This week is full, with chat about KDE's new, upcoming distro; the details on Kernel 6.12 and what's coming with 6.13; and the latest scoop on Microsoft's .NET. Then there's copy-on-write, Ubuntu 25.04 news, and Framework's RISC-V mainboard/ For tips we have unalias, ngspice, pw-link, and a github hack for removing offline runners. Catch the show notes at https://bit.ly/4fvweO2 and until next week! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Jeff Massie, and Ken McDonald Want access...

This week we're still waiting for Ubuntu Core, But the wait is over for AMD's new 9800X3D processor! We get better kernel PWM support, Russia appears to be forking the kernel, the Mozilla Foundation makes cuts, and Framework is teaming with Mint. For tips we have pw-cat for sniffing on Pipewire, nvtop for sniffing on your GPU, ssh jump servers, and the zen browser. Find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4fmWf22 and enjoy! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: David Ruggles, Ken McDonald, and...

The guys are talking about VMWare moving to KVM, Ubuntu's missing kernel PPA, Microsoft's endorsement of Alma Linux, and Jonathan does a live update to Fedora 41. It goes mostly well. X has another vulnerablity, The kernel makes a minor fix, and a Valve engineer finds a massive perfomance fix in AMD drivers. For tips we have bc for a simple calulator, baobab for file usage visualization, pw-top for keeping track of Pipewire processes, and ccze for colorizing your logs. See the show notes at...

This week we chat about the Snapdragon processors and Linux support, then look at the Bitwarden license hiccup, and spend some time talking about the Linux Kernel removing Russian-aligned maintainers. We get a laugh out of the MALIBAL meltdown, take a look at what's coming with Alma Linux 10, and cover the OBS move to semantic versioning. For tips we have ss for socket stats, rtorrent for downloading Linux ISOs from the command line, and an intro to the pipewire command line. See the show...

We start with Quantum Computing and RSA, Chat about Nvidia and the AI craze, and end with the the Wordpress drama. In between we cover updates to Ardour, Calibre, KDE Plasma, and Clonezilla. And finally there's some kernel news, like proxy execution for better performance, and OpenZFS coverage. For tips we have pathchk for filesystem portability checks, how-to for freezing a package version in Ubuntu, and an intro to the network tool netcat. The show notes are at https://bit.ly/40awxsQ and...

We cover linux for better Mac gaming, Thunderbird's Android beta, and NVIDIA's Wayland progress. There's Open Razer, the release of Ubuntu 24.10, and more news about Gnome foundation. And don't forget the AMD Epyc Turin server CPU release with impressive AVX-512 support. For tips, we have "look" for doing dictionary lookups, yum and dnf tricks, pv for monitoring or slowing a pipe, and bless for a useful hex editor GUI. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/4876oxh and until next time! Host:...

This week we cover news from Pine on another piece of hardware that runs doom, network manager and Godot have a shared struggle, and FFMpeg drops 7.1. Then we chat Audacious, Look at XFCE's Wayland work, talk about Linux 6.12, and reminisce about bittorrent. For tips, there's Etchdroid for writing boot disks from Android, install for command line installations, neovim for editing needs, and truncate for trimming bytes off the end of files. The show notes are available at...

It's another week of big Linux news, starting with a new Ardour release, that one of our hosts had a tiny part in. The Winamp source release has been a trainwreck, Cloudflare spills the tea on their newest servers, and Valve is shaking things up. Proton may be adding support for Arm64 gaming, Valve engineers are laying down a challenge to Wayland, and a new DXVK is out with a bunch of fixes. And don't forget, we have in-depth coverage of the big "9.9" Linux vulnerability that turned out to be...

This week we muse on upcoming Raspberry Pi products, prompted by confirmation from Ubuntu that the CM5 is imminent. Then Torvalds has thought on Rust in Linux, Wind River has thoughts on Red Hat, and AWS gives OpenSearch away. Don't miss the non-update on Wireguard, the DirectX surprise, and the long-awaited merge of the Real Time Linux patches! For tips we have Mapscii, a Github hack for self-hosted runners, glances, and udisksctl. Catch the show notes at https://bit.ly/4esXYSC and enjoy! ...

This week we chat about yet another Linux mobile device, the new AlmaLinux certification script, and Ubuntu's fine-grained security controls. Then there's the Attack Vector Controls, Redox OS, and some much-needed updates to Apt. For tips we have Hardinfo for hardware details, findmnt part 2 for tracking your drives, Planify for person task management, and auditctl for system auditing and monitoring. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/4gErdnF and be back next week! Host: Jonathan Bennett ...

Open Source Programmers need to eat, The 6.11 kernel is right around the corner, and Ubuntu 24.04 has a critical bug. Rhino Linux looks promising, the Furi Phone impresses, and Firefox marches on. For tips, we have Bleachbit for desktop cleanup, findmnt for filesystem info, DebPostInstall for the things you ought to do after a fresh install, and mqtt-explorer for sorting the firehose of data from an MQTT server. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4egaTY8 and Enjoy! Host: Jonathan...

The week brings the drama, from kernel hackers retiring in frustration, to a panning take on COSMIC, to a high profile fork of a very popular database program. It's not all drama, as Linux celebrates an all-time high in market share, Microsoft's LinkedIn moves to Microsoft's Azure Linux, and the Mono project calls Wine its new home. For tips we have findfs for looking up filesystem devices, bython for python with braces instead of whitespace, and gh for command line Github manipulation. You...

The gang is back, and the big, weird news is that Microsoft is fixing Grub, and it may break your Linux dual boot. Then Torvalds talks about kernel work, AI, Rust, and more. Ubuntu is late, but will be fresher; Libreoffice ships 24.8; and Winter is coming for GIMP 3. For tips we have no more secrets for fun movie-style faux decryption, ProtonUp-Qt for managing Proton versions, brew for installing isolated software stacks, and crtlaltdel for managing what exactly your machine does in response...

This week the guys are chatting about Snap improvements, the new Ryzen 9 9000 chips, and Debian 11 hitting LTS. Then they chat about Tails, Proton VPN, and ClamAV 1.4 all for security. Then Ubuntu prepares for 24.10 with some Easter eggs, and HandBrake fixes some irritating problems. For tips we have Cosmic community projects, Reflector for Arch Mirrors, wl-clipboard, and a one-liner to apply patches from a URL. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3M836zB and see you next week! ...

We're talking about Linux on the Snapdragon laptops, AMD's latest chips, and LibCurl's 24th birthday. Then there are SerpentOS and Cosmic previews to try, and Firefox teases releases 129 and 130. And don't miss the scoop on GhostWire, the devastating vulnerability in a couple of RISC-V chips. For tips, we have Oneko for mouse cursor fun, feh for command line image viewing, xsel and xclp for manipulating the clipboard, and sensible for a sensible alternative for alternatives. See the show...

Xen 4.19 is released with a new 9pfs backend, why Snap and Flatpak make Linux a better OS and how they're different, FOSSA is buying StackShare, Canonical saw a $251M revenue last year and grew to more than 1,000 employees, and Intel extends its CPU warranties for its 13th and 14th-gen desktop CPUs as a result of crashing 13th and 14th-gen CPUs. Show notes for this episode: https://bit.ly/3LYtZFP Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: David Ruggles and Jeff Massie Want access to the video...

It's about time that Fwupd supports the Pi 5, the kernel has moved to a minimum Rust version, and we chat about the TinyWatch. Then Fedora is headed towards some sane metric reporting, Curl fixes a vulnerability and blames C for it, and Gnome worries us again. For tips we have a Rust coreutils howto, a Bitlocker decryptor, and pdfgrep for finding text in PDFs. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3YoBCNk and see you next week! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: David Ruggles and...

This week We chat about AMD's drive for Raytracing performance, Nvidia's push towards open kernel drivers, what Fedora did to help make that possible, and what's new in Kernel 6.10. Then Linux is making Rust safer, OpenSUSE is having a crisis, and oh yeah, the world's computers were bricked this weekend. It was a good day to be Linux users. For tips we have shuf for text suffling and mr for managing repositories en masse. Find the show notes at https://bit.ly/46cWzwA and have a great week! ...

We start with gaming, talking about Bottles, Raytracing comparisons, and the Godot engine. We give the Zed editor a try, talk about changes at the Gnome foundation, and go all in on Wayland. Then put an M.2 drive in a Pi case, chat about Clonezilla, and celebrate Comet as the Linux implementation of GOG's Galaxy. For tips, we have findmnt, PiHole, run0, and hexyl. Find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4f1JTfV and enjoy! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Jeff Massie, Rob Campbell, and Ken...

We take a victory lap for Linux, Cover the SSH vulnerability in great detail, and discuss Fedora's proposal to include opt-in telemetry. KDE ships an update, Nexus Mods is coming to Linux, and Meta has a clever link time optimization approach for the kernel. For tips, we have inxi for better system info, rolldice for all your command line dice rolling needs, dvtm and abduco for simple terminal splitting and detaching, and ollama for running LLMs locally. You can find the show notes at...

We're diving into the weeds this week, talking about tapeouts, PCI-E specifications, and kernel scheduling on today's oddball systems. There are releases to check out, like the latest OpenShot, Pipewire, and Raspberry Pi Connect. And finally we look to the future of Ubuntu, Gnome, and X11. For tips we have umask, shebang, and archiemount. Find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4eH3zFZ and enjoy! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Jeff Massie and David Ruggles Want access to the video...

It's another Linux laptop, and this time Framework is bringing the RISC-V heat. There's an LTS battle brewing, KDE pushes 6.1 with more fixes, and X Windows turns 40. And don't forget the Firefox beta, Raspberry Pi going Monochrome, and more news about Kaspersky. For tips, we have a tiling shell in Gnome, the fuser command for finding what's using that file, nproc for showing off how many cores your new machine has, and how to convince your browser to visit that IPv6 address instead of just...

We're excited for Linux laptops, the Rocket Accelerator for Rokchips, and a new programming language for Bash scripts. Then there's the extensible scheduler coming to 6.11 because Torvalds says so, NVIDIA making a move on the upstream kernel, and a bit of a change for ChromeOS. For tips, we have the quake terminal, a tmux environment variable, and an automount command to pick up your missing mounts. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/4esmR1N and enjoy! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts:...

Kaspersky has released a virus scanner for Linux; should you run it? OpenBSD finally has Wayland support, OBS has a new Beta, and WSL leans into the Hypervisor. Then there's Gnome, which sort of worries us. Then for tips we've got gping for a snazzy ping tui, iVentoy for a selectable PXE boot, devicetree options in Grub, and hostnamectl. The show notes are at https://bit.ly/4aSADaP and we will see you next time! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Ken McDonald, and David...