LINUX Unplugged

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

We chat with a developer who's gotten Linux running on iOS devices, do a deep dive into Clear Linux, and discuss Xubuntu ending 32bit support. Plus why Android in the cloud, and a bunch of community news.Special Guests: Alan Pope, Martin Wimpress, and Theodore Dubois.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:One Raspberry Pi 3 not powerful enough? Try this five Pi cluster for computing on the edgeXubuntu Will Stop Producing 32-bit ISOs Beginning With Xubuntu 19.04 — The Xubuntu development team has now decided to go ahead and eliminate their 32-bit builds moving forward.Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser — Microsoft is throwing in the towel with Edge and is building a new web browser for Windows 10, this time powered by Chromium. Steam Link now in BETA on Raspberry Pi — The Steam Link app is now available in beta on the Raspberry Pi 3 and 3 B+ running Raspbian StretchSputnik turns 6: Presenting the folks behind it — Thanks to the interest and support of the community, eight months later, the project became a product. On November 29, 2012 the Dell XPS 13 developer edition was born.Running Android in the Cloud with Amazon EC2 A1 instances — W demonstrated a fully automated solution deployed by Juju to run Android within LXD containers in the cloud and stream out the display of a  gaming app from an Amazon EC2 A1 instance to a mobile phone over the internetAmazon's homegrown 2.3GHz 64-bit Graviton processor was very nearly an AMD Arm CPUiSH: The Linux Shell on iOS — iSH is a project to get a Linux shell environment running locally on your iOS device, using a usermode x86 emulator.iSH on GitHubBleeping computer's review of iSHBug #1759836 “systemd-udevd consumes 100% of CPU” : Bugs : systemd package : UbuntuHigh cpu usage on kernel 4.14 and 4.15 from systemd-udevd which seems to be the synaptic touchpad driverBluetooth adapter stopped working after upgrade to 4.14 kernelClear Linux Homepage — Clear Linux OS is an open source, rolling release Linux distribution optimized for performance and security, from the Cloud to the Edge, designed for customization, and manageability.Intel's Clear Linux Ups Their Desktop Offering, Rolling Out New InstallerHow to Clear — Training documentation to teach users how to make a Clear Linux OS derivative distribution.Trying To Make Ubuntu 18.10 Run As Fast As Intel's Clear Linuxclr-boot-manager — clr-boot-manager exists to enable the correct maintenance of vendor kernels and appropriate garbage collection tactics over the course of upgrades.

Fedora might take a year off, to focus on it self. Project Lead and Council Chair Matthew Miller joins us to explain this major proposal. Plus Wimpy shares his open source Drobo alternative, and our final Dropbox XFS hack.Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Martin Wimpress, and Matthew Miller.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:NASA runs KDEAre people forgetting what open source is? — There is a responsibility for the dev to make sure they vet what is being put into, but also a larger responsibility for large company's to vet dependency themselves, such as this package event-stream International Space Station switches from Windows to Linux — “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable.”LinuxFest Northwest 2019 — LinuxFest Northwest is an annual Open Source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group and the Information Technology department at Bellingham Technical CollegeSnapRAID — SnapRAID is a backup program for disk arrays. It stores parity information of your data and it recovers from up to six disk failures. mergerfs — A featureful union filesystem.Fedora 31 Will Likely Be Cancelled Or Significantly Delayed — It's about trying to re-tool the distribution and restructure the way its developed to rely more upon automated testing, improving the release processes, and related infrastructure to make it more scalable and better for the longer-term.Fedora Mailing-Lists: Lifecycle objective - problems, solutions, and proposalFedora Wiki: Objectives/Lifecycle/Problem statementsCurrent 12-18 Month Community ObjectivesFedora Council CharterDropbox Filesystem Fix — Fix the filesystem detection in the Linux Dropbox client.

Android and Ubuntu are working exceptionally hard to create longer support cycles. We’ll highlight the work that makes this possible, and what’s motivating these two different projects to strive for Very Long Term Support. Plus Chris reviews how his new Thunderbolt 3 GPU docking station works under Linux, and why he’ll never be undocking again.Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, and Martin Wimpress.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Pioneers — Pioneers, the wonderfully addicting game based on "The Settlers of Catan"XPRA — multi-platform screen and application forwarding system or "screen for X11"Valve discontinues the Steam Link — Farewell to the Steam Link, the best wireless HDMI gadget ever madeBringing the Android kernel back to the mainline — Android devices are based on the Linux kernel but, since the beginning, those devices have not run mainline kernels.Linux Deepin 15.8 Released with Various Neat ImprovementsUbuntu 18.04 LTS is getting 10-Year SupportUbuntu Security PodcastLINUX Unplugged Feedback: Docking Stations? Lenovo G0A10170UL Thunderbolt 3 Graphics DockLenovo Thunderbolt 3 Dock on Debian Linux | The Blog of JuhoThunderbolt 3 device managerprime-select: A fork of FedoraPrime enhanced for all linux distributionsBlack Friday Sale | Linux AcademyName the Automation System — Which two names work best for the Jupiter Broadcasting Automation system?Feedback from Albert: Youtube on the Desktop?Minitube, YouTube app for Mac, Windows and Linuxyoutube-dl — youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTubewebtty: Share a terminal session over WebRTCunite-shell: Unite makes GNOME Shell look like Ubuntu Unity Shell.WireGuard VPN Road Warrior Setup

Christian F.K. Schaller from Red Hat joins us to discuss seamless Linux upgrades, replacing PulseAudio, some of the recent desktop Projects Red Hat’s been working on... And the value they get from them. Plus a big batch of important community news, Wimpy’s Thunderbolt Dock experiments, and way to run pacman on any Linux distribution.Special Guests: Alan Pope, Christian F.K. Schaller, and Martin Wimpress.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Radio GardenPlayStation Classic relies on open source emulator for its 20 games - SlashGear — Kotaku got some early hands-on time with the PlayStation Classic and discovered that it uses the PCSX ReARMed emulator.snes9x — For those packaging the GTK+ port, note that building with GTK+ 3 is now highly recommended over GTK+ 2 and should have no regressions. Also note that Wayland compatibility is implemented, which, if enabled, also requires GTK+ to have been compiled with Wayland support. Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth says he has no plans to sell anytime soon — “I value my independence,” he told me during a brief chat on the outskirts of the OpenStack Summit in Berlin today. In part, that’s because he simply doesn’t personally need the money but also because he’d like to see through to the end his vision for Canonical and UbuntuOpen Invention Network Expands Linux Definition — The expansion includes 151 new packages, bringing the total number of protected packages to 2,873. “With this update to the Linux System definition, OIN continues with its well-established process of carefully maintaining a balance between stability and innovative core open source technology,” stated Mirko Boehm, OIN’s director for the Linux System definition. “While the majority of the new additions are widely used and found in most devices, the update includes a number of key open source innovations such as Kubernetes, Apache Cassandra and packages for Automotive Grade Linux.”Bitwarden Completes Third-party Security Audit — We are pleased to announce that Bitwarden has completed a thorough security audit and cryptographic analysis from the security experts at Cure53.Adding an optional install duration to LVFS firmware — We’ve just added an optional feature to fwupd and the LVFS that some people might find useful: The firmware update process can now tell the user how long in seconds the update is going to take.Help wanted - SuperTuxKart networking testersSupertuxkartPipeWire Hackfest — The event kicked off with Wim Taymans presenting on current state of PipeWire and outlining the remaining issues and current thoughts on how to resolve them. Most of the first day was spent on a roadtable discussion about what are and should be the goals of PipeWire and what potential tradeoffs there would be going forward.Thunderbolt 3 GPU Dock — Integrated NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card. Automation System Name Poll — Vote on the Automation System name.Junest — The lightweight Arch Linux based distro that runs upon any Linux distros without root access.Wimpy’s xrandr Script

Have the revolutionaries won the war against proprietary software? That’s the argument being made. And we argue, what else did you expect? Plus some performance improvements inbound to Linux, and the perfectly proportioned open source project we’ve recently discovered.Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Celebrate Fifteen Years of Fedora — On November 6, 2003, Red Hat announced Fedora Core 1KDE Connect — Today we released version 1.10 of the KDE Connect Android app. Therefore it’s time again to share what we’ve been working on. Apple's New Hardware With The T2 Security Chip Will Currently Block Linux From Booting — At least until further notice, these new Apple systems sporting the T2 chip will not be able to boot Linux operating systemsProcDump-for-Linux: A Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals tool — A Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals toolThe Faster FUSE Has Been Fused Into Linux 4.20 — Performance work for FUSE in this next version of the Linux kernel includes symlink caching, a hash table optimization, and copy file range support. The Open Source Revolution Is Over - the Revolutionaries Won — What happens when the revolutionaries win? After they've stormed the castle, tried on the king's clothes, slept in his bed and drunk the royal wine, then what?Hybrid Cloud Architecture: What Is It and Why You Should CareHuginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. — Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by! Automation System Naming FormCPod: An Open Source, Cross-platform Podcast App — It is an Election app, which gives it the ability to run on the largest operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS).