LUP 286: Ell is for Linux

• Air Date: 2019-01-29
• Duration: 68 mins 40 secs

About this episode

We're playing Robin Hood with the content, and a new member of our team joins to tell you all about it.

Your hosts

• Chris Fisher
• Wes Payne
• Brent Gervais
• Ell Marquez
• Martin Wimpress

Sponsored by

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Episode 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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