286: Ell is for Linux

What this episode covers

We're playing Robin Hood with the content, and a new member of our team joins to tell you all about it. Plus some hard details on the Librem 5, we visit the Canonical Corner, and a big batch of great Linux picks. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Ell Marquez, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Choose Linux Episode 1: elementary OS and OpenMediaVault — The show that captures the excitement of discovering Linux. Firefox 65.0 — Simplified content blocking settings give users standard, strict, and custom options to control online trackers. What are the phone specs? – Purism Purism's PureOS Store To Be Based Around Flatpaks — The very first application to the PureOS Store is Lollypop. Kodi 18.0 — The Kodi team is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Kodi 18.0 "Leia" for all supported platforms. Canonical Outs Major Linux Kernel Update for Ubuntu 18.04 — These vulnerabilities could allow attackers to either execute arbitrary code or crash the system via a denial of service attack by utilizing a maliciously crafted EXT4 image that could be mounted on the vulnerable machine. Ubuntu Users Can Now Keep PPAs And Third Party Repositories Enabled When Upgrading To A Newer Ubuntu Version — Another recent change makes sure third party repositories support the release to which the user is trying to upgrade. SCALE 17x — Pasadena Convention Center March 7 - 10, 2019 Privacy Could Be The Next Big Thing — Upcoming talk by Stuart Langridge at SCALE 17x Bad Voltage Live | SCALE 17x Ell on Twitter Linux Academy Study Group Survey — What course should our next study group cover? What’s Free At Linux Academy February 2019 Shortwave: Internet radio in Rust Shortwave Hello World | Felix Häcker — I wanted to rewrite Gradio entirely from scratch using Rust and thought it’s better to start a completely new project. fx_cast: chromecast for firefox — Enables Chromecast support for casting web apps (like Netflix or BBC iPlayer), HTML5 video and screen/tab sharing. Cool-Retro-Term 1.1.1 is out! — Big performance improvements (and lowered resource consumption), new shiny (literally) frame, system fonts support, and more!

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