Episode 211: GeekLab Gift Guide

December 15th, 2020  |  56 mins 21 secs

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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!

Episode 210: CentOS Stream

December 8th, 2020  |  50 mins 46 secs

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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's free offering?

Episode 209: Getting Started with The Pinephone

December 1st, 2020  |  56 mins 21 secs

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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 has been released for Windows, and the KDE Edition of the Pinephone is now available.

Episode 208: Pipewire on Fedora

November 24th, 2020  |  56 mins 21 secs

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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 a 1.2TB data caps to the rest of their subscribers as of next year.

Episode 207: Defending Open Source

November 17th, 2020  |  56 mins 21 secs

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

Episode 206: Personal Backup Strategy

November 10th, 2020  |  56 mins 21 secs

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Certificates issued by Let's Encrypt will soon be signed solely by their own root certificate. It's problematic because of the lack of Android updates. Apple has released two ARM based Macs, there's a potential replacement for SCP and a stellar release of Gimp with support for Hi-DPI

Episode 205: The Internet is Forever

November 6th, 2020  |  47 mins 1 sec

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YouTube-DL is under attack, the RIAA thought it could remove YouTube-DL's source code off of the internet, does that work? There's a new Raspberry Pi on the block, built into a keyboard! Portainer a simple UI for container management in Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes, ACI and Edge environments. Questions from the community about syncing laptops, the Pinebook pro for photograph, and the perfect laptop charger on the go more this week!

Episode 204: Fedora 33 Review

October 27th, 2020  |  56 mins 21 secs

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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, you're choice, and some messengers are leaking your link previews!

Episode 203: The Ultimate Linux Workstation

October 20th, 2020  |  56 mins 21 secs

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System76 launches the Thelio Mega. This is the world's smallest quad-GPU workstation for deep learning and scientific computing. Matrix says "no thanks" to backdoor encryption and instead suggests a different way to combat abuse. Pine64 has a new site for their store, a type-c soldering iron, and the DOJ has filed a long awaited antitrust suit against Google.

Episode 202: Intro to CGroups with Steve Ovens

October 13th, 2020  |  56 mins 24 secs

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!

Episode 201: Fedora 33 with Matthew Miller

October 6th, 2020  |  56 mins 21 secs

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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!

Episode 200: Ham Radio Linux Superstation

September 29th, 2020  |  56 mins 22 secs

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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!

Episode 199: Privacy Comes at a Price

September 22nd, 2020  |  56 mins 21 secs

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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 the push for privacy continues.

Episode 198: Age of AI

September 15th, 2020  |  56 mins 22 secs

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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 feedback, and more!.

Episode 197: Proper Password Security

September 8th, 2020  |  56 mins 21 secs

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Most people aren't choosing password that are secure enough. Professional attackers are able to crack up to 90% of passwords chosen by most people. The tools both for breaking passwords and saving them are open source. Thunderbird begins rolling version 78 and Alphabet Inc has a new end to end web platform for tracking and dealing with COVID in the workplace.

Episode 196: Amazon Bottlerocket's Distro

September 1st, 2020  |  53 mins 59 secs

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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 systems that are updated package-by-package, which makes OS updates difficult to automate.