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00:48 Intro
Missing Steve
01:55 Auto Updates? - Charlie
Installing Linux on a Pixelbook Go
Desktop vs laptop
Being in the moment
Noah's laptop strategy
PineTab 2 (https://pine64.com/product/pinetab2-10-1-8gb-128gb-linux-tablet-with-detached-backlit-keyboard/)
Google hardware
Re-purposing Google hardware
Github.com (https://github.com/yusefnapora/pixelbook-linux)
Auto updates, EndlessOS
13:02 FreePBX - Zack
What to consider when backing up
Bash and FW Console
Sleuth's Solution
Backups are specific to the data type
Use the built in backup and export functions
22:35 News Wire
MySQL 9.3 - dev.myssql.com (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/9.3/en/)
Peazip 10.4 - github.com (https://github.com/peazip/PeaZip/releases/)
Gnome 48.1 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-47-6-released/28414)
Gnome 48.1 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-48-1-released/28424)
LXQT 2.2.0 - lxqt-project.org (https://lxqt-project.org/release/2025/04/17/release-lxqt-2-2-0/)
Ubuntu 25.04 - canonical.com (https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin)
Fedora 42 - fedoramagazine.org (https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-42/)
Manjaro 25 manjaro.org (https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-25-0-zetar-released/177008)
NX App Hub - x.com (https://x.com/Nitrux_NX/status/1912102771458711737)
Easy OS 5.9 - bkhome.org (https://bkhome.org/news/202504/easyos-kirkstone-series-maintenance-release-59.html)
XorDDos - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/experts-uncover-new-xorddos-controller.html)
BPFDoor - securityweek.com (https://www.securityweek.com/enhanced-version-of-bpfdoor-linux-backdoor-seen-in-the-wild/)
23:34 Steve's Backup and ZFS Adventures
Data should be in 3 places
New server
Running data and power
Existing data sets
Encrypting the data
Snapshots
Block Cloning
Nesting and inheriting encryption attributes
What would you do differently if you could start over
Take-a-ways
How long until you "trust" the new backup system?
43:50 OpenWrt One
OpenWrt One (https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one)
Great build quality
Multiple ways to power
WiFi off by default
Has a console port
Really impressed
48:28 Switching to Cloud
Companies moving to Azure to avoid Redmond markups
Companies starting to re-consider moving to cloud
Windows still entrenched
3 People running thousands of VMs and containers
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53:48
Ask Noah Show 437
This week we dig into how you can host your own 5G and Ubuntu's new certification program!
-- During The Show --
00:45 Technology Another Way
Cell Phone sales and inventory
Market uncertainty
Erasing a phone
Moving to GrapheneOS
Used equipment
Fdroid (https://f-droid.org/)
Opportunities to move people to open source
Routes to take
14:00 News Wire
OpenSSH 10.0p2 - openssh.com (https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html)
OpenSSL 3.5 - github.com (https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases)
GNU Coreutils 9.7 - gnu.org (https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html)
Pinta 3.0 - pinta-project.com (https://www.pinta-project.com/releases/3-0.html)
OpenELA Leapp - techzine.eu (https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/130476/openela-introduces-leapp-project-for-in-place-upgrades-of-enterprise-linux/)
Linux Mint OEM Support - linuxmint.com (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4825)
Asahi Linux Roadblock - appleinsider.com (https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/04/08/asahi-linux-m4-support-hits-a-roadblock-because-of-apple-silicon-changes)
Proxmox VW 8.4 - proxmox.com (https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-virtual-environment-8-4)
Archbang 0904 - sourceforge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/archbang/files/ArchBang/archbang-0904-x86_64.iso/download)
Feren OS 2025.03 - feren-os.com (https://medium.com/feren-os/feren-os-2025-03-minor-rebase-update-for-feren-os-f82ce0a47a52)
Pardus 23.4 - pardus.org (https://pardus.org.tr/en/pardus-23-4-changelog/)
SparkyLinux - sparkylinux.org (https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-7-7/)
MX 26.3 - mxlinux.org (https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-23-6-now-available/)
Particle OS - itsfoss.com (https://news.itsfoss.com/systemd-particle-os/)
Malware "Patches" - darkreading.com (https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/open-source-poisoned-patches-infect-local-software)
Slopsquatting - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/)
Luminary Cloud and Honda's AI Model - engineering.com (https://www.engineering.com/luminary-cloud-releases-open-source-physics-ai-model-with-honda-nvidia/)
15:50 Canonical Certifications
Adriana Frick's Story
Why Adriana left tech
BGP
What did the creation process look like?
Defining standards
Making it measurable
Proving skills
How did you learn what employers want
Mauricio Buschinelli's Story
Verifying completion of a task
What does the test look like
Easter Eggs through out
As close to real as possible
Care about outcomes
Accessibility
Testing (https://ubuntu.com/credentials)
A lot more coming
41:00 5G
Cellphone companies want to be at the tower
5G Hardware
Entire stack is open source
Provisioning Sim Cards
Roaming
Charmed Ether SD Core
50:00 FCC Licensing
Not a walk in the park
FCC starting to require receiver registration
Spectrum is crowded
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53:52
Ask Noah Show 436
This week Steve builds a backup server, and tells us how and why!
-- During The Show --
01:13 GrapheneOS & Teams - Kevin
Needed unsandboxed play services
Broke on the next update
This problem reported across OSes (https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/new-ms-teams-version-not-working-getting-error-no/8a4e48a0-e97b-47f6-9ab9-4c82bc8ba768?page=1)
People reported needing to install "the framework"
Apps stay in their sandbox
Use app in a web browser
06:26 VMs - Mike
Covered later in the show
07:35 searXNG - Donald
More than a proxy
Better results than other search engines
10:00 News Wire
Curl 8.13 - curl.se (https://curl.se/ch/)
GnuCash 5.11 - gnucash.org (https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml)
GNU Nano 8.4 - lists.gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-04/msg00001.html)
Apt 3.0 - debian.org (https://tracker.debian.org/news/1635519/accepted-apt-300-source-into-unstable/)
Thunderbird 137 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/137.0/releasenotes/)
Firefox 137 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/137.0/releasenotes/)
KDE Plasma 6.3.4 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.4/)
Rust 1.86 - releases.rs (https://releases.rs/docs/1.86.0/)
Qt 6.9 - wiki.qt.io (https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_6.9_Release)
Nvidia PhysX and Flow - wccftech.com (https://wccftech.com/nvidia-physx-and-flow-are-now-fully-open-source/)
Outlaw Malware - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/outlaw-group-uses-ssh-brute-force-to.html)
Open Source Malware Index - infoworld.com (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3953841/sonatype-warns-of-18000-open-source-malware-packages.html)
ProteuX 2.0 - github.com (https://github.com/porteux/porteux/releases/tag/v2.0)
New Fedora Project Lead Jef Spaleta - fedoramagazine.org (https://fedoramagazine.org/introducing-fedora-project-leader-jef-spaleta/)
11:30 Interview Jon Segar
VP of Engineering at Ubuntu
uutils coreutils
Licenses
Growing the Ubuntu Community
Feature parity & rough edges
Default in 25.10 build
Memory safe languages
Moving people's cheese
23:00 Steve's Off Site Backup
Backup server in an out building
What's the most important thing
Swim lanes
Breaking things down
Nextcloud island
Containers vs VMs
Nginx vs Apache
Managing and backing up data
Storage, NFS vs Direct Block access
Sanoid (https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid)
Supermicro motherboards
iDrac, IPMI, PiKVM
SOC vs standard system
backup server considerations
Moving Home Assistant from dev to prod
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53:57
Episode 435: Ask Noah Show 435
This week we give an update on the journey with GrapheneOS.
-- During The Show --
00:58 Intro
Cold weather
Do I shovel snow?
01:36 Thank you! - Nick
Steve knows A LOT about kubernetes
Tell us what about kubernetes do you want to learn?
2 Camps of people
How deep will Steve go
06:57 GraphenOS - Craig
Noah's experience/device
Samsung made an un-rom-able US version
Carrier's load an OS when you boot their sim card
Noah's Pixel 8a
Why no financial apps
Inherent insecurities in phones
Niche vs common target
Phones can "walk off"
Rouge Pixel, video file, audio file, etc
Even normal people with a stock phone struggle
Pixel 6A as a work phone
Being attached to "glowing bricks"
Authenticator apps
WiFi only/no sim
Google Account requires logging in on a stock device
Navigation
Here WeGo Maps
Notifications
Micro-g
Persistent Notification
Browsers
Firefox
Vandium
Be prepared for hiccups
Nitro Phone
Make sure the bootloader is unlocked
Naomi Brockwell TV Block Phone Tracking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPnFJ8PeSsY)
Naomi Brockwell TV Main Site (https://www.nbtv.media)
Vehicle Tracking
50:45 Linux Wins! - Dan
Combat Studies Group (https://combatstudiesgroup.blogspot.com/)
Re-purposing computers for re-use
52:35 News Wire
XZ Utils 5.8.0 - github.com (https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/releases/tag/v5.8.0)
Shotcut 25.03 - shotcut.org (https://www.shotcut.org/blog/new-release-250329/)
Android Development Going Private - arstechnica.com (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/google-makes-android-development-private-will-continue-open-source-releases/)
Kaos 2025.03 - kaosx.us (https://kaosx.us/news/2025/kaos03/)
Zorin 17.3 - zorin.com (https://blog.zorin.com/2025/03/26/zorin-os-17.3-is-here/)
Linux Lite 7.4 - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/linux-lite-7-4-final-released/)
Q4OS 5.8 - q4os.org (https://www.q4os.org/blog.html#news250327)
EU-OS - linuxjournal.com (https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/eu-os-bold-step-toward-digital-sovereignty-europe)
OpenAI Open Weight Model - wired.com (https://www.wired.com/story/openai-sam-altman-announce-open-source-model/)
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54:35
Ask Naoh Show 434
This week Steve and Noah give you tips on hosting your first home server.
-- During The Show --
00:58 Intro
Minimum Viable Battle Station
Pelican 1620 Cases
XREAL Air 2 (https://us.shop.xreal.com/products/xreal-air-2)
Ergonomics
09:52 Home Server Questions - Dan
Noah's first homelab
Pick an OS with low churn, long term OS
Generational upgrades
Experiment in VMs
Starting with a VM host
Starting with a file server
Don't put 30 drives in one box
Noah's vs Steve's approach
Do it, Document it, Blow it away, Do it again
Know the thing before you automate
Low level tech roles being handed to other business people
Playbooks
Ansible
Steve's OpenAudible-TO-AudioBookShelf (https://github.com/stratus-ss/OpenAudible-To-AudioBookShelf)
48:06 Kubernetes - Jeremy
Kube Dev Lab (https://www.kubedevlab.com/docs/tutorials/kubernetes-cluster/)
Steve's K8s Labs (https://github.com/stratus-ss/k8s-labs)
50:32 News Wire
Calibre 8.0 - calibre-ebook.com (https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/seventeen)
Linux 6.14 - lkml.org (https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/3/24/797)
Gnome 48 - gnome.org (https://release.gnome.org/48/)
Blender 4.4 - blender.org (https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-4/)
Zulip 10 - zulip.com (https://blog.zulip.com/2025/03/20/zulip-10-0-released/)
EndeavorOS Mercury Neo - endeavouros.com (https://endeavouros.com/news/mercury-neo-with-linux-6-13-7-and-arch-mirror-ranking-bug-fix/)
Finnis 125 - finnix.org (https://blog.finnix.org/2023/03/28/finnix-125-released/)
Serpent OS Rebranded to AerynOS - fossforce.com (https://fossforce.com/2025/02/before-it-even-gets-a-stable-release-serpent-os-changes-its-name-to-aerynos/)
Rocky Linux Security - fossforce.com (https://fossforce.com/2025/03/rocky-linux-from-ciq-hardened-takes-enterprise-linux-security-to-the-next-level/)
Chimera Linux Drops RISC-V - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/chimera_linux_riscv/)
Albabat Ransomware - infosecurity-magazine.com (https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/albabat-ransomware-linux-macos/)
Hornet Security Module - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Hornet-Linux-LSM)
3 AI Projects Donated to Linux Foundation - thenewstack.io (https://thenewstack.io/ibm-to-donate-three-ai-related-projects-to-the-cncf/)
Trend Micro Open Source - prnewswire.com (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/trend-micro-to-open-source-ai-model-and-agent-to-drive-the-future-of-agentic-cybersecurity-302405393.html)
Hugging Face Blueprint - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face-submits-open-source-blueprint-challenging-big-tech-in-white-house-ai-policy-fight/)
AlexNet Open Source - spectrum.ieee.org (https://spectrum.ieee.org/alexnet-source-code)
Open Source Worth 8.8 Trillion - heise.de (https://www.heise.de/en/news/Harvard-study-Open-source-has-an-economic-value-of-8-8-trillion-dollars-10322643.html) hbs.edu (https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf#page=31.22)
52:15 Private Search Engine? - Atypical Kernel
SearXNG (https://docs.searxng.org/)
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