LINUX Unplugged

Robert McQueen shares the inside scoop on Flathub’s ambitious plans to create a universal app store for all distros—and we ask the hard questions.Special Guest: Robert McQueen.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — October 20-22, 2023 at the Bellingham Technical College.Flathub in 2023 - Flathub Discourse — We’ve been busy behind the scenes, so I’d like to share what we’ve been up to at Flathub and why—and what’s coming up from us this year.Robotic Tendencies » Flathub in 2023Rule of Acquisition 57 — Good customers are as rare as latinum… treasure them.Fountain on Twitter — The veterans are dominating the charts as we celebrate some major milestones this week 👏Podcasting 2.0 AppsTrayscale — An unofficial GUI wrapper around the Tailscale CLI client.Trayscale on FlathubPick: abcde — A Better CD EncoderA collection of abcde.conf files

We're celebrating 500 episodes with the biggest announcement yet.Special Guest: Listener Jeff.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — Your Fest is Back! October 20-22, 2023 at the Bellingham Technical College.Wes' First Episode: LUP 100 — We reflect on 100 episodes of LINUX Unplugged, the themes from episodes past & then review Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon edition.Brent's First Episode: LUP 255 — Big changes are coming to Fedora with the merger of CoreOS. We chat with a couple project members to get the inside scope about what the future of Fedora looks like.Fountain charts1701home.com — 1701 Home is a trek-based Mastodon where people can discuss the Star Trek franchise while sharing and connecting about their other interests!Peertube Headless Seeder — This container uses Python, Selenium, and Firefox to monitor and seed live streams of a PeerTube channel headlessly.Podcasting 2.0 AppsEleven Labs AI — The most realistic and versatile AI speech software, ever.AI Voice Conversion DemoSubmit a Soundboard Clip on our GitHub

Ubuntu makes its anti-Flatpak stance official, while KDE and GNOME team up to turn Flathub into a universal Linux app store. Plus, we try the Intel Arc GPU. Could this new hardware make Linux bulletproof?Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup — Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PMLinux 6.2 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Promoted — Linux 6.2 overall has been in good shape from my continued testing and especially for Skylake/Skylake-derived cores is looking better if opting for Call Depth Tracking and it's great to have stable Arc Graphics A380/A750/A770 working out-of-the-box in the labs.Performance is looking better with later Arcsmesa 23.0.0 Releasedintel-extension-for-pytorch at xpu-masterInstall intel-extension-for-pytorchIntel® Extension for PyTorch — PyTorch Tutorialsrahulunair/stable_diffusion_arc — Stable Diffusion inference on Intel Arc dGPUsbes-dev/stable_diffusion.openvino — Implementation of Text-To-Image generation using Stable Diffusion on Intel CPU or GPU.ShuffleBox: Quick Benchmark for Whisper by OpenAIFlatpak will no longer be available “out-of-the-box” in any of Ubuntu’s official flavors. — Do keep in mind that “not installed by default” is not the same as “not available to install at all”.Wimpy on Fosstodon — "@bluesabre Did we agree? I think we complied with the requested change. You and I both played our part in ensuring this was clearly and openly communicated."Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults - Community - Ubuntu Community Hub — As part of our combined efforts, the Ubuntu flavors have made a joint decision to adjust some of the default packages on Ubuntu: Going forward, the Flatpak package as well as the packages to integrate Flatpak into the respective software center will no longer be installed by default in the next release due in April 2023, Lunar Lobster.KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop — Promote diversity and sustainability in the Linux desktop community by adding payments, donations and subscriptions to the Flathub app store.ZFS send/receive over ssh on linux without allowing root loginZFS on Object Storage by George Wilson, Matt Ahrens, Paul Dagnelie, Manoj Joseph - YouTubeJB Geocache Kit RequestPodcasting 2.0 AppsGPU-Viewer — This project aims to capture all the important details of glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo in a GUI.

Sometimes running the latest and greatest means you have to pave your own path. This week two examples from living on the edge.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup, Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PM — Come celebrate episode 500 with some brews the night before!BorgBase — Hosting for Borg and Restic RepositoriesVorta for BorgBackup — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops.BorgBackup — Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryptionWhy should I switch from Restic to Borg? - r/BorgBackupMoonlight Game Streaming — Play Your PC Games RemotelyLizardByte/Sunshine — Sunshine is a Gamestream host for Moonlight.Sunshine documentationKRDC — KRDC is a client application that allows you to view or even control the desktop session on another machine that is running a compatible server. VNC and RDP is supported.Krfb — Krfb Desktop Sharing is a server application that allows you to share your current session with a user on another machine, who can use a VNC client to view or even control the desktop.Hook up keyevents on Wayland (!44) Krfb · GitLabwayvnc — A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositorsWaypipe — waypipe is a proxy for Wayland clients. It forwards Wayland messages and serializes changes to shared memory buffers over a single socket. This makes application forwarding similar to ssh -X feasible.TeamViewer Support on Wayland - Experimental StateAdd a InputCapture portal by whot · Pull Request #714 · flatpak/xdg-desktop-portalPiKVM — Open and inexpensive DIY IP-KVM on Raspberry PiPodcasting 2.0 Appsweihanglo/sfz — A simple static file serving command-line tool written in Rust.sfz is packaged in nix

How Chris wasted three months tracking down a Wi-Fi problem, plus we debate if immutable distros need to be simplified.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:FOSDEM 2023 Transcribed by WhisperThe Coder Robe — The Coder Robe is back and is a one-size-fits-most robe made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear.192 Brewing Company — Mt. Vernon is proud to offer strictly Washington-made beers, wines and ciders. We rotate through guest taps from local breweries and feature a variety of red and white wines, as well.power-profiles-daemon Issue: Choppy GNOME animations when using “balanced power” mode on Intel platformkrunvm — Create microVMs from OCI images.ViMusic — An Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music.GRC SpinRiteMoonlight Game Streaminghttps://github.com/Wowu/docker-rollout — Zero Downtime Deployment for Docker ComposePodcasting 2.0 Introduction - Blubrry PodcastingNEW in Podverse 4.12.0 🥳 — Major audio and video playback fixes, faster app performance, value-for-value streaming for videos.boxxy — boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files.This week in KDE: The best Plasma 5 version ever

Chris attempts to get Fedora 37 on his M1 Max MacBook Pro, while Wes and Brent try the "every distro at once" desktop.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:blendOS — The Ultimate Distro-Blend. — A seamless blend of all Linux distributions.blendOS on Githubdistrobox — Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with.Rudra Saraswat's HomepageBedrock Linux — Bedrock Linux is a meta Linux distribution which allows users to mix-and-match components from other, typically incompatible distributions. Bedrock integrates these components into one largely cohesive system.Brent's BlendOS PRFedora on the Apple M1 Max MBPFedora on Apple Silion: Easy Install Scriptdigint/btrbk — Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes.Podcasting 2.0 Appselementary OS 7 Available Now — It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and fixes based on your feedback, introduced new office productivity features, and expanded compatibility with a wide range of hardware.

Are the free software alternatives good enough? The conclusion to our 60-day challenge to drop Google, Apple, and the iPhone.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Jupiter Broadcasting Community LinksJupiter Jobs Matrix RoomNew JB Contact PagePatreon Problems Thread on TwitterA Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminalimmich — Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.Donate to GrapheneOSDuplicacy: A new generation cloud backup tool — Duplicacy backs up your files to many cloud storages with client-side encryption and the highest level of deduplication.duplicity — Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm.Podcasting 2.0 AppsPick: carbonyl — Chromium running inside your terminalFathy Boundjadj: Forking Chrome to render in a terminal — It's snappy, starts in less than a second, runs at 60 FPS, and idles at 0% CPU usage. It does not require a window server (i.e. works in a safe-mode console), and even runs through SSH.

Today we are finally taking on a project months in the making, and we're switching to an entirely new generation of Linux tech in the process.Sponsored By:Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:This week in KDE: The best Plasma 5 version ever — Plasma 5 has officially branched for the beta version of its 5.27 release. Go check out the announcement and test out the beta!BorgWarehouse — BorgBackup Web UI for your central repository server.Vorta — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty BorgBackup with your desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft.BorgBase — Simple and Secure Offsite Backupsborgmatic — Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations.Emborg — Front-End to Borg Backupemborg on GitHubOffice Hours 21: Boiling the Frog — If you've noticed something a little off about your favorite podcasts, we might know why.aj-snapshot — Tool for storing/restoring JACK and/or ALSA connections to/from a file.jack-matchmaker — Auto-connect new JACK ports matching the patterns given on the command line.qpwgraph — qpwgraph is a graph manager dedicated to PipeWire, using the Qt C++ framework, based and pretty much like the same of QjackCtl.qpwgraph on Flathubstreamdeck-ui — A Linux compatible UI for the Elgato Stream Deck.obsws-python — A Python SDK for OBS Studio WebSocket v5.0kirino — A lightweight media server that adapts to youBackupPC — Open Source Backup to diskFedora 38 Change: Modernize Live Mediarsync.net — We give you an empty UNIX filesystem to access with any SSH tool. Built on ZFS for data security and fault tolerance.ZnapZend — Open source ZFS backup with mbuffer and ssh support.LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.orgPick: Jellyfin Server FlatpakJellyfin Release 10.8.9

Chris' sticky upgrade situation, and we chat with the developer behind an impressive mesh VPN with new tricks.Special Guest: Ryan Huber.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:NixOS 22.11 ReleasedVERY Simple NixOS NGINX ConfigNixOS Manual: SSL/TLS Certificates with ACME — NixOS supports automatic domain validation & certificate retrieval and renewal using the ACME protocol. Any provider can be used, but by default NixOS uses Let's Encrypt. The alternative ACME client lego is used under the hood.NixOS Manual: Configuring Nginx for Pleromago-acme/lego — Let’s Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go.hackclub’s proxypartyEasily Deploy a Mastodon Server with Linode's MarketplaceDefined Networking is Open for Business — On behalf of everyone here at Defined Networking, I’m excited to announce that our cloud managed version of Nebula is now available to everyone!Automating Nebula Host Creation with the APITry Defined Networking’s Managed NebulaLINUX Unplugged 329: Flat Network Truthers — 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.Trakt — Track what you watch and when.

Join us on a journey to true software freedom. We embark on our 30-day challenge and discover a whole new philosophy that will change the way you think about technology.Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Mastodon Sees Dip in Active Users After Twitter Exodus SurgeSCaLE 20x — The 20th Annual Southern California Linux Expo will take place on March 9-12, 2023 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA.Easily Deploy a Mastodon Server with Linode MarketplaceSelf-Hosted 87: Jellyfin January — We kick off our Jellyfin January challenge and invite you to join us. Plus, Chris has some new hardware and our thoughts on the trouble at the Matrix foundation.Top 10 Self-Hosted Apps - Perfect Media Server[YouTube] The Definitive Guide to JellyfinUbuntu Manpage: intel_gpu_top — Display a top-like summary of Intel GPU usage.jellyfin/Swiftfin — Native Jellyfin Client for iOS and tvOS.intel-gpu-tools RepoAlex's Jellyfin Ansible SetupFountain Rewind 2022List of all Star Trek episodes sorted by original airdateList of all Star Trek episodes sorted by star dateAlbyLINUX Unplugged on the PodcastindexPodcasting 2.0 AppsPick: Btrfsmaintenance — Scripts for btrfs maintenance tasks like periodic scrub, balance, trim or defrag on selected mountpoints or directories.btdu — sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs.