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Microsoft FINALLY Gets It | LINUX Unplugged 354

Windows is getting more competitive by adopting core Linux features, so we cover the latest Linux-inspired additions to Windows. Then review the new release of Pi-hole, sort through recent PINE64 updates, and read your feedback. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Drew DeVore, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller.

May 19, 2020

Curious About Caddy | TechSNAP 429

Jim and Wes take the latest release of the Caddy web server for a spin, investigate Intel's Comet Lake desktop CPUs, and explore the fight over 5G between the US Military and the FCC.

May 14, 2020

Feeling Elive | LINUX Unplugged 353

We're blown away by the Enlightenment desktop, and its little known features, and we share a quick way for you to try it out yourself.

May 12, 2020

Entropy Overhaul | BSD Now 349

Encrypted Crash Dumps in FreeBSD, Time on Unix, Improve ZVOL sync write performance with a taskq, central log host with syslog-ng, NetBSD Entropy overhaul, Setting Up NetBSD Kernel Dev Environment, and more.

May 7, 2020

Ring Doorbell Alternative | Self-Hosted 18

We were almost outsmarted by a not so smart doorbell, Jellyfin makes Alex's prediction dreams come true and Chris tries QOwnNotes again.

May 6, 2020

Three Course Battery | LINUX Unplugged 352

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.

May 5, 2020

RAID Reality Check | TechSNAP 428

We dive deep into the world of RAID, and discuss how to choose the right topology to optimize performance and resilience.

Apr 30, 2020

BSD Community Collections | BSD Now 348

FuryBSD 2020Q2 Images Available, Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux, Ars technica reviews GhostBSD, “TLS Mastery” sponsorships open, BSD community show their various collections, a tale of OpenBSD secure memory allocator internals, learn to stop worrying and love SSDs, and more.

Apr 30, 2020

Lenovo Loves Linux | LINUX Unplugged 351

Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller joins us to discuss Lenovo shipping ThinkPads loaded with Fedora, and our review of the new 32 release.

Apr 28, 2020

Learning, Failing, and Hacking the Industry: Danny Akacki | Jupiter Extras 72

Ell sits down with Danny Akacki to talk about infosec, his experience on the Blue Team, how PancakesCon got started, and more. Special Guest: Danny Akacki.

Apr 28, 2020

New Directions | BSD Now 347

Rethinking OpenBSD security, FreeBSD 2020 Q1 status report, the notion of progress and user interfaces, Comments about Thomas E. Dickey on NetBSD curses, making Unix a little more Plan9-like, Not-actually Linux distro review: FreeBSD, and more.

Apr 23, 2020

Where Do I Start? | Self-Hosted 17

Knowing which hardware to buy or which apps to run on that shiny new hardware can be hard. Chris and Alex discuss networking gear and where to find some of the best getting started documentation on the net.

Apr 22, 2020

Focal Focus | LINUX Unplugged 350

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.

Apr 21, 2020

Brunch with Brent: Sri Ramkrishna | Jupiter Extras 71

Brent sits down with Sri Ramkrishna, seasoned GNOME community member, founder of Linux App Summit, and Principle Ecosystems Engineer at ITRenew. We discuss his experiences in the GNOME community since 1998, the value of building relationships across communities, the increasing importance of non-technical roles in open source projects, and more. Special Guest: Sri Ramkrishna.

Apr 21, 2020

Gigahertz Games | TechSNAP 427

Jim finally gets his hands on an AMD Ryzen 9 laptop, some great news about Wi-Fi 6e, and our take on FreeBSD on the desktop.

Apr 16, 2020

Core File Tales | BSD Now 346

Tales from a core file, Lenovo X260 BIOS Update with OpenBSD, the problem of Unix iowait and multi-CPU machines, Hugo workflow using FreeBSD Jails, Caddy, Restic; extending NetBSD-7 branch support, a tale of two hypervisor bugs, and more.

Apr 16, 2020

Arm: A New Hope | LINUX Unplugged 349

We build the server you never should, a tricked out Arm box, and push it to the limit with a telnet torture test.

Apr 14, 2020

The Resilience of the Voyagers | Jupiter Extras 70

Heather, of SciByte fame, joins Chris and Wes to celebrate the incredible accomplishments and amazing resiliency of the Voyager probes. Special Guest: Heather.

Apr 12, 2020

Hiatus | Choose Linux 33

Choose Linux enters indefinite hiatus.

Apr 9, 2020

Goodbye from Linux Action News

In what turns out to be our final publication, we say goodbye.

Apr 9, 2020

Switchers to BSD | BSD Now 345

NetBSD 8.2 is available, NextCloud on OpenBSD, X11 screen locking, NetBSD and RISC OS running parallel, community feedback about switching to BSD, and more.

Apr 9, 2020

Compromised Networking | Self-Hosted 16

We share some WiFi tips and essential network ideas.

Apr 9, 2020

OK OOMer | LINUX Unplugged 348

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.

Apr 7, 2020

Pagure a GitLab Alternative: Neal Gompa | Jupiter Extras 69

Pagure, the free software GitLab alternative no one is talking about.

Apr 7, 2020

Linux Action News 152

WireGuard officially lands in Linux. We cover a bunch of new features in Linux 5.6 and discuss the recent challenges facing LineageOS.

Apr 5, 2020

Brunch with Brent: Daniel Foré | Jupiter Extras 68

Brent sits down with Daniel Foré, founder of elementary OS and co-host of User Error. We explore his early years in design and software, formative aspects of Ubuntu and Gentoo, the philosophies and history of elementary OS, and more. Special Guest: Daniel Fore.

Apr 3, 2020

Storage Stories | TechSNAP 426

We take a look at Cloudflare's impressive Linux disk encryption speed-ups, and explore how zoned storage tools like dm-zoned and zonefs might help mitigate the downsides of Shingled Magnetic Recording.

Apr 2, 2020

Grains of Salt | BSD Now 344

Shell text processing, data rebalancing on ZFS mirrors, Add Security Headers with OpenBSD relayd, ZFS filesystem hierarchy in ZFS pools, speeding up ZSH, How Unix pipes work, grow ZFS pools over time, the real reason ifconfig on Linux is deprecated, clear your terminal in style, and more.

Apr 2, 2020

Windows as a Linux User + Sway Window Manager | Choose Linux 32

Ell tells us about her first ever experience with Windows 10 and how it compares with Linux. Plus Drew has been using a Wayland-based i3-like tiling window manager called Sway.

Apr 1, 2020

Arm is Here | LINUX Unplugged 347

We discover a few simple Raspberry Pi tricks that unlock incredible performance and make us re-think the capabilities of Arm systems.

Mar 31, 2020

User Error: What Will Change Post-virus? | Jupiter Extras 67

Joe, Alan, and Dan speculate about what the world will be like after the situation with Coronavirus is under control and life returns to something resembling normality. Special Guests: Alan Pope and Daniel Fore.

Mar 31, 2020

Linux Action News 151

Mozilla puts your money where your mouse is and partners with Scroll to launch Firefox for a Better Web. We'll explain the details, and why it might just have a shot.

Mar 29, 2020

Brunch with Brent: Aleix Pol | Jupiter Extras 66

Brent sits down with Aleix Pol, president of KDE e.V., KDE software developer, co-founder of Linux App Summit and Barcelona Free Software. We discuss his longstanding collaborations within the KDE community, developer sponsorships in open source business models, and more. Special Guest: Aleix Pol.

Mar 27, 2020

Well, Actually | User Error 88

The details that make a great distro, things that make us wince, smug people online, great photos, imposter syndrome, and more.

Mar 26, 2020

FreeBSD, Corona: Fight! | BSD Now 343

Fighting the Coronavirus with FreeBSD, Wireguard VPN Howto in OPNsense, NomadBSD 1.3.1 available, fresh GhostBSD 20.02, New FuryBSD XFCE and KDE images, pf-badhost 0.3 released, and more.

Mar 26, 2020

Keeping Track of Stuff | Self-Hosted 15

We have a neat self-hosted home inventory management system for preppers of any type, plus Chris' simple Home Assistant trick and Alex's valiant battle with the WebSockets daemon of the reverse proxies.

Mar 25, 2020

The One-Click Trap | LINUX Unplugged 346

We debate the dangers and advantages of one-click deployments. Then Dan from elementary OS shares an AppCenter for Everyone update.

Mar 24, 2020

Linux Action News 150

Why Debian is facing one of its most critical moments yet, Microsoft and GitHub buy npm, and our thoughts on Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 "Debbie."

Mar 21, 2020

Brunch with Brent: Stuart Langridge | Jupiter Extras 65

Brent sits down with Stuart Langridge, co-host of Bad Voltage, for an exploration of open source's "final mile", the text and language interface as a UX opportunity, terminals vs. search engines, Darwinian processes and crab-bucketism in software development, and more. Special Guest: Stuart Langridge.

Mar 20, 2020

Ryzen Gets Real | TechSNAP 425

We take a look at AMD's upcoming line of Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs, and share our first impressions of Ubuntu 20.04's approach to ZFS on root.

Mar 19, 2020

Layout the DVA | BSD Now 342

OpenBSD Full disk encryption with coreboot and tianocore, FreeBSD 12.0 EOL, ZFS DVA layout, OpenBSD’s Go situation, AD updates requires changes in TrueNAS and FreeNAS, full name of FreeBSD’s root account, and more.

Mar 19, 2020

Solus + Visual Studio Code | Choose Linux 31

We try out Solus and are all impressed by this independent distro. Then Ell and Drew sing the praises of Visual Studio Code - a text editor that's packed full of features.

Mar 18, 2020

Don't Go Viral, Go Virtual | LINUX Unplugged 345

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.

Mar 17, 2020

Behind the Scenes: LINUX Unplugged | Jupiter Extras 64

We share what goes into making LINUX Unplugged special, and have a laugh at some of our bad ideas from show past.

Mar 17, 2020

Linux Action News 149

Solid releases from GNOME and Firefox, bad news for custom Android ROM users, and a new container distro from Amazon.

Mar 14, 2020

Brunch with Brent: Elizabeth K. Joseph | Jupiter Extras 63

Brent sits down with Elizabeth K. Joseph, Developer Advocate at IBM Z, former Ubuntu Community Council member, and contributor to Ubuntu, Debian, Xubuntu, and others. We discuss her new passion for mainframes, her early contributions to open source projects, the niche opportunities in Z DevOps on mainframes, and more. Special Guest: Elizabeth K. Joseph.

Mar 13, 2020

AksError | User Error 87

Apps that make us feel old, emotional songs, using actual paper, evolution of language, IRC channels we never look at, and more.

Mar 12, 2020

U-NAS-ification | BSD Now 341

FreeBSD on Power, DragonflyBSD 5.8 is here, Unifying FreeNAS/TrueNAS, OpenBSD vs. Prometheus and Go, gcc 4.2.1 removed from FreeBSD base, and more.

Mar 12, 2020

Embracing Automation | Self-Hosted 14

Wendell Wilson is back, and he and Chris are struggling with their automation setups. Also, we chat about ideal home server hardware for a server or a pfSense box.

Mar 11, 2020

Our Week with Windows | LINUX Unplugged 344

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.

Mar 10, 2020