Season 2016 2016

We make our annual predictions for the land of Linux in 2016, Google drops the openJDK bomb & we pay tribute to Ian Murdock.

Plus we announce our SCaLE 14x plans, some changes to the show & more!

What if your humble hosts could have there way? A wave of their magic wands, whatever they want changed in Linux Land in 2016 would just happen? We spend sometime this week fantasizing about all things we wish would happen this year to make Linux better.

Plus the welcome change in Ubuntu 16.04, Firefox OS finds new life, desktop picks that changed our lives & more!

We celebrate 400 episodes of the Linux Action Show, show you how easy it is to setup your own free phone system, never flash another USB stick again & the big Ubuntu rumors.

Plus the openSSH bug you need to patch, the Steam Link SDK, Gnome 3 changes & more!

In this special episode of LAS, we go off the rails as we buckle down & prep for our visit to SCaLE live on the air! Plus picks, your feedback & more!

We share our best stories from 2016’s SCALE14x. From the highlights to the bar fights we talk about what it’s like to attend one of the largest community driven Linux events in the world.

Plus the Linux Trojan that’s snapping screenshots & recording audio, Linux Mint is building their own X-Apps, your live calls & more!

Teams collaborating over Slack is the new hot trend sweeping many open source projects, communities & others. We compare Rocket.Chat, Mattermost & Slack. See which best protects your privacy & makes it easier than ever to work with a group of people. Don’t hate, collaborate with this week’s episode!

Plus all the details on the announced Ubuntu Tablet, the Keybase filesystem & more!

This week we talk about how you can have a working web forum in 10 minutes or less & all open source! Last week we talked about team collaboration software, but what about when you need a wider approach?

In the news we talk about an open source router; Russia dumping Windows, more updates to video editing on Linux, a super special live unboxing & more!

Is the Librem 15 the ultimate Linux laptop? We review Purism’s Librem 15 laptop, crowd funded and pitched as “the first high-end laptop in the world that ships without mystery software in the kernel, operating system, or any software applications.” Does it live up to the promise? Have we found the true Linux powered MacBook killer?

Plus Linux Mint gets attacked, Ubuntu Touch on hardware you really want, why real ZFS support on Linux is near….

AND SO MUCH MORE!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

Has Entroware built the ultimate 13 inch Linux laptop? We put their Apollo through our battery of tests & review this good looking Skylake powered Linux portable.

Plus Microsoft buys the folks behind Mono, Canonical might have a ZFS fight on their hands & more!

In special Raspberry Pi 3 edition of the show we look at the new hardware, review & chat with Mycroft CTO Ryan Sipes on how important the Raspberry Pi is for development of their open artificial intelligence platform & get the latest news.

Plus replacing Spotify on Linux, the new Microsoft lock-in, our hosts face a moral quandary & more!

What’s the best software under Linux to create music? We answer that & the best hardware that work together. We have something for the musician to casual hardware geek, we cover the dark art of creating music under Linux as we go inside Noah’s music studio and see what he uses.

Plus we chat with ownCloud’s Community Manager about the new features in version 9, our thoughts on Microsoft’s SQL for Linux announcement & more!

Jonathan Riddell joins us to discuss the KDE Neon project, the latest & greatest of KDE community software packaged on a rock-solid base. We kick the tires & give you our first impressions. Is this finally the Plasma Desktop just the way we’ve always wanted it?

We risk it all and toss our data into the new ownCloud 9 to give you our review. Find out about using ownCloud as an Evernote killer, Federated servers & the long-term commitment you’re making as an ownCloud user.

Plus Red Hat’s big news, the new Gnome & things go to the next level in our upcoming switch competition.

Microsoft and Ubuntu working together to bring you Bash and the Ubuntu userland to Windows 10. Is this the ultimate Win for Linux? Or is this Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish at its finest? We share our thoughts on this historic announcement.

Plus Red Hat wants to save you some money, TP-Link bans OSS firmwares, Edubuntu calls it quits, our new favorite note taking app for Linux & more!

t started with speaking about Open Source. Were you thinking the Emma vs Noah showdown wasn't worth making it out? Do you have doubts that Noah can switch your friends & family? Take a trip with us & see for yourself what it takes to convert Mac & Windows users to Linux!

We dive in & spend an evening with the Sandbagger crew switching their whole house to Linux, then they talk about how they're going to switch the class they're teaching next semester!

Plus Linus’ hopes for the Linux desktop, setting up a network wide ad blocker using Pi-Hole & more!

We review Ubuntu 16.04 & it’s various flavors. We discuss the new features that make this one of the most important Ubuntu releases in years & debate the major challenges that modern distributions have solved, that Ubuntu still struggles with.

Plus the latest stats show Ubuntu dominating where it counts, how Red Hat is making all that money, Linux in ALL the places, our weekly picks & more!

Our biggest live event yet, from the floor of LinuxFest Northwest 2016. We chat about the future of Linux desktop software, old friends from the past stop by & the switch competition is on!

Noah & Emma set out to switch as many users to Linux as possible. Our team documents their competition to switch the most people to Linux within two hours in the Pacific Northwest!

The Oryx Pro from System76 claims to be a desktop replacement, with a lot of expandability & a ton of compute power. But do the specs & features match the price? We review one of the most potentially promising laptops built for Linux yet.

If you could only buy one machine, should this be it? Tune in to find out!

Plus is Linux Mint rushing into a collapse? We get really excited about the Pyra and you might too, big updates on the Linux desktop & more!

We go behind the scenes & give you details on our new Linux rig builds, using OBS to stream to multiple services, the hard lessons we learned & our Linux powered production pipeline. After our year long skunkworks project this episode is living proof of how for media production under Linux has come.

Plus now we can all say ZFS is officially on Linux, Intel’s plans to make up for their Linux Skylake screw up, Ubuntu gets some snaps, Fedora “attempts” H.264 support, some games worth your time & more!

We share our early experiences with virtualization, then show you how Linux’s built-in enterprise grade virtualization curb stomps some commercial options. The discussion wraps up with examples of awesome hardware passthrough, and the major shift Linux has made possible.

PLUS: Chromebooks outsell Macs, the sad story of an important project fading away, the big choice facing Fedora & more!

Purism has sent us the Librem 13 for review, does a laptop designed to protect your digital life make a good Linux workstation? With physical kill switches, and a well built aluminum housing, we answer if this could be your next ultimate Linux laptop.

Plus why were not so excited about Google’s recent win against Oracle, new features coming to Linux, what the heck is going on at OwnCloud & more!

Frank & Jos of Nextcloud join us to discuss their fork of ownCloud, some of the history behind the fork, the reaction by ownCloud, & what they plan to do differently this time around.

Plus we debate if Valve’s Steam Machines are a bust, a bit more on Oracle vs Google & much more!

A special celebration of 10 years of the Linux Action Show. We drop the format & have fun on a couple of projects we’ve really been wanting to share with you.

How a nonprofit ISP built on tops of trees running Linux, with impressive engineering & custom code connected an entire community to the Internet.

Then a special project that celebrates 10 years of Linux, our show & more!

We review the ThinkPad x260 with Linux & compare it to the XPS 13.

Then we discuss Snaps, AppImage, Flatpak & the Universal Package war that’s brewing, what the major downsides are & why we think this concept of universal Linux apps is not going away.

Plus our picks of the week, a laptop giveaway & more!

Fedora 24 is both a delight & simply frustrating at the same time. We share our experiences with one of the most highly anticipated Fedora releases.

Plus Canonical makes good on the code, a big hole in Linux & more!

We go back in time and take a look at what you missed at SELF 2016. Plus we’re 1% closer to the Linux Desktop, why Evernote sucks & more!

This week we take a look at what Noah’s using at Altispeed to provide remote assistance to his clients. We ponder over what Microsoft might have planned for Skype on Linux, cover why Android’s full disk encryption might not be as secure as you think, Mycroft’s collaboration with Canonical, the picks, your feedback & more!

We review Linux Mint 18 & our experience turns out to be a roller coaster ride from impressed glee to cautious concern. We’ve never felt more conflicted over a version of Linux Mint.

Plus we discuss the Ubuntu Forum hack, a Fedora bug that’s bricking some laptops & why we just can’t quit FreeNAS.

This week we share a big project that blew up in our face, the technical speed bumps we faced & the ultimate goal to accomplish something a Mac could never do.

Plus the big snap sprint that might just push the format over the edge, a quick look at Korora 24 & more!

We compare two very compelling boxes side by side & discover the advantages of Android as our HTPC. As two long time Linux users we were surprised & a little horrified. We share our strange journey to this place & why we are staying.

Plus we discuss the impact that free Windows 10 had on Linux, Microsoft’s lost opportunity & geek out over Noah’s cool new hardware.

Noah’s back from Defcon! He shares his experience at this infamous conference, his Linux in the wild sightings & his surprising takeaway.

Plus Btrfs’ RAID 5/6 code has been found “unsafe”, the FossHub compromise, an Internet of Things failure that struck close to home & more!

We try out Linux on the Microsoft Surface Pro & the results were much better than we expected. We share this odd journey towards the perfect laptop…. Or Tablet…

Plus the major security flaw in the Linux Kernel, the btrfs project recommends you use ZFS, Red Hat is hiring to make Linux run better on laptops & more!

We follow up on many of the projects, distros & gadgets we’ve reviewed recently & tell you where things stand now that we’ve been using them for a while. We report back to you with a series of mini-review follow ups!

Plus the big “Linux Malware” threat that’s basically hype, hosting your own YouTube, Google Building a new OS & more!

Ryan Sipes stops by to share his big news & debate the value and control Linux users can get from the much hyped Internet of Things. Plus we drool over the specs of a new Linux rig, break down the war against Linus, get impressed by Nextcloud 10 & more!

We hit the road and convert a middle school to Linux, join us as we dig into their initial deployments & successes.

Plus why we think the punishment for the kernel.org “hacker” is extreme, the Linux “trojan” that’s really a Drupal flaw, the big news from our BSD friends & more!

We review the new Loki release from elementary OS. One of the most unique distributions, that’s often misunderstood. But how does it hold up for advanced Linux users? Tune in to find out!

We argue about the true value of Let’s Encrypt, celebrate the 10 millionth Raspberry Pi & more!

A new Linux build is nigh & Noah takes us through his new PC built for a specific task.

Plus we try out Android N x86, get impressed by new Linux software releases, ponder what would happen if unbreakable encryption were made illegal & more!

Two long-time FreeNAS users test the Debian-based OpenMediaVault, we share our favorite features FreeNAS doesn’t have, where FreeNAS still pulls ahead, standout features of version 3 over version 2 & why we think the project has a very bright future.

Plus Lenovo & Intel feed Linux users another shit sandwich, take a look at Greyhole & chat up the new desktop releases.

What is Software Defined Networking (SDL) & why is it a major focus for The Linux Foundation? We visit the OpenDayLight Summit & discover how the open source philosophy applied to networking is transforming an industry.

Plus the big Kodi crackdown in the UK, Purism want’s to build a Librem Phone, our picks, feedback & more!

Plasma 5.8 marks a major milestone in the project’s history & one that deserves a complete review.

Plus we discuss the continued Fedora 24 issues, another take on Kodi box privacy, our picks & much more!

Has Ubuntu fallen behind, or setting a new bar of refinement? We load up our hardware with Ubuntu 16.10, walk away with some big surprises & two totally different experiences.

Plus KDE celebrates 20 years in a way only open source can, real VR gets demoed on Linux, the big BSD news & more!

Canonical’s Dustin Kirkland’s Beard tell us about their new Livepatch service, we discuss Dirty COW the “Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever, explain what a CRM is & what great open source solutions are available.

Plus some much discussed feedback, our picks & more!

What happens if you fail to update your home Arch server for two years? Chris finds out the hard way & is forced to replace it with OpenMediaVault. We take you on the scene, and share the hard lessons learned!

Plus some big Firefox news, an update on Pirate Kodi boxes & the Lenovo egg.

Ubuntu fails Noah during a critical moment & it’s the final straw. Noah takes us along as he switches his systems over to Arch.

Plus why you might want to think twice about LessPass & is the $4 Linux computer legit?

Chris gets a big surprise when he learns the features of the QNAP NAS review unit.

Plus is Linux really seeing a wave of MacBook switchers? The future of Vulkan and VR under Linux, solving IoT’s security woes & more!

Linux server installs sometimes don’t go as planned. We take you through the hardware modifications we made to install Chris’ new NAS in Lady Jupiter (his RV).

Plus are we faking it about Microsoft joining the Linux Foundation?

Fedora 25 ships with Wayland by default, the latest Gnome & the promise of upgradeability.

We test upgrade a Fedora 24 workstation with Gnome customizations, third party repos & some history. We capture and share the failures and successes.

Plus the bigger problems the Tor phone raises, the docking station that could make convergence real & more!

How do you pick the best Linux distribution for you? This week we reflect on one of the most critical questions before you switch to Linux.

Plus Canonical says they’re taking a stand against unofficial Ubuntu images, a Mycroft update & your Linux questions!

It’s a holiday miracle, a fully computer controlled automated light display without the cloud. It’s also a great excuse to troll Chris about Linux video editing.

Plus news, picks & more!

We chat with Joss from NextCloud about two factor, crazy performance improvements, the OwnCloud hangover, setting up your ultimate Dropbox and Google Docs replacements & more!

This week while the guys are away on holiday, we take a look back and see just how much Linux has progressed into new areas over the course of 2016 & also some of the spots where it may have stumbled a bit.

Get settled in with your eggnog & hot cocoa because it’s gonna be a BIG SHOW!