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 UnpluggedLinks: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? – PurismPurism'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, 2019Privacy Could Be The Next Big Thing — Upcoming talk by Stuart Langridge at SCALE 17xBad Voltage Live | SCALE 17xEll on TwitterLinux Academy Study Group Survey — What course should our next study group cover?What’s Free At Linux Academy February 2019Shortwave: Internet radio in RustShortwave 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!