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This week there are fantastic FOSS software releases, Element, PineNote, and an open source time keeping device that fits on a PCI card, the company behind the development will blow your mind!

Apple has announced a new update that will allow scanning of your private photos. Firefox 91 is released, and the new US infrastructure bill means you might be paying per mile to drive an EV.

Steve Ovens returns to lay out his plans for his new house as well as ask the community for input on best practices. Standford AIMI center is expanding it's free repository of medical datasets for AI research, and Steam hits 1% Linux users again!

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is warning of world in which no phone is safe from state-sponsored hackers. A new version of Plasma Mobile is out, and Valve has released a portable gaming device, running Arch with KDE!

We've received a ton of email asking how to get off Gsuite, and what alternative providers are out there. This week we dig in and go through the top alternatives to Gsuite.

After a privacy policy update to Audacity, a FOSS audio editing software has been forked. Google is forcing new apps to use app bundles instead of APKs starting in August, and Jim Whitehurst steps down from his role just 14 months in.

Mix has a new release, The Linux Foundation is working on an open voice network, the Baltimore PD surveillance plane has been shut down by a judge, and we share what we know about Windows 11,

This week we're focusing on your questions! We take your calls, answer emails, and with the help of the community we solve some Linux problems!

Inkscape has a new release, ChromeOS 91 will support Linux apps out of beta. Sublime Text 4 is out with new features, we look at a peer to peer web browser and we take Natron an open source animation compositor for a spin.

Matrix has revamped communities into spaces! This brings Matrix in line with many other team collaboration software platforms. We talk about a correction to ipv6 privacy, video editing on a Chromebook, Rocky Linux release, and more!

In this episode Steve joins us again to discuss networking. Building on the knowledge from our last episode we dig further into ipv6 and other network technology!

Linux Foundation drops the ban-hammer on University of Minnesota over controversial 'research' experiment but there's a twist, the code recently submitted was not part of the research. We feature open source firmware for IP cameras, an all in one.

We dig into Ubuntu 21.04 latest release. 9 months of updates, dark theme, Pipewire and Wayland make this a fantastic release! We cover your feedback, take your calls, and talk about the guy who hacked the company hacking your cell phone!

Matthew Miller joins the show to talk about next week's release of Fedora 34, with Gnome 40 and Pipewire there is no shortage of exciting changes coming to the distro. We take your calls, and emails and answer questions!

Fedora 34 Beta is out with Gnome 40. This is a major rework of Gnome and the payoff was worth the wait!

Apple has rejected important updates to the ProtonVPN iOS app. This decision compromises the ability of the people of Myanmar to preserve their human rights by submitting information to the UN. We discuss a FOSS IT inventory and asset system, and a RPi.

A federal grand jury today returned an indictment against the Chief Executive Officer and an associate of the Canada-based firm Sky Global on charges that they provided encrypted devices used for illegal activities.

The Blackbird Secure Desktop is a POEWR9 system, a fully open source modern POWER9 workstation without any proprietary code. Plasma mobile has a new update out, we talk bluetooth headsets, VoIP phone systems, and a one handed keyboard!

The Gnome design team conducted a research project to better understand their users. The results were surprising! We'll give you an update about the Vero 4K, a FOSS app to track your GPS history.

Have you ever dreamed of having a virtual enviorment that can simulate the real world in, have meetings in, and connect with others in. Firefox has new protections for supercookies, ubuntu has a new installer out, and CloudLinux has a beta of AlmaLinux

RedHat is expanding the developer program making it easier than ever to access RHEL! Now individuals can run 16 RHEL servers under this new program. Brian Exelbierd joins us this hour to discuss this new program and how it addresses many of the concerns

Self-hosting has always been a good idea but when your platform doesn't want to serve you, we have some self-hosted options that will. A Reddit user has Linux booting on an iPhone 7, a man was quoted $50K to run fiber to his house, he setup his own ISP

We're kicking off 2021 with a bang! The KDE team has announced a new focus on Wayland and fingerprint readers. Cawbird 1.3 a native twitter client for Linux has a new release with improved video uploading and replies, and Matrix will power FOSDEM!

Greg Kurtzer executive director of Rocky Linux a bug for bug RedHat distribution joins us this hour to tell the story of CentOS and what his vision for Rocky Linux is!

RedHat may have replaced CentOS Linux with CentOS stream but Gregory Kurtzer has launched his own replacement based as CentOS was on the RHEL source code. We help you pick out tech gifts for that geek in your life!

CentOS is dead long live Centos Stream! CentOS Stream is a way of getting newer packages out to the community so developers have the latest and greatest, but this comes at the cost of the previous goals of CentOS. Does this increase the security of RedHat

The Pinephone might be the best $200 you can spend on a project for yourself or with your family. Now it's easier than ever to flash new operating systems to the phone. OpenZFS 2.0 has been released, a new version of Wireguard is released!

A proposal has been put forward to use PipeWire by default in Fedora. Neal Gompa Fedora contributor joins us to discuss! A new release of KStarts 3.5.0. Lemmy.ml, a decentralized alternative to Reddit enabled federation and Comcast rolls out mre data caps

YouTube-DL is back on GitHub! GitHub has started a legal defense fund, and Plasma mobile has been released!

Fedora 33 is out! We take Fedora for a test drive. There's a new project on the block that aims to make Containers easy to use for everyone! XDA has partnered to bring a new phone, the Pro1-X and shipping with Ubunut AND Linage!

Steve Ovens from RedHat joins to discuss CGroups! Manjaro Arm the new default on PineBook releases 20.10. We answer some self hosted photo options, remote VPN access, plus our picks!

Matthew Miller joins the program to discuss Fedora 33! With BTRFS as the default file system, Gnome 3.38, and Fedora IoT an official Fedora Edition, this is a big release! Nextcloud Hub 20 is out and it's a game changer we discuss why!

We celebrate episode 200 by sharing our plans to serve the community better! Ham Radio has come a long way from tubes and dials. Alex Archer KC0REL joins us to discuss building the ideal ham shack on Linux!

Microsoft releases Edge for Linux, the founder of ARM has starts a fund to "save ARM" from NVIDIA, and Facebook threatens to shut down it's access to the UK if their push for privacy continues.

The DLN crew joins Noah to discuss the $40B proposed deal NVIDIA and SoftBank announced a definitive agreement for NVIDIA to acquire Arm from SoftBank. Mark Shuttleworth responds to community concerns that he's not involved enough, plus the picks, your fe

Bottlerocket is a Linux-based open-source operating system that is purpose-built by Amazon Web Services for running containers on virtual machines or bare metal hosts. Most customers today run containerized applications on general-purpose operating system

Linux and virtualization have made operating your office out of a box a reality! It turns out smart doorbells are not such a smart choice, RedHat now support multi-path TCP, and Cockpit has a new update!

James is Executive Director of the OpenPower Foundation, joins us to discuss what's new with OpenPOWER. Mozilla is downsizing, an open source Linux handheld is available for pre-order.

Masks are being debated around the US and around the world but what do they do for privacy? China has facial recognition software that works even with face masks but NIST has shown that's not always the case! F5 has a major vulnerability.

The European Court of Justice invalidates Privacy Shield. The Court clarified for a second time now that there is a clash between EU privacy law and US surveillance law. Pine phone has a convergence package, and the Linux Foundation now has an open source

The Btrfs team joins the Ask Noah Show to set the record straight. Btrfs is being used at Facebook and has been selected as the default filesystem for Fedora! The EARN-IT act is back with a second verison, this one might be worse than the first.

Security and privacy is a moving target but ProtonMail is staying ahead of the curve. Join Dr. Andy Yen as he talks end to end encryption, the privacy aspect of protests, and the status and future of ProtonDrive!

SELF was remote this year but that means next year will be bigger than ever! More presenter rooms, more interaction from remote attendees. Jeremy Sands and producer JT join us this hour to discuss SELF and it's future. The CIA had it's biggest leak in his

Matrix is the communications platform you've been waiting for. Sick of being on Slack, Telegram, IRC, and Signal? Join one platform to rule them all!

Google & Apple have released their answer to contact tracing and for once it seems like they may be taking the side of their users! Microsoft is adding GUI support for Linux apps on Windows and Linus has switched to team red!

Founder and CEO of System76 Carl Richell joins us to discuss their latest release of PopOS 20.04. This incredible release features auto-tiling and is designed to empower anyone who is creating, or developing on the Linux Desktop!

Bill Carter, the CTO of the Open Compute Project joins us to discuss a new way of building a rack for a data center. The OCP uses a tool-less, modern, efficient design and best of all - the plans are open and available!

Kris Moore joins us to talk about the upcoming release of FreeNAS. OpenZFS, per dataset encryption, new features that they've pulled from TrueNAS and tons of other improvements.

The latest release of Ubuntu is out and it takes polish to a whole new level! ZFS support, security enhancements, snap packages and so much more!

Jason Donenfeld lead developer joins us this hour to discuss WireGuard, an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography.