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ULS 250: Pardon My French - France, Funding, & 7.0

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:04:55 PDT

This week we're Apt to talk about Apt 3.2 and its new features. Linux 7.0 is about to release, Nano 9.0 is out, and Gparted has another update. Then, Project Glasswing promises to find and fix open source bugs, Little Snitch comes to Linux, and France is looking to jump on the Open Source OS train. For tips we have aptui for textual apt interface, alsabat for sound card testing, and the next installment of the Grafana walkthrough. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4c29Exq and have a great week!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Ken McDonald and Rob Campbell

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ULS 249: Do It On a Potato - April Fools, Steam Skyrockets, & Office Politics

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:57:14 PDT

The Internet has had its fun on another April First. There were a few great gags, a real story hiding behind a joke, and at least one real one that snuck in. Linux usage on Steam has jumped to over 5%, PostgreSQL has a severe regression on Linux 7.0, and there are a handful of really nasty supply chain vulnerabilities. Speaking of dumpster fires, the FCC is threatening to ban basically all the consumer routers on the market, and the major Open Source office suites are all fighting over licenses and forks. For tips, we cover vmstat for looking at memory and other performance metrics, and mosquitto's pub and sub tools for testing out an MQTT server. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/41blNtJ and enjoy!

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Co-Host: Jeff Massie

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ULS 248: It's Like a Crayon - PineTime Pro, SystemD Harassment, & No More AI Slop

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:29:16 PDT

This week the guys take a look at the PineTime Pro, cover KDE 6.6 and its performance wins, and celebrate the Kali Linux release. Ubuntu's Grub may be changing, Nvidia has a new stable driver, and the SystemD age birth date field is still causing controversy. Gnome has a new fellowship to pay programmers directly, and AI bug reports may finally be decent. For tips we have OMP Manager for easy Oh My Posh installs, fluidsynth for playing midi, exiftool for manipulating media meta-information, and part one of a grafana installation. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4skwtS1 and have a great week!

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ULS 247: Trips off the Tongue - Free Software, Android Verification, & Finally a Decent Browser

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:06:14 PDT

This week Germany's going ODF, the guys remember what used to be before SystemD ate the world, and Google has finally revealed what the unverified install flow will look like. There's a Blender update, Manjaro may be cooked, and there's finally a decent browser for Linux Arm. For tips we have Oh My Posh for ricing your terminal, Midnight Commander, Memos, and ClamAV. The show notes are available at https://bit.ly/47cvQ5g and Happy Linuxing!

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ULS 246: Chasing the Sun - Updates, Frameworks, & Closing the Source

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:22:43 PDT

There's new releases all around, with Calibre 9.5, Gimp 3.2, Handbrake 1.11, and KeePassXC 2.7.12 all releasing updates. Then Fedora has a RISC-V complaint, the kernel is publishing an API specification, and systemd is adding AI-specific documentation. SUSE may be for sale, and the guys have ideas about who may be interested in purchasing, while TrueNAS makes waves by closing the future source of their system build scripts. For tips, we have "udevadm info" for querying the device database, arch-deckify for turning a machine into a SteamOS experience, and an intro to Bash's ctrl-r search function.

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ULS 245: Not a Supernova - Firefox Nova, Gnome 40, & Age Verification Fallout

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:04:27 PDT

This week, there's more age verification fallout, everybody hates Ubuntu, and Wine releases 11.4. Linux From Scratch goes SystemD, Gnome is testing version 50, and Debian released a community update. Armbian releases 26.2, EA teases Linux Anti-Cheat for Linux, and Firefox Nova leaks as the visual Firefox refresh. For tips, we have Waydroid for Android on Linux, --follow for journalctl parsing, MusicBrainz Picard for managing tagging, and then a quick primer on Block and Character devices. You can see the show notes at https://bit.ly/4rZmDWd and have a great week!

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ULS 244: Torture the Metaphor - Age Verification, Git Redirects, & Security Changes

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:13:22 PST

This show starts with an Android review, looking at Jonathan's newest tablet. It also covers the coming Android apocalypse, the age verification legislation, and the sudo-rs asterisk fight. Mesa is grappling with AI, Ardour has a couple of point releases, and Gnome is redirecting traffic to GitHub. Fedora has a new mobile experiment in PocketBlue, and the 0 A.D. game has a stable release. For tips we have PyNetscan for IP scanning, snapper for BTRFS snapshots, mediainfo for media file investigations, and espanso for automatic text expansion. Find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3N9X3ys and enjoy!

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ULS 243: Only a Few Things Crashed - Intel is Back, Matrix is Out, and AI is Speeding up the Kernel

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:25:00 PST

This week we cover an Immutable Gentoo-derived distro, the release of KDE 6.6, Blender 5.1 and PipeWire 1.6. Then Intel hires more Linux developers, with a very specific gaming-centric experience wishlist, and the kernel 6.19.3 minor update is out, fixing some serious issues. For tips we have whosthere for network device discovery, rate-mirrors for exploring update mirror speeds, system-ac-power for detecting power and battery state, and unzip for .zip handling. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4rCL0ZK and enjoy!

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ULS 242: Syntactical Sugar - Sustainable Distros, New Kernels, & Wayland Vim?

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:34:09 PST

The Linux Kernel 6.19 is out, the Rust experiment is over, and it's time to talk about 7.0. Vim 9.2 is out, with a bit of a weird new feature in its changelogs, and IPFire is an intriguing, community-driven security domain block list. PearOS has a new release for those seeking an Apple-inspired Linux experience, and Linux Mint is adjusting its release schedule to better manage developer and tester schedules. River is a new project trying to do Wayland support with a modular Desktop stack, and Mesa 26.0 is out with impressive performance gains. For tips, we have cull for finding and deleting big files, a systemd program for detecting if the OS is running virtualized, preload for caching applications in ram, and new_script for a script-writing tool that *doesn't* feature an LLM. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3ZCNcEc and happy Linux'ing!

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ULS 241: A Very Hot Sandwich - A Smorgasbord of New Releases

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:49:27 PST

This week, we start by talking about the Raspberry Pi memory price increases and bemoan that it's a tough time to be an enthusiast. Then we help ourselves feel better by covering all the new Betas and releases of our favorite software. There's a new LibreOffice, a look ahead at GIMP 3.2, and the Krita 6 Beta. Toyota has announced Flourite, a new game engine written in Flutter and Dart. And Ardour 9 and Shotcut 26.1 are out. We talk Debian, and spend some time looking at how AI has changed the Open Source landscape. For tips, there's another look at systemd-analyze and then a quick intro to gpioget for reading gpio lines. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4r3PmZn and have a great week!

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