LINUX Unplugged

Today we make nice with a killer, an early out-of-memory daemon, and one of the new features in Fedora 32. We put EarlyOOM to the test in a real-world workload and are shocked by the results. Plus we debate if OpenWrt is still the best router solution, and chew on Microsoft's new SELinux competitor.Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Neal Gompa.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Window Maker Version 0.95.9 Released Microsoft announces IPE, a new code integrity feature for Linux — Microsoft says that IPE is not intended for general-purpose computing. The IPE LSM was designed for very specific use cases where security is paramount, and administrators need to be in full control of what runs on their systems. Examples include embedded systems, such as network firewall devices running in a data center, or Linux servers running strict and immutable configurations and applications.OpenWrt - Opkg susceptible to MITM Brent sits down with Daniel Foré, founder of elementary OS Know when we're going to be live. Check out the calendar! Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Fedora nightly compose finder Fedora 32 Looking At Using EarlyOOM By Default To Better Deal With Low Memory Situations — The oom-killer generally has a bad reputation among Linux users. This may be part of the reason Linux invokes it only when it has absolutely no other choice. It will swap out the desktop environment, drop the whole page cache and empty every buffer before it will ultimately kill a process. At least that's what I think that it will do. I have yet to be patient enough to wait for it, sitting in front of an unresponsive system. earlyoom - Early OOM Daemon for Linux — The oom-killer generally has a bad reputation among Linux users. This may be part of the reason Linux invokes it only when it has absolutely no other choice. It will swap out the desktop environment, drop the whole page cache and empty every buffer before it will ultimately kill a process. At least that's what I think that it will do. I have yet to be patient enough to wait for it, sitting in front of an unresponsive system. rfjakob/systembus-notify: systembus-notify - system bus notification daemon oomd — Out of memory killing has historically happened inside kernel space. On a memory overcommitted linux system, malloc(2) and friends usually never fail. However, if an application dereferences the returned pointer and the system has run out of physical memory, the linux kernel is forced to take extreme measures, up to and including killing processes. This is sometimes a slow and painful process because the kernel can spend an unbounded amount of time swapping in and out pages and evicting the page cache. Furthermore, configuring policy is not very flexible while being somewhat complicated.low-memory-monitor on GitLab low-memory-monitor — low-memory-monitor, as its name implies, monitors the amount of free physical memory on the system and will shoot off signals to interested user-space applications, usually session managers, or sandboxing helpers, when that memory runs low, making it possible for applications to shrink their memory footprints before it's too late either to recover a usable system, or avoid taking a performance hit. Nohang — Nohang is a highly configurable daemon for Linux which is able to correctly prevent out of memory (OOM) and keep system responsiveness in low memory conditions. Better interactivity in low-memory situations - devel - Fedora Mailing-Lists EnableEarlyoom - Fedora Project Wiki Nushell - The Unix philosophy of shells, where pipes connect simple commands together, and bring it to the modern style of development. Timekpr - simple and easy to use time managing software that helps optimizing time spent at computer.

We discover a few simple Raspberry Pi tricks that unlock incredible performance and make us re-think the capabilities of Arm systems. Plus we celebrate Wireguard finally landing in Linux, catch up on feedback, and check out the new Manjaro laptop.Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Philip Muller.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Raspberry Pi Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) Daily Build WireGuard 1.0.0 for Linux 5.6 Released LUP Started Covering WireGuard in June of 2016 Manjaro InfinityBook Pro 15Manjaro Linux on Twitter — "Our #Intel based @ManjaroLinux by @TUXEDOComputers is now available for pre-orders.Linux 5.6 Ships With Broken Intel WiFi Driver After Network Security Fixes Go Awry Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features Btrfs Ready For Linux 5.6 With Async Discard For Better Efficiency + Performance EXT4 Gets Performance Work While XFS Gets 32-Bit Fixes For Linux 5.6 F2FS Experimental Compression Is Ready For Extending Flash Storage Life Multipath TCP Support Is Working Its Upstream - First Bits Landing With Linux 5.6 USB4 Support Lands In The Linux 5.6 Kernel Linux 5.6 Is The First Kernel For 32-Bit Systems Ready To Run Past Year 2038 VirtualBox Shared Folder Driver Seeks Inclusion In Linux 5.6 User Error 88 Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Feedback: Arch to FreeBSD? Feedback: Pi4 Fixes Raspberry Pi 4 Rev 1.2 Fixes USB-C Power Issues, Improves SD Card Resilience Feedback: Pi4 Projects Raspberry Pi NAS SATA Adapter Stackable X828 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD Cluster – Geekworm Feedback: Downsides of JSON in the Shell LINUX Unplugged 341: Long Term Rolling JC: JSON in the Shell Long Term Rolling Feedback Feedback: Try NixOS already! Feedback: Timeshift Story and Question Armbian – Linux for ARM development boards

We debate the dangers and advantages of one-click deployments. Then Dan from elementary OS shares an AppCenter for Everyone update. Plus a big batch of feedback that kicks off some wide-ranging discussions.Special Guests: Danielle Foré and Neal Gompa.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:FOSS Responders — COVID-19 is impacting the open source industry in many ways. If you or your community has been impacted, please let us knowSeems that NVIDIA silently axed their GTC talk about Nouveau? Update: NVIDIA GTC 2020 Announcements Postponed EntirelyLemur Pro - System76 Brunch with Brent: Stuart Langridge Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram FOSS Talk Live 2020 has been cancelled. — It seems very unlikely that London will be functioning by June so I have made this difficult call. I'm very sorry to anyone who has made travel and accommodation arrangements but I trust that everyone will understand why this had to be done.TXLF 2020 Rescheduled — Given the recommendations by public health officials, we have decided to not have Texas Linux Fest on May 2020 at the Palmer Events Center in Austin, TX. We are currently investigating opportunities to bring parts of Texas Linux Fest online.Unfilter is Back TurnKey GNU/Linux — a free Debian based library of system images that pre-integrates and polishes the best free software components into secure, easy to use solutions. Sandstorm — an open source project built by a community of volunteers with the goal of making it really easy to run open source web applications Bitnami Stack YunoHost — easily manage a server for your friends, association or enterprise. Dedicated Platform Package Manager — an easy way to install and manage server applications.Home Assistant Add-ons - Home Assistant Feedback: Backup software tips?Feedback: mac Apps and Little Snitch Little Snitch and the Deprecation of Kernel ExtensionsFeedback: Life at Microsoft Feedback: Mint Success Feedback: Mastodon Feedback: The Windows Burden

It was the first of its kind, and the first forced to go virtual. We get the behind the scenes story of WSL Conf from the organizers. Plus our impressions of the latest GNOME release, community news, app picks, and more.Special Guests: Hayden Barnes, Neal Gompa, and Sohini Bianka Roy.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Linux Kernel’s Floppy Disk Code Is Seeing Improvements In 2020 elementary #AppCenterForEveryone on Twitter — Due to travel restrictions and for the safety and well-being of our contributors, we are postponing the AppCenter for Everyone sprint that was planned to take place March 12–19. We are coordinating making alternate arrangements with attendees and will provide more info soonDaniel Foré on Twitter — I’m really bummed that we had to postpone an in-person sprint, but we still hit the ground running today and got a lot done.Eager Beavers vs the Winter Storm — Work, Life, and RV Podcast Manjaro KDE will be factory-default of PinebookPro - Manjaro ARM / Announcements - Manjaro Linux Forum npm is joining GitHub - The GitHub Blog — Looking further ahead, we’ll integrate GitHub and npm to improve the security of the open source software supply chain, and enable you to trace a change from a GitHub pull request to the npm package version that fixed it. Protect our Speech and Security Online: Reject the Graham-Blumenthal Bill — The so-called EARN IT Act (S. 3398) is anti-speech, anti-security, anti-innovation, and unnecessary. Let’s tell Congress to reject it.Government ist trying to ban encryption again : linux GNOME 3.36 Release Notes GNOME 3.36 Released with New Lock Screen, Better Performance - OMG! Ubuntu! — The new release even manages to sneak in a couple of unexpected, but very welcome, changes too, like a new GNOME Extensions app.Jupiter Extras: Behind the Scenes: LINUX Unplugged Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram No LFNW this year WSLConf: The first conference dedicated to Windows Subsystem for Linux goes virtual El Reg gets some unexpected lessons from WSLConf — Microsoft celebrated the conclusion of a successful - and suddenly virtual - Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) conference by switching the forthcoming Build event to a digital affair as well. The Register spoke to those behind the first WSLConf about hitting the big red button with mere days to go.Microsoft Reactor. Learn. Connect. Innovate. pivpn — The Simplest VPN installer, designed for Raspberry Pi.Break Timer

We load up Windows 10 with WSL2, the new Terminal, and give it a go to see what it does better than Linux. Then we dive into the deep end and attend the first-ever WSLConf. Plus the big new feature coming to Ubuntu, why Chris is going to Denver, and more.Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, and Martin Wimpress.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:OpenSilver: a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplementation of Silverlight, that runs on current browsers via WebAssembly. Ubuntu 20.04’s zsys adds ZFS snapshots to package management Didier Roche on Twitter: “@jrssnet Thanks for your great article on zsys. Just one little precision: you can actually revert system state (with/without user states) in grub, which is the main UI for now. Hope you will love the feature and how we present them :)” Chris is going to Denver #AppCenterForEveryone AppCenter for Everyone | IndiegogoSome AppCenter for Everyone stats! Chris Fisher on Twitter: “We’ll never beat the Mac if developers can’t eat. @elementary’s #appcenterforeveryone is our best shot in years. Why I’m driving to Denver to cover it, and my @lfnw backup plans” Chz’s markdown pick: quilter - Focus on your writing. Don’t forget about DST! FOSS Talk Live - June 20th at The Harrison near King’s Cross in London Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram How to make Windows 10 USB install media in Linux USB install media with WIM file larger than 4GB – Win10.Guru pbatard/uefi-ntfs: UEFI:NTFS - Boot NTFS partitions from UEFI slacka/WoeUSB: WoeUSB is a simple tool that enable you to create your own usb stick windows installer from an iso image or a real DVD. It is a fork of Congelli501’s WinUSB. Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows microsoft/terminal: The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place! WSLconf Introducing the Docker Desktop WSL 2 Backend - Docker Blog Running k8s on WSL Safely Backup Google Photos | Ubuntu Plasmoid for managing Docker Containers : kde

We try the Mac desktop for 30 days, find out what we think it does best, and where Linux will always have it beat. This episode kicks off the start of a bigger conversation series. Plus community news, very handy picks, and more.Special Guests: Alan Pope, Maria Komarova, and Michael Aaron Murphy .Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:GNOME Shell 3.36 release Looking Great Firefox 75 On Wayland Now To Have Full WebGL, Working VA-API Acceleration - Phoronix Don’t forget about DST! FOSS Talk Live - June 20th at The Harrison near King’s Cross in London Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Late Night Linux – Episode 84 – Late Night Linux How Docker Makes All Linux Distros Look Alike - Container Journal Docker Desktop for Mac - Docker Hub Docker Desktop for Windows Simon Ferquel on Twitter: “We just updated @docker desktop edge channel with a build supporting Windows 10 Home Insider (you need WSL2 to run it on Home). So happy to see this at last!” / Twitter Yong Sheng on Twitter: “running #docker on #wsl2 from a fresh reboot of #windows10 20H1: 9 sec startup, 1.1gb of ram, no hyper-v MobyVM required. passthrough support into my existing ubuntu wsl instance. been waiting for this for years! https://t.co/6ernWi4Hoz” / Twitter Chris Tries a Mac and it Makes him Think Steam Survey Updated For February 2020 With Latest Linux Figures - Phoronix Carl Richell on Twitter: Pop!_OS tiling is shaping up nicely. We’re hoping to have a 20.04 beta release available in about a month. pop-os/shell: Pop!_OS Tiling GNOME Extension catt - Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources to your Chromecast. The Silver Searcher - A code searching tool similar to ack, with a focus on speed. Ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern

A radical new way to do SSH authentication, special guest Jeremy Stott joins us to discuss Zero Trust SSH. Plus community news, a concerning issue for makers, an Arch server follow up, and more.Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Jeremy Stott, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:The makers of Jif peanut butter team up with Giphy to try to settle the GIF/Jif debate once and for all Manjaro Linux on Twitter: After several months of development we are happy to announce Manjaro Linux 19.0 release, named Kyria! Get in the C: Raspberry Pi 4 can handle a wider range of USB adapters thanks to revised design’s silent arrival Brunch with Brent: Heather Ellsworth Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Alex’s Blog: FAA Remote ID Proposal FPVFC FAQ on FAA Remote ID NPRM - December 2019 Proposed Rule: Remote Identification of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Introducing the Uber SSH Certificate Authority - Uber Security + Privacy - Medium bless: Repository for BLESS, an SSH Certificate Authority that runs as a AWS Lambda function How Uber, Facebook, and Netflix Do SSH stoggi/sshrimp: 🦐SSH Certificate Authority in a Lambda (on the barbie) “Zero Trust SSH” - Jeremy Stott (LCA 2020) - YouTube linux.conf.au 2020 | Presentation: Zero Trust SSH Keybase SSH hallow: A SSH Certificate Authority designed for use with AWS native environments BeyondCorp: A New Approach to Enterprise Security – Google Research collascii - A collaborative ascii canvas Ly - a TUI display manager ChrisLAS Cast Ubuntu Podcast

We question the very nature of Linux development, and debate if a new approach is needed. Plus an easy way to snapshot any workstation, some great feedback, and an extra nerdy command-line pick.Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Google slams Samsung for making changes to Linux kernel code Mitigations are attack surface, too Regular Release Distributions Are Wrong (archive.org cache) Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Timeshift: system restore tool for Linux Timeshift 19.08.1 does not apply file/folder exclude/include settings New Users and Linux Mint T480 Fingerprint Reader? Cockpit and ZFS Bcachefs prediction feedback jc: This tool serializes the output of popular gnu linux command line tools and file types to structured JSON output. This allows piping of output to tools like jq. Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century | Brazil’s Blog Regular Release Distributions Are Wrong

The difficult and fascinating conversations from FOSDEM 2020. Plus how elementary OS does coopertition right. And a bunch of community news, app picks, and much more.Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, and Dusty Mabe.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:KDE Plasma 5.18: More Convenient and with Long Term Stability - KDE.org What’s New in KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS? - OMG! Ubuntu! System76 Launches Impressive Line Of Thelio Major Linux Workstations Powered By AMD Ryzen Threadripper - Including The 3990X - Phoronix oreboot: oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust. Rust's Freedom Flaws FS#736 - [rust][cargo] trademark agreement affects user freedom AppCenter for Everyone | Indiegogo Work, Life, and RV Podcast Our Accidental Home Base — Work, Life, and RV Podcast Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram PDP-7 FOSDEM 2020 - Events FOSDEM 2020 - Interview with James Bottomley - The Selfish Contributor Explained FOSDEM 2020 - The next generation of contributors is not on IRC FOSDEM 2020 - The Hidden Early History of Unix FOSDEM 2020 - Do Linux Distributions Still Matter with Containers?FOSDEM 2020 - How Containers and Kubernetes re-defined the GNU/Linux Operating SystemThe Meteoric Rise Of Fwupd+LVFS For Linux Firmware Updates - Phoronix hollywood.computer: multiple panes of genuine technical melodrama shairport-sync: AirPlay audio player. Shairport Sync adds multi-room capability with Audio Synchronisation

We get into the Linux Mint mindset after years away and share our take on Cinnamon's many improvements. Plus news that'll have knock-on effects for the rest of the year, and more.Special Guest: Brent Gervais.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Bosch Gets Smartglasses Right With Tiny Eyeball Lasers Google opens its latest Google Glass AR headset for direct purchase - The Verge Ginni Rometty to Step Down as C.E.O. of IBM - The New York Times Who is Arvind Krishna, the new IBM CEO replacing Ginni Rometty? | Fortune 2013 Red Hat Summit: Arvind Krishna, IBM Keynote - YouTube Systemd-Homed Merged As A Fundamental Change To Linux Home Directories The CUPS Printing System Lead Developer Has Left Apple, Begins Developing “LPrint” - Phoronix How the Glorification of Busyness Impacts Our Well-Being Creating the Habit of Not Being Busy : zen habits ChrisLAS.com - Chris W. Fisher Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Still Minty Fresh | LUP 100 Went Mint when Win10 Migration from Win7 Failed Dave Donates $15/mo becuz Mint gets outta his way! Feedback: Linux Mint and College Feedback: Timeshift Linux Mint Monthly News – January 2020 Linux Mint 19.3 is out, GIMP is not included by default Linux Mint 19.3: My review - mostly great with a few issues Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia bugs identified; package updates to follow