LINUX Unplugged

The hype around a new security flaw hits new levels. Fedora has a bunch of news, and we discover what's new in the latest Plasma release. Plus we fall down the openSUSE rabbit hole when Ell updates us on her desktop challenge.Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Danielle Foré, Ell Marquez, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:KDE Plasma 5.15: Lightweight, Usable and Productive — Discover, Plasma's software and add-on installer, has received tonnes of improvements to help you stay up-to-date and find the tools you need to get your tasks done.CVE-2019-5736: runc container breakout (all versions) — However, it *is* blocked through correct use of user namespaces (where the host root is not mapped into the container's user namespace). Container Bug Allows Attackers to Gain Root Access on Host Machine — The container bug, CVE-2019-5736, affects runc, the underlying container runtime for Docker, containerd, Kubernetes, cri-o and other container software, which means that nearly everyone running containers is affected. Doomsday Docker security hole uncovered | ZDNetLinux Coin Miner Removes All Other Malware and MinersFedora logo redesign — The current Fedora Logo has been used by Fedora and the Fedora Community since 2005. However, over the past few months, Máirín Duffy and the Fedora Design team, along with the wider Fedora community have been working on redesigning the Fedora logo.Fedora's FESCo Approves Of A "Sane" Approach For Counting Fedora Users Via DNF — Baked over the past month was a new privacy-minded plan for counting users via DNF that relies upon a "countme" bit that will be incremented weekly or so and not have any UUID as originally envisionedFedora 30 Will Get Bash 5.0 But Yum's Death Sentence Postponed To F31Draft Fedora 31 schedule available – Fedora Community Blog — After some discussion before the end of the year, we decided not to go with an extended development cycle for Fedora 31. SCALE Saturday Dinner JB Meetup — Let's eat and be merry at P.F. Changes Saturday night of SCALE17x!Containers: What you need to know; so you know what you need to know - Ell Marquez at SElementary Staging COPR Repo — This repository contains packages of official elementaryOS projects which are not (yet) ready for inclusion in fedora as official packages.Ellopunk/OSchallenge - openSUSE — Ell's openSUSE journey notes.Pantheon Desktop on Fedora — The Pantheon desktop environment is the DE that powers elementaryOS. It builds on GNOME technologies, but utilizes components that were written from scratch in vala, using the GTK+3 toolkit. UberWriter — It's a simple markdown editor that offers a lot of features.solVItaire — An implementation of the classic solitaire games Klondike and Spider which has some nice to use vi(1) like keybindings, but can also be played with standard cursor keys, the number pad/row or even the mouse.VIM Adventures — Learn VIM while playing a game!Solvitaire As a SNAPFireQOS ReferenceFireQOS New User Tutorial

Why FOSDEM might be the quintessential community event, and our thoughts after playing with Pi-Hole. Plus community news for everyone’s favorite video player, GNOME Shell gets a major speed boost, and why cryptocurrency might truly be dead.Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Danielle Foré, and Martin Wimpress.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Rename some references to GTK+ to GTKVLC 4.0 Plans — VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf talked about their plans for version 4.0, codenamed Otto Chriek. For VLC 4.0 they want a new playlist, a redone user-interface, a new video output architecture that supports VR/3D content, and removal of old platforms.GNOME Shell Gets a Major Speed Boost — Anyone who’s tried the latest GNOME builds on the bleeding edge can attest: these are real, perceptible improvements that give GNOME Shell the peppiness and responsiveness that users have been longing for.Crypto Exchanges Experience Lowest Trading Since 2017 — The Bitcoin market reduced by more than 40 percent in comparison to December 2018.JupiterDev Telegram GroupJupiterBroadcasting/fm — Simple script to receive an RTMP stream and re-stream to Icecast.Linux Academy Study Group Survey — What course should our next study group cover?Fifty years of Unix and Linux advances - Jon 'maddog' Hall at FOSDEM — 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Unix, but it is also the fiftieth anniversary of the ArpaNet/Internet, and people walking on the moon.Good Will Snapping - Alan Pope at FOSDEM — Thousands of users, millions of downloads, dozens of distributions. Numbers going up and down and sideways. A look behind the scenes of Snapcraft, the highly popular universal app store for Linux.LINUX Unplugged - Blog - Playing with Pi-holePi-hole PatreonPi-hole v4.2 Available — In preparation of the new API we are working on, FTLDNS will now store its data in a shared-memory space, so that the API can come in and read from that memory to fulfill requests.Prerequisites - Pi-hole documentationPiHole-Panel — PiHole-Panel is a control panel and real-time statistics for the Pi-hole Adblocker.Easily Overclock NVIDIA GPUs on Linux with This New App — It’s called “Green with Envy” and is a tool designed to let you manage fans of, view info on, or overclock a NVIDIA GPU on Linux.Open Source Event Manager — An event management tool tailored to Free and Open Source Software conferences.

We're playing Robin Hood with the content, and a new member of our team joins to tell you all about it. Plus some hard details on the Librem 5, we visit the Canonical Corner, and a big batch of great Linux picks.Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Ell Marquez, and Martin Wimpress.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Choose Linux Episode 1: elementary OS and OpenMediaVault — The show that captures the excitement of discovering Linux.Firefox 65.0 — Simplified content blocking settings give users standard, strict, and custom options to control online trackers.What are the phone specs? – PurismPurism's PureOS Store To Be Based Around Flatpaks — The very first application to the PureOS Store is Lollypop.Kodi 18.0 — The Kodi team is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Kodi 18.0 "Leia" for all supported platforms.Canonical Outs Major Linux Kernel Update for Ubuntu 18.04 — These vulnerabilities could allow attackers to either execute arbitrary code or crash the system via a denial of service attack by utilizing a maliciously crafted EXT4 image that could be mounted on the vulnerable machine. Ubuntu Users Can Now Keep PPAs And Third Party Repositories Enabled When Upgrading To A Newer Ubuntu Version — Another recent change makes sure third party repositories support the release to which the user is trying to upgrade.SCALE 17x — Pasadena Convention Center March 7 - 10, 2019Privacy Could Be The Next Big Thing — Upcoming talk by Stuart Langridge at SCALE 17xBad Voltage Live | SCALE 17xEll on TwitterLinux Academy Study Group Survey — What course should our next study group cover?What’s Free At Linux Academy February 2019Shortwave: Internet radio in RustShortwave Hello World | Felix Häcker — I wanted to rewrite Gradio entirely from scratch using Rust and thought it’s better to start a completely new project.fx_cast: chromecast for firefox — Enables Chromecast support for casting web apps (like Netflix or BBC iPlayer), HTML5 video and screen/tab sharing.Cool-Retro-Term 1.1.1 is out! — Big performance improvements (and lowered resource consumption), new shiny (literally) frame, system fonts support, and more!

An embarrassing vulnerability has been found in the apt package manager, we’ll break it all down. Plus Alessandro Castellani tells us about his plans to build a professional design tool for Linux. We also have a batch of big community news, and the case for the cloud killing Open Source.Special Guests: Alessandro Castellani and Brent Gervais.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:OggCamp 19 — OggCamp is an unconference celebrating Free Culture, Free and Open Source Software, hardware hacking, digital rights, and all manner of collaborative cultural activities.OggCamp on TwitterRemote Code Execution in apt-get — A vulnerability in apt allows a network man-in-the-middle (or a malicious package mirror) to execute arbitrary code as root on a machine installing any package. The bug has been fixed in the latest versions of apt.Why does APT not use HTTPS?Turkish ISP Swapped Downloads of Popular Software with Spyware-Infected AppsWhich block I/O scheduler is the best? We asked eBPF. — I set out expecting to see differing distributions of latencies for each block scheduler, but ultimately found that I didn’t understand low-level systems behavior to the degree I thought I did.Want to spin up Ubuntu VMs from Windows 10's command line, eh? We'll need to see a Multipass. — Windows 10 developers have been gifted yet another way of running Linux on their desktop in the form of Canonical's Multipass. Microsoft Employee Hints at Windows Core OS Open Source ComponentsTechSNAP Episode 395: The ACME EraLinuxFest Northwest 20th AnniversaryLFNW Telegram GroupLinuxFest Northwest Parking Lot BBQ MeetupSCALE 17xSCALE Telegram GroupTexas Linux Fest 2019Public Speaking: A repository of resources about public speaking, specifically in the context of software development and IT conferences.Linux Operating System Fundamentals — Have you heard of Linux, but don't really know anything about it? Are you a non-technical person just wanting to know what this 'Linux' thing is? Then this course is for you.Akira: Native Linux App for UI and UX DesignAkira on KickstarterExponent episode 159 — Inverted PyramidsLate Night Linux – Episode 55 — Are you better off with the elasticity of public clouds like AWS, or should you avoid lock-in by running servers on premises?AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open SourceOpen source confronts its midlife crisis

ZFS on Linux is becoming the official upstream project of all major ZFS implementations, even the BSDs. But recent kernel changes prevent ZFS from even building on Linux. Neal Gompa joins us to discuss why it all matters. Plus some surprising community news, and a few great picks!Special Guests: Dalton Durst and Neal Gompa.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:This Guy Made a Computer Mouse That Is Itself a ComputerApple’s FoundationDB open sources CloudKit database layer — The FoundationDB Record Layer is an open source library that provides a record-oriented datastore with semantics similar to a relational database, implemented on top of FoundationDB.FoundationDB Record Layer: A Multi-Tenant Structured Datastore'Celluloid' is the new name of GNOME MPV — “The current name is a bit unelegant, and doesn’t really fit in with other apps on the GNOME platform. Good app names are usually a single noun that’s related to the app’s domain (e.g. “Fragments” for a torrent app, or “Peek” for a screen recorder).”Google is Adding 'Apt Search' to the ChromeOS App Launcher — Now, based on a code commit uncovered by Chrome Story, users of the Linux (beta) for Chromebooks will also be able to search for and install Linux apps from the Chrome OS launcher. Chrome OS to let companies use other Linux distros for apps — Device administrators will be able to designate a URL for Chrome OS to download the Linux distro, and a hash to ensure the download was successful.Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Release — OTA-7 is the release where we take a breath and focus on getting the launch just right.ZFS On Linux Runs Into A Snag With Linux 5.0 — ZFS On Linux currently fails to build against the Linux 5.0 kernel sources.Linux 5.0: _kernel_fpu{begin,end} no longer exported · Issue #8259 · zfsonlinux/zfsThe future of ZFS in FreeBSDDatto — Datto offers business continuity and disaster recovery, networking, business management, and file backup and sync solutions, and has created a one-of-a-kind ecosystem of partners that provide Datto solutions to half a million businesses across more than 130 countries. Neal Gompa - DevOps Engineer II - Datto, Inc.Neal Gompa on Twitter @Det_Conan_KudoChezmoi: Manage your dotfiles securely across multiple machines.Introducing Ephemeral – Cassidy James Blaede — The always-incognito web browser for elementary OS.Introducing The Elementary OS 5 Linux Community ChallengeChris losing it on the Linux Academy Live Stream — Time code link to just before it all happens.

Joe joins Wes to discuss the state of Adobe's Creative Cloud on Linux and why the Fish shell might be your favorite new tool. Plus community news, a reality check on Linux gaming, and some shiny new hardware.Special Guests: Jason Evangelho and Peter Ammon.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Pretty much every recent Windows Phone is now hackableFedora 31 Isn't Expected To Be Delayed After All — Since November the developers behind Fedora Linux had been discussing whether to significantly delay or even cancel Fedora 31 so they could spend around one year working on re-tooling how the distribution is crafted and work on other fundamental changes. But it turns out now they have decided against this big shake-up delayFedora Planning A Per-System Unique Identifier For DNF — The proposal is quick to acknowledge the intent isn't for tracking users but only counting and this UUID wouldn't be re-used by other systems.Linux 5.0 is on the way — The numbering change is not indicative of anything special. If you want to have an official reason, it's that I ran out of fingers and toes to count on, so 4.21 became 5.0Track Chris and Lady JupsGNU ed 1.15 releasedBash 5.0 release availableFish Shell 3.0.0 — Fish 3 is a major release, which introduces some breaking changes alongside improved functionality.Peter (@ridiculous_fish) | Twitter"Would totally skip Linux." — We shipped Planetary Annihilation on Win, Mac, and Linux. Linux uses we're a big vocal part of the Kickstarter and forums. In the end they accounted for <0.1% of sales but >20% of auto reported crashes and support ticketsGame dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets | Hacker NewsJason Evangelho on Twitter — Re: Adobe Premiere on Linux. I have a call next week with both Bill Roberts (Sr. Director Product Management) & Patrick Palmer (Principal Product Manager). They reached out to ME. I think a genuine effort is being made here to listen to & understand various perspectives.Jason Evangelho @ ForbesEntroware Apollo 14"

We start off the new year with our hopes and dreams for Linux and open source in 2019 and beyond. Plus Clear Linux aims to build the ultimate Linux desktop based on Xfce, and it looks like GNOME is closing the performance gap.Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Clarity in the Desktop | Clear Linux* Project — Clear Linux* recently introduced a series of updates that incorporate a developer-optimized desktop experience. This experience is built upon Xfce 4.12, created with the goal of enabling you to get what you need perform your work quickly and efficiently.Reiser4 File-System Port To The Linux 4.20 Kernel — Edward Shishkin, the last main Reiser4 developer involved and former employee of Hans Reiser's Namesys company, has updated his Reiser4 kernel tree where there is now the few code changes necessary to get the file-system kernel module building for Linux 4.20 along with a patch containing a fix. Chrome OS to test early GPU support for Linux appsThe Many Features Coming To The Wine 4.0GNOME Shell Desktop Gaming Benchmarks

We get serious and bring in a special referee to help us lock in our Linux predictions for 2019.Special Guest: Alan Pope.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Predicting 2015 | LUP 73Ghost of Predictions Past | LAS 4532015 Linux Predictions | Linux Action Show 345

We’re just back from touring System76’s new factory, and getting the inside scoop on how they build their Thelio desktop. This is our story about walking in as skeptics, and walking out as believers. Plus some surprising community news, a few great picks, and more!Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:ProtonMail is auctioning a Lifetime Account to support WireGuardMir 1.1 Released With EGLStreams Support To Work With NVIDIA's Binary DriverASUS is releasing encrypted kernel sources for the ZenFone Max Pro M1, Max Pro M2 and Max M2Keyboardio: A Startling Discovery — On the one hand, there's a lot of money missing. We think there's a decent chance that money has vanished never to be seen again. Products that we said we sent you...simply never existed. We're genuinely sorry about that.User ErrorLinux Academy supports St. Jude's — For each Learning Activity that you complete between 12/16 and 12/26, Linux Academy will donate $1 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital this holiday season.LinuxFest Northwest — 20th Anniversary! Past, Present & FutureLINUX Unplugged Blog - System76 Factory TourMeet the New Linux Desktop Champion: System76 ThelioFeedback: Xrandr tip for wimpyFeedback: Try minidlnaReadyMedia - ArchWikiFeedback: How can we tolerate systemd?Microsoft/ethr: Ethr is a Network Performance Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP & HTTP.remove.bg: A tool to remove background from imageStreama - Self hosted media server

We have a WireGuard success story to share, and it's probably not what you're expecting. Plus we check in on Ubuntu 19.04, start the search for an Emby replacement, and how to use Reddit on the commandline.Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Fire effect for the Keyboardio Model 01 keyboardKeyboardio: heirloom-grade keyboards for serious typistschrimbus_'s self hosted streaming questions — Yo @ChrisLAS / @ubuntupodcast I'm tired of depending on our internet to play movies for the kiddo. I was trying to rip some dvds tonight using VLC and AcidRip in hopes to run them off a home server. Either the video ends up glitchy af or no audio. Any suggestions?Beta source code missing · Issue #3479 · MediaBrowser/EmbyAnnoucing Jellyfin - a free software fork of Emby — After the announcement of Emby transitioning to a proprietary model, a number of us decided to fork it to focus on delivering a free software media solutionStreama: Self hosted streaming media server.Ubuntu 19.04 Release Date & Planned Features — The Ubuntu 19.04 release date is scheduled for April 18, 2019.GNOME Shell In Ubuntu 19.04 Should Be FasterUbuntu Desktop 19.04 Cycle | Trello​Canonical makes Kubernetes moves — Canonical wants to make it darn clear that, besides being the leading cloud Linux distributor, it's also a major Kubernetes player.Proposed Energy Aware Scheduling For The Linux Kernel Revised A Tenth Time — The ARM Linux developers continue working on Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) for the mainline Linux kernel to better handle systems with asymmetric CPU topologiesMike's systemd udev fixWhich two names work best for the Jupiter Broadcasting Automation system?LinuxFest Northwest 2019WireGuard for iOS - TestFlightHow to easily configure WireGuard - Stavros' StuffUse Reddit In The Terminal With RTV (Reddit Terminal Viewer)Easily Convert Audio File Formats with SoundConvertersshuttle: Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPNcorkscrew: A tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxiesTest utility for cve-2018-1002105