Thoughts and experiences from me, UK podcaster Joe Ressington
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Joe is joined by Kyle, a technical Windows user who cares about privacy and security. He tried Linux but didn’t stick with it. We try to get to the bottom of why that happened.
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Intel’s 7nm woes, hosts files, Mozilla’s VPN service, and automating ssh between remote hosts.
News
Heads roll at Intel after 7nm delay
AMD Says Zen 3 Consumer CPUs Will Launch This Year
Windows 10: HOSTS file blocking telemetry is now flagged as a risk
We test Mozilla’s new Wireguard-based $5/mo VPN service
Free consulting
We were asked about automating ssh between remote hosts. Allan mentioned SSH Mastery.
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A look back at the year in Linux so far, some speculation about what’s coming, Lineage OS on the Raspberry Pi, and KDE Korner.
Lineage Love-in
OnePlus One, Sony Xperia XZ2 series, F(x)tec Pro1 get LineageOS 17.1
Admin
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FOSS trends 2020
We take stock on the year in Linux and FOSS so far, and speculate on what we will see over the next few months.
KDE Korner
New Slimbook & here & Nate got one too
KDEnlive Tutorials & Coming in KDEnlive August – Modes
Wayland improvements coming to Plasma 5.20
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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When forking a project is appropriate, emojis in file names, and popey hand-waves away all the possible disasters that humanity might face.
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While Ubuntu server is officially supported on the Pi 2, 3, and 4 (including the new 8GB RAM variant of the Pi 4), getting the Ubuntu desktop running on the mini PC has so far been a community effort. Back before he became the Director of Engineering for the Ubuntu Desktop, Martin Wimpress made and maintained some Ubuntu MATE images for various Pis. Unfortunately when Ubuntu 20.04 arrived in April this year, an Ubuntu MATE image for the Pi didn’t appear.
Fast forward to May and Martin did a series of live streams on YouTube to demonstrate his tool which turns Ubuntu Server into any of the Ubuntu desktop flavours called Desktopify. This was something that he did in his spare time and so there are still no official Ubuntu Desktop Images.
On S13E11 of the Ubuntu Podcast this week, Martin dropped something of a bombshell. He said “Maybe we’re working on Ubuntu Desktop for the Raspberry Pi”. This was during a discussion of the new 8GB RAM version of the Raspberry Pi 4, and referred back to an OMG Ubuntu! article about upcoming features of Ubuntu 20.10.
Does this definitely mean Ubuntu 20.10 will be officially supported on the Raspberry Pi? Well I won’t believe it until I see an official announcement but I’m pretty hopeful from what Martin said.
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