Chitchat Mike, Conor and Martin were at OggCamp 🤓🏕️ Jeroen Baten's talk (video wasn't available at the time of recording) ⏲️ Terence and Elizabeth Eden's benches talk and Terence's SVG talk . 🖼️ Stuart Ward's 🗺️ OpenStreetMap Talk The recorded 🎞️ main stage streams are on YouTube, Saturday is here and Sunday is here Zeb's 📹 YouTube channel News The Document 📃 Foundation supports GNOME Foundation's fight against a ⚖️👺💩 patent troll Austin Meyer's YouTube channel , includes clips from The...
Oct 28, 2019•1 hr 9 min
Chitchat Mike: switching to OpenSUSE + Plasma and Kubuntu News Matrix receives funding and Nvidia contributes to Blender . 💶🌧️ (via GamingOnLinux) 🤷♂️ RMS: No major changes to the GNU project, meanwhile some GNU project devs call for him to go 🤢 (via Phoronix) System76 launches 💻💻 with Coreboot (via Phoronix) Linus 💙 Microsoft (well, is not anti-them , anyway) (via omg! ubuntu!) Facebook's Libra crypto to have an open source competition 🤑📕 (via The Verge) Discussion What Projects Would...
Oct 14, 2019•56 min
Chitchat We are joined by Michael Tunnell 🤩🎤 of Destination Linux Network and This Week in Linux Shane 🖌️ learned Blender from BlenderGuru tutorials and found the Linus Torvalds Auditorium in the University of Helsinki. Conor was too humble to mention this on air, but he 🎙️ appeared as a guest on Linux For Everyone and Big Daddy Linux Spotlight Mike was sunning ☀️ his arse in Spain and watching flat Earth debunking videos on YouTube News 🥴 RMS staying on as the head of GNU. via Phoronix Lin...
Sep 30, 2019•1 hr 22 min
News Facebook got 💢💰 slapped with a $5B fine ( CNN via Linux Journal ) The Cambridge Analytica scandal 🤯 Facebook 👌 Open Source ⚛️ React JavaScript library Btrfs at 💽 Facebook EEE 🤗↔️💀 Microsoft joins private 🔒📧 Linux kernel mailing list ✏️ Ubisoft and 🎮 Epic to support 💶💶💶 Blender ( GamingOnLinux ) KDEConnect 📱🔗🖥️ is being ported to Windows 10 ( omg! ubuntu! ) The effort is part of ⛱️🤖 Google Summer of Code Mirror 📱➡️🖥️ you Android phone from Ubuntu ( omg! ubuntu! ) New Pineb...
Jul 29, 2019•1 hr
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Jul 22, 2019•51 sec
Chitchat Conor: Replacing sleep with a 🚆 commute across Dublin Mike: Playing with a new toy, the 🌟💻 Entroware Kratos Shane: Playing with a free router and a free network switch from Back From The Future and a 🥧 Rapsberry Pi 4 News Pinebook Pro 💻 preorders are going to go live on 📅 25/7/2019. MintBox 3 looks like it's going to be a decently specced machine. 🖥️ It's based on the passively cooled Compulab Airtop 3, as reviewed in this YouTube video by Linus Tech Tips. (via Gaming on Linux ) ...
Jul 08, 2019•55 min
Chitchat All of us were at FOSS Talk Live and it was phenomenal! News Facebook and friends announce a new 🤐💶 cryptocurrency called Libra (Via Hacker News ) . Linux Mint Vs Windows 10 Speed Test (From OMG Ubuntu ) ⚡🧪🖥️ Ubuntu 19.10 dropping 32-bit support: There has been a development after the recording, a Ubuntu dev explained that they were not dropping support for 32-bit, but freezing 🥶📚 32-bit libraries at the 18.04 LTS versions and that 🎮 games would still work. (From Phoronix ) Pineb...
Jun 24, 2019•58 min
Chitchat Conor: Using Gnome on his laptop. 💻 Shane: Using Ubuntu on 🔛 everything. Mike: Playing with the Debian build for the upcoming 🌲📘💪 Pinebook Pro . Discussion This episode was recorded live at FOSS Talk Live How much do you use the command line? Yay is a Pacman wrapper 🛠️ and AUR helper on Arch-based distros. It stands for "Yet Another Yogurt" because of course it does. Synaptic had been a GUI package manager before it was cool. 🐱👓 Let's Encrypt provides SSL certificates for the �...
Jun 15, 2019•44 min
Chitchat Conor has been playing 📲 with Android Q Beta Mike has been skiving on the Continent 🌍 News South Korean government might switch to Linux 🇰🇷💞🐧, original source here . Beware of the going the Munich route . US 🗽 companies banned from doing business with Huawei 📵 📈 Stock exchange impact Huawei's own app store Ban postponed till August Deepdive into Huawei's current suppliers and future options Firefox 67 is out, 🌍💥 Mozilla claims speed improvements Linus Tech Tips video about Mi...
May 27, 2019•1 hr 1 min
News New ‘Linux App Store’ Website Lets You Find Apps, Wherever OMGubuntu . Librem One Campaign Will De-Google Your Life for $7.99/month OMGubuntu Canonical consolidates open infrastructure support and security offerings Ubuntu Red Hat has changed its logo for the first time in 20 years OMGubuntu Windows 10 is getting a Microsoft-built Linux kernel Microsoft Take a Closer Look at Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 OMGubuntu Ubuntu 19.10 to be named "Eoan Ermine" OMGubuntu Events T-Dose to take place ...
May 13, 2019•35 min
Chitchat Ubuntu Touch 📱 on a Oneplus 1 LibreELEC 📺 on a Rock64 with an Emby plugin. Dublin ZOO 🐧 News Purism has released videos documenting the progress on the Librem 5 phone 📳, including what looks like a GSM phone call. Nextcloud 16 🌍 is out . NextCloudPi runs on the Raspberry Pi , the Rock64 and other single board computers. Pine64's Pinebook Pro and PinePhone streamcast had to be rescheduled due to technical issues. New time and date weren't known before the release of this episode. Ch...
Apr 29, 2019•39 min
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Apr 15, 2019•48 min
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Apr 01, 2019•55 min
Support us Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻 Special co-host Mark from the Binary Times podcast AzireVPN coupon code We have a coupon code for 30% off when you pay for 3 months of AzireVPN , a security-focused VPN provider based in Sweden. The law there doesn't require them to log traffic, so they don't . They operate servers in 5 locations in Europe and north America . Their servers are owned by the company, installed on location by their engineers and running ...
Mar 18, 2019•1 hr 7 min
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Mar 04, 2019•1 hr 6 min
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Feb 18, 2019•50 min
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Feb 04, 2019•1 hr 1 min
Discussion Gnome and Pop!_OS . Top Icons Plus is a necessity, yet the developer quit (see the Warning). Gnome Online Accounts for seemless cloud integration. Gnome Tweaks enable customization. Gnome can be conceptually compared to macOS The Focusrite Scarlett Solo audio interface doesn't play nice with Linux, so Conor has to use Windows 10 to record on. Skip signing into MS Account . A lot of junk litters the start menu by default, remove it. ShutUp10 is useful tame the OS. Windows design team W...
Jan 21, 2019•57 min
Discussion Emby went proprietary but you wouldn’t guess that from the release post . Never mind, the Plex media server alternative has already been forked under the name of Jellyfin . Good luck to the developers (and unlike the Emby people, we mean it). Forks can turn out great, Libre Office came from Open Office after the Oracle Sun acquisition and now it’s the open source office suite. Mycroft is to postpone delivery of the Mark II due to manufacturing issues, from this December to Q1 2019. No...
Dec 17, 2018•54 min
Discussion ARCH! The fixes for Meltdown and Spectre are drastically slowing the kernel down . The patches are meant to be deployed in the 4.20 release, but according to Linus the patches might not be completely enabled by default. But hey, it’s the 4.20 release so, let’s chill. Ubuntu 18.04 is going to get 10 year support , and why not since RHEL already have it - or is it IBM/Red Hat now? If you wanna know what a 10 year old Ubuntu release feels like, try Hardy Heron . If you want to give back ...
Dec 03, 2018•1 hr 31 min
Discussion Samsung’s Linux on Dex magically turns Android into Ubuntu 16.04 on high end devices. It’s another stab at convergence . Canonical tried with Ubuntu Touch , the project is now maintained by the UBports community . The Librem 5 crowdfunding campaign was propped up by corporate purchases, could big IT departments buy Dex in bulk? New Deepin’s out and boy does it look sexy in the screenshots . Compare with KDE Plasma or Elementary OS . Inspired by Mac OS but open source . The Chinese dis...
Nov 19, 2018•1 hr 22 min
Discussion Red Hat was bought by IBM for \$34 billion. Hopefully Fedora , Gnome , Centos and other Red Hat supported projects won’t be hurt by this. We are still smarting from the Oracle Sun acquisition . Canonical published some stats collected by their installer (via OMG! Ubuntu! ). No concrete numbers, only percentages. Trusting Canonical with stats collection. Ubuntu Mate is now available for the GPD Pocket2 . Now in correct resolution and the right way up. Download from here . The device re...
Nov 05, 2018•2 min
Discussion Antergos with Plasma for your dose of Linux freshness. Plex Media Server is just a snap install --beta plexmediaserver away as it joins the ever growing list of snapped popular apps. Available from Gnome Software near you. Or use Emby as an alternative. Need a storage for your movies? NAS-up with openmediavault on a Raspberry Pi . Some configuration might be needed. Ubuntu-based betas are looking crisp: Xubuntu , elementary OS , Kubuntu , Ubuntu propper with the Yaru theme and Lubuntu...
Oct 22, 2018•1 min
Discussion The pleasure of dealing with small projects and why we need people forking, fragmenting and generally doing whatever they feel like. Small projects ( VisiData , qutebrowser ) make users feel like they are really part of something. Bigger projects ( LibreOffice ) do have the advantage of wider and more diverse user base. Bug reporting needs to be easy. Automated reporting - good idea or a privacy hell? Should communication with users and media be a number one priority for larger open s...
Oct 08, 2018•1 min
Discussion Gnome 3.30 comes with improved performance on low power devices (any chance this being connected to the Librem 5 ?), a new Podcast app and UI improvements. Contributions welcome . KDE released Plasma 5.14 Beta . Discover can now use fwupd for firmware updates. Canonical’s going for a Software Center revamp Software centers are important, Ubuntu Mate’s Software Boutique hits the spot. How do we discover software? Mostly word of mouth, a podcast or an article. There is a very useful alt...
Sep 24, 2018•1 min
News & Discussion film making and photography on Linux ( Blender , kdenlive , Shotcut , darktable , digiKam . Blender as a video editor ) Deepin has a new release and it looks good as ever. It purports to use less RAM than Ubuntu. not letting Google own the whole of your digital life Jeremy Corbyn would like a publicly funded Facebook alternative . Would the Irish government please step up? We need public digital infrastructure and it needs to be done right. Adobe Air , the technology of cho...
Sep 10, 2018•56 min
News Dropbox sync will work only on EXT4 (unencrypted only, Linux), NTFS (Windows), APFS and HFS+ (both Mac OS). pCloud might be a good alternative to Dropbox. It’s hosted in Switzerland and cheaper. Rclone is also an option, but more of a DIY as you’d need to provide the backend storage. Most of us use the default file system for their distro, so many will be able to keep using Dropbox. Nextcloud will be big in Japan , as NEC are gonna make routers with Nextcloud pre-installed. Nextcloud 14 to ...
Aug 27, 2018•48 min
Discussion 18.04.1 and things based off it (or are going to be), Linux Mint 19, Elementary OS, KDE Neon, Zorin OS Gnome 3 and Ubuntu switching to it, stock gnome 3 vs “Ubuntufied Gnome 3 shell” KDE 5 and KDE Neon, design and system resources, LXQT as a “lightweight” desktop environment We briefly talk about Nvidia and AMD cards and drivers and what to buy and what’s most compatible Microsoft’s Windows as a service , buying a computer without Windows. Rejecting the Windows license, custom built P...
Aug 13, 2018•1 hr 17 min
