Canonical gets into the Linux certification business! System76 COSMIC desktop learns how to sync, bringing the Microsoft Recall experience to Linux, and hands-on coverage of the Dragon Q6A SBC.

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00:00 Intro
02:06 Big D20
05:45 Hands-on Orange Pi 6 Plus
10:08 Ubuntu Certs: Canonical Academy
15:30 Microsoft Recall for Linux
20:45 Desktop sync for System76 Cosmic
28:25 Radxa Dragon Q6A SBC

Zorin OS downloads skyrocket! GIMP releases official Snaps, adventures with Firefox AI nonsense, and a fantastically fast, tiny 12-core ARM SBC.

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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
14:16 Zorin OS downloads skyrocket
22:03 GIMP Snap package is now official
29:28 12-core Orange Pi 6 Plus

Ubuntu Linux 25.10 gets a rusty sudo, Firefox 144 learns how to profile, Cambridge wants to save the floppy disk, and DIY one-handed typing with Keyer.

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00:00 Intro
03:10 This speaker runs Linux
04:48 Ubuntu 25.10 releases
11:05 Typework: One handed keyboard prototype
15:16 Firefox 144 highlights
21:29 Preserving the floppy disk

Watching MLB baseball games from the comfort of your terminal, Debian Trixie-based Raspberry Pi OS, Alienware Control Center for Linux, and installing Arch with Btrfs on the Raspberry Pi 500+.

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00:00 Intro
01:58 Panda IOTA kit arrived
09:07 Playball: MLB in the terminal
14:45 Fan & RGB control for Alienware laptops
15:47 Fan & RGB control for ROG ASUS laptops
20:26 Debian Trixie version of Raspberry Pi OS
25:05 Arch Linux with KDE and Btrfs on the Pi 500+

Linux Kernel 6.17 brings new hardware support and performance boosts, System76 launches the COSMIC desktop beta, and Raspberry Pi unveils the 16GB Pi 500+ along with an early look at Open Printer, an open-source DIY inkjet.

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00:00 Intro
04:41 Adventures with the Dragon Q6A
07:50 Linux kernel 6.17 is out!
12:43 Bcachefs removed from the kernel
14:37 Pop!_OS 24.04 beta
21:17 Raspberry Pi 500+
29:34 Open Printer: Open hardware printer

GNOME 49 lands with Do Not Disturb, per-monitor brightness, and better scaling. Cloudflare backed Ladybird, the non-Chromium browser. Raspberry Pi has a new $15 M.2 Hat Compact that fits in the Pi 5 case, and LattePanda shows up with a Pi-sized Intel N150 single board computer.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro
02:12 New podcast: IntPOD
03:43 Mystery SBC arrived in the post
04:30 UFS eMMC?
05:18 8C/16T Bluetooth speaker
05:58 Low-key stealth PC
07:09 GNOME 49 is out!
14:08 Cloudflare backs the Ladybird browser
18:04 Mini M.2 HAT for the Raspberry Pi 5
21:48 LattePanda N150 IOTA

This week we cover the first alpha release of KDE Linux, OpenRGB’s new home on Codeberg, Canonical adding CUDA to the Ubuntu repositories, and a clever Waveshare add-on that brings Ethernet and USB ports to the Raspberry Pi Zero without dongles.

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00:00 Intro
06:15 KDE immutable Linux
13:27 New home for OpenRGB
19:57 Ethernet for the Raspberry Pi Zero

Firefox finally pulls the plug on 32-bit support, Raspberry Pi announces a 1TB SSD, lossless audio over WiFi with JackTrip, and dispelling some popular Linux myths.

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00:00 Intro
01:20 Adventures on No Man Sky
03:52 Deploying a Mastodon server
06:29 Firefox ends support for 32-bit
10:26 Linux is (or is not) the boogeyman
18:53 Raspberry Pi 1TB SSD
23:10 Lossless network audio with JackTrip

System76’s COSMIC desktop hits a milestone with its first setup wizard. BSD users get Gershwin, a GNUstep-powered DE with heavy XFCE vibes. Vivaldi doubles down on a no-AI browser future, and Asahi’s GPU lead signs off to join Intel.

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00:00 Intro
01:17 Building the $9 PC case from Teenage Engineering
03:42 Getting ready to build a Zima NAS
06:28 Anime Impulse adventures
10:40 System76 COSMIC setup
14:39 What about second setup?
15:50 Hot BSD YouTube takes
16:48 Gershwin Desktop Environment
27:01 Vivaldi won't integrate AI
30:20 Why people use ChatGPT for search
33:49 Rosenzweig leaves Ashai Linux for Intel