LINUX Unplugged

How did we get from shareware to free software? We jump in the Linux powered time machine and revisit software past. Plus a new Plasma focused laptop, and two powerful command-line picks.Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:MarsCat is a Bionic Cat Powered by Raspberry Pi 3 (Crowdfunding) Kubuntu Focus Offers The Most Polished KDE Laptop Experience We’ve Seen Yet - Phoronix Kubuntu Focus Windows Terminal Preview v0.8 Release | Windows Command Line The happinesses and stresses of full-time FOSS work | Drew DeVault’s Blog Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Shareware on Wikipedia The Origin of Shareware Computer Chronicles: Shareware Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution Play DOOM Online PC-SIG Library (12th Edition) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Revolution OS: a 2001 documentary film that traces the twenty-year history of GNU, Linux, open source, and the free software movement Broot: Get an overview of a directory, even a big one Tizonia: cloud music from the linux terminal

We make an appeal to keep Linux powerful and avoid the Macification of the desktop, and review the latest developer-focused XPS 13. Plus some community news that's getting missed, picks, and more.Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:PinePhone started shipping January 17th Fedora CoreOS out of preview - Fedora Magazine Flatcar Container Linux | Linux for containers Doing Things That Scale – Space and Meaning We Ditched Mac Pro for THIS… New Ubuntu Theme in Development for 20.04 Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Use your Terminal like a Desktop now on YouTube Terminal like a desktop LUP article Home Assistant Podcast with Alex Brent sits down with Jim Salter of TechSNAP in the latest episode of Brunch with Brent Dell XPS 13 7390 Review: The Best Laptop For Desktop Linux Users - Linux.com Phoronix Test Suite Results Kernel panic when booting with EFISTUB - Arch Linux Forums Kakashiiiiy/EFISTUB: passes kernel-commandline to the kernel if the UEFI does not support it Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 Launches With Linux Support In Tow - Phoronix Linux* Support for Intel® Wireless Adapters glow: Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz!

Linus Torvalds says don't use ZFS, but we think he got a few of the facts wrong. Jim Salter joins us to help us explain what Linus got right, and what he got wrong. Plus some really handy Linux picks, some community news, and a live broadcast from Seattle's Snowpocalypse!Special Guest: Jim Salter.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Windows 7 support ended on January 14, 2020 Chris Snowed in WSDOT Traffic on Twitter: "Five cars and a semi on this collision SB I-5 north of SR 530. Back up with only one lane going through. Automotive Grade Linux Has Large Presence At CES 2020 Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram LFNW CFP closes Wednesday 1/15! Texas Linux Fest CFP closes Saturday 1/18! Home Assistant Podcast Linus Torvalds says “Don’t use ZFS”—but doesn’t seem to understand it | Ars Technica Linus Torvalds on ZFS A Quick Look At EXT4 vs. ZFS Performance On Ubuntu 19.10 With An NVMe SSD ZFS Isn’t the Only Option XFS Copy-On-Write New tricks for XFS Contributors to zfsonlinux/zfs OpenZFS leadership meetings and other videos OpenZFS 2.0 Out In 2020 With Unified Linux/FreeBSD Support, OpenZFS 3.0 With macOS - Phoronix bandwhich: Terminal bandwidth utilization tool (formerly known as “what”) Nethogs: a small ‘net top’ tool. iftop: display bandwidth usage on an interface s-tui: Terminal-based CPU stress and monitoring utility Firefox Send CLI age: A simple, modern and secure encryption tool with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

Find out what's happening in 2020 before it happens. Our crew returns from the future with predictions so perfect you could bet some Dogecoin on it.Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Why you should replace Windows 7 with Linux | Vivaldi Browser Pacman Candy Easter Egg Cheap DIY LED Light Strip | Self-Hosted Live Hack - YouTube Boston Dynamics Parkour Robot

We review our predictions and own up to what we got wrong, and what we got right in 2019.Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Q&A with Sam K - Acquisition Announcement Follow Up Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram My recent Plasma Basic to Brilliant video is out Mac Pro case clone No More Secrets - This project provides a command line tool called nms that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen on screen in the 1992 hacker movie Sneakers. hollywood - launch Byobu, open a random number of splits with random sizes, in each split run a noisy text app cool-retro-term: A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display

Open source won the last decade, but what if it hadn’t? We look back at some major milestones and reflect on a world where they never existed.Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Introducing netboot.xyz Docker Network Boot Server Image (PXE) Tails - Celebrating 10 years of Tails! Ten Years Past GNOME’s 10x10 Goal, The Linux Desktop Is Still Far From Having A 10% Marketshare - Phoronix Linux Headlines Jupiter Extras - NOW ON YouTube Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram! Container History in an Image Shuttleworth’s grand vision for Ubuntu on phones, tablets, TV’s and smart screens everywhere in October 2011 Ubuntu Touch 1.0 in October 2013 BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition in April 2015 Ubuntu phone killed in April 2017 UBports released first stable OTA in June 2017 Librem 5 crowdfunder in August 2017 Librem 5 starts shipping in December 2019 PinePhone announced at FOSDEM 2019 PinePhone Braveheart edition opens for pre-orders November 2019 Xdg-app becomes Flatpak in May 2016 Launched in December 2014 Skype snapped in February 2018 Chrome OS announced in July 2009 First widely available Chromebooks arrive June 2011 Chromebook Pixel in February 2013 Android apps arrive in September 2014 Network file share support arrives in September 2018 Linux apps beta arrives in stable channel in October 2018 In May 2019 it was announced that all new Chromebooks would support Linux apps In Q4 of 2018, Chromebooks made up 21% of all notebooks sold in the US Feedback: Aaarghhhhh!! (Chris’ Pronunciation)

Big things are coming to Microsoft's WSL so we get the inside scoop on what's just around the corner. Plus a few new GNOME features, some Arch server follow up, and more!Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Hayden Barnes.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:New Gnome Extensions Tool GNOME 3.36 Bringing Better Multi-GPU Handling With Switcheroo-Control, NVIDIA Support Jonathon F in Launchpad Pocket Popcorn Computer Old Pocket C.H.I.P. Better Together: A Cloud Guru and Linux Academy Join Forces – Linux Academy Brunch w/Jason PT1 Linux Headlines Jupiter Extras - NOW ON YouTube Leadership Transition at Whitewater Foundry Canonical co-sponsors Windows Subsystem for Linux conference https://github.com/sirredbeard/unofficial-webapp-office#how-this-works Hayden Barnes on Twitter: “Fixes inbound in a few days for @nim_lang snaps (stable, LTS & nightly) that will allow access to system libraries and non-gcc compilers. Also added bash completion for nim & nimble. Made w/ #UbuntuWSL & @ubuntu Hyper-V & @code, built on @github Actions & pushed to @snapcraftio.” Canonical makes Ubuntu for Windows SubSystem for Linux a priority WSLconf 1 - a community-initiated event on all things Windows Subsystem for Linux and WSL-related. grub-btrfs advice Bad Idea! Wikit - A command line tool for searching wikipedia Linux Spotlight w/ChrisLinux Spotlight w/Chris audio version

We're myth-busting this week as we take a perfectly functioning production server and switch it to Arch. Is this rolling distro too dangerous to run in production, or can the right approach unlock the perfect server? We try it so you don't have to. Plus some big community news, feedback, and more.Special Guest: Brent Gervais.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux Microsoft Teams is the first Office app for Linux | VentureBeat Black Friday Sale is almost done! NVIDIA Looks To Have Some Sort Of Open-Source Driver Announcement For 2020 WireGuard VPN is a step closer to mainstream adoption How to setup your own VPN server using WireGuard on Ubuntu Chris Noticed his Manjaro mirrors were REALLY slow this AM Christmas Student Contest! | The Mad Botter — We are running a contest for High-School students to win a System76 Thelio Linux PC on us. To qualify you must be a US high-school student with your parents permission to participate and write a small FOSS project and publish it on GitHub.Perfect Plasma Setup - From Basic to Brilliant - YouTube Jupiter Extras: Brunch with Brent: Alan Pope Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram WireGuard Snapper pacupg snap-pac: Pacman hooks that use snapper to create pre/post btrfs snapshots like openSUSE’s YaST Docker + systemd-network Surprise - Bootloader Blog Docker - ArchWiki A reliable fix to Docker not keeping it’s IPV4 address on Arch - VADOSWARE ubuntu - Docker service starts before ZFS - Server Fault grub-btrfs: Include btrfs snapshots in the grub menu Feedback: Arch Update Catch-Up Tips

Give the gift of remote support with our neat SSH trick. Also, Cassidy from elementary OS joins us to discuss what's great about their new release. Plus we'll share some gadget gift ideas, and what we're building for the holidays.Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Cassidy James Blaede.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Thermal testing Raspberry Pi 4 - Raspberry Pi Black Friday Sale is almost done! Librem 5 backers have begun receiving their Linux phones Richi’s Blog - ZeroNet Here’s An Early Look at the PinePhone Developer Edition (Video) - OMG! Ubuntu! Introducing elementary OS 5.1 Hera ⋅ elementary Blog Linux App Summit 2019 Linux Headlines Get Together | Distros and Drinks Jupiter Extras - NOW ON YouTube Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram Giving the Gift of Linux. The gift of network backups backuppc - Docker Hub Pi-hole®: A black hole for Internet advertisements – A black hole for Internet advertisements Free Backup Solution - Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome: Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server Lakka - The DIY open source retrogaming emulation console RetroArch - runs on iOS/Apple TV and Android for tablets and phones, as well as on game consoles like PS2, PS3, PSP, PS Vita, Wii, Wii U, 2DS, 3DS, Switch, and more! (what Lakka uses) Amazon.com: Retroflag NESPi Case+ Plus with USB Wired Game Controllers & Cooling Fan & Heatsinks for RetroPie Raspberry Pi 3/2 Model B & Raspberry Pi 3B+: Computers & Accessories Lee Seymour on Twitter: “@ChrisLAS @Raspberry_Pi There’s a Gameboy clone that runs on a Pi Zero.” / Twitter Odroid GO - Retro gaming based on the ESP32 microcontroller Adafruit Pi GRRL 2.0 - Handheld gaming based on the Raspberry Pi - Case and Pi not included Pimoroni Picade Cabinet Kit - Mini arcade cabinet based on the Raspberry Pi (Pi not included) jellyfin/jellyfin-kodi: Kodi app for Jellyfin Dennis Hoshield on Twitter: “@ChrisLAS @Raspberry_Pi The options are endless! I built a frame for the LCD panel and controller, and velcro’d a wood case enclosed R pi to it. https://t.co/ncS9UmPtK7” / Twitter OSMC - (Open Source Media Center) is a free and open source media player based on Linux. Founded in 2014, OSMC lets you play back media from your local network, attached storage and the Internet. OSMC’s Vero 4k + - £99 - Pair the power of OSMC with hardware anyone can use. Hass.io Installing Hass.io - Home Assistant Kasa Smart WiFi Plug Mini by TP-Link Holiday Light Show - System76 Weekend Project Strobe Audio — Open Source Multiroom Music System Pi-DAC+ I2S audiophile sound card for Raspberry Pi badaix/snapcast: Synchronous multi-room audio player Pi MusicBox - A Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Music player for the Raspberry Pi, with remote control Mopidy Open Media Vault - openmediavault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. Orange Pi Zero Pioneer FreedomBox Home Server Kit Overview | FreedomBox - Personal Server at Home Self healing reverse SSH setup with systemd OpenSSH/Cookbook/Proxies and Jump Hosts - Wikibooks, open books for an open world Self-healing SSH Tunnel with autossh by jnsgruk IPv6 VPN · Slexy.org Pastebin 6tunnel · Slexy.org Pastebin 6tunnel: Tunnelling for application that don’t speak IPv6 Ubuntu Manpage: 6tunnel - tunnelling for application that don’t speak IPv6 DS-Lite – IPv4 over IPv6 and NAT | Citrix Blogs This Month in Mutter & GNOME Shell | November 2019 – GNOME Shell & Mutter Dev

Build one flat network across cloud providers, personal networks, with even thousands of nodes. We feature two amazing open source solutions, and the creators behind them. Plus community news, first impressions of Google Stadia, listener feedback, and some great picks.Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Guus Sliepen, and Ryan Huber.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Chris Fisher on Twitter: “Trying out @GoogleStadia before today’s @LinuxUnplugged. Google is Working to Bring Mainline Linux Kernel to Android Linux 5.5 Crypto Code Has The Changes To Usher In WireGuard - Phoronix System76 Superfan 3 Article Photo Gallery for System76 Superfan 3 Pinebook Pro Article Jupiter Extras: popey on ThinkPads Jupiter Extras - NOW ON YouTube Tinc VPN Tinc - ArchWiki Install tinc VPN for Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft Introducing Nebula, the open source global overlay network from Slack Slack’s open source Nebula overlay network tool can solve multi region connectivity woes - TechRepublic Nebula on GitHub Feedback: CLI Autocomplete? fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder Fish Shell Liam writes… Hi Chris, I have also been experiencing random lag… Profile-sync-daemon: Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers. Feedback: Forum? wee-slack: A WeeChat plugin for Slack.com. Supports threads and reactions, synchronizes read markers, provides typing notification, etc.. Girens for Plex - Linux Apps on Flathub