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A fundamental change is coming to desktop Linux, and Silverblue might be our hint at where things are going.

It's the second annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, desktops, and services of 2021.

It's the second annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, desktops, and services of 2021.

Impressive updates for some beloved open source projects, and AlmaLinux—a leading CentOS alternative—is born. Plus Google's surprise for Chromium users, and we go hands-on with Podman's docker-compose support.

Impressive updates for some beloved open source projects, and AlmaLinux—a leading CentOS alternative—is born. Plus Google's surprise for Chromium users, and we go hands-on with Podman's docker-compose support.

Coming up in this episode 1. XFace gets a new face 2. CentOS rocks your world 3. Mozilla Watch 4. We wish upon a star 5. And we think inside the box Preshow Wowstick 1F on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Wowstick-Electric-Screwdriver-Cordless-Lithium-ion/dp/B07H27G9NF/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=wowstick&qid=1609986722&sr=8-4) XFCE 4.14 --> 4.16 Official Announcement (https://www.xfce.org/about/news/?post=1608595200) Official Tour, highlighting the new color palette (https://www.xfce.org/about/tour416) https://9to5linux.com/xfce-4-16-desktop-environment-officially-released-this-is-whats-new TL;DR - Fractional scaling. New Icons. Cleaned up dialogs and settings menus. CentOS Linux announcement CentOS (https://www.centos.org) Official Announcement (https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/) Old "Rough" Timeline Fedora --> wait some years --> Centos Stream --> wait a few weeks --> RHEL --> wait some more time --> Centos New "Rough" Timeline Fedora --> wait some years --> Centos Stream --> wait a few weeks --> RHEL Rocky Linux (https://rockylinux.org) Project Lenix (https://www.projectlenix.org/) Oracle Linux (https://www.oracle.com/linux/) Mozilla Watch... Visual refresh meta bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=proton) AKA proton --> photon https://www.techradar.com/news/get-ready-for-a-radical-firefox-redesign https://www.ghacks.net/2021/01/02/mozilla-is-working-on-a-firefox-design-refresh/ https://www.debugpoint.com/2021/01/firefox-proton/ Wishlist for 2021 Dan I think the Pine 64 future (https://www.pine64.org/2020/11/15/november-update-kde-pinephone-ce-and-a-peek-into-the-future/) looks good. My wish is that the time frame is closer to the 6 month range for the next gen stuff to start to materialize. Intel gets their new graphics stack rolled out for laptops. Leo Pine/Pi Moar Cores! Enthusiast server platform. Firefox becomes a major player again. Nature abhors a monoculture. Joe My long suffering 4k laptop screen woes remedied (installers that support Hidpi) RPi sata or M.2 ports (even MMC) Housekeeping Email us (mailto:contact@linuxuserspace.show) SANS Internet Stormcast (https://isc.sans.edu/podcast.html) Support us at Patreon (https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace) Join us on Telegram (https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram) Follow us on twitter (https://twitter.com/LinuxUserSpace) Check out Linux User Space (https://linuxuserspace.show) on the web App Focus Gnome Boxes This episode's app: Gnome Boxes (https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-boxes/stable/) Boxes on flathub (https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.Boxes) Next Time We discuss January's distro of the month, Solus (https://getsol.us) Join us in two weeks when we return to the Linux User Space

Friends join us for a special edition of the show to review last year's predictions, and forecast the future. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Joe Ressington, and Neal Gompa.

Friends join us for a special edition of the show to review last year's predictions, and forecast the future.

We read FreeBSD’s 3rd quarter status report, OpenZFS 2.0, adding check-hash checks in UFS filesystem, OpenSSL 3.0 /dev/crypto issues on FreeBSD, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines 3rd Quarter FreeBSD Report (https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2020-07-2020-09.html) The call for submissions for the 4th Quarter is out (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-quarterly-calls/2020/000007.html) OpenZFS 2.0 (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/openzfs-2-0-release-unifies-linux-bsd-and-adds-tons-of-new-features/) This Monday, ZFS on Linux lead developer Brian Behlendorf published the OpenZFS 2.0.0 release to GitHub. Along with quite a lot of new features, the announcement brings an end to the former distinction between "ZFS on Linux" and ZFS elsewhere (for example, on FreeBSD). This move has been a long time coming—the FreeBSD community laid out its side of the roadmap two years ago—but this is the release that makes it official. News Roundup Revision 367034 (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/367034) Various new check-hash checks have been added to the UFS filesystem over various major releases. Superblock check hashes were added for the 12 release and cylinder-group and inode check hashes will appear in the 13 release. OpenSSL 3.0 /dev/crypto issues on FreeBSD (https://rubenerd.com/openssl-3-written-to-break-on-freebsd/) So, just learned that the OpenSSL devs decided to break /dev/crypto on FreeBSD. OS108-9.1 XFCE amd64 released (https://forums.os108.org/d/32-os108-91-xfce-amd64-released) OS108 is a fast, open and Secure Desktop Operating System built on top of NetBSD. > Installing OS108 to your hard drive is done by using the sysinst utility, the process is basically the same as installing NetBSD itself. Please refer to the NetBSD guide for installation details, http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/part-install.html Installation Video (https://youtu.be/cgAeY21gXR4) *** Beastie Bits OpenBGPD 6.8p1 portable: released Nov 5th, 2020 (http://www.openbgpd.org/ftp.html) IRC Awk Bot (http://kflu.github.io/2020/08/15/2020-08-15-awk-irc-bot/) Docker on FreeBSD using bhyve and sshfs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVkJZJEdZNY) The UNIX Command Language (1976) (https://github.com/susam/tucl) *** Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions santi - openrc (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/380/feedback/santi%20-%20openrc.md) trond - python2 and mailman (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/380/feedback/trond%20-%20python2%20and%20mailmane%20and%20sshfs) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***

A problem that just kept getting worse and worse. What it was, and why it led us to "check in" on EndeavourOS. Plus some important community news, handy picks, feedback, and more!

A problem that just kept getting worse and worse. What it was, and why it led us to "check in" on EndeavourOS. Plus some important community news, handy picks, feedback, and more!

Jeff listens to JT rant about Thumbnails in Linux Desktop Environments and gives his thoughts. Feedback can be sent using the fireside contact form at the bottom of the podcast page, or by emailing directly to jt [at] minddripmedia.com Our Telegram channel is here: https://t.me/TheOpinionDominion Our Matrix channel is here: TheOpinionDominion:matrix.org

Brent sits down with Philip Müller, Co-Founder and Lead Developer of Manjaro, and CEO at Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG. We explore the formation and evolution of Manjaro as a Linux distribution, the development of past and recent hardware partnerships, cross-distribution collaborations, and what's inspiring Philip in the next 5 years. Special Guest: Philip Müller.

FuryBSD 2020Q2 Images Available, Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux, Ars technica reviews GhostBSD, “TLS Mastery” sponsorships open, BSD community show their various collections, a tale of OpenBSD secure memory allocator internals, learn to stop worrying and love SSDs, and more. Headlines FuryBSD 2020Q2 Images Available for XFCE and KDE (https://www.furybsd.org/furybsd-2020-q2-images-are-available-for-xfce-and-kde/) The Q2 2020 images are not a visible leap forward but a functional leap forward. Most effort was spent creating a better out of box experience for automatic Ethernet configuration, working WiFi, webcam, and improved hypervisor support. Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (https://unixsheikh.com/articles/technical-reasons-to-choose-freebsd-over-linux.html) Since I wrote my article "Why you should migrate everything from Linux to BSD" I have been wanting to write something about the technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux and while I cannot possibly cover every single reason, I can write about some of the things that I consider worth noting. News Roundup + Not actually Linux distro review deux: GhostBSD (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/not-actually-linux-distro-review-deux-ghostbsd/) When I began work on the FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE review last week, it didn't take long to figure out that the desktop portion wasn't going very smoothly. I think it's important for BSD-curious users to know of easier, gentler alternatives, so I did a little looking around and settled on GhostBSD for a follow-up review. GhostBSD is based on TrueOS, which itself derives from FreeBSD Stable. It was originally a Canadian distro, but—like most successful distributions—it has transcended its country of origin and can now be considered worldwide. Significant GhostBSD development takes place now in Canada, Italy, Germany, and the United States. “TLS Mastery” sponsorships open (https://mwl.io/archives/6265) My next book will be TLS Mastery, all about Transport Layer Encryption, Let’s Encrypt, OCSP, and so on. This should be a shorter book, more like my DNSSEC or Tarsnap titles, or the first edition of Sudo Mastery. I would like a break from writing doorstops like the SNMP and jails books. JT (our producer) shared his Open Source Retail Box Collection on twitter this past weekend and there was a nice response from a few in the BSD Community showing their collections: JT's post: https://twitter.com/q5sys/status/1251194823589138432 High Resolution Image to see the bottom shelf better: https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-9QTs2RR/0/f1742096/O/i-9QTs2RR.jpg Closeup of the BSD Section: https://twitter.com/q5sys/status/1251294290782928897 Others jumped in with their collections: Deb Goodkin's collection: https://twitter.com/dgoodkin/status/1251294016139743232 & https://twitter.com/dgoodkin/status/1251298125672660992 FreeBSD Frau's FreeBSD Collection: https://twitter.com/freebsdfrau/status/1251290430475350018 Jason Tubnor's OpenBSD Collection: https://twitter.com/Tubsta/status/1251265902214918144 Do you have a nice collection, take a picture and send it in! Tale of OpenBSD secure memory allocator internals - malloc(3) (https://bsdb0y.github.io/blog/deep-dive-into-the-OpenBSD-malloc-and-friends-internals-part-1.html) Hi there, It's been a very long time I haven't written anything after my last OpenBSD blogs, that is, OpenBSD Kernel Internals — Creation of process from user-space to kernel space. OpenBSD: Introduction to execpromises in the pledge(2) pledge(2): OpenBSD's defensive approach to OS Security So, again I started reading OpenBSD source codes with debugger after reducing my sleep timings and managing to get some time after professional life. This time I have picked one of my favourite item from my wishlist to learn and share, that is, OpenBSD malloc(3), secure allocator How I learned to stop worrying and love SSDs (https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-ssds.82617/) my home FreeNAS runs two pools for data. One RAIDZ2 with four spinning disk drives and one mirror with two SSDs. Toying with InfluxDB and Grafana in the last couple of days I found that I seem to have a constant write load of 1 Megabyte (!) per second on the SSDs. What the ...? So I run three VMs on the SSDs in total. One with Windows 10, two with Ubuntu running Confluence, A wiki essentially, with files for attachments and MySQL as the backend database. Clearly the writes had to stop when the wikis were not used at all, just sitting idle, right? Well even with a full query log and quite some experience in the operation of web applications I could not figure out what Confluence is doing (productively, no doubt) but trust me, it writes a couple of hundred kbytes to the database each second just sitting idle. My infrastructure as of 2019 (https://chown.me/blog/infrastructure-2019.html) I've wanted to write about my infrastructure for a while, but I kept thinking, "I'll wait until after I've done $nextthingonmytodo." Of course this cycle never ends, so I decided to write about its state at the end of 2019. Maybe I'll write an update on it in a couple of moons; who knows? For something different than our usual Beastie Bits… we bring you… We're all quarantined so lets install BSD on things! Install BSD on something this week, write it up and let us know about it, and maybe we'll feature you! Installation of NetBSD on a Mac Mini (https://e17i.github.io/articles-netbsd-install/) OpenBSD on the HP Envy 13 (https://icyphox.sh/blog/openbsd-hp-envy/) Install NetBSD on a Vintage Computer (https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/install-netbsd-on-a-vintage-computer) BSDCan Home Lab Panel recording session: May 5th at 18:00 UTC (https://twitter.com/allanjude/status/1251895348836143104) Allan started a series of FreeBSD Office Hours (https://wiki.freebsd.org/OfficeHours) BSDNow is going Independent After being part of Jupiter Broadcasting since we started back in 2013, BSDNow is moving to become independent. We extend a very large thank you to Jupiter Broadcasting and Linux Academy for hosting us for so many years, and allowing us to bring you over 100 episodes without advertisements. What does this mean for you, the listener? Not much will change, just make sure your subscription is via the RSS feed at BSDNow.tv rather than one of the Jupiter Broadcasting feeds. We will update you with more news as things settle out. Feedback/Questions Todd - LinusTechTips Claims about ZFS (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/348/feedback/Todd%20-%20LinusTechTips'%20claims%20on%20ZFS.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv)

Fighting the Coronavirus with FreeBSD, Wireguard VPN Howto in OPNsense, NomadBSD 1.3.1 available, fresh GhostBSD 20.02, New FuryBSD XFCE and KDE images, pf-badhost 0.3 released, and more. Headlines Fighting the Coronavirus with FreeBSD (https://www.leidinger.net/blog/2020/03/19/fighting-the-coronavirus-with-freebsd-foldinghome/) Here is a quick HOWTO for those who want to provide some FreeBSD based compute resources to help finding vaccines. UPDATE 2020-03-22: 0mp@ made a port out of this, it is in “biology/linux-foldingathome”. Per default it will now pick up some SARS-CoV‑2 (COVID-19) related folding tasks. There are some more config options (e.g. how much of the system resources are used). Please refer to the official Folding@Home site for more information about that. Be also aware that there is a big rise in compute resources donated to Folding@Home, so the pool of available work units may be empty from time to time, but they are working on adding more work units. Be patient. How to configure the Wireguard VPN in OPNsense (https://homenetworkguy.com/how-to/configure-wireguard-opnsense/) WireGuard is a modern designed VPN that uses the latest cryptography for stronger security, is very lightweight, and is relatively easy to set up (mostly). I say ‘mostly’ because I found setting up WireGuard in OPNsense to be more difficult than I anticipated. The basic setup of the WireGuard VPN itself was as easy as the authors claim on their website, but I came across a few gotcha's. The gotcha's occur with functionality that is beyond the scope of the WireGuard protocol so I cannot fault them for that. My greatest struggle was configuring WireGuard to function similarly to my OpenVPN server. I want the ability to connect remotely to my home network from my iPhone or iPad, tunnel all traffic through the VPN, have access to certain devices and services on my network, and have the VPN devices use my home's Internet connection. WireGuard behaves more like a SSH server than a typical VPN server. With WireGuard, devices which have shared their cryptographic keys with each other are able to connect via an encrypted tunnel (like a SSH server configured to use keys instead of passwords). The devices that are connecting to one another are referred to as “peer” devices. When the peer device is an OPNsense router with WireGuard installed, for instance, it can be configured to allow access to various resources on your network. It becomes a tunnel into your network similar to OpenVPN (with the appropriate firewall rules enabled). I will refer to the WireGuard installation on OPNsense as the server rather than a “peer” to make it more clear which device I am configuring unless I am describing the user interface because that is the terminology used interchangeably by WireGuard. The documentation I found on WireGuard in OPNsense is straightforward and relatively easy to understand, but I had to wrestle with it for a little while to gain a better understanding on how it should be configured. I believe it was partially due to differing end goals – I was trying to achieve something a little different than the authors of other wiki/blog/forum posts. Piecing together various sources of information, I finally ended up with a configuration that met the goals stated above. News Roundup NomadBSD 1.3.1 (https://nomadbsd.org/index.html#1.3.1) NomadBSD 1.3.1 has recently been made available. NomadBSD is a lightweight and portable FreeBSD distribution, designed to run on live on a USB flash drive, allowing you to plug, test, and play on different hardware. They have also started a forum as of yesterday, where you can ask questions and mingle with the NomadBSD community. Notable changes in 1.3.1 are base system upgraded to FreeBSD 12.1-p2. automatic network interface setup improved, image size increased to over 4GB, Thunderbird, Zeroconf, and some more listed below. GhostBSD 20.02 (https://ghostbsd.org/20.02_release_announcement) Eric Turgeon, main developer of GhostBSD, has announced version 20.02 of the FreeBSD based operating system. Notable changes are ZFS partition into the custom partition editor installer, allowing you to install alongside with Windows, Linux, or macOS. Other changes are force upgrade all packages on system upgrade, improved update station, and powerd by default for laptop battery performance. New FuryBSD XFCE and KDE images (https://www.furybsd.org/new-furybsd-12-1-based-images-are-available-for-xfce-and-kde/) This new release is now based on FreeBSD 12.1 with the latest FreeBSD quarterly packages. This brings XFCE up to 4.14, and KDE up to 5.17. In addition to updates this new ISO mostly addresses community bugs, community enhancement requests, and community pull requests. Due to the overwhelming amount of reports with GitHub hosting all new releases are now being pushed to SourceForge only for the time being. Previous releases will still be kept for archive purposes. pf-badhost 0.3 Released (https://www.geoghegan.ca/pfbadhost.html) pf-badhost is a simple, easy to use badhost blocker that uses the power of the pf firewall to block many of the internet's biggest irritants. Annoyances such as SSH and SMTP bruteforcers are largely eliminated. Shodan scans and bots looking for webservers to abuse are stopped dead in their tracks. When used to filter outbound traffic, pf-badhost blocks many seedy, spooky malware containing and/or compromised webhosts. Beastie Bits DragonFly i915 drm update (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/03/23/24324.html) CShell is punk rock (http://blog.snailtext.com/posts/cshell-is-punk-rock.html) The most surprising Unix programs (https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-March/020664.html) Feedback/Questions Master One - Torn between OpenBSD and FreeBSD (http://dpaste.com/102HKF5#wrap) Brad - Follow up to Linus ZFS story (http://dpaste.com/1VXQA2Y#wrap) Filipe Carvalho - Call for Portuguese BSD User Groups (http://dpaste.com/2H7S8YP) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv)

We get into the Linux Mint mindset after years away and share our take on Cinnamon's many improvements. Plus news that'll have knock-on effects for the rest of the year, and more. Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

Find out what's happening in 2020 before it happens. Our crew returns from the future with predictions so perfect you could bet some Dogecoin on it. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

Brent sits down with Joe Ressington, Jupiter Broadcasting Podcast Content Director, Late Night Linux host, and musician, for an exploration of his journey in podcasting, a behind-the-scenes of User Error and Linux Action News, how music led to Linux, the origins of Brunch with Brent's theme music, and more. Special Guest: Joe Ressington.

We share Mozilla's concerns over Contract for the Web, and try out Kali Linux's new tricks. Also, our thoughts on the new Alexa Voice service coming to low-end IoT devices, and much more.

We share Mozilla's concerns over Contract for the Web, and try out Kali Linux's new tricks. Also, our thoughts on the new Alexa Voice service coming to low-end IoT devices, and much more.