The guys are back, this time with Intel news, Microsoft's new open source tool, and the dust-up between bottles and OpenSuse. We finally cover the Pi 500 and Pi monitor, review the latest Framework laptops, and take a look at Microsoft's new Open Source MarkItDown tool. For tips we have comm for comparing files, a tip on bash expansion, fbi for displaying images right on the frame buffer, and abcde for super simple audio CD extraction. The show notes are at https://bit.ly/4gtMyQ0 Merry Christmas, and we'll see you next year! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Jeff Massie, and David Ruggles Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
It's the Jeff and Jonathan Show, with the guys talking about the new Intel Arc Battlemage graphics cards, the new hardware attack known as BadRam, and the new proposed Fedora COSMIC spin. There's a new Proton release, CentOS Stream 10 is out, and KDE ships 6.3. For tips we have Cargo for all your rust packaging needs, and switcherooctl for video card management. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/4iDntUk and enjoy! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Host: Jeff Massie Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
There's been a bit of a shakeup this week, with Torvalds criticizing Docker, Rustls dominating the TLS performance war, and Intel releasing a graphics card while "retiring" their CEO. Then, Flathub and KDE are working on their finances, OpenVPN has modernized its kernel driver, and Steam Machines may be back! Oh, and don't forget OBS 31 or the potential security issue with OpenWRT! For tips, we have eza as an ls replacement, pv for pipe progress viewing, IMSProg for EEPROM hacking, and HandlePowerKey for customizing what your machine does when you hit the power button. Grab the show notes at https://bit.ly/4gl1VtB and enjoy! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, David Ruggles, and Jeff Massie Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
This week we pontificate on Gnome OS and whether KDE and Gnome really need their own distros, the much-delayed progress in Wayland development that's finally happening, and whether here's really a trend from Ubuntu back to Debian. We discuss the Pi CM5 announcement, the new UEFI bootkit announcement, and the leaked steam controller designs. For tips we have dstat for system monitoring, and SSH agent forwarding to forward your SSH keys on remote systems. The show notes are at https://bit.ly/4idT1Qb and until next week! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Host: Rob Campbell Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
There's releases, bug fixes, and Windows news. We covered CAD, DigiKam, and Wine. Then new hardware and support, EPEL on WSL, and the Free Software Foundation's de-blobbed kenel. Then finally we cover the latest drama in the kernel and Code of Conduct enforcement. For tips we have pw-container, kdocker on Wayland, and Qucs-S. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3ALweut and we'll see you next time! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Jeff Massie and Ken McDonald Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
This week is full, with chat about KDE's new, upcoming distro; the details on Kernel 6.12 and what's coming with 6.13; and the latest scoop on Microsoft's .NET. Then there's copy-on-write, Ubuntu 25.04 news, and Framework's RISC-V mainboard/ For tips we have unalias, ngspice, pw-link, and a github hack for removing offline runners. Catch the show notes at https://bit.ly/4fvweO2 and until next week! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Jeff Massie, and Ken McDonald Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
This week we're still waiting for Ubuntu Core, But the wait is over for AMD's new 9800X3D processor! We get better kernel PWM support, Russia appears to be forking the kernel, the Mozilla Foundation makes cuts, and Framework is teaming with Mint. For tips we have pw-cat for sniffing on Pipewire, nvtop for sniffing on your GPU, ssh jump servers, and the zen browser. Find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4fmWf22 and enjoy! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: David Ruggles, Ken McDonald, and Jeff Massie Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
The guys are talking about VMWare moving to KVM, Ubuntu's missing kernel PPA, Microsoft's endorsement of Alma Linux, and Jonathan does a live update to Fedora 41. It goes mostly well. X has another vulnerablity, The kernel makes a minor fix, and a Valve engineer finds a massive perfomance fix in AMD drivers. For tips we have bc for a simple calulator, baobab for file usage visualization, pw-top for keeping track of Pipewire processes, and ccze for colorizing your logs. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/48ADju0 and until next time! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Ken McDonald, and Jeff Massie Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
This week we chat about the Snapdragon processors and Linux support, then look at the Bitwarden license hiccup, and spend some time talking about the Linux Kernel removing Russian-aligned maintainers. We get a laugh out of the MALIBAL meltdown, take a look at what's coming with Alma Linux 10, and cover the OBS move to semantic versioning. For tips we have ss for socket stats, rtorrent for downloading Linux ISOs from the command line, and an intro to the pipewire command line. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/3NHC3fd and enjoy the show! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell and Ken McDonald Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
We start with Quantum Computing and RSA, Chat about Nvidia and the AI craze, and end with the the Wordpress drama. In between we cover updates to Ardour, Calibre, KDE Plasma, and Clonezilla. And finally there's some kernel news, like proxy execution for better performance, and OpenZFS coverage. For tips we have pathchk for filesystem portability checks, how-to for freezing a package version in Ubuntu, and an intro to the network tool netcat. The show notes are at https://bit.ly/40awxsQ and enjoy! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Ken McDonald and Jeff Massie Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
We cover linux for better Mac gaming, Thunderbird's Android beta, and NVIDIA's Wayland progress. There's Open Razer, the release of Ubuntu 24.10, and more news about Gnome foundation. And don't forget the AMD Epyc Turin server CPU release with impressive AVX-512 support. For tips, we have "look" for doing dictionary lookups, yum and dnf tricks, pv for monitoring or slowing a pipe, and bless for a useful hex editor GUI. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/4876oxh and until next time! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Jeff Massie, and David Ruggles Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
This week we cover news from Pine on another piece of hardware that runs doom, network manager and Godot have a shared struggle, and FFMpeg drops 7.1. Then we chat Audacious, Look at XFCE's Wayland work, talk about Linux 6.12, and reminisce about bittorrent. For tips, there's Etchdroid for writing boot disks from Android, install for command line installations, neovim for editing needs, and truncate for trimming bytes off the end of files. The show notes are available at https://tinyurl.com/23zpxeyf with links to each topic! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Jeff Massie, and Ken McDonald Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
It's another week of big Linux news, starting with a new Ardour release, that one of our hosts had a tiny part in. The Winamp source release has been a trainwreck, Cloudflare spills the tea on their newest servers, and Valve is shaking things up. Proton may be adding support for Arm64 gaming, Valve engineers are laying down a challenge to Wayland, and a new DXVK is out with a bunch of fixes. And don't forget, we have in-depth coverage of the big "9.9" Linux vulnerability that turned out to be not quite that severe. For tips we have weather on the command line, protontricks for fixing Steam games, and xxd for generating some random hex. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4epi7to and we'll see you next time! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Jeff Massie and Rob Campbell Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
This week we muse on upcoming Raspberry Pi products, prompted by confirmation from Ubuntu that the CM5 is imminent. Then Torvalds has thought on Rust in Linux, Wind River has thoughts on Red Hat, and AWS gives OpenSearch away. Don't miss the non-update on Wireguard, the DirectX surprise, and the long-awaited merge of the Real Time Linux patches! For tips we have Mapscii, a Github hack for self-hosted runners, glances, and udisksctl. Catch the show notes at https://bit.ly/4esXYSC and enjoy! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Ken McDonald, and David Ruggles Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
This week we chat about yet another Linux mobile device, the new AlmaLinux certification script, and Ubuntu's fine-grained security controls. Then there's the Attack Vector Controls, Redox OS, and some much-needed updates to Apt. For tips we have Hardinfo for hardware details, findmnt part 2 for tracking your drives, Planify for person task management, and auditctl for system auditing and monitoring. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/4gErdnF and be back next week! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Ken McDonald, Rob Campbell, and Jeff Massie Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
Open Source Programmers need to eat, The 6.11 kernel is right around the corner, and Ubuntu 24.04 has a critical bug. Rhino Linux looks promising, the Furi Phone impresses, and Firefox marches on. For tips, we have Bleachbit for desktop cleanup, findmnt for filesystem info, DebPostInstall for the things you ought to do after a fresh install, and mqtt-explorer for sorting the firehose of data from an MQTT server. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4egaTY8 and Enjoy! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Ken McDonald, Rob Campbell, and Jeff Massie Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
The week brings the drama, from kernel hackers retiring in frustration, to a panning take on COSMIC, to a high profile fork of a very popular database program. It's not all drama, as Linux celebrates an all-time high in market share, Microsoft's LinkedIn moves to Microsoft's Azure Linux, and the Mono project calls Wine its new home. For tips we have findfs for looking up filesystem devices, bython for python with braces instead of whitespace, and gh for command line Github manipulation. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3XrIhWj and enjoy the show! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Ken McDonald and David Ruggles Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
The gang is back, and the big, weird news is that Microsoft is fixing Grub, and it may break your Linux dual boot. Then Torvalds talks about kernel work, AI, Rust, and more. Ubuntu is late, but will be fresher; Libreoffice ships 24.8; and Winter is coming for GIMP 3. For tips we have no more secrets for fun movie-style faux decryption, ProtonUp-Qt for managing Proton versions, brew for installing isolated software stacks, and crtlaltdel for managing what exactly your machine does in response to the classic three-finger salute. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3ADKZiu until next week! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: David Ruggles, Jeff Massie, and Rob Campbell Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
This week the guys are chatting about Snap improvements, the new Ryzen 9 9000 chips, and Debian 11 hitting LTS. Then they chat about Tails, Proton VPN, and ClamAV 1.4 all for security. Then Ubuntu prepares for 24.10 with some Easter eggs, and HandBrake fixes some irritating problems. For tips we have Cosmic community projects, Reflector for Arch Mirrors, wl-clipboard, and a one-liner to apply patches from a URL. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3M836zB and see you next week! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Ken McDonald, Jeff Massie, and Rob Campbell Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
We're talking about Linux on the Snapdragon laptops, AMD's latest chips, and LibCurl's 24th birthday. Then there are SerpentOS and Cosmic previews to try, and Firefox teases releases 129 and 130. And don't miss the scoop on GhostWire, the devastating vulnerability in a couple of RISC-V chips. For tips, we have Oneko for mouse cursor fun, feh for command line image viewing, xsel and xclp for manipulating the clipboard, and sensible for a sensible alternative for alternatives. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/3AsZ9me and enjoy! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Jeff Massie, Ken McDonald, and Rob Campbell Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
Esher (T3k 'n' 5tuff)
Shout out to Yakuake. The only terminal I use on KDE. Love it. I set it to start on boot so my terminal is only a tilde away all the time.