LINUX Unplugged

It's time to challenge some long-held assumptions. Today's Btrfs is not yesterday's hot mess, but a modern battle-tested filesystem, and we'll prove it. Plus our thoughts on GitHub dropping the term "master", and the changes Linux should make NOW to compete with commercial desktops.Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:SpaceX: We’ve launched 32,000 Linux computers into space for Starlink internet Issue #54: Default disk partitioning layout for Workstation - fedora-workstation - Pagure.io 16 Jun, MEETING AGENDA - desktop - Fedora Mailing-Lists [Discussion] What do we think about Github’s decision to start using main instead of master as a branch name? ZFS co-creator boots ‘slave’ out of OpenZFS codebase, says ‘casual use’ of term is ‘unnecessary reference to a painful experience’ OpenZFS: Remove unnecessary references to slavery GitHub will no longer use the term ‘master’ as default branch because of negative association - r/programming Community Central: Welcoming Nomenclature - YouTube PinePhone: postmarketOS community edition PineTab sold out in 72 hours. Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions

The lightweight distro that stole our hearts, the four of us each try out a different contender and come away with what we think will be the leanest and meanest distribution for your PC.Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Jill Bryant Ryniker.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:BunsenLabs Linux Puppy Linux Home The FreeBSD Project SparkyLinux KolibriOS official site antiX Linux

From the low-end to the high-end we try out both ends of the Linux hardware spectrum. Wes reviews the latest XPS 13, and Chris shares his thoughts on the Pinebook Pro. Plus a really cool new feature in Linux 5.7, and we get some answers to the recent GNOME patent settlement from the source.Special Guests: Dan Johansen and Drew DeVore.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:snakeware: A free Linux distro with a fully Python userspace GNOME gets big open-source patent win GNOME Patent Suite Update GNOME Foundation post about patent suit resolution Thermal Pressure in the task scheduler A New Kernel Patch Is Being Discussed That’s Needed For Newer Windows Games On Wine PINE64 on Twitter: “Everyone receiving their #PinebookPro laptops. Appears that the factory has left the WiFi privacy switches turned ON. To enable WiFi you’ll need to disengage the privacy switch" Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions Introducing the 2020 XPS 13 Developer Edition — (this one goes to 32!) XPS 13 in the Dell Store Wes' XPS 13 Image Gallery Performance comparison to Lemur Pro Jim’s take on the new XPS 13 Howdy: Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux Feedback: Why not LVM/XFS?

Chris' tale of woe after a recent data loss, and Wes' adventure after he finds a rogue device on his network.Special Guest: Drew DeVore.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:VIMKiller: Exiting VIM is hard; sometimes we need to take drastic measures How to Boot Raspberry Pi 4 From a USB SSD or Flash Drive USB Boot Forum post announcement rpi-eeprom-update usage The default boot mode is now 0xf41 which means continuously try SD then USB mass storage. Raspberry Pi’s firmware master branch on Github Put Btrfs in my Pi Last Night... Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions netdiscover nmap MAC Address Lookup Tool WiFi Analyzer (open-source) - Apps on Google Play WiFiAnalyzer on F-Droid LinSSID - WiFi Analyzer for Linux wavemon: an ncurses-based monitoring application for wireless network devices Your COVID-19 Internet problems might be COVID-19 Wi-Fi problems The Ars Technica semi-scientific guide to Wi-Fi Access Point placement How Ars tests Wi-Fi gear (and you can, too) Jim’s network-testing tools Home router: one option is to build it yourself! FireHOL and FireQoS - Linux firewalling and traffic shaping for humans SuperShaper-SOHO: Packet filtering / QoS setup for typical home/small office Throttle network bandwidth on Linux Dnsmasq - network services for small networks. smokeping vaping: a healthy alternative to SmokePing! speedtest: self-hosted speedtest Self-Hosted Podcast Feedback: A big thank you

Windows is getting more competitive by adopting core Linux features, so we cover the latest Linux-inspired additions to Windows. Then review the new release of Pi-hole, sort through recent PINE64 updates, and read your feedback.Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Drew DeVore, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:WireGuard patchset for OpenBSD Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source Craig Loewen on Twitter: "@satyanadella has just announced that WSL will include GPU compute support, and GUI application support! Get ready for more WSL announces and details today Craig Loewen on Twitter: “@Kiview @thezigpc @cinnamon_msft @satyanadella Our initial prototypes use Wayland” Hayden Barnes on Twitter: “WSL2 is getting GUI support, pass-through GPU support, and a new way to easily install.” Hayden Barnes on Twitter: "More glimpses of GUI support for WSL 2 from @shanselman and @cinnamon_msft DirectX ❤ Linux | DirectX Developer Blog Windows Terminal 1.0 Windows 10 Is Getting Its Own Built-In Package Manager PineTab pre-orders open in late May PineTab running UBPorts with 5.6 kernel and Lima graphics drivers ManjaroBook AMD Ryzen Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! Join us on Telegram Pi-hole v5.0 is here! Inside the Brotherhood of Pi-hole Ad Blockers Linux Mint Success from Zachary Pi Boot question from Kamil Raspberry Pi 4 USB Boot Config Guide for SSD / Flash Drives XPS Feedback Request Pick: multi-boot ISO USB Ventoy: just copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it!

We're blown away by the Enlightenment desktop, and its little known features, and we share a quick way for you to try it out yourself. Plus our experience with Pop!_OS 20.04, Telegram's recent embarrassment, and some feedback.Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Jill Bryant Ryniker.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Jessie Frazelle on Twitter: “You are stranded in a weird shell and you are only allowed to bring three commands, which ones do you choose: Mine -> | (gotta have pipes) awk sed” Ubuntu’s Server Installer Leaked Encrypted Storage Passphrase to Its Log Gnome is Not the Default Telegram annoucnes the discontinuation of blockchain project ELF Libs Updates Check out eLive Beta Elive info from Founder Elive Beta With Enlightenment Is Brilliant, but Don’t Get Lost in the Maze Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar Infinite Escape Room Podcast Infinite Escape Room Podcast on Twitter System76 Blog — What’s New with Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS Jack Wallen’s Take on Pop!_OS 20.04 Tiling and PaperWM from Cris PaperWM Gnome and Tiling from Richard Gamma’s Dotfile Tool git-crypt: Transparent file encryption in git

Manjaro has a new hardware partner so Phillip joins to share the details, and we have the Lemur Pro in house for a battery endurance test like no other. Plus an Arch server update, and Chris orders the new Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera.Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Jeremy Soller, and Philip Muller.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Inkscape 1.0 Promo video: Inkscape 1.0 is here! - YouTube Return of the Lite - an impressively powerful, lightweight and compact 11” Linux laptop - Manjaro Linux Forum Compare Laptops - Find the best Linux Laptop – Star Labs® Buy a Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera – Raspberry Pi Cloud Playground now supports Ubuntu 20.04! Cloud Playground comes to ACG for Business Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! Televised Table Reads Promo Televised Table Reads Twitter Lemur Pro Pictures on @instachrislas Lemur Pro Speakers Question from Eddie Internal Overview - System76 Technical Documentation Lemur Pro Peformance Benchmarks Chris Fisher on Twitter: “Just got done putting @system76’s Lemur Pro through the ultimate battery endurance test. 12 hours of working from the woods, no power outlets, live streaming with @OBSProject. I’ll tell you how it went on tomorrow’s @LinuxUnplugged Ovenell’s Heritage Inn Useful Lemur Pro docs Audio Recorder Tip from Mike Audio Recorder sound - Capturing ONLY desktop audio with ffmpeg - Ask Ubuntu FFmpeg Devices Documentation: PulseAudio Feedback from Jason: New Hosted Wireguard Service Tailscale: Private networks made easy

Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller joins us to discuss Lenovo shipping ThinkPads loaded with Fedora, and our review of the new 32 release. Plus Ubuntu's Director of Desktop Martin Wimpress covers the details everyone missed in 20.04.Special Guests: Martin Wimpress, Matthew Miller, and Neal Gompa.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Red Hat Summit 2020 Virtual Experience Wimpy on Twitter: There are new ✨ features in #Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 that no one is aware of or talking 🙊 about, so here they are; straight from the horses mouth 🐴 Also, a little peek behind the curtain 👀 regarding how OEM requirements help shape desktop #Linux 🐧 What’s new in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS? LINUX Unplugged 350: Focal Focus Lenovo is Bringing Fedora Linux to its ThinkPad Laptops Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram ACG launches Cloud Playgrounds for B2B Fedora 32 Officially Released With EarlyOOM, SSD TRIM Finally Flipped On, GNOME 3.36 Fedora 32 Schedule: All Tasks Fedora Release Life Cycle Fedora 32 Cleared For Release Next Week Fedora 32 ChangeSet Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years — Christian F.K. Schaller GNOME 3.36 Login and unlock in GNOME Shell 3.36 Enable Earlyoom Previously covered on LINUX Unplugged 348: OK OOMer Change firewalld default to nftables Make iptables-nft preferred iptables implementation Nftables: a new packet filtering engine (2009) The return of nftables (2013) Why nftables And maybe it will be eBPF before long anyway… (2018) Adopting sysusers.d format DNF Better Counting Enable FSTrim Timer Restart services at end of rpm transaction Systemd 245 Released - First Version Including Systemd-Homed GCC 10 GCC’s New Static Analysis Capabilities Are Getting Into Shape For GCC 10 - Phoronix Static analysis in GCC 10 - Red Hat Developer GLIBC 2.31 LLVM 10 Python 3.8 Retire Python 2 Fedora 32 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Engaged In Some Healthy Competition Over Performance Initial Benchmarks Of Fedora 32 Linux Performance Firefox Performance On Wayland Is Looking Good - Browser Benchmarks With KDE vs. GNOME Fedora Alternate Architectures Fedora Magazine Mentions Better Rock64 Support Bonus Pick: bashtop

The latest Ubuntu LTS is here, but does it live up to the hype? And how practical are the new ZFS features? We dig into the performance, security, and stability of Focal Fossa. Plus our thoughts on the new KWin fork, if Bleachbit is safe, and a quick Fedora update.Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Logging Into Linux With A 1930s Teletype TUXEDO Computers Launches A Power/Thermal Control Center For Their Linux Systems System76 Lemur Pro KDE’s window manager KWin gets forked with ‘KWinFT’ to accelerate the development and better Wayland BleachBit 4.0.0 Fedora 32 Final is NO-GO Brunch with Brent: Sri Ramkrishna Linux Spotlight EP44 - Drew DeVore of Jupiter Broadcasting Linux Spotlight EP43 - An Interview with Tyler Brown longtime JB fan Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Ubuntu 20.04 Flavours Hit Beta, But What’s New? Gnome 3.34 vs Gnome 3.36 Visual Comparison The ‘GameMode’ performance tool from Feral Interactive makes it into Ubuntu 20.04 Ubuntu 20.04 and WSL 1 - WSL2 - Ubuntu Community Hub Ubuntu Server 20.04 CPU Security Mitigation Performance Impact Kernel 5.4: VirtIO-FS Grub boot menu bug Folder under applications menu doesn’t show text below last line of icons. Daniel Kerkow on Twitter: Migrating to a later LTS should be easily possible, so I would maybe stick to 18.04 for now if in doubt." pacat: Play back or record raw or encoded audio streams on a PulseAudio sound server 3mux: Imagine tmux with a smaller learning curve, i3-like keybindings, and more sane defaults.

We build the server you never should, a tricked out Arm box, and push it to the limit with a telnet torture test. Plus what we're playing recently, community news, a handy self-hosted music pick, and more.Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run? AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Amassing Improvements For Linux 5.8 NVIDIA released the 440.82 stable ‘Long Lived’ Linux driver - helps DOOM Eternal on Steam Play Proton Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition Risk of Rain 2 Raft Raft on Steam GitHub is now free for teams - The GitHub Blog Nat’s comment on HN Road to 20.04 ZFS/Zsys Code Seeing Important Performance Fix Ahead Of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS The Resilience of the Voyagers Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram RockPro64 4GB SBC ROCKPro64 12V 5A Power Adapter AC WD Blue SN550 250GB NVMe NVME PCIe Adapter M.2 Manjaro ARM on the ROCKPro64 Additional images available for the RockPro64 - Debian, Armbian, Slackware, CentOS, etc Benchmarking Example telnet.linuxunplugged.com RockPro64 Wiki RockPro64 Forum RockPro64 IRC Beets - the media library management system for obsessive music geeks.