Episode 277: Happy Birthday Arch, btw

This week we take your questions then dig into the releases that are hot this week. KDE, Gnome, Pine64, and System76 all have something for you this week!

-- During The Show --

02:10 User recommends Self Hosted Email - James

• Mailu

04:15 KDE Plasma Questions - Stephen

• GVfs
• SystemD FSTAB mount
• SMB4K

10:30 Trouble Running BricCad - Ryan

• BricCad
• Malformed URL in AUR package
• Wayland permissions?
• strace

13:25 Caller Jon

• NAS Backup
• Use a file system with compression
• Focus on data size
• MediaSonic Enclosure
• SpiderOak
• Ice Drive

19:40 Pick of The Week

• The Note Binder
• Note Organizing Binder
• Multiple file types

22:55 News Wire

• [Open Source in Film Making]

  • ProVideo Coalition
  • ASWF

• Apache NiFi & Pulsar

• New Spectre Vulnerabilities

• OpenZFS 2.1.3

• Arch Linux 20th Birthday

• WhatsApp Code Verification

• LF Energy

• PyGears AI Chip Design

24:50 Pine64 - Introducing The QuartzPro64

• New single board computer
• First Pro-Grade SBC since RockPro64
• $300+
• Pine64 Blog

27:00 Pipewire

• Bluetooth audio stack improvements
• Future Proof
• Collabora worked on WirePlumber
• Auto profile switching
• Collabora Blog

33:30 Gnome 42 RC

• Added abilities and defaults
• Fingerprint dialog makes a come back
• FIDO2 Standard
• 9 to 5 Linux Article

38:00 KDE 5.92 Available

• New features and improvements
• KDE Frameworks 5.92
• Spectacle and OBS
• KDE Neon
• 9 to 5 Linux Article

40:50 SSHGuard on Ubuntu 20.04

• Blocks brute forcing SSH
• Multiple log formats
• Vitux.com

43:03 System76 Open Source Keyboard

• Hot-swappable mechanical switches
• Open Source Chassis, PCB, and firmware
• Split Spacebar
• USB Hub
• Layers
• ArsTechnica Article
• Red Dragon Keyboad

50:00 Synergy Alternative / KVM Sharing

• Barrier
• Cross Platform, should "just work"
• Everything is done in the open

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