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The Oryx Pro from System76 claims to be a desktop replacement, with a lot of expandability & a ton of compute power. But do the specs & features match the price? We review one of the most potentially promising laptops built for Linux yet. If you could only buy one machine, should this be it? Tune in to find out! Plus is Linux Mint rushing into a collapse? We get really excited about the Pyra and you might too, big updates on the Linux desktop & more!

Noah & Emma set out to switch as many users to Linux as possible. Our team documents their competition to switch the most people to Linux within two hours in the Pacific Northwest!

Our biggest live event yet, from the floor of LinuxFest Northwest 2016. We chat about the future of Linux desktop software, old friends from the past stop by & the switch competition is on!

We review Ubuntu 16.04 & it’s various flavors. We discuss the new features that make this one of the most important Ubuntu releases in years & debate the major challenges that modern distributions have solved, that Ubuntu still struggles with. Plus the latest stats show Ubuntu dominating where it counts, how Red Hat is making all that money, Linux in ALL the places, our weekly picks & more!

It started with speaking about Open Source. Were you thinking the Emma vs Noah showdown wasn't worth making it out? Do you have doubts that Noah can switch your friends & family? Take a trip with us & see for yourself what it takes to convert Mac & Windows users to Linux! We dive in & spend an evening with the Sandbagger crew switching their whole house to Linux, then they talk about how they're going to switch the class they're teaching next semester! Plus Linus’ hopes for the Linux desktop, setting up a network wide ad blocker using Pi-Hole & more!

Microsoft & Ubuntu working together to bring you Bash & the Ubuntu userland on Windows 10. Is this the ultimate Win for Linux? Or is this Embrace, Extend, Extinguish at its finest? We share our thoughts on this historic announcement. Plus Red Hat wants to save you some money, TP-Link bans OSS firmwares, Edubuntu calls it quits, our new favorite note taking app for Linux & more!

We risk it all and toss our data into the new ownCloud 9 to give you our review. Find out about using ownCloud as an Evernote killer, Federated servers & the long-term commitment you're making as an ownCloud user. Plus Red Hat’s big news, the new Gnome & things go to the next level in our upcoming switch competition.

Jonathan Riddell joins us to discuss the KDE Neon project, the latest & greatest of KDE community software packaged on a rock-solid base. We kick the tires and give you our first impressions. Is this finally the Plasma Desktop just the way we’ve always wanted it?

What’s the best software under Linux to create music? We answer that & the best hardware that work together. We have something for the musician to casual hardware geek, we cover the dark art of creating music under Linux as we go inside Noah’s music studio and see what he uses. Plus we chat with ownCloud’s Community Manager about the new features in version 9, our thoughts on Microsoft’s SQL for Linux announcement & more!

In special Rasberry Pi 3 edition of the show we look at the new hardware, review & chat with Mycroft CTO Ryan Sipes on how important the Raspberry Pi is for development of their open artificial intelligence platform & get the latest news. Plus replacing Spotify on Linux, the new Microsoft lock-in, our hosts face a moral quandary & more!

Has Entroware built the ultimate 13 inch Linux laptop? We put their Apollo through our battery of tests & review this good looking Skylake powered Linux portable. Plus Microsoft buys the folks behind Mono, Canonical might have a ZFS fight on their hands & more!

Is the Librem 15 the ultimate Linux laptop? We review Purism’s Librem 15 laptop, crowd funded and pitched as “the first high-end laptop in the world that ships without mystery software in the kernel, operating system, or any software applications.” Does it live up to the promise? Have we found the true Linux powered MacBook killer? Plus Linux Mint gets attacked, Ubuntu Touch on hardware you really want, why real ZFS support on Linux is near….

This week we talk about how you can have a working web forum in 10 minutes or less & all open source! Last week we talked about team collaboration software, but what about when you need a wider approach? In the news we talk about an open source router; Russia dumping Windows, more updates to video editing on Linux, a super special live unboxing & more!

Teams collaborating over Slack is the new hot trend sweeping many open source projects, communities & others. We compare Rocket.Chat, Mattermost & Slack. See which best protects your privacy & makes it easier than ever to work with a group of people. Don’t hate, collaborate with this week’s episode! Plus all the details on the announced Ubuntu Tablet, the Keybase filesystem & more!

We share our best stories from 2016’s SCALE14x. From the highlights to the bar fights we talk about what it's like to attend one of the largest community driven Linux events in the world. Plus the Linux Trojan that’s snapping screenshots & recording audio, Linux Mint is building their own X-Apps, your live calls & more!

In this special episode of LAS, we go off the rails as we buckle down & prep for our visit to SCaLE live on the air! Plus picks, your feedback & more!

We celebrate 400 episodes of the Linux Action Show, show you how easy it is to setup your own free phone system, never flash another USB stick again & the big Ubuntu rumors. Plus the openSSH bug you need to patch, the Steam Link SDK, Gnome 3 changes & more!

What if your humble hosts could have there way? A wave of their magic wands, whatever they want changed in Linux Land in 2016 would just happen? We spend sometime this week fantasizing about all things we wish would happen this year to make Linux better. Plus the welcome change in Ubuntu 16.04, Firefox OS finds new life, desktop picks that changed our lives & more!

We make our annual predictions for the land of Linux in 2016, Google drops the openJDK bomb & we pay tribute to Ian Murdock. Plus we announce our SCaLE 14x plans, some changes to the show & more!

Some of our very favorite moments from 2015. Witness as Chris attempts to slam a whole bunch of big show into one big show. Our favorite interview, our biggest rant & our most popular howto. Plus a look back at classic on-location moments from the year.

Inspired by the Let’s Encrypt project, we break down the basics of SSL & how easy it is to set up on your Linux box now. Plus hacking GRUB by hitting backspace 28 times, the Linux Foundation wants the Blockchain, without the Bitcoin and their bedfellows are concerning, the steady steps towards cross distro application bundles & more!

Plasma Desktop 5.5 shipped this week. We cover what’s new, what's improved & what work still remains for the latest & greatest from KDE. Plus some of the great supporting cast of applications that make the Plasma desktop great. Plus Mozilla ends their Smartphone plans, Microsoft is offering a Linux certification, the new KeePassX, your feedback & more!

Linux Mint 17.3 proves you can based a Linux desktop on a stable core (Ubuntu 14.04) & still deliver an innovative and polished desktop. We take back some of our concerns about Linux Mint & discuss the areas where they are pushing user experience forward. Plus Mozilla plans to dump Thunderbird, the big release that completely ignores Windows & more!

It’s a special holiday edition of the Linux Action Show & we get thankful for some super important, innovative, and critically necessary open source projects. We throw out the format and cover many projects listed in our notes & off the tops of our heads. Plus some really unique weekly picks, through providing feedback… AND A FEW SURPRISES! All this week on, the Linux Action Show!

We review Solus OS, a new distribution from scratch with it’s own GTK based desktop called Budgie. Budgie is the flagship desktop of the Solus Operating System & we give you our first impressions. Plus projects like Jolla & Canonical's convergence have been doomed from the start, the big changes coming to GTK, the Plasma desktop gets another great release, highlights from the 2015 kernel summit & more!

We traveled to Denver Colorado to meet the folks behind System76, tour their office & record a live show on location. Join us as we go behind the scenes of a dedicated Linux hardware manufacture. Plus Linux goes to space, Firefox OS has a new trick, the good news for open source router firmware & more!

Fedora 23 has hit the web and we think this is the release that changes everything, forever. Find out why we think the changes made in Fedora 23 make this nearly a future proof distribution in some work cases. Plus Linus Torvalds is under attack this week from multiple sources, we’ll break down one of the more technical assaults, Ubuntu is finally killing the software center & the biggest feature coming to systemd ever, just got delayed.

We go 350ft into the air to find out how Linux powers a wireless ISP (WISP). Get an inside look at how a modern services business can be built around Linux. Plus our thoughts on Chrome OS & Android merging, what it means for desktop Linux, new secure messaging options & more!

Our review of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, what new, noteworthy changes there are & who we think this new release is just right for. Also, we look the various flavors with bold new features worth checking out. Plus Kubuntu’s release manager calls it quits, our impressions of the Steam Controller & more!

Our best open source alternatives to LastPass. We run down the easy, the straight forward & the totally custom solutions to rolling your password managment. All our picks are totally open source, auditable & ready to use today. Plus the first reviews of the Steam Machines hit the web, Red Hat’s big buy, GIMP in your browser & more!

It might just be the future of openSUSE. We take a indepth look at openSUSE Leap 42.1 beta. Find out why this might be the most ambitious Linux distribution release to date, the features that appeal the power user & the newbie. Plus the Linux malware that fixes up your box, why it might never be the year of the Linux desktop, the Linux botnet that hits with 150 Gbps DDoS attacks & more!

Home automation can make you feel like you're living in the future. This week we dig into the technology, advantages & disadvantages to fully automating all aspects of your home or office. We share our hard learned lessons! Plus Valve’s huge milestone, what’s great about Gnome 3.18, Ubuntu powered Drones, the creepy Windows 10 feature that’s pushing people to adopt Linux & more!

Emby is an open source home media server, that brings all of your media together into one place & automatically converts and streams your media on-the-fly to any device. In other words, a legitimate Plex competitor. We give you our in-depth look. Plus Microsoft announces its own Linux distribution, why it's the year of the Linux Desktop in China, why it might be time to drop VirtualBox & more!

After the last straw Noah dumps Gmail, shares his battle and solution & Chris runs down five great open source Gmail alternatives. Plus why Dell stopped shipping the XPS 13 in Europe, a big update to a Linux video editor, the news of the week & more!

We finally share our getting started with Linux stories. And it turns out, it was nearly a freak happenstance for both of us & some great stories from our community. Plus the Safe Wifi campaign you need to know about, we discuss the new elementaryOS, an update on the Munich situation & more!

Share your terminal as a web application with anyone in the world in seconds, we’ll show you how. Why Ubuntu’s dominance over EC2 matters so much, Munich follow up, why Cortona can go suck a banana & more!

We take you to LinuxCon like never before. The container trend goes big and community leaders are taking bold stands & the quiet debate that’s brewing. Plus a super thin Linux laptop, Google’s Linux router the OnHub, Munich to ditch Linux for Windows & more!

System76’s Serval WS is in house & we put it through our series of tests. With it’s 4Ghz Intel i7 CPU and Nvidia 970M GPU we set out to see what kind of workloads this desktop replacement is ideal for. Is the claim that a laptop can replace your desktop really true? We aim to find out! Plus the insane popularity of Chromebooks, how Google just gave a major boost to desktop Linux, looking back at 18 years of Gnome & more!

We take a deep dive into the basics of getting a home network up and running. It you’ve lived with whatever the ISP has given you have no fear, not only are we going to show you how to do it, it’s going to be all done from Linux! Plus Firefox has a major flaw that impacts Linux users, an update on the Jolla tablet, we discuss our big format experiment & more!

How do two long-time Linux users react to trying Windows 10? This week we run Windows so you don’t have to. How does Windows 10 compare to the modern Linux desktop, are it’s best new features a knockoff, and what areas does Windows 10 pull ahead? It’s a review of Windows 10 like you won’t find anywhere else!

It was a huge OSCON this year, and we have a bunch of great interviews from the floor. We’ll feature some amazing Linux powered gadgets, exciting hardware, and our massive interview with Todd Weaver, the man behind Purism Librem 13 and the Librem 15 Linux laptops. Plus our thoughts on the Plasma Phone, the Linux distro adding secret watermarks to files & more!

The best remote desktop experience has never been easier, we’ll show you the power of X2Go with the security of SSH! Plus the push to kill flash picks up, Firefox OS fork “H5OS” gets a $100 million boost, how to watch Amazon Prime video under Linux & more!

Take your Linux logins up to the next level with YubiKey. YubiKeys support one-time passcode, smart card & more – enabling one security key to an unlimited number of applications. Today we’ll show you how to make it work with SSH under Linux. Plus our thoughts on the NSA using Red Hat, the big changes coming to openSUSE, our picks & more!

From total beginner to photo pro, we’ll share workflow tips, tools, tricks & backup techniques to super-charge your photography workflow under Linux. Plus the Pinos project promises to bring PulseAudio to video, how DirectX11 is coming to Linux, the Yotaphone upset, OwnCloud dreams & more!

Find out about the best software and hardware to make and take amazingly good sounding calls. From the best open source solutions, to turnkey solutions today’s episode has something from the beginner to the expert. Plus Google removes "always listening" code from Chromium, The Linux Foundation invests some serious cash, why Red Hat’s CEO thinks Linux has “won” the datacenter & more!

The linux action show sits down to have a chat with Red Hat!

Exclusive interviews and coverage from one of the show’s favorite events, SouthEast LinuxFest, aka SELF 2015. Find out the latest with the Ubuntu project, a humble approach to Linux advocacy & how the boundaries of science are being pushed by Linux. Plus the new MATE release, HP kills The Machine, a quick update on Ubuntu's Unity 8 & more!

Who doesn't like a good party? Some folks will tell you that Linux is boring, or for geeks. This week we'll show you how you can have a very loud and bright time with Linux. Plus Valve officially pins down a Steam Machine launch date. More encryption for Linux, and did the CHIP guys underestimate the cost of their $9 computer? Plus some great feedback, some helpful app picks & more!

Fedora 22 builds on top of the great Fedora 21 release. With big changes like the new DNF package manager, Gnome 3.16, and more there is a lot to talk about and a few bumps. We’ll share our experience with Fedora’s latest and greatest! Plus why Mandriva shutdown, SourceForge messes with GIMP, the Kubuntu drama we don’t want to talk about, great feedback, some helpful app picks & more!