Linux User Space

How did your favorite Linux distribution get its start? Join us and find out! Linux User Space is hosted by Leo and Dan, and every two weeks we deep dive into the history of Linux distributions and the things that matter to us. Episodes drop every other Monday.

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Episode 3:17: Pass-Ackward


Coming up in this episode

  1. Plasma's Kind of Hot Right Now
  2. Brush your passwords
  3. Browser Watch!
  4. A little feedback
  5. And a little FOCUS

0:00 Cold Open
1:33 Akademy Awards
3:22 Plasma 5.27
24:33 Your Last Pass... Word
47:05 Browser Watch!
55:36 The Mailbag
1:05:35 Community Focus: Vashinator
1:08:08 App Focus: ClamAV
1:20:24 Next Time: EndlessOS History
1:22:25 Stinger

Watch this episode on Youtube
https://youtu.be/L3haDDxBJU0

Banter
  • Akademy videos are online
  • Plasma 5.27 is ❤
  • Nick from The Linux Experiment did a video that goes over some highlights.
  • Jupiter Broadcasting covered it in Linux Action News too.
  • The question of why isn't KDE Plasma the main DE for a main distro comes around every once and a while.
Announcements
  • Give us a sub on YouTube and TILvids.
  • You can watch us live on Twitch the day after an episode drops.
  • If you like what we're doing here, make sure to send us a buck over at https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace
Password hygiene is all the rage
  • LastPass Blog announcement of the security incident
  • We talked a lot about password managers in episode 11.
  • Mozilla's pitch.
  • Brian Krebs has this to say.
  • You can check your passwords against Have I Been Pwned.
  • If you use Bitwarden/Vaultwarden, you can use the reports to check exposed, reused, and weak passwords.
More Announcements
  • Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show
Browser Watch
  • Gnome Web has a new UI for handling permissions.
    • We pitched Gnome Web a couple of episodes ago.
  • Version 110, Firefox got the addition to import bookmarks, passwords and history from Opera, Opera GX, and Vivaldi.
  • Vivaldi makes improvements to their Window Panel.
  • Brave does HTTPS everywhere.
  • Microsoft Edge adds Adobe Acrobat.
Feedback "ee" "dee", gotcha ????
  • Turns out we were the joke instead of making one. Apologies.
Anonymous Listener suggests ownCloud
  • ownCloud
  • We'll check it out and report back.
Daniel M. says...
  • Podman
  • Daniel's document
Frank W. says...
  • Brave is great and cheer from the Great White North, eh!
  • Thanks Frank!
Eric M. on Youtube says...
  • Pixar and other animation studios use RHEL for their workstations.
  • In Podman, the pod comes from kubernetes. A pod is a group of containers that are in the same namespace.
Housekeeping

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Community Focus - Vashinator
  • Vash's YouTube channel.
App Focus ClamAV
  • ClamAV
Next Time

The history of EndlessOS, a few thoughts, and whatever else we can cram into the show*

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