LINUX Unplugged

Manjaro has a new hardware partner so Phillip joins to share the details, and we have the Lemur Pro in house for a battery endurance test like no other. Plus an Arch server update, and Chris orders the new Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera.Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Jeremy Soller, and Philip Muller.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Inkscape 1.0 Promo video: Inkscape 1.0 is here! - YouTube Return of the Lite - an impressively powerful, lightweight and compact 11” Linux laptop - Manjaro Linux Forum Compare Laptops - Find the best Linux Laptop – Star Labs® Buy a Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera – Raspberry Pi Cloud Playground now supports Ubuntu 20.04! Cloud Playground comes to ACG for Business Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! Televised Table Reads Promo Televised Table Reads Twitter Lemur Pro Pictures on @instachrislas Lemur Pro Speakers Question from Eddie Internal Overview - System76 Technical Documentation Lemur Pro Peformance Benchmarks Chris Fisher on Twitter: “Just got done putting @system76’s Lemur Pro through the ultimate battery endurance test. 12 hours of working from the woods, no power outlets, live streaming with @OBSProject. I’ll tell you how it went on tomorrow’s @LinuxUnplugged Ovenell’s Heritage Inn Useful Lemur Pro docs Audio Recorder Tip from Mike Audio Recorder sound - Capturing ONLY desktop audio with ffmpeg - Ask Ubuntu FFmpeg Devices Documentation: PulseAudio Feedback from Jason: New Hosted Wireguard Service Tailscale: Private networks made easy

Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller joins us to discuss Lenovo shipping ThinkPads loaded with Fedora, and our review of the new 32 release. Plus Ubuntu's Director of Desktop Martin Wimpress covers the details everyone missed in 20.04.Special Guests: Martin Wimpress, Matthew Miller, and Neal Gompa.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Red Hat Summit 2020 Virtual Experience Wimpy on Twitter: There are new ✨ features in #Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 that no one is aware of or talking 🙊 about, so here they are; straight from the horses mouth 🐴 Also, a little peek behind the curtain 👀 regarding how OEM requirements help shape desktop #Linux 🐧 What’s new in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS? LINUX Unplugged 350: Focal Focus Lenovo is Bringing Fedora Linux to its ThinkPad Laptops Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram ACG launches Cloud Playgrounds for B2B Fedora 32 Officially Released With EarlyOOM, SSD TRIM Finally Flipped On, GNOME 3.36 Fedora 32 Schedule: All Tasks Fedora Release Life Cycle Fedora 32 Cleared For Release Next Week Fedora 32 ChangeSet Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years — Christian F.K. Schaller GNOME 3.36 Login and unlock in GNOME Shell 3.36 Enable Earlyoom Previously covered on LINUX Unplugged 348: OK OOMer Change firewalld default to nftables Make iptables-nft preferred iptables implementation Nftables: a new packet filtering engine (2009) The return of nftables (2013) Why nftables And maybe it will be eBPF before long anyway… (2018) Adopting sysusers.d format DNF Better Counting Enable FSTrim Timer Restart services at end of rpm transaction Systemd 245 Released - First Version Including Systemd-Homed GCC 10 GCC’s New Static Analysis Capabilities Are Getting Into Shape For GCC 10 - Phoronix Static analysis in GCC 10 - Red Hat Developer GLIBC 2.31 LLVM 10 Python 3.8 Retire Python 2 Fedora 32 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Engaged In Some Healthy Competition Over Performance Initial Benchmarks Of Fedora 32 Linux Performance Firefox Performance On Wayland Is Looking Good - Browser Benchmarks With KDE vs. GNOME Fedora Alternate Architectures Fedora Magazine Mentions Better Rock64 Support Bonus Pick: bashtop

The latest Ubuntu LTS is here, but does it live up to the hype? And how practical are the new ZFS features? We dig into the performance, security, and stability of Focal Fossa. Plus our thoughts on the new KWin fork, if Bleachbit is safe, and a quick Fedora update.Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Logging Into Linux With A 1930s Teletype TUXEDO Computers Launches A Power/Thermal Control Center For Their Linux Systems System76 Lemur Pro KDE’s window manager KWin gets forked with ‘KWinFT’ to accelerate the development and better Wayland BleachBit 4.0.0 Fedora 32 Final is NO-GO Brunch with Brent: Sri Ramkrishna Linux Spotlight EP44 - Drew DeVore of Jupiter Broadcasting Linux Spotlight EP43 - An Interview with Tyler Brown longtime JB fan Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Ubuntu 20.04 Flavours Hit Beta, But What’s New? Gnome 3.34 vs Gnome 3.36 Visual Comparison The ‘GameMode’ performance tool from Feral Interactive makes it into Ubuntu 20.04 Ubuntu 20.04 and WSL 1 - WSL2 - Ubuntu Community Hub Ubuntu Server 20.04 CPU Security Mitigation Performance Impact Kernel 5.4: VirtIO-FS Grub boot menu bug Folder under applications menu doesn’t show text below last line of icons. Daniel Kerkow on Twitter: Migrating to a later LTS should be easily possible, so I would maybe stick to 18.04 for now if in doubt." pacat: Play back or record raw or encoded audio streams on a PulseAudio sound server 3mux: Imagine tmux with a smaller learning curve, i3-like keybindings, and more sane defaults.

We build the server you never should, a tricked out Arm box, and push it to the limit with a telnet torture test. Plus what we're playing recently, community news, a handy self-hosted music pick, and more.Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run? AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Amassing Improvements For Linux 5.8 NVIDIA released the 440.82 stable ‘Long Lived’ Linux driver - helps DOOM Eternal on Steam Play Proton Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition Risk of Rain 2 Raft Raft on Steam GitHub is now free for teams - The GitHub Blog Nat’s comment on HN Road to 20.04 ZFS/Zsys Code Seeing Important Performance Fix Ahead Of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS The Resilience of the Voyagers Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram RockPro64 4GB SBC ROCKPro64 12V 5A Power Adapter AC WD Blue SN550 250GB NVMe NVME PCIe Adapter M.2 Manjaro ARM on the ROCKPro64 Additional images available for the RockPro64 - Debian, Armbian, Slackware, CentOS, etc Benchmarking Example telnet.linuxunplugged.com RockPro64 Wiki RockPro64 Forum RockPro64 IRC Beets - the media library management system for obsessive music geeks.

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