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Audiocasts/Shows: Late Night Linux, Destination Linux and More
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Late Night Linux – Episode 108
Will’s questionable network gear recommendations, Wikipedia at 20, terrible BBC educational material, minimising e-waste, VMs vs containers, KDE Korner, and more.
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Destination Linux 209: The Best Product Doesn’t Always Win
After last weeks discussion in the after show about Gnome 40 and some of the interface changes being made, we couldn’t help but compare those changes to one of the most beloved operating system of it’s time. In this episode, we’re going to talk about this OS to find out why so many on the show consider it one of the greatest mobile Operating Systems ever. In addition, we’re going to check out some new goals and updates coming to Tails in 2021. Plus we’ve also got our famous tips, tricks and software picks. All of this and so much more this week on Destination Linux.
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A First Look At Manjaro Sway Edition
I'm going to do a quick installation and first look at Manjaro Sway Edition. This is an unofficial community spin of Manjaro that features Wayland and the Sway compositor/window manager. Sway is a clone of i3 but designed to work with Wayland rather than X11.
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Gaming On Linux Is Super Comfy - YouTube
Towards the start and end of every year, linux blogs and channels make posts discussing the best gaming distro for the following year and I'm here to tell you that you'll never find it because the best linux gaming distro doesn't exist.
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Trisquel, Phones, and File Sharing
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 19th of January 2021 12:25:12 PM Filed under


This is for Trisquel users who have Android or Apple phones. This tutorial explains how to share files between your desktop and your phone via wireless or cable without using KDE Connect. This 'magic' is called Syncthing -- a cross platform app. It is an easy and quick app to transfer your photos and everything between devices just like the proprietary software SHAREit but with privacy and security for you. I have made similar guide before (see here) but for Trisquel 9 it is a little different so this is for you. Now let's start sharing!
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Audiocasts/Shows: Blender 2.91, Server Security, Linux in the Ham Shack and More
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 18th of January 2021 08:58:16 PM Filed under

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Ubuntu Unity Remix 20.10 overview | UNITY7 MODERNIZED.
In this video, I am going to show an overview of Ubuntu Unity Remix 20.10 and some of the applications pre-installed.
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How to install Blender 2.91 on Linux Mint 20.1
In this video, we are looking at how to install Blender 2.91 on Linux Mint 20.1.
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Basic Security For Every Linux Server
Different use cases will have different security requirements but there's a certain base line that every Linux server should be at before you even think of deploying anything further like disabling certain ways to connect to the server and adding some ssh keys.
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Linux in the Ham Shack/LHS Episode #387: Compiling Software Deep Dive
Hello and welcome to the 387th episode of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts discuss concepts related to building software from source code. Topics include proper build environments, packages to install for easy building of software, how to get source, commands for building software and much more. We hope you find this talk interesting and informative and we hope you come back for Episode 388.
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How to steal free software (and do it badly)
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3 Helpful Networking Projects for Your Raspberry Pi
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 18th of January 2021 08:14:20 PM Filed under

In spite of being a beloved companion to computer hobbyists the world over, the Raspberry Pi doesn’t get enough credit. In fact, single-board computers of all stripes haven’t gotten their due — I just happen to have a Raspberry Pi. It was upon casting a stray glance into the corner of my room where my Pi is, churning away on the previous task I assigned it, that I pondered all the loftier projects I have in mind for it.
It will probably be a while before I tackle those grand designs. But the next best thing to following my dreams is to share them. The ideas here are charcoal sketches, not full illustrations, but they yield a rough picture.
I should also note that these projects all contain Linux in their blueprints (shocking, I know). As this is the preliminary stage, we can leave the exact distribution blank for now. You can safely trust, though, that any services we might need our Pi to run will fasten flush onto a Linux base.
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GNU Radio 3.9.0.0 released
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 18th of January 2021 07:21:01 PM Filed under
Dear SDR community most likely to travel in time to save the present, The future is not set, there is no fate but what we make for ourselves. In this very spirit, GNU Radio 3.9 packs a whole bunch of power when it comes to transforming the way GNU Radio and its ecosytem can be developed in the future. You'll find the release tags and signed tarballs now on github, and later on https://www.gnuradio.org/releases/gnuradio/ . Not only did we have great progressions from old dependencies that proved to be all too problematic (SWIG, Python2), but also did we see an incredibly influx of people actively working on how maintainable this code base is. This will nurture the project for years to come. All in all, the main breaking change for pure GRC users will consist in a few changed blocks – an incredible feat, considering the amount of shift under the hood. Mentioning large shifts, the work that went into the PyBind binding, the CMake modernization, the C++ cleanup, the bug-fixing and the CI infrastructure is worthy of explicit call out; I especially thank * Josh Morman * Thomas Habets * Jacob Gilbert * Andrej Rode * Ryan Volz here. For developers of OOTs, I'm sure PyBind11 will pose a surprise. If you're used to SWIG, yes, that's more code to write yourself. But in effect, it's less code that breaks, and when it breaks, it breaks in much more understandable ways. Josh has put a lot of effort into automating as much of that as possible. There's certainly no shortage of demand for that! The ecosystem (remember GNU Radio's tagline?) is in a steady upwind. We've seen more, and more stable, contributions from OOT maintainers. That's great! For in-tree development, newer dependencies and removal of anachronisms will make sure things move much smoother. Our CI is getting – lately literally every day – better, which means we not only catch bugs earlier, but also allow for much quicker review cycles. One central change: If you're contributing code upstream, we no longer need you to submit a CLA; instead, we ask you to just certify, yourself, that you're allowed to contribute that code (and not, e.g. misappropriating someone else's code). That's what the DCO (Developer Certificate of Origin) is: Just a quick, "hey, this code is actually for me to contribute under the project's license"; nothing more.
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ClusBerry 9500-CM4 – A Raspberry Pi CM4 cluster, industrial style
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 18th of January 2021 06:01:08 AM Filed under


Raspberry Pi cluster boards / solutions pop-up from time to time. But so far, I think we’ve seen only one based on Raspberry Pi CM4 modules with the upcoming Turing Pi 2 mini-ITX cluster board supporting four of those.
TECHBASE has now unveiled a different kind of Raspberry Pi CM4 cluster with ClusBerry 9500-CM4 integrating up to eight Raspberry Pi Computer Module 4 in a DIN-Rail housing for industrial applications.
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Shows/Videos: GNU/Linux News, ONLYOFFICE, LibreWolf, and AwesomeWM
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 17th of January 2021 09:51:46 PM Filed under

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KDE Roadmap for 2021, Nvidia now loves Wayland, and Epic Games Store on Linux - Linux News
This time we have the KDE roadmap for the year, Nvidia preparing to better support Wayland and ray tracing on Linux, the death of Flash Player, and an open source epic games store client for Linux.
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How to install ONLYOFFICE on Linux Mint 20.1
In this video, we are looking at how to install ONLYOFFICE on Linux Mint 20.1.
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LibreWolf Is A Web Browser For Privacy and Freedom
LibreWolf is a fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom. Librewolf strips out all of the telemetry from Firefox and enables a bunch extra security settings out of the box. It has uBlock installed by default and it supports privacy conscious search engines.
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AwesomeWM: So Long BSPWM, It's Been Fun
I've been running BSPWM for the past year and it's a great window manager but I wanted a change so I've been convinced to try out AwesomeWM and I'm genuinely impressed, it's very different to what I've become used to but this is a really solid window manager experience.
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Trisquel 9 Review: Freedom Vehicle
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sunday 17th of January 2021 06:22:09 PM Filed under


Here is my review of Trisquel 9.0 Etiona the newly released computer operating system. It is the successor of Flidas and now based on Ubuntu 18.04. It brings the latest improvements by excellently keeping its user friendliness from the family of most secure operating systems on earth. As always, I choose the Regular Edition, with MATE Desktop choice, to report this to you. We will see what’s new in this release and why I call it Software Freedom Vehicle now continuing Successful Freedom in the past. With Etiona, everyone can see that Free Software as well as copyleft are already practical and now we can see that even clearer than before. Let's go!
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Audiocasts/Shows: TWIL and GNU World Order
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 17th of January 2021 03:30:22 PM Filed under

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TWIL 134: WINE 6.0, Flatpak 1.10, Fedora Kinoite, Slimbook Titan, AlmaLinux, JingOS
On this episode of This Week in Linux, we’ve got an update for you about a CentOS alternative from CloudLinux called AlmaLinux. The company Slimbook announced a new Laptop called the Slimbook Titan and it is a very interesting piece of hardware with AMD Ryzen 7 & RTX 3070. We’ve also got releases from some big open source projects like WINE 6.0 and Flatpak 1.10. We’ve also got some interesting distro news from Fedora and a new OS called JingOS which has a very iPad-like design. In App News, we’ll talk about Mozilla’s VPN Now Available for Linux and we’ll end the show with a big Humble Bundle Bonanza. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews!
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GNU World Order 389
Hardware review of the Devastator 3 keyboard and mouse, and all about **tmux** , plus an obligatory mention of **usbmuxd**.
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KDE Customization Guide: Here are 11 Ways You Can Change the Look and Feel of Your KDE-Powered Linux Desktop
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 17th of January 2021 03:25:03 PM Filed under


KDE Plasma desktop is unarguably the pinnacle of customization, as you can change almost anything you want. You can go to the extent of making it act as a tiling window manager.
KDE Plasma can confuse a beginner by the degree of customization it offers. As options tend to pile on top of options, the user starts getting lost.
To address that issue, I’ll show you the key points of KDE Plasma customization that you should be aware of.
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