-desktop currently doesn't have the UI to setup yet. To be able to use the RDP server, the server certificate, private keyfile and credentials therefore need to be created manually.Zoom Supports Continued Access for Basic Users with Advertising ProgramWorth the wait: Fedora Linux 35 is here! — We switched the default audio system to PipeWire in Fedora Linux 34, and now we’re improving this by adding the new WirePlumber session manager. WirePlumber allows for more customization of the policy and rules for audio and video. It provides a richer development experience and adds bindings for most languages.WirePlumber 0.4.4 documentation — WirePlumber is a modular session / policy manager for PipeWire and a GObject-based high-level library that wraps PipeWire’s API, providing convenience for writing the daemon’s modules as well as external tools for managing PipeWire.Tom Wagner / Helvum — Helvum is a GTK-based patchbay for pipewire, inspired by the JACK tool catia.Common F35 bugs - Fedora Project WikiDNF System Upgrade :: Fedora DocsFedora Spins PrereleasesFedora DocsChanges/Restart User Service after Upgrade - Fedora Project WikiFedora Flathub Filter ListPlasma Discover rpm-ostree_backendRyujinx - Nintendo Switch Emulator — Ryujinx is an open-source Nintendo Switch emulator created by gdkchan and written in C#.Ryujinx on GitHubRyujinx Setup & Configuration Guide

We attempt a live production over Starlink, and dig into the secrets of this giant Linux network in space.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: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Some users experienced data loss on 21.10Ubuntu Makes Firefox Snap Default in 21.10How to Remove Firefox Snap from Ubuntu (21.10 +) And AlternativesElement One — Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place.Space Exploration Technologies on GitHubU-Boot Changes by SpaceXLinux Kernel Changes by SpaceXSpaceX openWRT Pull RequestsPTP Changes by SpaceXNotes from a talk given by then head of Software at SpaceX, Jinnah Hosein — On 1-Aug-2017, Jinnah Hosein, who was the head of Software at SpaceX at the time, spoke to my company, Orbital Insight, in Mountain View California, and I took some notes.Summary of SpaceX Software AMAStack Overflow Blog — Network protocols in orbit: Building a space-based ISPstarlink-grpc-tools — This repository has a handful of tools for interacting with the gRPC service implemented on the Starlink user terminal (AKA "the dish").Set a Static Route for the App to talk to the DishLive Starlink Satellite and Coverage MapStarlink Coverage TrackerCroc — A tool that allows any two computers to simply and securely transfer files and folders.crocgui — A nice simple GUI for croc, designed for mobile use.kdeconnect-ios — Native iOS port of KDE Connect.