Linux @ Work

Shownotes and Links Ben and Chester review Docker, a container technology for agile development and application deployment. Docker Docker Hub Ubuntu Studio iSCSI vulnerability details

Shownotes and Links Ben and Chester address the recent Linux news as of recording time on 13 February 2021. Gnome 40 to be released soon Finnix 122 released New versions of Darktable, Flowblade and Shutter released LibreOffice 7.1 released LibreOffice online being ported to Web Assembly LibreOffice versus OpenOffice Kernel 5.12 to have new USB4 security controls 10 year old sudo bug will haunt us for many years Raspberry Pi OS phones home to Micro$oft

Shownotes and Links Ben and Chester review Home Assistant, a smart home “orchestrator” for managing and automating all of your IoT things. Home Assistant Lutron Caseta Sonoff RF Bridge Tasmota custom firmware

Shownotes and Links Ben and Chester address the recent Linux news as of recording time on 21 January 2021. Kernel 3.11 to be released soon CentOS 8 support to end in 2021 KDE Plasma 5.21 to release 15 February 2021 PHP 8 released for Arch Linux Corellium gets Linux up and running on the M1 Google decides to decimate Chromium in open source charade Beagle board launches Risc-V board Ubuntu default has home directories read all?

Shownotes and Links Ben and Chester review the Pine Phone, a linux based smartphone dev platform released in 2020. While not a production ready device, they each purchased one in the fourth quarter of 2020 to play with and present their findings in this podcast. Pine Phone

Shownotes and Links Ben and Chester had an opportunity to test and evaluate the primary hypervisors and virtualization platforms currently available for free (beer). Chester did some benchmarks to compare performance, but in the end it really all comes down to features and usability. Microsoft Hyper-V ProxMox Xen oVirt Amazon AWS Microsoft Azure DigitalOcean VMWare ESXi

Shownotes and Links KDE Akademy 2020 Lightworks goes employee owned Lenovo laptops available with Linux HP ships laptops with Linux Microsoft Edge for Linux Microsoft Hyper-V Linux root partition support Linux Foundation certifications Todoist Linux snap package Apostrophe markdown editor Ben’s closing recommendation - Honeypot’s YouTube channel

Shownotes and Links After a slow restart Ben and Chester are back with the week’s Linux news. Topics include tiling window manager PaperWM for Gnome, virtual conference CFP for KDE Akademy, Nextcloud Hub 19 released, Google kicks off it’s Summer of Code and Microsoft announces the release of Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. You can find the links for the topics we covered below. As always, share your feedback with us on Twitter or on our subreddit PaperWM KDE Akademy CFP Nextcloud Hub 19 released Google Summer of Code Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

Shownotes and Links Chester Wisniewski and Ben Verschaeren gave the Microsoft Teams Preview for Linux a spin. If you work for a company that uses Microsoft 365, you probably need Teams. Until late last year, Teams was only available as a handmade Electron app or in the web browser for Linux, neither being an optimal solution. Microsoft introduced the “Preview” in October 2019 and it has been updated frequently since. Official Microsoft Site Arch Linux AUR Package

Shownotes and Links This episode has been in production for more than 5 years, but it was found and spliced back together in 2020. This is the last “classic” episode before we get entirely back to fresh content. You can find the links for the topics we covered below. As always, share your feedback with us on Twitter or on our subreddit Xfce 4.12 release Vivaldi browser ownCloud 8 launch mdp Virtualbox Thunderbird FOSDEM 2015 SCaLE 13x Linux Malware Presentation

Shownotes and Links Episode 1 is complete and the format moving forward has been decided. We intend to produce the podcast bi-weekly with a catch-up on the news relevant to professional usage of Linux and occasionally intersperse deep dive episodes focused on a particular topic including reviews, tips and tricks. In episode 1 we look into Google’s changes to ChromeOS making it easier to boot alternative operating systems, Linus Torvalds’ latest inflammatory comments, interesting ideas on using SSH to secure the world, open source making inroads in Europe, LibreOffice for Android, learning systemd and the recently disclosed Ghost vulnerability in glibc. We look forward to hearing your ideas and feedback. You can always comment on episodes here or contact us through Twitter or in our subreddit.

Shownotes and Links Well it’s finally time to get this show on the road as it were. Welcome to the inaugural episode of our new podcast Linux at Work. In this first episode John Shier and I discuss our inspiration for creating the podcast, what we plan to cover in future episodes and how we plan to go about sharing our experiences using Linux in a professional environment. We look forward to hearing your ideas and feedback. We have established a bit of an online presence to communicate with our listeners. You can of course comment on episodes here on the blog or contact us through Twitter or in our subreddit.