The Linux Action Show! Video

Inspired by the Let’s Encrypt project, we break down the basics of SSL & how easy it is to set up on your Linux box now. Plus hacking GRUB by hitting backspace 28 times, the Linux Foundation wants the Blockchain, without the Bitcoin and their bedfellows are concerning, the steady steps towards cross distro application bundles & more!

Plasma Desktop 5.5 shipped this week. We cover what’s new, what's improved & what work still remains for the latest & greatest from KDE. Plus some of the great supporting cast of applications that make the Plasma desktop great. Plus Mozilla ends their Smartphone plans, Microsoft is offering a Linux certification, the new KeePassX, your feedback & more!

Linux Mint 17.3 proves you can based a Linux desktop on a stable core (Ubuntu 14.04) & still deliver an innovative and polished desktop. We take back some of our concerns about Linux Mint & discuss the areas where they are pushing user experience forward. Plus Mozilla plans to dump Thunderbird, the big release that completely ignores Windows & more!

It’s a special holiday edition of the Linux Action Show & we get thankful for some super important, innovative, and critically necessary open source projects. We throw out the format and cover many projects listed in our notes & off the tops of our heads. Plus some really unique weekly picks, through providing feedback… AND A FEW SURPRISES! All this week on, the Linux Action Show!

We review Solus OS, a new distribution from scratch with it’s own GTK based desktop called Budgie. Budgie is the flagship desktop of the Solus Operating System & we give you our first impressions. Plus projects like Jolla & Canonical's convergence have been doomed from the start, the big changes coming to GTK, the Plasma desktop gets another great release, highlights from the 2015 kernel summit & more!

We traveled to Denver Colorado to meet the folks behind System76, tour their office & record a live show on location. Join us as we go behind the scenes of a dedicated Linux hardware manufacture. Plus Linux goes to space, Firefox OS has a new trick, the good news for open source router firmware & more!

Fedora 23 has hit the web and we think this is the release that changes everything, forever. Find out why we think the changes made in Fedora 23 make this nearly a future proof distribution in some work cases. Plus Linus Torvalds is under attack this week from multiple sources, we’ll break down one of the more technical assaults, Ubuntu is finally killing the software center & the biggest feature coming to systemd ever, just got delayed.

We go 350ft into the air to find out how Linux powers a wireless ISP (WISP). Get an inside look at how a modern services business can be built around Linux. Plus our thoughts on Chrome OS & Android merging, what it means for desktop Linux, new secure messaging options & more!

Our review of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, what new, noteworthy changes there are & who we think this new release is just right for. Also, we look the various flavors with bold new features worth checking out. Plus Kubuntu’s release manager calls it quits, our impressions of the Steam Controller & more!

Our best open source alternatives to LastPass. We run down the easy, the straight forward & the totally custom solutions to rolling your password managment. All our picks are totally open source, auditable & ready to use today. Plus the first reviews of the Steam Machines hit the web, Red Hat’s big buy, GIMP in your browser & more!

Rolling with Netrunner | LAS 386

It might just be the future of openSUSE. We take a indepth look at openSUSE Leap 42.1 beta. Find out why this might be the most ambitious Linux distribution release to date, the features that appeal the power user & the newbie. Plus the Linux malware that fixes up your box, why it might never be the year of the Linux desktop, the Linux botnet that hits with 150 Gbps DDoS attacks & more!

Home automation can make you feel like you're living in the future. This week we dig into the technology, advantages & disadvantages to fully automating all aspects of your home or office. We share our hard learned lessons! Plus Valve’s huge milestone, what’s great about Gnome 3.18, Ubuntu powered Drones, the creepy Windows 10 feature that’s pushing people to adopt Linux & more!

Emby is an open source home media server, that brings all of your media together into one place & automatically converts and streams your media on-the-fly to any device. In other words, a legitimate Plex competitor. We give you our in-depth look. Plus Microsoft announces its own Linux distribution, why it's the year of the Linux Desktop in China, why it might be time to drop VirtualBox & more!

After the last straw Noah dumps Gmail, shares his battle and solution & Chris runs down five great open source Gmail alternatives. Plus why Dell stopped shipping the XPS 13 in Europe, a big update to a Linux video editor, the news of the week & more!