LINUX Unplugged

Jupiter Broadcasting
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Aug 26, 2020 • 1h 5min

368: The Best is Yet to Come

It's a new day for Jupiter Broadcasting and the show, we share our big news. Plus our plan to help make a difference in free software, and we reunite with some old friends. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-Show 0:42 Intro 1:08 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru 2:59 Arch Update 4:13 Big News for Jupiter Broadcasting 6:58 Coder Radio Returns 8:08 Linux Action News Returns 9:45 The Future of Jupiter Broadcasting 10:23 Unplugged Core Contributors 15:01 Arch Update Part 2 16:49 Housekeeping 18:20 Arch Update Part 3 19:05 Bug Squashers Assemble 24:11 Fedora 33 Test Week 28:27 Fedora IoT 33:51 Pick: FetchCord 34:50 Wimpy's Discord Plea 37:14 Arch Update Part 4 38:16 Pick: Chowdown 40:59 Catching Up with Mike 52:21 Catching Up with Joe 54:30 Catching Up with Wimpy 1:01:19 Outro 1:03:34 Post-ShowSpecial Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Drew DeVore, Joe Ressington, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa.Sponsored By:A Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:nixCraft on Twitter: "On 25 August 1991, Linus at age 21 announced Linux project/system in a Usenet posting to the newsgroup. Here is original email that changed IT world forever." Coder Radio Linux Action News The New Show 10: The Smell of Arm Demerger FAQUnplugged Core Contributors Founder discount Drew DeVore on Twitter: “Anyone looking for a talented full time audio editor/mixer/masterer? Or for a sysadmin with 20 years experience in Linux? Please DM me. Looking for a new full time gig!” Drew DeVore’s LinkedIn Drew DeVore: Podcast Producer and Audio Engineer for Jupiter Broadcasting – PES 194Fedora IoT becomes an edition (Test Week) Fedora 33 Btrfs Test Day" - Fedocal Feedback: Dylan’s friend made a Discord app chowdown: Simple recipes in Markdown format chowdown on GitHub Recipe schema Wimpy’s World - YouTube Self-Hosted The New Show 2.5 Admins The Mike Dominick Show
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Aug 19, 2020 • 1h 6min

367: Podcatcher Play-off

We round up the best podcast clients for your Linux desktop, mobile, and the web. Plus we announce the official Jupiter Broadcasting Matrix server, share some great picks, and a thought-provoking email. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-Show 0:35 Intro 2:03 Debian Requests Artwork 3:04 Google Kernel Code Dump 8:07 The Future of Rust 14:15 Manjaro Forum Meltdown 20:11 Matrix Server Migration 27:38 Housekeeping 28:44 Podcatcher Play-Off 29:08 Podcatcher Play-Off: Honorable Mentions 31:33 Podcatcher Play-Off: Winds 33:36 Podcatcher Play-Off: Cpod 35:33 Podcatcher Play-Off: Airsonic 38:16 Podcatcher Play-Off: Shellcaster 40:15 Podcatcher Play-Off: Castero 40:42 Podcatcher Play-Off: Castget 42:27 Podcatcher Play-Off: Pocketcasts 44:22 Podcatcher Play-Off: Antennapod 45:09 Podcatcher Play-Off: Overcast 47:22 Feedback: Mac Pro as a Daily Driver 48:38 Feedback: Internet Apocalypse 57:22 Pick: Quad SATA Kit for Raspberry Pi 1:00:01 Pick: Outrun 1:02:50 Outro 1:04:30 Post-ShowSpecial Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Debian turns 27! - Bits from Debian r/linux: Debian turns 27! Debian Bullseye artwork call for proposals - entries must be submitted by October 15 Google Finally Begins Their Open-Source Dance Around Linux User-Space Threading - Phoronix [PATCH for 5.9 0/3] FUTEX_SWAP (tip/locking/core) - Peter Laying the foundation for Rust’s future | Rust Blog Manjaro’s new Forum LINUX Unplugged Matrix Community Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! LUP LUG Mumble Server Info Fullscreen JB IRC Chat Gnome Podcasts gPodder — Media aggregator and podcast clientbrtmr/podfox Spotify Winds — Winds is a modern, open-source RSS and Podcast app built using React/Redux/Node by Stream. CPod — A simple, beautiful podcast app for Windows, macOS, and Linux.AirSonic — Airsonic is a free, web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music. shellcaster — Terminal-based podcast manager built in Rustcastero — TUI podcast client for the terminalcastget — A command-line podcast downloader.Pocketcasts Pocket Casts acquired by NPR, other public radio stations, and This American Life - The Verge Overcast AntennaPod Feedback: ‘TheFake VIP’ still uses that same Mac Pro as his daily driver — I still, to this day, run a Mac Pro just like that as my daily driver, in Windows, macOS and Linux (Arch with i3). It's still a dream machine for me.Feedback: Would you still use Linux if there was no more internet? — So let me ask you an important question. Would you still use Linux if there was no more internet? QUAD SATA KIT for Raspberry PI — Easily build your own NAS / Media-server based on Raspberry Pi 4 Description mount up to 4x 2.5" HDD or SSD outrun — Execute a local command using the processing power of another Linux machine.Debconf 20 starts this week. Flipper Zero — Tamagochi for Hackers
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Aug 12, 2020 • 48min

366: Linux Server Salvage

We refurbish a special machine from the Jupiter Broadcasting Hardware Archive and try out Matrix, the one chat platform to rule them all. Plus Dan and Cassidy from elementary OS join us to discuss version 6.0. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-Show 0:45 Intro 2:25 KDE Neon 20.04 4:17 Mozilla Resturcturing 8:21 elementary OS 6 18:29 Housekeeping 20:00 Matrix 22:33 Silver Salvage 29:43 Matrix Server Punishment Test 33:04 Clients Galore 35:06 Secure By Default 43:56 Outro 45:08 Post-ShowSpecial Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks KDE neon rebased on 20.04 Mozilla is laying off 25% of their employees Large part of Mozilla’s Sec Team Laid Off Let’s Talk elementary OS 6 ⋅ elementary Blog Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! LUP LUG Mumble Server Info Fullscreen JB IRC Chat Chris Fisher on Twitter: "Pulled an old Mac Pro out of storage for today’s @LinuxUnplugged live test. 2009 Mac Pro | eBay apple-history.com / Mac Pro (Early 2009, Dual CPU) Matrix - An open network for secure, decentralized communicationElement - encrypted group video calls end-to-end encryption team messaging Element Web App
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Aug 5, 2020 • 54min

365: There's a Hole in my Boot!

We explain why BootHole is getting so much attention and break down the key issues. Then we review our favorite Linux-compatible headsets. Plus community news, feedback, and more.Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Neal Gompa.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Eight Great Features Of Linux 5.8 - Phoronix Feedback from David: Trackball for RSI Standing Desks from Autonomous MX Vertical Advanced Ergonomic Mouse Debian: GRUB2 UEFI SecureBoot vulnerability - ‘BootHole’ A long list of GRUB2 secure-boot holes There’s a Hole in the Boot Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole patches Valve Hires Former Emulator Developer To Work On Open-Source Graphics For Linux Nvidia-Arm Deal Would Be a Technology ‘Disaster’ Invitation to Play Along | PINE64 Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! LUP LUG Mumble Server Info Fullscreen JB IRC Chat - bit.ly/jupiterchat Jabra Elite Active 65t Tech Specs Amazon.com: Jabra Elite Active 65t Earbuds PulseAudio Loopbacks and Virtual Sinks PulseAudio Hacks for Zoom Shure SM58-LC Cardioid Dynamic Vocal Microphone Corsair Void RGB Elite Wireless Premium Gaming Headset ATR2100-USB - Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone | Audio-Technica Booth Junkie Review: Audio Technica ATR-2100 USB review Feedback: Another reason to love MX Linux
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Jul 29, 2020 • 53min

364: Linux Arm Wrestling

The past, present and future of Linux on Arm. The major challenges still facing full Linux support, and why ServerReady might be a solution to unify Arm systems. Plus we chat with the Manjaro team about recent changes. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-Show 0:58 Intro 2:01 Terminal 2.0 in ChromeOS 4:41 Manjaro's Process Problems 13:49 Manjaro Sneak Peaks 15:41 Weekend Manjaro Journey 21:02 Housekeeping 22:09 ARM on Linux 24:01 The History of ARM 28:16 Single Board Computing Revolution 31:47 ARM Reaching into the Present 33:17 The Future of ARM 36:42 Not Everyone Loves ARM 43:01 Wants and What Ifs 48:30 App Pick: tuptime 49:48 App Pick: s-tui 50:21 Outro 51:36 Post-ShowSpecial Guests: Brent Gervais, Dalton Durst, Drew DeVore, Jeremy Soller, Marius Gripsgard, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Say hello to the Linux Terminal 2.0 for Chrome OS Change in manjaro team composition - Manjaro Linux Forum Phil’s version of the story Notebook for Package Building · Expense #22477 - Open Collective Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! LUP LUG Mumble Server Info Fullscreen JB IRC Chat - bit.ly/jupiterchat Intel’s 7nm is busted, chips delayed, may have to use rival foundries to get GPUs out for US govt exascale super • The Register Intel Restructuring: Murthy Leaves, Ann Kelleher Takes Over 7nm And 5nm Development Arash Massoudi on Twitter: “Huge tech deal: Japan’s SoftBank to buy UK’s ARM Holdings for $32.4bn tomorrow" Hermann Hauser on Twitter: “ARM is the proudest achievement of my life. The proposed sale to SoftBank is a sad day for me and for technology in Britain.” / Brit chip biz ARM legs it to Softbank for $32bn • The Register Some facts about the Acorn RISC Machine - Google Groups Linux Devs had Arm builds are early as spring of 1994. Arch Linux ARM first released March 11, 2002 Raspberry Pi - Single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Mainly using Broadcom SoCs Pine64 - initially Pine Microsystems, founded by TL Lim, the inventor of the PopBox and Popcorn Hour series of media players. Mainly using RockChip SoCs Beaglebone - a low-power open-source single-board computer produced by Texas Instruments in association with Digi-Key and element14. Using Texas Instruments SoCs Odroid - a series of single-board computers and tablet computers created by Hardkernel, located in South Korea. Mainly using Amlogic SoCs Orange Pi - an open source single board computer, based on Raspberry Pi but generally lower in price and manufactured by Shenzhen Xunlong Software. Mainly using Allwinner based SoCs Banana Pi - a line of low-cost credit card-sized single-board computers produced by the Chinese company Shenzhen SINOVOIP Co., Ltd. Using various SoCs including Realtek, Mediatek, Allwinner, etc NanoPi - a single board computer computer company based out of GuangDong, China. Mainly shipping with Samsung, Allwinner, and RockChip SoCs PINEBOOK Pro | PINE64 Dual-display version of RK3399-based Rock Pi 4 starts at $59 This is what HoneyComb LX2K 16-core Arm Workstation Looks Like (Video) Kobol Helios64 - Will your next NAS be ARM powered? Ubports - Linux on your phone! Amazon’s Graviton - 40% better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances YouTube: Making Pi ServerReady - Time for cheap Arm Infrastructure be Standards-Compliant — Even if you don't care about IoT, getting this class of devices to be standards-compliant will provide developers, tech evangelists and early adopters with $50-$100 ServerReady platforms, solving a real headache today around pricing/availability of systems in the market.Server systems – Arm Developer Arm announces ServerReady compliance program - Processors blog - Processors - Arm Community Raspberry Pi 4 Strides Towards ServerReady Status via SBBR-Compliant UEFI Firmware Effort - Hackster.io s-tui - Stress-Terminal UI, monitors CPU temperature, frequency, power and utilization with built in stress testing options Tuptime – A CLI Utility To Find Linux System Uptime
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Jul 22, 2020 • 53min

363: Return of the Terminal Server

Fedora makes a bold move and Microsoft seems to be working on their ideal "Cloud PC", we ponder what Linux has to offer. Plus an easy way to remotely watch movies with others, and a bunch of your feedback. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-Show 0:29 Intro 2:34 RSI Woes 7:21 Jellyfin 13:12 Proxmox Backup Server 16:22 ProcMon for Linux 20:16 Fedora 33 Defaults to Btrfs 24:27 systemd-oomd 26:38 Housekeeping 28:41 Riot Becomes Element 32:36 Mysterious Microsoft Job Posting 39:19 Picks: Polybar 40:57 Picks: ytop 42:43 Feedback 48:50 Outro 50:06 Post-ShowSpecial Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:GNOME Opens an Official Merch Shop Selling T-Shirts, More GNOME Shop – GNOME’s very own merch shop! Jellyfin Release - v10.6.0 - Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System Proxmox Backup Server (beta) | Proxmox Support Forum GitHub - microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux: Approved: Fedora 33 Desktop Variants Defaulting To Btrfs File-System Feedback: Stephen uses Btrfs to ensure safe upgrades on openSUSE Issue #2429: F33 System-Wide Change: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants systemd-oomd Looks Like It Will Come Together For systemd 247 Welcome to Element! Job details | Microsoft Careers Guadec 2020 July 22nd – 28th, 2020 Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! LUP LUG Mumble Server Info Fullscreen JB IRC Chat GitHub - polybar/polybar: A fast and easy-to-use status bar GitHub - cjbassi/ytop: A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop written in rust Feedback: Follow-up Questions About Nextcloud Feedback: Rick had a suggestion about our crazy storage costs too Feedback: Advait wants time stamps Feedback: An open source space industry tracking app for Linux GitHub - shiroininjaTech/AstroNinja-Alpha: an all-around tracker of the space industry. Your desktop everywhere - ubiDesktop
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Jul 14, 2020 • 1h 3min

362: The Hidden Cost of Nextcloud

Our team has been using Nextcloud to replace Dropbox for over a year, we report back on what has worked great, and what's not so great. Plus why Linus Torvalds has become the master of saying no.Special Guest: Drew DeVore.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Linus Torvalds Says He’s No Longer a Programmer: My Job Is to Say NoKeynote: Linus Torvalds in conversation with Dirk HohndelList of Linux kernel names - WikipediaImplementing S3 Compatible Primary Storage for NextCloudAlone (TV series) - WikipediaFeedback: LVFS fwupdmgr updates on ThinkpadsFeedback: Chas wonders if we would change anything about our Thinkpad configurationDPL elections 2020, congratulations Jonathan Carter! - Bits from DebianDebian Mailing Lists -- Complete IndexFree Software Activities for 2020-05 – Jonathan CarterDebConf20 Moves OnlineChris Tries i3 for the First Time... LIVE
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Jul 8, 2020 • 53min

361: Buttery Smooth Fedora

Fedora's getting to work and reconsidering some long held-assumptions. Plus the best tool for getting things done on Linux, we take a look at openSUSE Leap 15.2, and breathe new life into an old Pebble.Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Jeff Fortin Tam, and Neal Gompa.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Show & Tell: A steampunk desktop background radiation monitor Getting Things GNOME 0.4 released! Getting Things GNOME - GNOME Wiki Getting Things GNOME on Flathub Stirring things up for Fedora 33 Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! openSUSE Leap 15.2 Release Notes Leap 15.2 - openSUSE Wiki openSUSE Leap 15.2 Released With Focus on Containers and AI Rebble.io: Bring life back to your Pebble Zettlr: A Markdown Editor for the 21st century. Roam Research: A note-taking tool for networked thought. Athens Research: An open source take on Roam Org-roam: a Roam replica built on top of the all-powerful Org-mode. Doom Emacs: Doom is a configuration framework for GNU Emacs Spacemacs: A community-driven Emacs distribution
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Jul 1, 2020 • 55min

360: The Hard Work of Hardware

We're joined by two guests who share their insights into building modern Linux hardware products. Plus we try out Mint 20, cover some big Gnome fixes, and a very handy open source noise suppression pick!Special Guests: Alfred Neumayer, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Jeremy Soller.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:CutiePi Tablet - Raspberry Pi, Untethered by Phoebus Torralba — Kickstarter CutiePi Is World’s Thinnest, Hackable Raspberry Pi Tablet, Available for Pre-Order Now CutiePi Shell - The UI for the CutiePi tablet GNOME’s Window Rendering Culling Was Broken Leading To Wasted Performance Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon RELEASED linuxmint/warpinator: Share files across the LAN Snap Store — Linux Mint User Guide documentation Monthly News – May 2020 – The Linux Mint Blog The Hunt for the Oryx Pro [Video] System76 Blog — Things We Love About the New Oryx Pro Oryx Pro - System76 Store New high-end Linux laptop: System76’s Oryx Pro packs latest Intel Core i7 H-series CPU Jeremy Soller on Twitter: “Spying on I2C traffic” Ubuntu Touch Q&A 78 UBports GSI brings Ubuntu Touch to any Project Treble-supported Android device cadmus: A GUI frontend for @werman’s Pulse Audio real-time noise suppression plugin werman/noise-suppression-for-voice: Noise suppression plugin based on Xiph’s RNNoise RNNoise: Learning Noise Suppression Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
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Jun 24, 2020 • 47min

359: Death of the Mac

Why we think Apple just handed market share to Desktop Linux, and why you can kiss running Linux on the Mac goodbye forever.Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Neal Gompa.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Generating cooking recipes using TensorFlow and a LSTM Recurrent Neural Network ARM-based Japanese supercomputer is now the fastest in the world Ampere donates Arm64 server hardware to Debian to fortify the Arm ecosystem Google’s Bringing Its Apple AirDrop Rival to Linux, Windows, and Mac Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions Apple is switching Macs to its own processors starting later this year Tim Cook says first Mac with Apple Silicon shipping to consumers by end of this year r/linux: How will Apple’s ARM announcement affecting Linux going forward? r/linux: Let’s suppose Apple goes ARM, MS follows its footsteps and does the same. What will happen to Linux then? Will we go back to “unlocking bootloaders”? Jared Domínguez on Twitter — Today’s cynical take: Apple supporting Linux VMs is a way to make devs feel good with minimal effort (offload the work to Parallels/BSD community) while allowing Apple to deprecate their already super stale Unix userland. macOS itself will become less accessible.unsilence: Console Interface and Library to remove silent parts of a media file 🔈

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