LINUX Unplugged

A radical new way to do SSH authentication, special guest Jeremy Stott joins us to discuss Zero Trust SSH. Plus community news, a concerning issue for makers, an Arch server follow up, and more.Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Jeremy Stott, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:The makers of Jif peanut butter team up with Giphy to try to settle the GIF/Jif debate once and for all Manjaro Linux on Twitter: After several months of development we are happy to announce Manjaro Linux 19.0 release, named Kyria! Get in the C: Raspberry Pi 4 can handle a wider range of USB adapters thanks to revised design’s silent arrival Brunch with Brent: Heather Ellsworth Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Alex’s Blog: FAA Remote ID Proposal FPVFC FAQ on FAA Remote ID NPRM - December 2019 Proposed Rule: Remote Identification of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Introducing the Uber SSH Certificate Authority - Uber Security + Privacy - Medium bless: Repository for BLESS, an SSH Certificate Authority that runs as a AWS Lambda function How Uber, Facebook, and Netflix Do SSH stoggi/sshrimp: 🦐SSH Certificate Authority in a Lambda (on the barbie) “Zero Trust SSH” - Jeremy Stott (LCA 2020) - YouTube linux.conf.au 2020 | Presentation: Zero Trust SSH Keybase SSH hallow: A SSH Certificate Authority designed for use with AWS native environments BeyondCorp: A New Approach to Enterprise Security – Google Research collascii - A collaborative ascii canvas Ly - a TUI display manager ChrisLAS Cast Ubuntu Podcast

We question the very nature of Linux development, and debate if a new approach is needed. Plus an easy way to snapshot any workstation, some great feedback, and an extra nerdy command-line pick.Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Google slams Samsung for making changes to Linux kernel code Mitigations are attack surface, too Regular Release Distributions Are Wrong (archive.org cache) Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Timeshift: system restore tool for Linux Timeshift 19.08.1 does not apply file/folder exclude/include settings New Users and Linux Mint T480 Fingerprint Reader? Cockpit and ZFS Bcachefs prediction feedback jc: This tool serializes the output of popular gnu linux command line tools and file types to structured JSON output. This allows piping of output to tools like jq. Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century | Brazil’s Blog Regular Release Distributions Are Wrong

The difficult and fascinating conversations from FOSDEM 2020. Plus how elementary OS does coopertition right. And a bunch of community news, app picks, and much more.Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, and Dusty Mabe.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:KDE Plasma 5.18: More Convenient and with Long Term Stability - KDE.org What’s New in KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS? - OMG! Ubuntu! System76 Launches Impressive Line Of Thelio Major Linux Workstations Powered By AMD Ryzen Threadripper - Including The 3990X - Phoronix oreboot: oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust. Rust's Freedom Flaws FS#736 - [rust][cargo] trademark agreement affects user freedom AppCenter for Everyone | Indiegogo Work, Life, and RV Podcast Our Accidental Home Base — Work, Life, and RV Podcast Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram PDP-7 FOSDEM 2020 - Events FOSDEM 2020 - Interview with James Bottomley - The Selfish Contributor Explained FOSDEM 2020 - The next generation of contributors is not on IRC FOSDEM 2020 - The Hidden Early History of Unix FOSDEM 2020 - Do Linux Distributions Still Matter with Containers?FOSDEM 2020 - How Containers and Kubernetes re-defined the GNU/Linux Operating SystemThe Meteoric Rise Of Fwupd+LVFS For Linux Firmware Updates - Phoronix hollywood.computer: multiple panes of genuine technical melodrama shairport-sync: AirPlay audio player. Shairport Sync adds multi-room capability with Audio Synchronisation

We get into the Linux Mint mindset after years away and share our take on Cinnamon's many improvements. Plus news that'll have knock-on effects for the rest of the year, and more.Special Guest: Brent Gervais.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Bosch Gets Smartglasses Right With Tiny Eyeball Lasers Google opens its latest Google Glass AR headset for direct purchase - The Verge Ginni Rometty to Step Down as C.E.O. of IBM - The New York Times Who is Arvind Krishna, the new IBM CEO replacing Ginni Rometty? | Fortune 2013 Red Hat Summit: Arvind Krishna, IBM Keynote - YouTube Systemd-Homed Merged As A Fundamental Change To Linux Home Directories The CUPS Printing System Lead Developer Has Left Apple, Begins Developing “LPrint” - Phoronix How the Glorification of Busyness Impacts Our Well-Being Creating the Habit of Not Being Busy : zen habits ChrisLAS.com - Chris W. Fisher Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Still Minty Fresh | LUP 100 Went Mint when Win10 Migration from Win7 Failed Dave Donates $15/mo becuz Mint gets outta his way! Feedback: Linux Mint and College Feedback: Timeshift Linux Mint Monthly News – January 2020 Linux Mint 19.3 is out, GIMP is not included by default Linux Mint 19.3: My review - mostly great with a few issues Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia bugs identified; package updates to follow

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)