LINUX Unplugged

Is Fuchsia a risk to Linux? We try out a cutting-edge Fuchsia desktop and determine if it is a long-term threat to Linux. Plus, have we all been missing the best new Linux distribution? We give this fresh distro a spin and report.Sponsored By: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. Core Contributor Membership: Use promo code summer - Support the show, and take $1 off the lifetime of your membership! Promo Code: SummerA Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Linux 5.13 Released With Apple M1 Bringup, Landlock, FreeSync HDMI + Much More — There are also new Linux 5.13 security features like the Landlock LSM, Clang CFI support, and optionally randomizing the kernel stack offset at each system call.The 5.13 kernel has been releasedPipeWire 0.3.31 Released — JACK has seen massive stability improvements. Locking and correctness wrt to callbacks and has been reworked. Also thread priorities have improved.PipeWire Project on Twitter — Important change in PipeWire 0.3.31 is that we now have a database of weird Bluetooth hardware. This allows us to apply device specific tweaks to work around issues. This database is from Android and should let us support more devices seamlessly.Real-time audio streaming with ROCDeepin Linux 20.2.2 Introduces a Brand-New App Store, Secure Boot Support — With this release, fans of Deepin Linux can enjoy a brand-new App Store that supports installation of Android apps, offers a better app management with support for batch installation of applications, and has a fresh new design with simplified interaction.deepin 20.2.2 – Deepin Technology CommunityDeepin Screenshots AlbumSalt Lake City MeetupDenver Meetup MeetupJupiter Broadcasting Meetup(s)JB TelegramJB MumbledahliaOS — dahliaOS is a modern, secure, lightweight and responsive operating system, combining the best of GNU/Linux and Fuchsia OS.dahliaOS Screenshots AlbumGoogle is releasing Fuchsia OS, starting w/ 1st-gen Nest HubHere’s an easier way to try Fuchsia OS on your computerReddit: A Question About Zircon And Its CapabilitiesA new version of Mixxx is out — Mixxx 2.3.0 comes with a new default skin: "LateNight" underwent a massive redesign and replaces "Deere" as default skin.elementary EDW videos on YouTube

Is it possible to have Arch’s best feature on other Linux distros? We attempt it and report our findings. Plus our reaction to NVIDIA’s beta Wayland support–is this the milestone we’ve been waiting for?Sponsored By: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. Core Contributor Membership: Use promo code summer - Support the show, and take $1 off the lifetime of your membership! Promo Code: SummerA Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Salt Lake City MeetupDenver MeetupChristian Schaller on Twitter — We been working closely with NVidia over the last year to prepare the ground for full NVidia driver Wayland support, including XWayland. Today NVidia released the first beta driver of that work.Xwayland support in Fedora with the NVIDIA 470 series driver — Please help us test this support for hardware acceleration with the NVIDIA proprietary driver in Xwayland, and report issues for Xwayland in Fedora bugzilla.NVIDIA DRIVERS Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver BETAFedora Cloud Btrfs By Default - Fedora Project Wiki — For cloud installs of Fedora, we want to provide advanced file system features to users in a transparent fashion. Thus, we are changing the file system for the Cloud Edition to Btrfs so we can leverage its features and capabilities to improve the quality of experience for Cloud users.Pagure Commit: Use Btrfs for Fedora Cloud EditionPacstall — The AUR for Ubuntupacstall on GitHubpacstall-programsHenryws on GitHubmakedeb — Create Debian archives from PKGBUILDs.mpm — makedeb package managerjunest — The lightweight Arch Linux based distro that runs upon any Linux distros without root access.x11docker — Run GUI applications and desktops in docker. Focus on security.How to Run GUI Applications in a Docker Containerjessfraz/dockerfiles — Various Dockerfiles I use on the desktop and on servers.Nix, the purely functional package managerNixOSpacapt — An ArchLinux’s pacman-like wrapper for many package managers.Can I make use of other containers like debian or arch - Desktop / Silverblue - Fedora DiscussionMartin Pitt's Blog — Public lightweight sway developer desktop with OSTree and podman/toolbox.Fedora 34 Toolbox ContainerfileRunning Wine in Archlinux-based podman container

We revisit the seminal distros that shaped Linux’s past. Find out if these classics still hold up. Plus the outrageous bounty on a beloved Linux desktop app.Special Guest: Gary Kramlich.Sponsored By: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. Core Contributor Membership: Use promo code summer - Support the show, and take $1 off the lifetime of your membership! Promo Code: SummerA Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web’s inventor is selling its original code as an NFT — Comprising over 9.500 lines of code, the files contain the basis of the languages and protocols underpinning the internet as we know it: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Universal Document Identified (URI).Meetup: Salt Lake City — Saturday, August 7, 2021, 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM PDT.Meetup: Denver — Friday, August 20, 2021, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM PDT.Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup PagePidgin: the universal chat client — Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on XMPP and sitting in an IRC channel at the same time.Pidgin contributors: grim — Long time contributor, author of Guifications, and a founding member of the plugin pack.Zerodium on Twitter — We’re looking for #0day exploits affecting Pidgin on Windows and Linux. Bounty: $100,000.ZERODIUM — Limited-Time Bug Bounties and Temporarily Increased PayoutsLinux 5.14 Mainline Should Work With The Raspberry Pi 400 — No kernel driver changes were needed since it's basically very close to the Raspberry Pi 4 but the updated DTS configuration is needed for the 1.8GHz clock rate, a different WiFi chip, and power off handling via GPIO.XFS To Enjoy Big Scalability Boost With Linux 5.14 — The big numbers are seeing the transaction rate go up from around 700k to 1.7M commits per second and a reduction in flush operations by 2~x orders of magnitude less for metadata heavy workloads that don't enforce fsync.Archive of old versions of Linux — Thanks to Mediactive Network for hosting this website.Mandrake 10.1 Visual TourXandros 3.0 Desktop GalleryRed Hat 9’s Classic LookUbuntu 6.06 LTS — Ubuntu 6.06 LTS introduces functionality that simplifies common Linux server deployment processes. For system administrators setting up large numbers of web, mail and related servers, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS offers the fastest and most consistent path to deployment, combined with the availability of global commercial support where needed.Damn Small Linux — Damn Small Linux is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution.BackTrack Linux — BackTrack was a Linux distribution that focused on security, based on the Knoppix Linux distribution aimed at digital forensics and penetration testing use.TLP — Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Lifeauto-cpufreq — Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux based on active monitoring of laptop's battery state, CPU usage, CPU temperature and system load. Ultimately allowing you to improve battery life without making any compromises.Did you know that you can 100% legally get & run WordPerfect for free? — But there is a catch – of course: they're both very old and hard to run on a modern computer. I'm here to tell you how to get them and how to install and run them.

We discuss old and new ways to manage, organize, index, and search your photo collection. It's our favorite Google Photo's alternatives. Plus Chris' hands-on review of System76's customizable Launch keyboard.Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.Sponsored By: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. New JB Stickers: Own a bit of Jupiter Broadcasting history, while making way for the new! A Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Google Photos is so 2020—welcome to the world of self-hosted photo management | Ars Technica — Alex's comprehensive write-up for Ars.rclone Google Photos — The rclone backend for Google Photos is a specialized backend for transferring photos and videos to and from Google Photos. Launch keyboard — The Launch Configurable Keyboard is engineered to be comfortable, fully customizable, and make your workflow more efficient. Updated storage policy for Google Photos Plans & Pricing - Google One Install Google Photos Sync on Linux with a Snap How To Backup Google Photos To Your Computer With gphotos-sync Google Photos Sync — Google Photos Sync downloads your Google Photos to the local file system. It will backup all the photos the user uploaded to Google Photos, but also the album information and additional Google Photos 'Creations' (animations, panoramas, movies, effects and collages). Sync Google Photos to your Linux Desktop Photonix Photo Manager — Photonix is a photo management application that streamlines the process of storing, presenting and re-discovering photos. Photonix Demo LibrePhotos — A self-hosted open source photo management service. PhotoStructure — Self-hosted, easy to install, and effortless to run. PhotoStructure is your cloud that runs on your computer. Your data stays yours. Chevereto — Get your own turnkey image hosting system today. Start your own image sharing website with your own rules. Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right. PhotoPrism — PhotoPrism is a privately hosted app for browsing, organizing, and sharing your photo collection. It makes use of the latest technologies to tag and find pictures automatically without getting in your way. Piwigo — Piwigo is open source photo gallery software for the web. Designed for organisations, teams and individuals. FileRun File Manager — Self-Hosted File Sync and Sharing. exiftool - bulk join json with jpg from Google Takeout How To Correctly Export And Migrate Away From Google Photos FakeSlice — Discharge USB-C Power Banks before internal battery on newer ThinkPads. FOSS Talk Live — FOSS Talk Live 2021 is happening on 12th June at 7pm UK time!JB Telegram The Seasoned Tux Tee is on Sale

We’re joined by a special guest who’s built his very own Linux battle bus. We get the technical details on how Linux is at the core of this open road machine.Special Guest: Aaron Bockelie.Sponsored By: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. A Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Aaron Bockelie on LinkedIn Broccolibus6 on Instagram Aaron Bockelie on GitHub Home Assistant Conference – broccolibus.com — Today I will be presenting a short talk about our bus’s Home Assistant development. [YouTube] High Tech School Bus Conversion - Nissan Leaf Powered Tiny House For Family Of 6 — Aaron and his family of 6 live in their 40ft. Bluebird bus, which serves as an amazing home and gives them the ability to see the country. Aaron works full-time from the bus as a way to fund their adventures and they homeschool their 4 children. Pepwave MAX Transit DUO “PrimeCare Edition” Dual Modem LTE-A — The Peplink Pepwave Max Transit LTE-Advanced DUO PrimeCare Edition is a serious mobile router for the advanced user. Venus GX - Victron Energy — The Venus GX is the communication-centre of your installation. Venus allows you to talk to all components in your system and ensure they are working in harmony. An Open-Source USB to CAN Adapter - CANable — The CANable is a small low-cost open source USB to CAN adapter. The CANable shows up as a virtual serial port on your computer and acts as a serial-line to CAN bus interface DeskPi Pro Set-top Box For Raspberry Pi 4

From our origins with Linux to preparing your home LAN for a solar storm, it’s an Ask us Anything special edition!Sponsored By: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. MailRoute: Try out MailRoute today and get 10% off the lifetime of your account and start with a 30-day free trial, no credit card required.A Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Pick: termbin.com — Netcat-based command line pastebin.

Tim Canham, Mars Helicopter Operations Lead at NASA’s JPL joins us again to share technical details you've never heard about the Ingenuity Linux Copter on Mars. And the challenges they had to work around to achieve their five successful flights.Special Guest: Tim Canham.Sponsored By: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. MailRoute: Try out MailRoute today and get 10% off the lifetime of your account and start with a 30-day free trial, no credit card required.A Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight — NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet.NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Completes First One-Way TripNASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity lands at new airfield after 5th flightNASA’s Perseverance Captures Video, Audio of Fourth Ingenuity FlightIngenuity Helicopter Operational History — Ingenuity's fifth flight succeeded on May 7, 2021, 19:26 UTC, lasting 108 seconds. Ingenuity went 5 meters (16 ft) high, just like the last three flights, and traveled to a landing site 131 meters (429 ft) to the south.Seeing NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Fly in 3DIngenuity Spots Perseverance From the Air — NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is visible in the upper left corner of this image the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took during its third flight, on April 25, 2021. The helicopter was flying at an altitude of 16 feet (5 meters) and roughly 279 feet (85 meters) from the rover at the time.JB Telegram GroupLinux Flies on Mars StickerSome PeerTube Problems — For now, we plan to keep testing PeerTube behined the scenes, trying out the new releases, and searching for ways to automate deploying content to PeerTube.Pick: Finamp — Finamp is a music player for Jellyfin. Its main feature is the ability to download songs for offline listening.[GitHub] finamp: A Jellyfin music client for mobilePlexamp - Love your music! — A beautiful Plex music player for audiophiles, curators, and hipsters.Plexamp Release Notesplexamp on AppImageHubWelcoming Linux to the 1Password Family — The wait is over. 1Password for Linux is officially here.Behind the scenes of 1Password for Linux by Dave Teare — What makes this release even more amazing is it was created from scratch and developed using new languages and techniques most of our team never used before.

We’re taking a look at an underdog distro. We may have found a diamond in the rough with a few tricks up its filesystem. Plus our review of the ODROID-Go Super an Ubuntu-powered handheld, and our tools for laptop battery health.Sponsored By: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. MailRoute: Try out MailRoute today and get 10% off the lifetime of your account and start with a 30-day free trial, no credit card required.A Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Sensory’s custom voice assistant debuts on a Linux-based microwave — Sensory announced that its 100 percent locally processed TrulyHandsfree technology can be used to create custom voice assistants without sacrificing privacy, as demonstrated in a new Linux-based Farberware FM11VABK microwave.Ask LUP Anything - AskLUP.COMODROID-GO SuperODROID-GO Super Dim GrayEmulationStation — A graphical and themeable emulator front-end that allows you to access all your favorite games in one place, even without a keyboard!ODROID Image for ESSegaCD missing BIOS (linked) - ODROIDJB TelegramJupiter Broadcasting Garage SaleOpen Letter: DistroWatch and Nitrux — For the better part of three years, we have remained silent about your ongoing efforts to affect people’s perception of our Linux distribution continuously. We have tried our best not to engage with your evident hostility and disregard to inform your viewers and visitors about correct facts of the Linux distributions you display on your website, especially ours. However, we have decided to take a stance. It is today, the 6th of May, that we gallantly demand you to stop.Uri's Blog: Unpopular Opinion Penguin #3: The Empire Strikes Back — I’m here to take a look at the newest “review” that our lovely haters (let’s call them for what they are) at DistroWatch published on their website some weeks ago.DistroWatch.com: NitruxNitrux — Nitrux is a Linux desktop distribution directly based on Debian. It uses the Calamares installer and includes NX Desktop and NX Firewall on top of the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment and MauiKit Applications.Meet Nitrux: The Most Beautiful Linux Distribution Ever?Nitrux on TwitterMauiKit — A free and modular front-end framework for developing fast and compelling user experiences.Kirigami UI Framework — Build beautiful, convergent apps that run on phones, TVs and everything in between.Changelog: Nitrux 1.4.0NX Desktop — NX Desktop is a customization layer for Plasma 5.AppImageHub — Here are 1200 apps (and counting) that you can run on Linux without installation.Installing other DEs in Nitrux — During last month’s release of Nitrux, we made available a minimal ISO to let users install Nitrux and also install a different desktop environment and a selection of applications than the ones we include by default.NX Software Center — A GUI to install and manage AppImages.Nitrux: pnx — pnx (lowercase; originally Pacman for Nitrux) allows users to install software from Linux distributions that use the Pacman package manager on other Linux distributions that don’t use it without interfering with the distributions default package manager.What’s Nitrux? The future. - with Uri HerreraLinux Spotlight - Uri Herrera of NitruxOSFeedback: PrivateBin — A minimalist, open-source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES.PrivateBin Docker SetupFeedback: PIE Bin — Pre-Internet Encryption for Text.Feedback: CryptPad — CryptPad is the Zero-Knowledge real-time collaborative editor.CryptPad Installation Guide — This guide is about installing a public CryptPad instance available on the internet.Pick: TLP — Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life.Pick: TLPUI — A GTK user interface for TLP written in Python.Fedora — TLP 1.3.1 documentation

It's episode III, Return of the Email. Everyone says never host your own email, so we're doin it. We just have one last job to complete.Special Guest: Danielle Foré.Sponsored By: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. MailRoute: Try out MailRoute today and get 10% off the lifetime of your account and start with a 30-day free trial, no credit card required.A Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:elementary OS 6 Beta Available Today — Developers and testers, it’s the day you’ve been waiting for: elementary OS 6 Beta is available now!elementary BuildsGet Involved with elementary OS — Everything that we make is 100% open source and developed collaboratively by people from all over the world. Even if you're not a programmer, you can get involved and make a difference.Audacity & MuseScore Announcement! — Audacity has just joined Muse Group, a collection of brands that includes another popular open source music app called MuseScore.(Video) I’m now in charge of Audacity. Seriously.Jupiter Broadcasting Garage SaleRainLoop docker-compose YAMLroundcubemail-docker — Resources to build Docker images for Roundcube WebmailDocumentation / Configuration / RainLoop Webmail(Video) PipeWire: The New Multimedia Service, Now Ready for Automotive(Video) LUP 272 OG PipeWire Interview Oct 23, 2018 — The lead developer of PipeWire Wim Taymans joins us to discuss Linux’s multimedia past, and its exciting future.Pick: Rentry.co — Rentry.co is a markdown pastebin service with preview, custom urls and editing. Fast, simple and free.Pick: procs — A modern replacement for ps written in Rust

The new release of Fedora has more under the hood than you might know. It's a technology-packed release, and nearly all of it is coming to a distro near you. Plus the questions we think the University of Minnesota kernel ban raises, and more.Sponsored By: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. MailRoute: Try out MailRoute today and get 10% off the lifetime of your account and start with a 30-day free trial, no credit card required.A Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Thoughts on The University of Minnesota Kernel BanSome 5.12 development statistics — By the time the 5.12 kernel was finally released, some 13,015 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline repository for this development cycle. That makes 5.12 the slowest development cycle since 5.6, which was released at the end of March 2020. Still, there was plenty of work done for 5.12.Linux 5.12 Release AnnouncementAs Linux 5.12 released, Linus Torvalds warns next version will probably be rather large — "'Despite the extra week, this was actually a fairly small release overall. Judging by Linux-next, 5.13 will be making up for it."Flatpak 1.11.1 Brings Changes For Steam, Better Support For Command Line Programs — One of the changes with Flatpak 1.11.1 worth mentioning is allowing sub-sandboxes to have a different /usr and/or /app.steam-runtime-tools: pressure-vessel — pressure-vessel is a bit like a simplified version of Flatpak for Steam games.While we worry about WSLg Amazon is Positioned to Kill Server LinuxHumble Bundle is removing their pay sliders and replacing them with two preset pay splits.Looking forward to Fedora 34 — In 2021, complaints about PulseAudio are scarce indeed; the quirks have long since been ironed out and, for most people, sound just works. Obviously, it must be time to rip out the audio infrastructure and start over. That is what Fedora has done in the 34 release; PulseAudio is gone, replaced by PipeWire.How to Upgrade to Fedora 34 from Fedora 33 WorkstationCommon Fedora 34 BugsFedora Linux 34 is officially here!Fedora 34 ChangesGnome40DefaultPipeWireXwaylandStandaloneSome nice stuff not yet in stable that Fedora wantedWaylandByDefaultForPlasmaAArch64 KDE Plasma Desktop imageFedora Media Writer — Write Fedora Images to Portable MediaBtrfsTransparentCompressionbtrfs Wiki: CompressionFedora Workstation 34 feature focus: Btrfs transparent compression - Fedora Magazine — This article is going to go a little further under the hood and talk about data compression and transparent compression in btrfs. A term like that may sound scary at first, but less technical users need not be wary. This change is simple to grasp, and will help many Workstation users in several key areas.EnableSystemdOomdLINUX Unplugged 351: Lenovo Loves LinuxRemove Support For SELinux Runtime DisableUnifyGrubConfigUnplugged Core ContributorsFeedback: Running his own email for six yearsFeedback: Uses a Neat Trick with his Self Hosted EmailFeedback PIck: Modoboa, Open Source email serverPIck: zellij — A Rust and WebAssembly powered terminal workspace with batteries included.jupitergarage.com