286: Ell is for Linux

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.

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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, 2019 Privacy Could Be The Next Big Thing • — Upcoming talk by Stuart Langridge at SCALE 17x Bad 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!