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Who survived the install, who made it to the desktop, and who learned the hard way that one little mistake will blow up the entire BSD box.

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LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
Texas Linux Festival 2026 - November 6-7, 2026 Austin, TX
Texas Linux Fest 2026 - Call for Papers deadline July 1, 2026
Dirty Frag, a new Copy.Fail like vulnerability — The Dirty Frag vulnerability class, first discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim, can obtain root privileges on major Linux distributions by chaining the xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43284) and the RxRPC Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43500) vulnerabilities.
How to mitigate the "Dirty Frag" CVE-2026-43284 in OpenShift 4 - Red Hat Customer Portal
Dirty Frag Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability mitigations - Ubuntu
Dirty Frag Explained: Linux Root Exploit, Mitigation & Patching Guide
LINUX Unplugged 666 - The BSD Challenge Rules
Magnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge Report — It’s still got that old cowboy feel to it.
Magnolia's Sinchflat - GitLab — Anyway, Pinchflat now has a FreeBSD-first competitor.
FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements Project — The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements project aims to deliver a package of improved or new FreeBSD functionality that, together, will ensure that it runs well “out of the box” on a broad range of personal computing devices.
nixbsd: An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel
Brent's nixbsd config
NomadBSD — Persistent live USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data recovery, for educational purposes, or to test FreeBSD's hardware compatibility.
GhostBSD — A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System
gershwin-desktop — Desktop Environment based on GNUstep welcoming to switchers
gershwin-on-freebsd live iso
gershwin-on-debian live iso
gershwin-on-arch live iso
Maintaining the World’s Fastest Content Delivery Network at Netflix on FreeBSD - FreeBSD Foundation
Pick: kiji-proxy — An intelligent privacy layer for AI APIs. Kiji automatically detects and masks personally identifiable information (PII) in requests to AI services, ensuring your sensitive data never leaves your control.
Pick: Portbook — Local Rust web dashboard that auto-discovers and labels HTTP dev services running on localhost ports — with live SSE updates, project-root detection, and live/error/dead classification.
Pick: Sylve — Sylve is a lightweight, open-source management platform for FreeBSD. It combines Bhyve virtual machines, FreeBSD Jails, and ZFS storage into a modern web interface designed to deliver a streamlined, Proxmox-like experience tailored for FreeBSD environments.
AlchemillaHQ/Sylve — Lightweight GUI for managing Bhyve, Jails, ZFS, networking, and more on FreeBSD
FreshPorts: sysutils/sylve

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We dig into the Copy Fail vulnerability and test a proof-of-concept against our own box. Plus, Jon Seager, VP of Engineering at Canonical joins us, and we kick off the BSD Challenge!

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Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431 — "An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux system, and use that to gain root." — Theori
Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root - Xint — "A single 732-byte Python script can edit a setuid binary and obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017." — Xint
Linux Kernel Bug Explained - Jorijn — "CopyFail is more portable. One script, every distro, no offsets. Dirty Pipe needed kernel ≥ 5.8; Copy Fail covers 2017–2026." — Jorijn"Kubernetes Pod Security Standards (Restricted) and default seccomp do NOT block the syscall used." — Jorijn
Ars: Most Severe Linux Threat in Years — "The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed." — Ars Technica
Sysdig: CVE-2026-31431 Analysis — "The flaw was introduced in 2017 via commit 72548b093ee3, which switched AEAD operations to in-place processing." — Sysdig
CERT-EU Advisory
Ubuntu Security Tracker
The Register: Crypto Flaw
Kernel Patch (reverts 2017 optimization) — "This mostly reverts commit 72548b093ee3 except for the copying of the associated data." — Kernel Commit
Buggy Commit: 72548b093ee3 (2017)
DeepWiki: AF_ALG Internals
oss-security Disclosure
PSA + GRUB Mitigation - Jan Wildeboer
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Released — "Ubuntu 26.04 LTS sets the example for providing best-in-class resilience while simultaneously embracing innovation and the advancement of open source." — Jon Seager, VP Ubuntu Engineering
The Future of AI in Ubuntu - Jon Seager — "Throughout 2026 we'll be working on enabling access to frontier AI for Ubuntu users in a way that is deliberate, secure, and aligned with our open source values." — Jon Seager
Ubuntu 26.04 Release Notes
Ubuntu AI Features Throughout 2026 - Phoronix — "Canonical's approach to AI is refreshingly thoughtful — Microsoft should take note." — ZDNet
Canonical DDoS Attack Update — "Canonical's web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border attack and we are working to address it." — arcticp, Canonical
Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #942
Canonical AI Approach - ZDNet
9to5Linux: Opt-In LLM Tools
uutils/coreutils: Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
LINUX Unplugged 636: Engineering the Future
LiveCD fails to start X session on QEMU · Issue #354 · ghostbsd/issues
Monty's “rescue” drive NixOS config
Magnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge Report
Pick: NASty — NASty is a NAS operating system built on NixOS and bcachefs. It turns commodity hardware into a storage appliance serving NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF — managed from a single web UI, updated atomically, and rolled back when things go sideways.
Pick: Defuse — Defuse is a GTK4 application for removing image backgrounds locally.
Defuse on Flathub

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After 26 years, we return to our roots and reflect on why LinuxFest Northwest is still a special event.

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LFNW2026 - Back to Root
LinuxFest Northwest 2026 Playlist - YouTube
LinuxFest Northwest - YouTube
The New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is A Local LLM On Framework Desktop + AMD Ryzen AI Max
Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain
Bear454's Fundraiser: Support for James Mason's Family
Pick: Updo — Updo is a command-line tool for monitoring website uptime and performance. It provides real-time metrics on website status, response time, SSL certificate expiry, and more, with alert notifications.
Pick: Pake — 🤱🏻 Turn any webpage into a desktop app with one command.

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We all have data to rescue, you just don't realize it yet. This week we build our own custom live rescue distros, recover real data, and show you how to make your own.

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6 ultimate boot CDs (system rescue) for troubleshooting Windows PCs
SystemRescue — A Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.
Finnix — Debian-based, CLI-focused with a comprehensive set of repair tools. Recent updates improved modern hardware support, boot speed, zram compression, and SSH remote access.
Changes/ModernizeLiveMedia - Fedora Project Wiki — Modernize the live media by switching to the "new" live environment setup scripts provided by livesys-scripts and leverage new functionality in dracut to enable support for automatically enabling persistent overlays when flashed to USB sticks.
Fedora 41: Modernize the live media Overlay Features?
aegis-boot — A signed UEFI Secure Boot rescue environment that lets operators pick any ISO from a USB stick's data partition and kexec into it — without leaving the chain of trust.
netboot.xyz — A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.
Greg's nixos-config
Self-Hosted 129: Forged Alliance — The battle for code forges is heating up. We chat about HexOS' big promises and get excited about Meshtastic.
pocket-id — A simple OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.
What Is Claude Mythos—And Why Anthropic Won’t Let Anyone Use It
v4call — v4call is a decentralised video, voice and text platform built on the Hive blockchain. Users set their own rates for receiving calls and messages.
Pick: Metadata Cleaner — View and clean metadata in files
Metadata Cleaner on FlatHub
Pick: mat2 — mat2 is a metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats, written in python3
Pick: Little Snitch for Linux — Every time an application on your computer opens a network connection, it does so quietly, without asking. Little Snitch for Linux makes that activity visible and gives you the option to do something about it.
littlesnitch-linux-flake — A Nix Flake for Little Snitch for Linux
Pick: PCAPdroid — No-root network monitor, firewall and PCAP dumper for Android

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Is it time to replace GitHub in our workflow? We git into it. Plus, our favorite features in the new Linux 7.0 release.

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Linux 7.0: Btrfs — A translation layer of logical block addresses that allows changes without moving or rewriting blocks for relocation
Linux 7.0: XFS — Autonomous self-healing; delivers live filesystem health events to userspace for automatic repairs
Linux 7.0: EXT4 — Improves write performance for concurrent direct I/O writes
Linux 7.0: IO-uring — Adds support for BPF filtering to IO_uring for high performance async I/O
Linux 7.0: Scheduler — Scheduler updates land with time slice extension, performance and scalability work for high core count systems
Linux 7.0: Rust — Formally concluding the 'Rust experiment'; Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay
Linux 7.1: i486 — Begins phasing out Intel 486 CPU support; no known Linux distributions still ship with i486 support
Give Up GitHub — We realize this is not an easy task; GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their effective marketing, GitHub has convinced FOSS developers that GitHub is the best (and even the only) place for FOSS development.
opengist — Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, open-source alternative to Github Gist.
Forgejo on Codeberg — Beyond coding. We forge.
Forgejo — Self-hosted alternative to GitHub; liberate your software from proprietary shackles with a familiar environment
NixOS Wiki: Forgejo — Lightweight software forge; completely free software and a fork of Gitea
Forgejo Actions — Reusable pieces of code for CI workflows; compatible with GitHub Actions
NixOS Forgejo Actions Runner — NixOS configuration for turnkey deployment of Forgejo Actions runners
Forgejo Federation (PR #10453) — Work-in-progress for federated repositories; enabling decentralized software development
Forgejo Snippets (Issue #1069) — Create a shareable piece of text, be it code or plain text, publicly or privately
Git Novice Guide — Free interactive tutorial; learn version control with Git from scratch
Pick: sshroute — Network-aware SSH router - routes connections to different IPs/ports/keys/jump hosts based on active VPN or network
Pick: rendercv — Resume builder for academics and engineers
Pick: ESPHome Starter Kit — DIY sensor kit for Home Assistant with ESPHome; build your own smart home devices

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The expensive, challenging, and humbling journey with open source agents.

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Preferring Local OSS LLMs
Qwen3.5 27B vs Gemma4 31B
Open Models have crossed a threshold
Gemma 4 — Google DeepMind
Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device
Gemma-4-31B-JANG_4M-CRACK · Hugging Face
mesh-llm — Mesh LLM lets you pool spare GPU capacity across machines and expose the result as one OpenAI-compatible API.
hermes-agent: The agent that grows with you — The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.
goose — An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions; install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM.
Lobehub — The ultimate space for work and life. To find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you. We are taking agent harness to the next level; enabling multi-agent collaboration, effortless agent team design, and introducing agents as the unit of work interaction.
LibreFang — LibreFang is an open-source agent operating system written in Rust.
OpenHarness — OpenHarness is an open-source Python implementation designed for researchers, builders, and the community.
Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents — Microsoft proclaims their new open-source project is the first toolkit that addresses all ten agentic AI risks identified last year by the OWASP
Top 10 Risks and Mitigations for Agentic AI Security - OWASP Gen AI Security Project
googleworkspace/cli: Google Workspace CLI — One command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills.
Tunarr API Reference
Euro-Office launches as Europe's open-source Office rival
Pick: single-file-cli — CLI tool for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file (based on SingleFile)
Pick: html-to-markdown — Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.
Pick: skim — Turns any HTML page into clean markdown.

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Ubuntu wants a leaner, stricter GRUB, and your favorite setup may not survive the cut. We break down what’s really changing, and the practical ways to adapt. Plus, Chris moves on from one of his favorite open source apps.

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This Week In Bitcoin 97 | Jupiter Broadcasting
Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security
Streamlining secure boot for 26.10 - Ubuntu Community Hub
Mitigating BootHole – CVE-2020-10713 and related vulnerabilities | Ubuntu
There's a Hole in the Boot - Eclypsium
Final Release · ErsatzTV — It is time for me to announce the final release of ErsatzTV in its current form. The existing repositories will be archived following this update.
ErsatzTV/next
Tunarr · GitHub — Create a classic TV experience using your own media — IPTV backed by Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, or NFO.
Threadfin
xTeVe
Filler - Tunarr — Filler lists are collections of content used by Flex to pad time between episodes. One reason to use filler is to simulate traditional television by playing advertisements between episode airings.
Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr (pronounced like "dispatcher") is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams, EPG data, and VOD content with elegance and control.
awesome-iptv — A curated list of resources related to IPTV
Tunarr API Reference
LINUX Unplugged 645 — We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex.
turnstonelabs/turnstone — Experimental multi-node AI orchestration platform. Deploy tool-using AI agents across a cluster of servers, driven by message queues or interactive interfaces.
Open-Source "GreenBoost" Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMs
GeneBean's Cage Kiosk
GeneBean's Pi Arm Build Setup
Planify - Task Manager for GNU/Linux
alainm23/planify: Task manager with Todoist, Nextcloud & CalDAV support designed for GNOME
Pick: bore — bore is a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost
nixos-bore-module — Self-hosted bore tunnel server for NixOS
Pick: kdeconnect-sms-tui — Terminal UI for sending and receiving SMS/MMS via KDE Connect.
Pick: Busybridge — Complex calendar free/busy syncing across organizations for consultants who work inside multiple orgs.

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The self-hosted app that turned Chris into a family Time Lord, then we iterate on a long-desired hardware hack.

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Keeper.sh — Keeper is a simple & open-source calendar syncing tool. It allows you to pull events from remotely hosted iCal or ICS links, and push them to one or many calendars so the time slots can align across them all.
Keeper.sh: Calendar Syncing, V2 Release
OneCal
PiBox Overview - KubeSail Docs
PiBox: A Modular Raspberry Pi Storage Server by Dan Pastusek — Kickstarter
RPi CM4 based local storage server launches on Kickstarter
KubeSail — So Long, and Thanks for All the Pods
ipetkov/nixos-pibox — NixOS modules for supporting the hardware present on the PiBox
raspberrypi/usbboot — Raspberry Pi USB device provisioning tool (RPIBOOT)
cage-kiosk/cage — A Wayland kiosk. A kiosk runs a single, maximized application.
systemd: BirthDate Field Added to JSON User Records — "Add birthDate field to JSON user records, allowing for standardized age-related logic within the userdb framework."
Azuay Province - Wikipedia
Pick: fq — fq is like jq but for binary formats, allowing you to tool, language, and decode complex binary data into human-readable structures.
Pick: file-fridge — move files that aren't accessed as often to cold storage
Pick: sigrok — Portable, cross-platform, Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite: logic analyzers, scopes, multimeters, and more!
Pick: PulseView — a Qt-based LA/scope/MSO GUI for sigrok

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We each spent the week on our own projects, breaking then fixing things. Now we're back to compare progress, and a few lessons learned.

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PabloVitasso/esphome-chinbasto — A custom ESPHome component for controlling Chinese Webasto heaters using ESP32.
Hacking the Chinese Diesel Heater Communications Protocol.pdf - Ray Jones - GitLab
timmchugh11/Chinese-Diesel-Heater---ESPHome
OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent
anomalyco/opencode: The open source coding agent.
Hunter Alpha - API Pricing & Providers | OpenRouter
ESPHome - Smart Home Made Simple
Home Assistant
ESP32 Wi-Fi & Bluetooth SoC | Espressif Systems
nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware: Lua based interactive firmware for ESP8266, ESP8285 and ESP32
NodeMCU-32S Development Board Details, Pinout, Specs
Amazon.com: ESP-32S USB-C Development Board + ESP32 Terminal Board
agent-browser-protocol — Deterministic browser automation.
camofox-browser — Headless browser automation server for AI agents.
chrome-devtools-mcp — Chrome DevTools for coding agents
firefox-devtools-mcp — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox DevTools
LittleFOX-MCP — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox
Chrome DevTools MCP Debug — Let your Coding Agent debug your browser session
LFNW2026 - Back to Root
Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 1 | Jupiter EXTRAS 40
Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2 | Jupiter EXTRAS 41
Pick: LosslessCut — Simple and ultra fast cross platform tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video and audio files.
LosslessCut on GitHub
LosslessCut on Flathub
Pick: CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?
Pick: llmfit — Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware.

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After experiencing Planet Nix and SCaLE, we come back convinced the next phase of Linux is already taking shape.

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PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
SCaLE 23x — SCALE is North America's largest community-run open source conference.
Jupiter Broadcasting's SCaLE Matrix room
SCaLE 23x - YouTube — SCaLE 23x live streams, talks, and more.
LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
Flox.dev
Flox: Developer environments you can take with you - GitHub — Flox is a virtual environment and package manager all in one. With Flox you create environments that layer and replace dependencies just where it matters, making them portable across the full software lifecycle.
Keynote: Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALE
Cindy Cohn | SCALE
noblepayne/nix-anywhere-else-talk — A Slidev presentation about the "dark arts" of ELF surgery and Nix, built entirely with Nix. This talk explores how patchelf and a deep understanding of the Executable and Linkable Format can make binaries portable in both directions: bringing foreign tools into NixOS, and taking Nix-built artifacts out to the rest of the world.
DeepComputing — Advancing the adoption and implementation of RISC-V
Roxane Fischer - Anyshift.io
Determinate is the future of Nix today: Wasm, provenance, and flake schemas
EFF Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALE
Cindy Cohn - SCaLE — Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which works to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice and innovation for all the people of the world.
Electronic Frontier Foundation - Defending your rights in the digital world
llama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++
mangowm - Mango Wayland Compositor — Practical and powerful wayland compositor (dwm but wayland)
The Open Source AI Definition 1.0 - Open Source Initiative
Pick: sone — Native TIDAL desktop client for Linux. Modern UI, custom themes, and bit-perfect lossless audio up to 24-bit/192kHz via exclusive ALSA. License: GPL-3
Pick: qmd — mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local. License: MIT
Pick: mtr — Combines the functionality of 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single network diagnostic tool. License: GPL-2
MTR - Welcome Home Brent

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We take KDE Linux for a spin and push it a little too far. Plus, a friend of the show stops by with a fresh tool: Nebula Commander.

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PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
Pasadena Linux Party, Fri, Mar 6, 2026, 6:00 PM
KDE Linux - KDE Community Wiki
Beta (Enthusiast & Stable editions) · KDE Linux · GitLab
Install Software Not Available in Discover - KDE Community
KDE Linux / Kapsule · GitLab
suikan4github/Using-tailscale-client-on-an-Immutable-OS
xuars/kdelinux-tailscale
Nix - KDE Community
Fitting Everything Together — TLDR: Hermetic /usr/ is awesome; let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, uniformity – built from traditional distribution packages, but deployed via images.
Nebula Commander
DEMO Nebula Commander
Nebula Commander GitHub — Nebula Commander is a self-hosted control plane for nebula overlay networks.
Star Trek Comm Badge for Home Assistant Voice Control
Pick: hcloud-upload-image — Quickly upload any raw disk images into your Hetzner Cloud projects!
Pick: Launcher Studio — Launcher Studio is a GTK4 desktop application for creating and managing .desktop files on Linux.
Launcher Studio on Flathub
Pick: tinyproxy — A light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems
Pick: socks-to-http-proxy — An executable to convert SOCKS5 proxy into HTTP proxy

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Planet Nix and SCaLE are just days away, and we're getting a head start with two guests, the tech, and the trends shaping open source. Our trip starts here!

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Pasadena Linux Party Meetup
stahnma (Michael Stahnke)
Flox, Nix, and Reproducible Software Systems with Michael Stahnke - Software Engineering Daily
Pro OpenSSH (Expert's Voice in Open Source): Stahnke, Michael
Nix and AI, are we there yet? | SCALE
stahnma/mandatoryFun
Post by @kelseyhightower.com — Bluesky — I don't care about LLMs or AI. I care about people. AI is just a tool to me. Tools enable people to help or harm at a scale beyond their natural abilities. I care about how people treat each other using these tools.
distrostru's gatus config
Status Page On Demand | Gatus
MimiClaw — MimiClaw turns a tiny ESP32-S3 board into a personal AI assistant.
hrwtech/openclaw-esp32: OpenClaw on your Arduino ESP32 devices
Pick: WebsocketCAM — Access Android camera via WebSocket client API and run AI / computer vision tasks with ease on live camera stream
Pick: ChrisLAS/openclaw-mcp-bridge — OpenClaw plugin that bridges any MCP HTTP server as native tools. The missing piece between OpenClaw + Ollama and the MCP ecosystem.
Pick: ChrisLAS/freshrss-mcp — A simple MCP server to stand in front of your FreshRSS Server
Pick: wechsel — A Cli Utility to replace home folders with symlinks to project folders
wechsel-extension: A Gnome Extension for Project Switching

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We were minutes away from shutting down our Matrix server when the Discord news hit. Now we're not just keeping it, we're doubling down. Can open source seize this moment?

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Discord to roll out age verification next month
Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos
Discord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter Thiel
NULLFS and OPENTREENAMESPACE Features Merged For Linux 7.0
OPENTREENAMESPACE To Provide A Security and Performance Win For Dealing With Containers
All about initramfs
pivot_root implementation and constraints
TrueNAS Scale
ZimaOS — A Simplified, Focused and Open NAS OS Supports all X86-64 hardware.
Github: ZimaOS
Clan — opinionated NixOS peer-to-peer computer management framework
What is Clan? - Documentation
clan-lol/clan-core: Build your own clan
ConnecTen internet
Case Study: Fortress Outdoor Router
Pick: booklog — B{ook}log is a self-hosted, multi-user book tracking platform for avid readers. Each user maintains a personal library and wishlist, with per-user readings, stats, and timeline.
Pick: whosthere — Local Area Network discovery tool with an interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there? 🚪
Pick: Weylus — Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.

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We were minutes away from shutting down our Matrix server when the Discord news hit. Now we're not just keeping it, we're doubling down. Can open source seize this moment?

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Discord to roll out age verification next month
Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos
Discord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter Thiel
NULLFS and OPENTREENAMESPACE Features Merged For Linux 7.0
OPENTREENAMESPACE To Provide A Security and Performance Win For Dealing With Containers
All about initramfs
pivot_root implementation and constraints
TrueNAS Scale
ZimaOS — A Simplified, Focused and Open NAS OS Supports all X86-64 hardware.
Github: ZimaOS
Clan — opinionated NixOS peer-to-peer computer management framework
What is Clan? - Documentation
clan-lol/clan-core: Build your own clan
ConnecTen internet
Case Study: Fortress Outdoor Router
Pick: booklog — B{ook}log is a self-hosted, multi-user book tracking platform for avid readers. Each user maintains a personal library and wishlist, with per-user readings, stats, and timeline.
Pick: whosthere — Local Area Network discovery tool with an interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there? 🚪
Pick: Weylus — Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.

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The news this week highlights shifts in Linux from multiple angles. What's evolving, why it matters, and that moment where the future actually works.

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Valve explains why it hasn’t announced release dates for its new hardware, now plans for “first half of the year” — Valve now says all three products will ship “in the first half of the year.”
Latest VirtualBox Code Begins Supporting KVM Backend — Support for KVM or other native OS hypervisors in conjunction with VirtualBox has long been sought and it's finally becoming a reality.
bcachefs-tools v1.36.1 — Interactive TUI for monitoring various filesystem internals, slowpaths and device performance, with duration and frequency tracking for various events. Helpful for diagnosing performance issues.
bcachefs v1.36.1 is out - next release will be erasure coding : r/bcachefs
bcachefs PSA: if you're on 1.33-1.35, upgrade asap — Several people have been hit by this, so - please upgrade asap.
Mattermost — Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.
Debian's CI Data No Longer Publicly Browseable Due To LLM Scrapers / Bot Traffic
Venice AI - Private AI for Unlimited Creative Freedom
ThinkBox V2 - A Custom 4-Bay SATA/SAS HDD NAS for Your Lenovo M720Q
Code for Climate 2026 — The Mad Botter Earth Day Open Source Challenge — We're doing our Earth Day open-source competition again The Mad Botter INC. Once again featuring System76 hardware and this time with dual tracks for college and non-college students.
Michael Dominick on X - Earth Day Open Source Challenge
Red5d/podcast_mcp — MCP server for accessing Podcasting 2.0 RSS feed episode data. "I've really only tested it with JB feeds!"
Pick: Plexus — Remove the fear of Android app compatibility on de-Googled devices.
Plexus-app: GitHub
Pick: ReinschriftTodo — Reinschrift combines a native GNOME interface with the simplicity of plain text. Your tasks remain a normal Markdown file – easy to back up, versionable via Git, and editable on any device with your favorite editor.
Reinschrift on Flathub

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We stress tested open source AI agents this week. What actually held up, and where it falls apart. Plus Brent's $20 Wi-Fi upgrade.

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OpenWrt Wiki - Ad blocking
AdBlock-fast — AdBlock-Fast is a high-performance ad-blocking service for OpenWrt that integrates with Dnsmasq, SmartDNS, and Unbound.
OpenWrt Wiki - Supported Hardware Table
Abe's volition — This is a public, sanitized version of my Abiverse repository for people to use and run their own Abes
OpenClaw — Clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights. All from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use.
Introducing OpenClaw
openclaw on GitHub 🦞
openclaw security Issues
Practical changes could reduce AI energy demand by up to 90% – University College London
moltbook — the front page of the agent internet
SeloraBox - NixOS Edition — SeloraBox is a self-configuring home automation appliance based on NixOS, featuring automated installation, device claiming via QR code, and self-updating configuration management.
nixtcloud: Nextcloud with NixOS in the backend and P2P connectivity enabled — Nixtcloud turns a Raspberry Pi or NanoPi NEO3 into a privacy-first, zero-config personal cloud — powered by NixOS, Nextcloud, and peer-to-peer remote access via Holesail. Built for the self-hosting crowd who want full control without constant babysitting.
Holesail.io - Open Source P2P Reverse Proxy
Pick: ml-sharp-pinokio — One-click 3D Gaussian Splatting generation from a single image.
Pick: Gradia — Gradia helps you get your screenshots ready for sharing, whether quickly with friends or colleagues, or professionally with the entire world.

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When your self-hosted services become infrastructure, breakage matters. We tackle monitoring that actually helps, alerts you won't ignore, and DNS for local, and multi-mesh network setups.

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NACME: ACME for Nebula PKI — ACME for Nebula PKI
uptime-kuma — A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool
telegraf-bcachefs-input
bcachefs collector by ananthb
ntfy.sh — Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
meshSidecar — Mesh network sidecars for NixOS Services
Become a Core Contributor Member
Jupiter.Party Network Membership
NixOS Clinic Config
NixRTR/nixos-router — NixOS Router Configuration
Next Steps for Funding Contributors - Actual Budget
WiFiman - WiFi Analyser
RichARCH Install Guide
RichARCH Hyprvibe Screenshot
Pick: Switchyard — Modern rules-based URL launcher ready to replace your default browser.
switchyard on GitHub
Switchyard on Flathub

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We rebuild a small office network around Linux, with an Unplugged twist and real-world constraints. Things don't go quite as expected...

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GEEKOM IT13 Mini PC 2026
OpenWrt One
Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus-E
Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 — An updated Zigbee and Thread chip gives it the highest performance available, while providing a rock-solid, stable network.
SYMFONISK Sonos WiFi bookshelf speaker — The speaker is a collaboration between IKEA and Sonos, so it easily integrates with other products from Sonos.
IKEA SYMFONISK - Home Assistant — Support for devices by IKEA SYMFONISK in Home Assistant is provided by the Sonos integration.
OpenCode — The open-source AI coding agent.
OpenCode on GitHub
mike@computerupcycleproject.org
Actual — A local-first personal finance app.
Pocket ID — A simple and easy-to-use OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.
Pick: Pocket TTS — A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice.
Pocket TTS on GitHub
Pick: WebView Kiosk — Turn your Android device into a locked-down web page in fullscreen mode.
webview-kiosk on GitHub

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The storage apocalypse has arrived. An old friend drops by to talk survival strategies as prices explode, and we pitch our own unapologetically 90s approach to stretching storage.

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LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for Speakers
Michael Tunnell - YouTube
Destination Linux - YouTube
TuxDigital
LINUX Unplugged 596: Perilously Pontificated Predictions
Phison CEO: SSD "Pricing Apocalypse" to Continue Through 2027
HDD Prices Spike as AI Infrastructure and China’s PC Push Collide
2025 Cloud Pricing Trends: Big Three Shake Up Storage Costs
Storage Apocalypse: Why SSDs and HDDs Are Becoming Impossibly Expensive
Jensen Huang Flagged Data Storage as the Next AI Bottleneck
Manufacturer Recertified Drives - ServerPartDeals.com
Hard Disk Prices (US)
Storage Price Tracker
RackRat - eBay Rackmount Server Deal Finder
r/HomelabSales$£€ - Reddit
Smart Buy 10 Pack Bd-r Dl 50gb 6X Blu-ray Double Layer Recordable Disc
BlueVault — A top-quality TUI app to manage Blu-ray cold storage archives on Linux.
Pick: Kopia — Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.
Kopia Repository Server
Pick: PowerISO — Create, Burn, Mount, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual Drive
PowerISO on Flathub
Pick: CDEmu — CDemu is a software suite designed to emulate an optical drive and disc on the Linux operating system.
Tellico — Collection management software, free and simple.

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We unleash a networking monitoring tool to spot new devices, track changes in real time, and fire alerts straight into Home Assistant, MQTT, and your phone.

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NetAlert X — Network intruder and presence detector. Scans for devices connected to your network and alerts you if new and unknown devices are found.
NetAlertX Docs
NetAlertX GitHub
NetAlertX docker-compose.yml
NixOS OCI Config for NetAlertX
Home Assistant - NetAlertX Docs — NetAlertX comes with MQTT support, allowing you to show all detected devices as devices in Home Assistant. It also supplies a collection of stats, such as number of online devices.
home assistant mqtt documentation
ntfy.sh — Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker
Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking
ESPresense
mkellyxp/nixbook: LICENSE? - Issue #55
Choosing a License - Find the Perfect Open Source License for Your Project
License Selector - OpenLicr
LicenseHub - Open Source License Tools Platform
Open Source Licenses Explained: A Comparison
GitHub - ErikMcClure/bad-licenses — A compendium of absurd "open-source" licenses.
Podverse Alpha
Podcasting 2.0 Episode 246: Crap Trap — Adam & Dave are joined by Mitch and Archie of Podverse fame
Pick: MQTT — Your All-in-one MQTT Client Toolbox
MQTTX GitHub
MQTT X on Flathub
Pick: mqtt5-explorer — MQTT5 Explorer is a simple yet feature-rich client to visualize data of any MQTT broker.
MQTT5 Explorer on Flathub
Pick: Unify — Unify is a web app aggregator built with Qt 6, Qt WebEngine, and Kirigami
Unify on Flathub
Pick: web-app-hub — A Web App Manager, written in rust with GTK and beautiful Adwaita.
Web App Hub on Flathub
Pick: Home-manager Webapps — Home-manager configuration file to get webapps in the system menu on a NixOS system

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We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025.

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PewDiePie - I installed Linux (so should you)
James Lee - How I Broke up with Adobe
Linux surpasses 5% market share on US desktops for the first time
It is finally the year of Linux on the Desktop: free OS reaches 5% market share
Introducing the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant
ADHD is Awesome: A Guide To (Mostly) Thriving With ADHD: Holderness, Penn, Holderness, Kim, Edward Hallowell: 9781400338610
Pick: eilmeldung TUI RSS Reader — A terminal-based RSS reader built on the news-flash backend.
Pick: Zbridge — zBridge is an online bridge club where you can learn and play bridge. It is a full bridge platform with multiple features.
Zbridge flatpak source
Pick: Cavalier — Visualize audio with CAVA

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The Great Holiday Homelab Special! Where our community brought their absolute best, from budget busters to beautiful disasters. Plus, a boosties celebration! Grab an eggnog and join us as we attempt to choose this year's winners.

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We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex. Then, we talk COSMIC stable with System76's CEO.

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Pop!OS 24.04 LTS Released — This year, System76 turned twenty. For twenty years we have shipped Linux computers. For seven years we’ve built the Pop!OS Linux distribution. Three years ago it became clear we had reached the limit of our current potential and had to create something new. Today, we break through that limit with the release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with the COSMIC Desktop Environment.
Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams and EPG data with elegance and control.
IPTV Link Search — Public IPTV live channels, m3u8 links are updated daily.
Streamtest.in
ptv-org/iptv — Collection of publicly available IPTV channels from all over the world
iptv/PLAYLISTS.mdb
epg — Utilities for downloading the EPG (Electronic Program Guide) for thousands of TV channels from hundreds of sources.
iptv-epg.org
TiviMate IPTV Player — Easy to use for beginners and deeply customizable for power users, TiviMate blends speed, clarity, and control into a seamless viewing experience.
M3U IPTV — Stream your IPTV channels on the go or on Android TV.
DangoPlayer — A fast video player and IPTV client for Android and TV
iPlayTV - IPTV/M3U Player App — IPTV/M3U player for Apple TV. The one Chris has used the longest
Chillio IPTV Smart Player App — New app, paid if you want quad box
Open TV — IPTV player with many features.
html-iptv-player — HTML IPTV Player with EPG viewer for M3U8 playlist
hypnotix — An M3U IPTV Player
IPTVnator
VidGrid — watch multiple news channels in your browser
M3U Magic • Free Private IPTV Player
ErsatzTV — Your Personal IPTV Server
kptv-fast — A high-performance streaming service aggregator that combines multiple free streaming platforms into a single M3U playlist and EPG. Perfect for use with Channels DVR, Plex, or any IPTV client.
Pick: Jellify-Music — A cross-platform, free and open source music player for Jellyfin, powered by React Native
Pick: DockerComposeMaker — DockerComposeMaker (DCM) is a self-hostable website to help you pick and create a docker-compose.yml file for your home server. Discover new containers, discover and share a config in a couple of clicks!
Demo Docker Compose Generator
Pick: Leantime — Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.

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Kent Overstreet joins us for a full update on bcachefs. What's new, what's next, and the surprising upside of getting kicked out of the kernel.

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LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Old Fart Form (markdown)
bcachefs 1.33.0
Bcachefs Ready With Its Reconcile Feature As Biggest Change In Two Years — "Biggest new feature in the past ~2 years, I believe. The user facing stuff may be short and sweet - but so much going on under the hood to make all this smooth and polished."
Kent Overstreet - Patreon
bcachefs — A copy-on-write (COW) file system for Linux first announced by Kent Overstreet in 2015. It is intended to compete with the modern features of ZFS or Btrfs.
LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later — Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.
Git or not a Git man page?
proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS
Pick: Dotfiles Installer — Install dotfiles easy, fast and secure. Or provide an installation application for your dotfiles.
ML4W Dotfiles Installer Wiki
dotfiles-installer: GitHub
Pick: SSH-Studio — Easy, GUI SSH config editor and validator built with Python, GTK 4 and libadwaita.
LubeLogger, Vehicle Maintenance and Fuel Mileage Tracker, slips into December with some banging new features

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We pull on a few loose threads from recent episodes, and some of them unravel into way more than we expected.

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Jellyswarrm — Bring all your Jellyfin servers together
LiveTV support · Issue #9 · LLukas22/Jellyswarrm
pangolin — Identity-Aware Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Dashboard UI.
Pangolin | Secure Access Platform
NixOS Search - Options - Pangolin
Youtarr — Self-hosted web app that automates downloading, organizing, and scheduling YouTube channel content with support for Plex, Kodi, Emby and Jellyfin
Add ability to set subfolder for manual downloads · Issue #287 · DialmasterOrg/Youtarr
Dawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)
dawarich CHANGELOG.md
CVE-2025-40090 | Ubuntu — Since commit 305853cce3794 ksmbdsessionrpcmethod() attempts to lock sess->rpclock. This causes hung connections / tasks when a client attempts to open a named pipe.
SMB3 & KSMBD See Performance Improvements With Linux 6.18 — KSMBD also now adds a max IP connections parameter to optionally limit the maximum number of connections permitted per IP address.
ksmbd vulnerability research · Doyensec's Blog
ksmbd - Fuzzing Improvements and Vulnerability Discovery (2/3)
ksmbd - Exploiting CVE-2025-37947 (3/3)
doyensec's KSMBD-CVE-2025-37947 PoC
GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance
GrapheneOS exits France — what it means for encryption
France's Encryption War Escalates: GrapheneOS Exodus Signals Dangerous Precedent for Open Source Privacy Tech
Seems like the GrapheneOS phone collab may be with Motorolla.
Rust For Linux Kernel Co-Maintainer Formally Steps Down
Bcachefs Ousted from Mainline Kernel: The Move to DKMS and What It Means
Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” Strategies
Richard Hipp - Git: Just Say No - YouTube
2011 SouthEast LinuxFest - Richard Hipp - Fossilize Your Code - YouTube
Pick: Gopher64 — Highly compatible N64 emulator.
Gopher64 — simple64's official and spiritual successor - Libretro — It’s made by the same developer(s). Unlike simple64 however, it’s not based entirely on Mupen64Plus. And it’s aiming for a more LowSpec hardware overhang.
Install Gopher64 on Linux | Flathub

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Chris cooked up a wild remote-access trick for Jellyfin that skips VPNs entirely. One tiny toggle spins up a secure tunnel on demand. Simple, absurd, and shockingly effective.

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ngrok — Go from code to global in just minutes with a developer-friendly, idiomatic solution for managing traffic to your APIs.
Jellyswarrm — Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place.
Sveske-Juice/declarative-jellyfin — This repository provides a Nix flake that allows for declarative configuration of Users, Libraries, Plugins, Settings, etc. Jellyfin 10.11 is NOT SUPPORTED.
declarative-jellyfin full example
Zigl3ur/jellyhub — JellyHub is a web app that allow you to fetch media from all of your jellyfin servers and regroup it in one place, so there is one place to search for specific media and tells you on wich server the desired media is located.
Smiley-McSmiles/jellyman — Jellyman is a lightweight BASH CLI tool for installing and managing Jellyfin. As well as create a full backup (automatically or manually) so you can move or import all your metadata and user information to another machine.
LSchallot/JellyRoller — JellyRoller is an open source CLI Jellyfin Controller written in Rust that works on Windows and Linux. Its primary purpose is to allow administration of a Jellyfin application from the command line.
kjtsune/embyToLocalPlayer — etlp (embyToLocalPlayer) is a tool that lets Emby, Jellyfin, and Plex play videos using your local media players (like mpv or VLC) instead of the built-in web player, while optionally sending playback progress back to the server.
Pick: subgen — Autogenerate subtitles using OpenAI Whisper Model via Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, Tautulli, or Bazarr.

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We dig into the biggest Linux hardware news of the year, then fire up our new-to-us 1L PC server.

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OLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and Expo
Registration - OLF Conference
Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS
Steam Controller — Steam Controller shares DNA with Steam Deck, with all the inputs to play all the games on Steam, wherever Steam is.
Steam Machine — Made for powerful, versatile PC gaming on a big screen; quiet and small enough to fit under your TV, on your desk, or anywhere else you want to game. (It's a roughly 6-inch (160mm) cube!)
Steam Frame — Comfortable, wireless, lightweight VR designed to give you a new way to experience your entire Steam library
“The Steam machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home.”
Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam Machine
FEX-Emu/FEX: A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux
FEX 2511 Delivers More Performance Improvements For Linux x86 Binaries On ARM64
Commits · FEX-Emu/FEX · GitHub
PLF10 Smart Plug – Kaufman Home Automation
Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1
About Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 — Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 is the new name for Home Assistant SkyConnect. Despite the new name and look, they have the exact same hardware, capability, and support.
libvirt: The virtualization API
libvirt - ArchWiki — Libvirt is a collection of software that provides a convenient way to manage virtual machines and other virtualization functionality, such as storage and network interface management. These software pieces include a long term stable C API, a daemon (libvirtd), and a command line utility (virsh).
Category:Virtualization - NixOS Wiki
Virt-manager - NixOS Wiki
Libvirt - NixOS Wiki
Pick: easyeffects — Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
EasyEffects 8.0 Released In Porting From GTK4 To Qt / QML / Kirigami
Easy Effects on Flathub
Marcel Repo Email

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We dive into your configs, the genius moves, the glorious blunders, and everything in between.

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yechielw/dots — Nixos and home-manager config
Shayne's budget Flake
Shayne's Budget Packages
Shayne's Budget Configuration.nix
Chris' Budget Flake Fix
Millak/guix-config: mirror of my guix configs
Millak/my-guix: local guix packages
efraim-home: Add mpv-sponsorblock-minimal-conf.d
Distrostu's configs
Distrostu's M Series Config
Oly Mike's Nixbook
writeShellApplication - Nix function reference
writeShellApplication - Nixpkgs Manual — writeShellApplication is similar to writeShellScriptBin and writeScriptBin but supports runtime dependencies with runtimeInputs.
rwiankowski/homeserver-nixos — My Home Server Setup using a single NixOS node
Brandon's Homelab
Brandon's Mac
Brandon's brew defined by Nix
Brandon's Mac Apps installed via Nix
BeardedTek/nixos-router: NixOS Router Configuration — A declarative NixOS configuration that transforms a standard PC into a full-featured network router with integrated secrets management.
blocky: DNS proxy and ad-blocker
Deidrael/nix-config: My NixOS Config
FuzzyMistborn/infra — 100% chance of id10t errors....and a slight chance of a credential leak
william/nix-config: All my nix stuff, in a single flake
Pick: SoltrOS — Immutable Linux designed for gaming & development
Pick: Parabolic — A powerful yt-dlp frontend.
Pick: Youtarr — Youtarr is a self-hosted YouTube DVR that lets you subscribe to channels, browse their videos in a web UI, and automatically download and archive the ones you care about to your own storage.

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After all the AI hype is over, one change for Linux will be sticking around; we put it to the test.

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SeaGL 2025 — November 7-8, 2025 in Seattle, WA
LinuxFest Northwest
LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for Speakers
SCALE 23x - Southern California Linux Expo — North America's largest community-run open source conference. Pasadena, CA - March 5-8, 2026
SCALE - Call for Presentations
Planet Nix '26 — March 5th-6th, 2026 @ Pasadena, CA
Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals
LINUX Unplugged 481: Just a Prompt Away — The Internet is going crazy with AI-generated media. What's the open-source story, and is Linux being left out?
Red Hat eyes developer workflow efficiency, app modernization gains with new AI tools — An AI assistant specifically designed for application migration and modernization looks to reduce developer toil
SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 Announced: "Enterprise Linux That Integrates Agentic AI" — SUSE's announcement today for SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 proclaims SLES 16 to be "the industry's first enterprise Linux that integrates agenetic AI" and "reduces operational costs and complexity through AI readiness."
openSUSE on Hugging Face
ChrisLAS/hyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.
Pull requests - ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
feat: add comprehensive sops-nix integration by shift · PR #15 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
Add options for username, group, home directory by samh · PR #8 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
Create variables for user and home dir by F-bit818 · PR #5 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
LM Studio - Local AI on your computer
Zed — The editor for what's next
Cursor: The best way to code with AI
Nixbook — Convert your old computer to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.
nixbook/base.nix — Roast my Nix: Not-a-flake edition!
Jupiter Broadcasting's Colony Events
Pick: duf — Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative.
Pick: cheat.sh — the only cheat sheet you need.

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Fedora 43 arrives with polish, new spins, and a smarter installer; and one decision the rest of the Linux world should pay attention to.

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nebula-lighthouse-service
nebula-lighthouse-service: init at 2.0.0 by bloominstrong · Pull Request #454855 · NixOS/nixpkgs — nebula-lighthouse-service is aimed to be run a a public nebula lighthouse for those who cannot host their own, or who want extra lighthouses without the burden of maintaining another lighthouse.
Fedora Linux 43 Cleared For Release Next Week — While Fedora 43 wasn't ready for release this week due to outstanding blocker bugs, at today's Go/No-Go meeting it was decided that Fedora 43 is now in a position for shipping next week.
Velocity Limitless / Projects / Slitherer · GitLab
Fedora 43 Wallpaper Wrap-Up – Fedora Community Blog
Fedora COSMIC Spin
Plasma 6.5 - Reaching the Inflection Point
[Fedora KDE] Early Plasma 6.5.0 - Fedora Discussion — With Fedora 43 being a go, we will be doing an update on repos towards the middle to end of next week that will bring Qt 6.10 and Plasma 6.5.1 to F43, and Plasma 6.5.1 (Most likely, plans are not 100% final in that regard) to F42. That will bring the update to the usual architectures, such as aarch64.
Pick: Millisecond — Optimize your Linux system for low latency audio
Millisecond on Flathub
noblepayne/millisecond-flake
rtcqs — rtcqs is a Python utility to analyze your system and detect possible bottlenecks that could have a negative impact on the performance of your system when working with Linux audio
How do I get an out-of-the-box working Linux audio workstation? - LinuxAudio.org
Pick: lemurs 🐒 — A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust

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The biggest failure in seven years, right before a trip. What broke, how Chris pulled it back together, and how Wes would fix it right.

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Home Assistant Community Add-on: SSH & Web Terminal
HomeAssistent Yellow: EmberZNet Zigbee: failed to flash firmware · Issue #146293
HA Yellow/Zigbee Issue - Home Assistant Community
Home Assistant Yellow Radio firmware - Home Assistant Community
Home Assistant on X: "⚠️ WE'RE ENDING PRODUCTION OF THE HOME ASSISTANT YELLOW ⚠️
READ: CrowdHealth - HedgeDoc
Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q 10T7 Tiny Desktop
Dell OptiPlex 3070 Desktop Computer
Beelink Mini S13 Pro Mini PC,13 Generation Intel N150
Minisforum MS-01 Work Station
Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2
Home Assistant - NixOS Wiki
home-assistant/component-packages.nix at nixos-25.05
READ: Unraid - HedgeDoc
Pick: Hexecute 🪄 — Launch apps by casting spells!
Pick: Lenspect
Lenspect on Flathub — A lightweight security threat scanner intended to make malware detection more accessible and efficient.

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We're back from Texas just in time to chat with Jon Seager, Canonical's VP of Engineering, and their new era with Ubuntu 25.10. On the way, we visit System76 in Denver where the COSMIC team has surprises waiting for us.

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COSMIC — Next generation Cosmic desktop environment. Use it on your favorite distro!
System76 — Powerful Linux computers designed by nerds, engineered by experts, handcrafted by humans in the US.
GitHub - pop-os/cosmic-epoch: Next generation Cosmic desktop environment
GitHub - pop-os/cosmic-applets: WIP applets for cosmic-panel
Pop!OS 24.04 (with COSMIC Desktop) Just Hit Beta - OMG! Ubuntu
Canonical releases Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka
Ubuntu Engineering in 2025: A Retrospective · Jon Seager
Ubuntu 25.10 Fix Pending For Broken Flatpak Support - Phoronix
LINUX Unplugged 634: Config Confessions
Hybrid Pick: ncspot
Pick: poop (Performance Optimizer Observation Platform) — This command line tool uses Linux's perfevent_open functionality to compare the performance of multiple commands with a colorful terminal user interface.
sharkdp/hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool

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Our cross-continent race to Texas Linux Fest culminates into fantastic meat, meetups, and more.

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TXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - The Design & Implementation of the Darwin Operating System
TXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - Getting Started with Ansible on Linux
TXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - Lessons They Don't Teach You in School: A Year in High-Performance Computing
TXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - I got Malware, BTW. A quick look at the rising trend of Linux Malware
A Gift for the Open Source Community: Chainguard’s CVE-Free Raspberry Pi Images (Beta)
Chainguard for Raspberry Pi
Chainguard's Images
Wes Payne - Mesh Network Sidecars for NixOS Services - Texas Linux Fest
noblepayne/meshSidecar: Mesh network sidecars for NixOS Services
Pick: isd — isd (interactive systemd) – a better way to work with systemd units.
ISD 0.6 Released For Interactive Systemd Management

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From finely tuned to total config carnage. We review listener homelabs to share what works, and what really doesn't.

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JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Meetup.com — Saturday, Oct 4 - 12:00 AM to 01:30 PM CDT
JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony Events
Turnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TX
Dawarich — Automatically track your daily life with Dawarich. Never forget where you went or what you did. Relive your memories with precise location data.
LINUX Unplugged 614: Self-Hosted Location Tracking
Dawarich API Docs
AlbinLind/dawarich-api — A python wrapper for Dawarich
Texas Tracker — Real-time distance tracking and movement visualization
JupiterBroadcasting/texastracker: — A static website that tracks our trip to Texas Linux Festival 2025.
bitchat
A Guide To bitchat version 1.2-1.3 : r/bitchat
Geohash Converter - Find and visualize your Geohash
Overland GPS Tracker on the App Store
gpslogger: :satellite: Lightweight GPS Logging Application For Android.
Zakk's (2kOS) nix config
NotAShelf/nvf: Modular, extensible and distro-agnostic Neovim configuration framework for Nix/NixOS
suderman's nixos — system configurations & dotfiles
NixOS impermanence — Lets you choose what files and directories you want to keep between reboots - the rest are thrown away.
numtide/blueprint: Standard folder structure for Nix projects — blueprint is an opinionated library that maps a standard folder structure to flake outputs, allowing you to divide up your flake into individual files across these folders. This allows you to modularize and isolate these files so that they can be maintained individually and even shared across multiple projects.
gmodena/nix-flatpak — Install flatpaks declaratively
Adam's (A Manzer) nix-config
Prowlarr
nzbhydra2: Usenet meta search
Kieran dots
Fortyduex's nix config
Fortydeux's Firewire
Brad's nix config
Brad's SMB
Monty's Ansible
Monty's Nix
Monty's NXC
ChrisLAS/hyprvibe: A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.
Namespace nixosModules options under "hyprvibe" to avoid potential collisions - hyprvibe Issue #10
Pick: vtunnel — vTunnel is a tool that proxies IP traffic between guest and host networks by using the VSOCK protocol.
Pick: Tab-Session-Manager — WebExtensions for restoring and saving window / tab states

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Can't get enough Linux? How about multiple kernels running simultaneously, side by side, not in a VM, all on the same hardware; this week it's finally looking real.

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nebula-tower — A user-friendly server to manage your Slack Nebula mesh network.
Texas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TX
JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party, Sat Oct 4 - Meetup.com
JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony Events
Turnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TX
bitchat
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GNOME 49 Release Notes — We code named the release “Brescia”, after a beautiful Italian city that hosted this year’s GUADEC.
GNOME 49 Officially Released With Wayland Improvements, Showtime As Video Player
Ubuntu 25.10 Beta Officially Released For Testing — Canonical today released the Ubuntu 25.10 Beta as they work toward the stable Ubuntu 25.10 release in mid-October.
Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings — Ubuntu 25.10's transition to using Rust Coreutils in place of GNU Coreutils has uncovered a few performance issues so far with the Rust version being slower than the C-based GNU Coreutils.
base64 implementation almost 8x slower than GNU for some large files
sort does not finish for large one line file
Fedora 43 Beta ISOs Released For Testing — Fedora 43 Beta ISOs are now available for those wanting to help in testing.
Omarchy 3.0 — Omarchy 3.0 is here — faster installs, big MacBook support, and lots of polish.
systemd 258 Released With systemd-factory-reset & Other New Tools — Systemd 258 brings systemd-factory-reset to request a factory reset on the next reboot, systemd-pty-forward to allocate a pseudo TTY/PTY, UEFI firmware images can now be embedded in a UKI, and many other new features.
systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 Changes
Kernel RFC: Introduce multikernel architecture support — This patch series introduces multikernel architecture support, enabling multiple independent kernel instances to coexist and communicate on a single physical machine. Each kernel instance can run on dedicated CPU cores while sharing the underlying hardware resources.
The Multikernel: A new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems [PDF]
mirdaki/computer-config — Config for server and personal deployments
My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup — Matthew shares their ultimate self-hosting setup built on NixOS, ZFS, and Tailscale, balancing privacy, data control, and usability for family and friends.
basecamp/once-campfire — Campfire is a web-based chat application.
Pick: savr: Read it later. Keep it local. No server needed. — Savr is an app for saving online content to read later. It is file-centric, offline first, future proof, and favors decentralization.

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Our first look at KDE Linux, then Chris shares the latest on Hyprvibe, while Wes braves his first install.

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nebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.
Nebula - Apps on Google Play
Texas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TX
JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party, Sat Oct 4 - Meetup.com
JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony Events
Turnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TX
bitchat — bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over bluetooth mesh networks.
Texas Linux Festival Trip Support (Fake boost)
Jupiter Broadcasting Garage - New swag available!
KDE Linux
KDE Linux - KDE Community Wiki
Announcing the Alpha release of KDE Linux
GitHub - ChrisLAS/hyprvibe: A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.
Hyprland 0.51 dropped! — The gesture system has been reworked and is now way more flexible.
Nixtcloud: Self-Hosted Cloud in One Command — Nextcloud with NixOS in the backend and P2P connectivity enabled
holesail-nix: Holesail package for the Nix package manager — A comprehensive Nix package and NixOS module collection for Holesail - the peer-to-peer tunnel that lets you create instant, secure connections between devices without port forwarding or exposing ports.
Pick: lazyssh — A terminal-based SSH manager inspired by lazydocker and k9s — but built for managing your fleet of servers directly from your terminal.
Pick: term.everything — Run every GUI app in the terminal!

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Chris managed to turn low bandwidth into a lifestyle, and curated a batch of self-hosted apps that make near-offline living possible.

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Pinchflat — Your next YouTube media manager
ErsatzTV — ErsatzTV lets you transform your media library into a personalized, live TV experience—complete with EPG, channel scheduling, and seamless streaming to all your devices.
Wes' ErsatzTV Flake — A Nix package and NixOS module for ErsatzTV
Karakeep — Quickly save links, notes, and images and karakeep will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval. Built for the data hoarders out there!
lup-0631 NixOS Config
Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.
Immich — Self-hosted photo and video management solution
Jellyfin — The Free Software Media System
audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
Paperless-ngx — Paperless-ngx is a community-supported open-source document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper.
Paperless
Paperless-ng
Brother ADS-1800W
Genius Scan
QuickScan iOS scanner with OCR
swift-paperless
paperless-ai — An automated document analyzer for Paperless-ngx using OpenAI API, Ollama, Deepseek-r1, Azure and all OpenAI API compatible Services to automatically analyze and tag your documents.
iPod parts from Elite Obsolete Electronics
Pick: Rustnet — A high-performance, cross-platform network monitoring tool built with Rust. RustNet provides real-time visibility into network connections with enhanced state display, intelligent connection lifecycle management, deep packet inspection capabilities, and a responsive terminal user interface.

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Google's sideloading lockdown has us pushing Wes' Pixel further than Google ever dreamed.

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DECbot/nebula-cert-maker: Simple yaml and python script to create certificates for your Nebula Mesh VPN — The Nebula Cert Maker will create a new Nebula CA certificates and then generate and sign certificates for all hosts in the host list.
Texas Linux Festival 2025
JB TXLF Matrix Room
Jupiter Broadcasting Garage
Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs As Now "Externally Maintained" — Linus Torvalds updated the maintainers file for Bcachefs and now reflects its upstream state as "externally maintained" rather than "supported".
Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year — Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it's a certified device.
Android Developers Blog: A new layer of security for certified Android devices
Android developer verification
nixos-avf: NixOS for Android Terminal — This profile contains the necesarry services and kernel configs to get it running under the Terminal app
nixos-avf-image-app releases
NixOS VM on my phone lol (Android Virtualization Framework) - NixOS Discourse
Setup SSH and Tailscale on Android 15 Linux Terminal App
droid-nixos — NixOS VM on the Android "Terminal" app
ttyd: Share your terminal over the web
Introduction - Book of crosvm
crosvm: The Chrome OS Virtual Machine Monitor
Android 16 New Feature Terminal (Debian 12) Actual Test: Network Configuration and Software Installation
💻 How to Install Android 16 Linux Terminal with GUI Mode on Your Android Phone Step-by-Step Guide
Hands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!
Android 16 Terminal Debian GUI Access Tool — This script is specifically designed for terminal environments on Android 16 systems, enabling quick configuration of graphical interface access for Debian 12. After configuration, you can access the native Debian 12 GUI environment within the Android terminal from your PC through the following steps
wansview 2K Security Cameras Wireless — Outdoor-2.4G WiFi Home Security Cameras via Remote Control with Phone APP for 360º View, Color Night Vision, 24/7 SD Card Storage.
Thingino — Open-source Firmware for Ingenic SoC IP Cameras.
themactep/thingino-firmware: Open-source firmware for Ingenic SoC IP cameras
paperless-upload-thunderbird — Add-On for Thunderbird to upload PDF directly to paperless-ngx
distrostu's nix config
Flameshot — Open source screenshot software
Hyprshot — A utility to easily take screenshots in Hyprland
blendOS — Arch Linux made declarative, immutable and atomic
Frigate NVR — Frigate is an open source NVR built around real-time AI object detection. All processing is performed locally on your own hardware, and your camera feeds never leave your home.
Pick: Kvaesitso — A search-focused, free and open source launcher for Android
Jonas Hietala: I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS — I use the Kvaesitso launcher.

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Arch is under fire, two weeks and counting. We'll break down the mess, and share a quick fix. Plus, the killer new apps we've just added to our homelabs.

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nebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.
Frigate NVR
Coral USB Accelerator: ML Accelerator, USB 3.0 Type-C
Arch Linux - News: Recent service outages
Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two — For now, the Arch team is working to mitigate the attack's impact, which highlights a bootstrapping issue. Tools designed to shift traffic to mirrors in the event the main infrastructure is unavailable rely on a mirror list obtained from that same main infrastructure.
DHH on X — "Omarchy 2.0 release might have to wait a little longer. The AUR DDoS attack has picked back up, but the upside is that we're building in all sorts of resilience for the installer to deal with the assault! And meanwhile, we'll build a complete Omarchy package mirror for all.
DHH on X — "We're pulling AUR out of the Omarchy install hotpath. It's an incredible resource, but we actually only need a handful of packages for the initial setup, and we can just host those ourselves. AUR really needs a new mirror strategy to avoid this predicament."
Arch Linux continues to feel the force of a DDoS attack after two brutal weeks — attackers yet to be identified as project struggles to restore full service
Arch Linux Status Page
Arch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfaces
aurpublish — PKGBUILD management framework for the Arch User Repository
salvador — salvador is a bash script that will help you maintain your AUR packages.
archlinux/aurweb — Hosting platform for the Arch User Repository (AUR), a collection of packaging scripts created by the Arch Linux community
TaskTrove — Self-hostable task managment that respect your privacy.
shuthost — A neat little helper that manages the standby state of unix hosts with Wake-On-Lan configured, with Web-GUI.
Closing the Digital Divide: Q&A with Local Computer Upcycler Mike Kelly
mkellyxp/nixbook — Convert your old computer (even chromebook) to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.
CachyOS — Blazingly Fast OS based on Arch Linux
MOES Wireless Smart Scene Switch Button
Minoston 800 Series Z-Wave Scene Controller, 4 ZWave Button
Brent hates ricing PCs • Clip by @genebean
add master branch nixpkgs overlay · nikolarobottesla/infra-nix-config
Pick: WakeMyPotato — Restart a Linux server made of a potato laptop after power outages
Pick: spectacle-ocr-screenshot — A simple utility to automatically extract text from spectacle on plasma desktops
Pick: spectacle-ocr — Add OCR functionality to Spectacle

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When personalities clash, the users come last. Meanwhile, Chris' hyper-tuned setup stops being a toy and starts looking like a daily driver.

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Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash — A large and unfortunate mistake in the kernel development management process is underway.
Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs changes for 6.17 - Josef Bacik
Ubuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept — Ubuntu is testing "Dangerous" Desktop Images, daily builds with all Snaps pulled from the edge channel.
Ubuntu 25.10 Will Ship With Linux 6.17 Even If It Means An Unstable "-rc" Kernel
syncthing 2.0 Released! — This is the first release of the new 2.0 series. Expect some rough edges and keep a sense of adventure! 🙏
Z-Wave is not dead - Home Assistant — TL;DR: Z-Wave is alive and well, partly due to a strong community that is building new open-source resources.
Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 — The ultimate way to connect Z-Wave devices to Home Assistant.
Z-Wave reborn - Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2
Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 Reveal Promo - YouTube
Hyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS
Keybinds Reverting to older config? · Hyprvibe Issue #2
Errors at the top of the screen · Hyprvibe Issue #3
Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Formatter
Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Home
Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Shared
Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Hosts
LibreNMS — A fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support. LibreNMS is a fork of Observium.
Observium — Observium is a network monitoring and management platform that provides real-time insight into network health and performance.
Shift Systems / ShiftMon · GitLab — An open source monitoring and logging tool based on Ansible, Telegraf, Grafana, and a bunch of other tools
sst/opencode — AI coding agent, built for the terminal.
Lightning Grows Up | This Week In Bitcoin 68
flatpak/xdg-native-messaging-proxy
NativeMessaging portal for sandboxed browsers · flatpak Issue #655
Pick: papra — The minimalistic document archiving platform.
Papra - Demo
Pick: lue — Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech
Pick: wlgblock — This project replaces the usual password screen with a Gameboy emulator running a patched Pokémon game!

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Wes performs a 2 a.m. rescue at DEFCON, and Chris attempts to build a Linux desktop using nothing but vibes.

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Podverse — A FOSS podcast manager for iOS, Android, F-Droid, and web.
Podverse - GitHub
Texas Linux Festival 2025 - CFP extended to August 18!
Nix Pipe Operator by piegamesde [RFC 0148]
libexpr: experimental pipe operators by rhendric
Nix Vegas on GitHub
NixVegas/badge — Rebuild the world at DEF CON with the Nix Badge
AND!XOR 5n4ck3y
ANDnXOR/ANDnXORDC33Badge
NixOS Search - Packages - ztool
ChrisLAS/hyprvibe — Chris' vibed-only, riced-up Hyprland desktop running atop NixOS.
crush — The glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal 💘
Cursor - The AI Code Editor
Void: an open source Cursor alternative
gerbrent/storenix — NixOS configs for a store, containing two locations and multiple hosts. Please help me!
Listener Javier @hacker.bikepacker - Instagram
Listener Javier @hacker.bikepacker - YouTube
HomeBox — A simple home inventory management software
sysadminsmedia/homebox — A continuation of HomeBox the inventory and organization system built for the Home User
Forester Notes
Designing tools for scientific thought
jimsalterjrs/sanoid: — policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools which use OpenZFS for underlying next-gen storage.
btrbk — Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes
Breez - Bitcoin in Every App
gPodder - Music Assistant
GeneBean's Linux-specific NixOS aliases — GeneBean's MacOS-specific NixOS aliases
GeneBean's MacOS-specific NixOS aliases
Alby Hub — Alby Hub is a self-custodial, open source lightning wallet that connects to apps
Pick: ffshare — An android app to compress image, video and audio files through ffmpeg before sharing them
Pick: Actual Budget — Actual Budget is a super fast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances. At its heart is the well proven and much loved Envelope Budgeting methodology.
SimpleFIN
Connect to your bank - SimpleFIN Bridge

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A Btrfs bug that bites is in the wild, and we discover whole home audio that works like a charm.

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How to recover from BTRFS errors | Support | SUSE
btrfs-zero-log(8) — btrfs-progs — Debian Manpages — This command will clear the filesystem log tree. This may fix a specific set of problem when the filesystem mount fails due to the log replay.
2018 Patch
Git: Btrfs: fix warning when replaying log after fsync of a tmpfile
Git: btrfs: fix fsync of files with no hard links not persisting deletion
problematic patch pulled into 6.16 on May 26th
problematic patch pulled into 6.15.3 on June 19th
Increased reports since 6.15.3 of corruption within the log tree - Peter Jung
Null deref during attempted replay of corrupt TREELOG in newer kernel - Russell Haley
System failed to boot – Btrfs log tree error / System Administration / Arch Linux Forums
PATCH: btrfs: fix log tree replay failure due to file with 0 links and extents — When attempting to mount the fs, the log replay will fail
patch on for-next branch of btrfs tree
generic: test fsync of file with 0 links and extents
Music Assistant — Music Assistant is a music library manager for your offline and online music sources which can easily stream your favourite music to a wide range of supported players and be combined with the power of Home Assistant!
Music Assistant Installation Instructions
Installation Instructions
Music Assistant Music Providers
Music Assistant Player Providers
Home Assistant Plugin
Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition - Home Assistant
SYMFONISK Sonos WiFi bookshelf speaker, black smart/gen 2 - IKEA US
HomePod - Apple
Belkin SoundForm Connect AirPlay 2 Adapter & Airplay 2 Receiver
WiiM Mini AirPlay 2 Wireless Audio Streamer
Google Chromecast - Streaming Device with HDMI Cable
Google Chromecast Audio Media Streamer - 2 PACK | eBay
droans/massqueue — Actions to control player queues for Music Assistant
punxaphil/maxi-media-player — Media card for Home Assistant UI with a focus on managing multiple media players, but not excluding single player setups.
NinDTendo/homeassistantgradualvolumecontrol — Home Assistant integration providing a service to gradually change the volume of mediaplayers over a given timespan.
Chawan: TUI web browser — A text-mode web browser and pager for Unix-like systems, with a focus on implementing modern web standards while remaining self-contained, easy to understand and extensible.
SilverBullet — SilverBullet is a tool to develop, organize, and structure your personal knowledge and to make it universally accessible across all your devices.
HeliumOS — An atomic desktop operating system for your devices.
LINUX Unplugged 620 - Brent Loves Building Things — Off-the-shelf didn’t cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.
rust-motd — Beautiful, useful, configurable MOTD generation with zero runtime dependencies
rustdress — Self hosted Lightning Address Server
rustdress: init at 0.5.2 by jordan-bravo
rustdress in nixpkgs
Plausible Slop: Generative AI and Open Source Cybersecurity
Plausible Slop Timecode Link
Death by a thousand slops | daniel.haxx.se
Pick: PlexRipper — A cross-platform Plex media downloader that seamlessly adds media from other Plex servers to your own!
PlexRipper Docs
Pick: kde-control-station — A modern configuration center for KDE plasma based on the awesome kde_controlcentre by Prayag2
Pick: kAirPods — Native AirPods integration for KDE Plasma 6 with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widget
AmilieCoding/gnomePods — Native AirPods integration for GNOME with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widget. Built off of kAirPods

Belkin SoundForm Connect AirPlay 2 Audio Adapter Receiver for Wireless Streaming with Optical and 3.5mm Speaker Inputs for iPhone, iPad, Mac Mini, MacBook Pro and other AirPlay enabled devices

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A radical rethink of what a Linux distro should do, and what it should stop doing. Plus, we dig into what's great about Linux 6.16.

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F43 Change Proposal: Filter Fedora Flatpaks for Atomic Desktops — With this change, we want to make the availability of a Fedora Flatpak an explicit decision for the Fedora Atomic Desktops.
Fedora Flatpaks creates more work
Fedora Must (Carefully) Embrace Flathub
Strategy 2028 Update – Fedora Community Blog
Initiatives/Fedora bootc - Fedora Project Wiki — Silverblue & Kinoite are ready to be our desktop Editions, with bootc (Jason)
Proposal: Enable Flathub by Default - Fedora Discussion
The Case for Fedora Flatpaks
bazaar: New App Store for GNOME
Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance
EXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance"
Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More Devices
Linux 6.16 Merges A Fix For The Macintosh II
Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX
The first half of the 6.16 merge window
The second half of the 6.16 merge window
Enforcement (or not) for module-specific exported symbols
Toward the unification of kselftests and KUnit
Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel
Supporting kernel development with large language models
Fending off unwanted file descriptors
Linux 6.16 - Linux Kernel Newbies
Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs
Zoned Loop Block Device — The Linux Kernel documentation
DJM-V10 Creative style 6-channel professional DJ mixer (black) - Pioneer DJ
LLM generated git-resolve.sh
Aidan's NixOS Flake
Using Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula
SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus
Pick: Toney — Toney is a fast, lightweight, terminal-based note-taking app for the modern developer.
Pick: Etesync-Knotes — A secure note-taking application for linux, integrated with Etebase for encrypted synchronization.

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Everything wrong with our homelabs, and how we're finally fixing them. Plus: two self-hosted apps you didn't know you needed.

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Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.
ODROID-H4 – ODROID — A powerful and versatile board that supports Intel's latest Alder Lake processors with AVX2 extensions. It features DDR5 memory, 4 SATA ports, dual BIOS, and up to 3 display outputs.
Home Assistant Yellow
UGREEN NASync DXP2800 2-Bay Desktop NAS
MINISFORUM S100 Mini PC Stick
GEEKOM Air12 Mini PC
Nebula Quick Start
Debugging with Nebula SSH commands
Using Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula
Upgrading a Nebula network to IPv6 overlay addresses
Using Dedicated Relays for Total Connectivity
nebula NixOS Module
norohind.nebula: — Ansible role to manage nebula vpn hosts
dracut-nebula — dracut-nebula integrates the Nebula overlay networking tool (VPN, tunnel) into the initramfs
nebula-gen: — Simple script to initialize a CA and quickly sign host keys and certificates for the Nebula VPN
AndrewPaglusch/Nebula-Ansible-Role — Nebula VPN Overlay Network Installer With Ansible
nebula-lighthouse-service — This server is a public Nebula VPN Lighthouse Service. You can use it in case you don’t have a publicly accessible server to run your own Nebula Lighthouse.
nebula-vpn-helm — Helm chart for managing Nebula VPN
vpn-dashboard-react-nebula — This project demonstrates a secure, lightweight, peer-to-peer VPN architecture using the Nebula overlay network integrated with a React-based front-end dashboard.
ChrisLAS/bluenix — Build your own custom Universal Blue Image!
Linkwarden — ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters, all in one place.
Announcing Linkwarden 2.11
Linkwarden Browser Extension
neko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.
Soltros-OS — My personal RPM-OStree based OS.
Miniflux — Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Reader
miniflux/v2 — Minimalist and opinionated feed reader
[Bug]: "External link" should point to the audio file
feat(rss): fallback to enclosure URL when entry URL is missing
5 Best Reference Management Tools for Linux in 2024
Zotero — Your personal research assistant
Aeon — The Linux Desktop for people who want to "get stuff done"
winapps — Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.

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Chris fled a declarative-first world for the promised land of Bluefin's atomic simplicity. Fifty days in, did he find desktop bliss or just fresh compromises?

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Nix Vegas - Extended CFP, and a sneak preview
Nix Vegas CFP
Bluefin | The Next Generation Linux Workstation
Four Years of Universal Blue
chad-russell/nix-blue: uBlue derivative with nix compatibility
karypid/bluenix: Bluefin with /nix
thrix/nix-toolbox: Fedora toolbox with nix.
add nix using either the determine systems nix installer or the vanilla installer · Issue #2371 · ublue-os/bluefin
Include smallest pieces necessary to make installing Nix easier · Issue #765 · ublue-os/main
Recommend homebrew as the default · Issue #576 · ublue-os/bluefin
feat: homebrew on image by m2Giles · Pull Request #1293 · ublue-os/bluefin
Add support for ostree-based Linux distributions by Hofer-Julian · Pull Request #586 · DeterminateSystems/nix-installer
Ostree installation breaks with composefs changes in Fedora 42 · Issue #1445 · DeterminateSystems/nix-installer
Arbitrary top level mount points and composefs (#26) · Issue · fedora/bootc/tracker
composefs: The reliability of disk images, the flexibility of files
ublue-os/bluefin: The next generation Linux workstation, designed for reliability, performance, and sustainability.
ublue-os/image-template: Build your own custom Universal Blue Image!
amyos
veneos: Bootc images based on Fedora Atomic & Fedora CoreOS
m2os
bos: Customized OS images based on Universal Blue
Building Locally | Bluefin
ublue-os/cayo: A bootc server image for your self-hosting needs
Zach: Easy Omarchy update and install.
CommonArch
JaKooLit's Hyprland setups
Pick: bitchat
Bitchat: bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibes — A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks. No internet required, no servers, no phone numbers. It's the side-groupchat.
bitchat-android: bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibes
bitchat privacy
Jack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security | TechCrunch
LINUX Unplugged 459: Better than Butter
Briar — Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in.
Obtainium: Get Android app updates straight from the source.

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Developers are abandoning their Macs for a new frontier: Arch Linux with Hyprland. We dive into Omarchy, and the broader trend fueling it.

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Omarchy — Opinionated Arch/Hyprland Setup By DHH
The Omarchy Manual
Omacom: Opinionated Linux
DHH on X — "Omarchy is ready! Hyprland + Arch have never been so easy. Everything comes preconfigured, preinstalled, and with six beautiful themes in the box. This is the smoothest, most pleasant operating system I've ever had under my fingers.
DHH on X — "Huge kudos to @vaxryy for making Hyprland! I've been so impressed with his creation that I've committed to a €1,000/month support level for at least a year as a token of my appreciation. Consider chipping in if you end up digging it too.
Good Linux Hardware · The Omarchy Manual · DHH
DHH on X — "Next step for Omarchy is clearly to level up to become a full distro. Then convince @FrameworkPuter and @Beelinkofficial to offer it preloaded. Going to will The Year of Linux into existence!"
thalys on X — @dhh I'm a designer using macs for work in the past 14y. no linux experience. decided to jump straight into omarchy and i'm lovin it. already made a small theme for myself, some binds using grim/slurppy/satty to emulate cleanshot, replaced dropbox with owncloud on waybar, etc.
Elvinas Predkelis on X — "All right, Omarchy is quite something. It's been a while back since I've last used Linux as a daily driver. But Omarchy is a breeze - snappy, intuitive and a joy to use. Some personal tweaks here and there, adding Ghostty and it's a dream machine. Thank you @dhh 🙏
DHH on X — "Mainstream Linux distros have been focused for too long on being as similar to Windows and Mac as possible to ease adoption. I've come to believe this isn't the way. Linux needs to embrace its own aesthetic, its own ethos, unapologetically. Lean into rice and TUIs!"
DHH discusses Linux and Omarchy @ Typecraft - YouTube
DHH - Get in losers, we're moving to Linux!
Good Linux Hardware · Omacom · DHH
ODROID-H4+ – ODROID
H4 Mini-ITX Kit – ODROID — a kit that adapts the form factor so that the H4 board can be mounted on a Mini-ITX case for a desktop PC or a DIY-NAS.
ODROID and Chill - Self-Hosted 138 — Brent joins to share part two of his NAS build adventure, and things take a tiny turn. Plus, picking the right encrypted chat app and Chris stacks a few Jellyfin wins.
Hotkeys · The Omarchy Manual · DHH
The Omarchy Manual
Neovim · The Omarchy Manual · DHH
TUIs · The Omarchy Manual · DHH
Dotfiles · The Omarchy Manual · DHH
Mise — lets you install and run multiple versions of a programming language on the same machine. It's like rbenv or rvm for Ruby or virtualenv for Python, but it works for a bunch of different environments
mise-plugins/mise-nix: Mise Nix Flake Plugin
PewDiePie - I installed Linux (so should you) - YouTube
PewDiePie - I'm DONE with Google - YouTube
You'd Better Run - GitHub
Eurobot Germany 2025 Finals First Round - DDoS vs M.A.M.U.T - YouTube
GitHub - OpenTollGate/tollgate — TollGate enables WiFi routers to accept Bitcoin payments for internet access.
Pick: gemini-cli — An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.
Pick: sniffnet — Comfortably monitor your Internet traffic 🕵️‍♂️

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We're highlighting several stories and reviews that never made it into the show. From GrapheneOS trouble, Asahi updates, Framework's desktop reveal, Starlink's Linux magic, and more.

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Off-the-shelf didn't cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.

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Castamatic
Castamatic 11 - with live shows and Podping — With this release, you can now listen to live podcast episodes directly in the app and get instant notifications as soon as a new episode—live or recorded—is available.
ESP8266 NodeMCU
DHT22/AM2302 Digital Temperature and Humidity Sensor Module
5V One Channel Relay Module Relay Switch with OPTO Isolation High Low Level Trigger
Marine Boat 3" in-Line Bilge Air Blower DC 12V 130 CFM
Wolfwhoop PW-D Control Buck Converter 6-24V to 5V 1.5A Step-Down Regulator Module Power Inverter Volt Stabilizer
TICONN Waterproof Electrical Junction Box
BOJACK 3 Values 130 Pcs Solderless Breadboard
ESPHome Web - web.esphome.io — Allows you to prepare your device for first use, install new versions and check the device logs directly from your browser.
PlatformIO - Your Gateway to Embedded Software Development Excellence
buildFHSEnv - nixpkgs — Provides a way to build and run FHS-compatible lightweight sandboxes.
ESPHome NixOS module: Failure to compile firmware because of DynamicUsers
Pick: High Tide — Third party unofficial TIDAL music client. Listen to your favorite music from your desktop or mobile Linux device at the highest quality.
Pick: Junction — Junction pops up automatically when you open a file or link in another app.
Junction on Flathub

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We spent the week learning keybindings, installing dependencies, and cramming for bonus points. Today, we score up and see how we did in the TUI Challenge.

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zee — A modern text editor for the terminal written in Rust
Helix Editor
Browsh — fully-modern text-based browser
ddgr — 🦆 DuckDuckGo from the terminal
Ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console — Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy.
Joshuto — Ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust
tenere — 🤖 TUI interface for LLMs written in Rust
elia — A snappy, keyboard-centric terminal user interface for interacting with large language models. Chat with ChatGPT, Claude, Llama 3, Phi 3, Mistral, Gemma and more.
kpxhs — Interactive Keepass database TUI viewer
keepass-mode — Emacs mode to open KeePass DB
gocheat — A beautiful customizable TUI Cheatsheet for keybindings,hotkeys and more in the terminal
castero: — TUI podcast client for the terminal
textual-web — Run TUIs and terminals in your browser
todoist: Todoist CLI Client. — Todoist is a cool TODO list web application. This program will let you use the Todoist in CLI.
gomuks/gomuks: A TUI Matrix client — A Matrix client written in Go using mautrix.
orf/gping: Ping, but with a graph
impala — 🛜 TUI for managing wifi on Linux
cmus - C* Music Player — cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
systemctl-tui — A fast, simple TUI for interacting with systemd services and their logs.
tdf — A tui-based PDF viewer
rainfrog — 🐸A database management TUI
jqp — A TUI playground to experiment with jq
andcli — A 2FA TUI for your shell
iamb — A Matrix client for Vim addicts
parllama — TUI for ollama and other LLM providers.
russ — A TUI RSS reader with vim-like controls and a local-first, offline-first focus
ytui-music — Youtube client in terminal for music (lightweight youtube client)
wiki-tui — A simple and easy to use Wikipedia Text User Interface
tuifeed — 📰 A terminal feed reader with a fancy ui
yazi — 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
vault-tasks — TUI Markdown Task Manager
Don's TUI Challenge blog — #TUIChallenge
Shyfox's TUI Challenge results
Himalaya — CLI to manage emails, based on email-lib
jellyfin-tui — Jellyfin music streaming client for the terminal.
Alacritty — A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
apple/containerization — Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS. Containerization is written in Swift and uses Virtualization.framework on Apple silicon.
Pick: somo — A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux.

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Our terminal apps are loaded, the goals are set, but we're already hitting a few snags. The TUI Challenge begins...

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Terminal Apps — A collection of awesome TUI apps from around the web.
Terminal Trove — Find your next Terminal love.
awesome-tuis — List of projects that provide terminal user interfaces.
Superfile: Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager
Ranger: A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
joshuto: Ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust
neomutt: ✉ Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
meli: Rusty terminal mail client
slack-term — Slack client for your terminal
GitHub - tramhao/termusic: Music Player TUI written in Rust
zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included
MyNav: Go-based workspace and session management TUI — A powerful terminal-based workspace navigator and session manager built in Go. MyNav helps developers organize and manage multiple projects through an intuitive interface, seamlessly integrating with tmux sessions.
aerc - A pretty good email client — aerc is an email client that runs in your terminal. It's highly efficient and extensible, perfect for the discerning hacker.
aerc - A pretty good email client that runs in your terminal - GitHub
ulyssa/iamb: A Matrix client for Vim addicts — a Matrix client for the terminal that uses Vim keybindings
magiblot/tvterm: A terminal emulator that runs in your terminal. Powered by Turbo Vision. — tvterm is an experimental terminal emulator widget and application based on the Turbo Vision framework. It was created for the purpose of demonstrating new features in Turbo Vision such as 24-bit color support.
sxyazi/yazi: 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O. — Yazi (means "duck") is a terminal file manager written in Rust, based on non-blocking async I/O. It aims to provide an efficient, user-friendly, and customizable file management experience.
meli MUA — meli is a configurable and extensible e-mail client with sane defaults.
The Mutt E-Mail Client — "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." -circa 1995
glow: Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻
gomuks — A Matrix client written in Go
NCSA Mosaic - Wikipedia — Mosaic is a discontinued web browser. It was instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web and the general Internet during the 1990s by integrating multimedia such as text and graphics.
carbonyl — Chromium running inside your terminal
After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No More
PipeWire
bhh32's tui_player: A video player for the terminal
How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation – Sean Heelan's Blog
tempy — A simple, visually pleasing weather report in your terminal.
arabcoders/ytptube: A WebUI for yt-dlp with concurrent downloads support, presets and scheduled tasks and many more. — YTPTube is a web-based GUI for yt-dlp, designed to make downloading videos from YouTube and other video platforms easier and more user-friendly. It supports downloading playlists, channels, and live streams, and includes features like scheduling downloads, sending notifications, and a built-in video player.

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Fresh off Red Hat Summit, Chris is eyeing an exit from NixOS. What's luring him back to the mainstream? Our highlights, and the signal from the noise from open source's biggest event of the year.

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Red Hat Summit 2025: Execs Tout Opportunities In Open Source AI, Virtualization Migration — OpenShift Virtualization has seen almost triple the number of customers, with the number of clusters deployed in production more than doubling and the number of virtual machines managed by the offer more than tripling.
Agentic AI, LLMs and standards big focus of Red Hat Summit
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Unlock what’s next: Microsoft at Red Hat Summit 2025 — Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is now available for use with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
Red Hat Launches the llm-d Community, Powering Distributed Gen AI Inference at Scale — Red Hat’s vision: Any model, any accelerator, any cloud.
Red Hat Introduces Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 with Supercharged Intelligence and Security Across Hybrid Environments — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 delivers a paradigm shift in enterprise operating systems with image mode.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Officially Released, Here's What's New — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 highlights include Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed for integrating generative AI directly within the platform to provide users with context-aware guidance and actionable recommendations through a natural language interface.
RHEL 10: Leading the future with AI, security and hybrid cloud
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Reaches GA
SiFive Collaborates with Red Hat to Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux for RISC-V — The developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 is initially available for use on the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 platform.
Red Hat AI on Hugging Face
FIPS 203/204/205 — These standards specify key establishment and digital signature schemes that are designed to resist future attacks by quantum computers, which threaten the security of current standards.
Virtualization success stories: Join Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization's momentum in 2025
llm-d — llm-d is a Kubernetes-native high-performance distributed LLM inference framework
What is vLLM? — vLLM is an inference server that speeds up the output of generative AI applications by making better use of the GPU memory.
Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Image mode leverages the bootc tool to build and deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Bootc stands for bootable container, and the image will include the kernel, bootloader, and other items typically excluded from application containers.
Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Overview
Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta
Bluefin — Featuring automatic image-based updates and a simple graphical application store, Bluefin is designed to get out of your way. Get what you want without sacrificing system stability.
KongrooParadox's nixfiles — This was my second nixos release since getting into Nix last year (February I think), and this strategy made it really painless. No surprises about deprecated options since I saw these cases slowly when these changes hit unstable.
yazi: Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O
jira-cli - Feature-rich interactive Jira command line
browser-use — Make websites accessible for AI agents
Thomato's TUI Resources
Pick: RamaLama — Make working with AI boring through the use of OCI containers.
ramalama on GitHub — RamaLama is an open-source developer tool that simplifies the local serving of AI models from any source and facilitates their use for inference in production, all through the familiar language of containers.

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With NixOS 25.05 around the corner, we sit down with a release manager to unpack what's new, what's changing, and what's finally getting easier. Spoiler: it's not just the tooling.

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NixOS 25.05 – Release schedule
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marytts/marytts: MARY TTS -- an open-source, multilingual text-to-speech synthesis system written in pure java — This is the source code repository for the multilingual open-source MARY text-to-speech platform (MaryTTS). MaryTTS is a client-server system written in pure Java, so it runs on many platforms.
PostgREST — A standalone web server that turns your PostgreSQL database directly into a RESTful API. Available as services.postgrest.
asciimoo/omnom: A webpage bookmarking and snapshotting service — Access & share previously visited pages without worrying about modifications or availability.
uMurmur by umurmur — uMurmur is a minimalistic Mumble server primarily targeted to run on embedded computers, like routers, with an open OS like e.g. OpenWRT.
Actual Budget — a local-first personal finance app.
gokapi — Lightweight selfhosted Firefox Send alternative without public upload. AWS S3 supported
Cursor — a vscode-based editor that uses AI to help you write code faster.
Pinchflat — a selfhosted YouTube media manager used to track channels and download videos on release.
Traccar — a modern GPS Tracking Platform.
crab-hole — a cross platform Pi-hole clone written in Rust using hickory-dns/trust-dns.
nostr-rs-relay — a nostr relay, written in Rust.
haven — a high availability vault for events on nostr.
immich-public-proxy — a proxy for sharing Immich albums without exposing the Immich API.
strfry — a relay for the nostr protocol.
TSDProxy — Very simple proxy for virtual services in Tailscale
Pick: Switcheroo — Convert between different image filetypes and resize them easily.
Switcheroo on Flathub
Switcheroo is packaged in nixpkgs
Pick: mazanoke — MAZANOKE is a simple image optimizer that runs in your browser, works offline, and keeps your images private without ever leaving your device.
jolheiser/mazanoke-nix: Nix derivation/flake for mazanoke

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We test-drive a self-hosted alternative to Google Location History. Plus, we cover the week's Linux news highlights, then spill the beans on our upcoming TUI challenge.

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libcaca – Caca Labs — A graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text terminals.
New GNOME Executive Director Named: Steven Deobald — Steven Deobald has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, succeeding interim director Richard Littauer and Holly Million, who stepped down last year after a brief tenure.
Creation of the NixOS hardware team — TL;DR: The Steering Committee is launching the new Hardware Team to own the nixos-hardware repo, drive hardware enablement, and expand partnerships.
Adopting sudo-rs By Default in Ubuntu 25.10 - Project Discussion - Ubuntu Community Hub — The sudo-rs project is designed to be a drop in replacement for the original tool. For the vast majority of users, the upgrade should be completely transparent to their workflow. That said, sudo-rs is a not a “blind” reimplementation.
LINUX Unplugged 607: Ubuntu's Rusty Roadmap
Bcachefs Patches Aim For Faster Snapshot Deletion But With Another On-Disk Format Update — Bcachefs has introduced patches aimed at significantly improving snapshot deletion performance. However, implementing these improvements necessitates an update to an incompatible on-disk format, which must be explicitly enabled by users.
Dawarich — Your Journey, Your Control — Visualize your location history, track your movements, and analyze your travel patterns with complete privacy and control.
fabean/ytviewer — YouTube TUI that pulls subscriptions from YouTube API
Pick: meshSidecar — meshSidecar provides a flexible way to integrate mesh networking capabilities with NixOS services. It allows services to participate in mesh networks without requiring direct modification of the service itself.
Pick: ELEMENT.FM — Unlimited, GPLv3 Licensed, self-hostable podcast hosting

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We chat with the founder of Home Assistant and then fire up Brent's Linux-powered rig.

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Announcing State of the Open Home 2025
Open Home Foundation
Works with Home Assistant
Reolink joins Works with Home Assistant
Eve Joins Works With Home Assistant - Home Assistant
3…2…1… Backup - Home Assistant
Home Assistant
The Launch 🚀 20: Linux Goat North Van
This 1987 Dodge Camper Van Is an Amazing 1980s RV Relic - YouTube
Roadtrek Brochure - 1989-1990 Chassis Model Years.pdf
Axiomtek ICO300-TES5 Industrial PC (PDF)
Intel Atom® E3827
Mieze K106 Octa-Core Tablet 10 Inch
Spokane Linux User's Group – casual meet-up to talk tech — Cant wait till the next JB meetup over here too!
Alpine Email Program
Pick: LinuxInExcel — The emulator is built as a seperate dll which is loaded by the VBA macro. The VBA macro calls the emulator in the dll and gets the output and writes it into the cells in the spreadsheet.
cnlohr/mini-rv32ima — A tiny C header-only risc-v emulator.

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We're live from LinuxFest Northwest 2025. We're joined by guests from the audience, try our hand at Linux trivia and share our experiences from the best fest in the West.

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LFNW2025 - LinuxFest Norhtwest Homepage — 25 Years of Community Excellence.
See how far COSMIC has come this year by Carl Richell - LinuxFest Northwest 2025
COSMIC Desktop
COSMIC Alpha 7 — ISO excited for the latest COSMIC alpha release! We’ve been busy clearing up scores of bugs while soldering together the features that we absolutely must include before the Big Betahemoth descends upon the Earth. Let COSMIC Alpha 7 commence!
pop-os/cosmic-epoch: Next generation Cosmic desktop environment
COSMIC Desktop Alpha 7 Brings More New Features
The best-looking Linux desktop I've seen so far in 2025 — The creators of one of the coolest Linux distros just released a new version - and it puts the old one to shame.
Blind Penguin - Software Development with José Ibañez
Accessibility Talk: Blind Penguin at LFNW 2025
Beyond ARIA Labels: What a Blind Film Enthusiast Can Teach Us About Open Source
Trimui Smart Pro 128G Handheld Game Console with Pre Loaded Games
Sausage — sausage is a terminal word forming game, written in Bash.

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Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04 are here—We break down what's new, what stands out, and what we love most about each release.

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The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is.
GNOME 48 Release Notes
Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin)
The newest Ubuntu version ushers in ARM64 support for early adopters
Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop
JB Gaming Den
Retro Game Corps on YouTube
Ignition: Manage your startup apps and scripts on Freedesktop Linux distros — Ignition is a minimal app for editing autostart entries on Freedesktop-compliant Linux distributions.
Ignition on Flathub
RecordApps — A desktop application that allows you to record audio from specific applications on Linux. Built with Deno, Svelte, and WebView.
Record Apps on Flathub

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Apple's software is going rotten, while Linux sneaks up as the better Mac. Linus grumbles through Git's 20th birthday, and we spot a hardware window Linux better not slam shut.

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Tailscale Community Meetup Seattle — Calling all Tailscale users, homelabbers, and networking enthusiasts! We’re bringing the community together for a casual, community focused meetup in Seattle.
POLL: Would you tune into a Saturday LFNW Live Stream?
Celebrating Git's 20th anniversary with creator Linus Torvalds — Discover the origins of the open-source version control system, why he handed over the reins a few months in, and what he thinks about adding new programming languages to Git.
Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds - YouTube
uemacs - Linus Editor — Random version of microemacs with my private modificatons
Yes Linus' uemacs is pacakged in Nix
Debian APT 3.0 Stable Released With New Package Solver & Refined Text UI — This new version introduces a significantly refined command-line interface and a completely new package solver.
I Want a Better Mac, so I’m Cheering for a Better Linux — "Apple needs a real competitor, one alternatives such as GNOME on Linux could actually be, if only the hardware rose to the occasion."
I'd love to see someone help Linux take the next step
outdoorgeek's laptop sleep optimized NixOS config
Rust is easy? Go is… hard?
Pick: chat-gipitty: Terminal client for getting answers from LLMs — Chat Gipitty (Chat Get Information, Print Information TTY) is a command line client for ChatGPT. It allows you to chat with your chosen model of ChatGPT in a terminal and even pipe output into it.
moreutils' sponge — soak up standard input and write to a file.
GitHub - pgdr/moreutils — a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young.
Pick: ALttP VT Randomizer — Each playthrough shuffles the location of all the important items in the game. Will you find the Bow atop Death Mountain, the Fire Rod resting silently in the library, or even the Master Sword itself waiting in a chicken coop?
spannerisms/ALttPNG

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We attempt to get one of the great gaming classics running on Linux, and dig into some of the technical issues still holding back Linux. Plus: Chris has a new handheld.

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LINUX Unplugged LIVE@LFNW Sunday — Sunday 10:00 AM · 1h · HC 108
Linux-Powered Payments: Running a Lightning Node with nix-bitcoin — Sunday 1:30 PM · 45 min · HC 204
Lutris - Open Gaming Platform for Linux — video game preservation platform aiming to keep your video game collection up and running for the years to come.
GitHub - ValveSoftware/Proton: Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
R36MAX Retro Handheld Game Console with 64G Built-in 18000+ Classic Games — The R36Max is a budget device that puts the common RK3326 chip into a vertical handheld. It has the same specs as the R36Pro, but with a larger, 1:1 screen.
R36 Max Handheld Game Console with 4" Screen Linux System
Kooha: Elegantly record your screen — Kooha is a simple screen recorder with a minimal interface. You can simply click the record button without having to configure a bunch of settings.
vtt-summarizer: Summarize .vtt files into meeting notes — It uses open source LLMs to handle the data extraction and summarization, ensuring everything can be run locally and without the need to share with third parties.

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Linux 6.14 lands with big improvements for gaming, laptops, and filesystems—but why is a Windows feature sneaking into our kernel?

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Linux 6.14 from Linux Kernel Newbies
Btrfs Support for uncached buffered I/O
FUSE and io_uring
Windows NT synchronization primitives for Linux
NixOS/nixos-hardware: A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.
NerfyGek0/MeshtasticIOAddon — Documentation of how to use Meshtastic serial and MQTT functionality to automation custom hardware
Pick: Eloquent — Eloquent is a proofreading software for English and more than 20 other languages.
Eloquent - Flathub
languagetool — Style and Grammar Checker; it finds many errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect.
LanguageTool standalone server

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Canonical's VP of Engineering for Ubuntu reveals why they're swapping coreutils for Rust-built tools. Then we break down the GNOME 48 release, and why this one is special.

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Engineering Ubuntu For The Next 20 Years — We should look deeply at the tools we ship with Ubuntu by default, selecting for tools that have resilience, performance and maintainability at their core.
Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu — Starting with Ubuntu 25.10, my goal is to adopt some of these modern implementations as the default. My immediate goal is to make uutils’ coreutils implementation the default in Ubuntu 25.10, and subsequently in our next Long Term Support (LTS) release, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, if the conditions are right.
GNOME 48 Release Notes — The GNOME project is excited to introduce GNOME 48, a fresh release shaped by six months of hard work from our amazing community. Named “Bengaluru”, this release pays tribute to the dedication of the GNOME Asia 2024 organizers.
awesome-tuis
Pick: Ulauncher — Application launcher for Linux🐧
Ulauncher on GitHub
Hotkey In Wayland · Ulauncher Wiki
Browse Ulauncher Extensions
Gitmoji Extension
Todoist task management Extension
mariob88/ulauncher-todoist-integration
Turn Off Screen Extension
Home Assistant Extension
qcasey/ulauncher-homeassistant
Obsidian Extension

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We have stories to share, guests joining us, insights from our week at Planet Nix, and Brent's big bombshell.

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Flox - Nix for Simplicity & Scale — Flox is all about simplifying your development workflow—think reproducible, portable dev environments powered by Nix, but without the steep learning curve. Whether you’re a solo coder or part of a big team, Flox lets you manage and share environments effortlessly, so you can focus on building great software instead of wrestling with setup headaches.
Planet Nix
Talk - Kelsey Hightower's Perspective on Nix
Talk - Aneesh from Anthropic - Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It
Talk - Eelco Dolstra Intros Configurable Flakes
Talk - Mike Kelly - Building a Chromebook replacement with NixOS
Eelco Dolstra - Configurable Flakes
Aneesh Agrawal - Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production
Fireside Chat with Kelsey Hightower: An Outsider’s Look at Nix
Building a Chromebook replacement with NixOS
Why do people love NixOS so much? | Mike Kelly
How to convert an old ChromeBook into a NixBook | Mike Kelly
Olympia Mike's Nixbook | GitHub
Flox | Nix in the Wild
The NixOS Foundation Board Announced
Guilty Pleasures | The Launch 🚀 13
Pick: pyatv: A client library for Apple TV and AirPlay devices — This is an asyncio python library for interacting with Apple TV and AirPlay devices. It mainly targets Apple TVs (all generations, including tvOS 15 and later), but also supports audio streaming via AirPlay to receivers like the HomePod, AirPort Express and third-party speakers. It can act as remote control to the Music app/iTunes in macOS.
Pick: atv-desktop-remote: A simple app to allow you to control an Apple TV from your desktop — The latest version works with tvOS 15 and up. It requires Python 3 to be installed on the system to work properly.

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We are digging into a superpower inside your Linux Kernel. How eBPF works, and how anyone can take advantage of it.

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eBPF Perf Tools 2019 | SCaLE 17x
SCALE2019eBPFPerf_Tools.pdf
Oracle Releases DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 For Linux Systems
Gentoo Linux Touts DTrace 2.0 Support
bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018
Full-system dynamic tracing on Linux using eBPF and bpftrace
A thorough introduction to eBPF
BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more — The BPF Compiler Collection: BCC or BPF Compiler Collection is a set of tools leveraging eBPF for kernel tracing, Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more.
BCC Tutorial
xdp-tools: Utilities and example programs for use with XDP
ply: a dynamic tracer for Linux
Liam's Multi-Monitor Setup
Pick: netop — Network Top -- Help you monitor network traffic with bpf
Pick: bpftune — bpftune aims to provide lightweight, always-on auto-tuning of system behaviour.

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We're pre-gaming two of the biggest Linux events of the year. Engineers, organizers, and surprise guests are dropping by to give us the scoop before it all begins.

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Planet Nix — March 6th-7th, 2025 @ Pasadena, CA at the Southern California Linux Expo.
Flox - Your dev environment, everywhere — Flox help teams focus on building fast by providing reproducible environments that span the entire software lifecycle. With Flox, developers can create environments that contain all of the tools and frameworks they need, binding them with the software they ship into the world.
Kelsey Hightower on X
kelseyhightower on GitHub
Kelsey Hightower on LinkedIn
Robert Hernandez SCaLE Profile
Fireside Chat: An Outsider’s Look at Nix - Ron Efroni, Kelsey Hightower
Learn Nix the Fun Way - Farid Zakaria
Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production -
Planet Nix FAQ
nix.conf - Adding GitHub Access Tokens — Access tokens used to access protected GitHub, GitLab, or other locations requiring token-based authentication.
Olympia Mike's nixbook
peterfajdiga/karousel: Scrollable tiling Kwin script
YaLTeR/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
paperwm/PaperWM: Tiled scrollable window management for GNOME Shell
Libro.fm — Your Independent Bookstore for Digital Audiobooks
Pick: OpenAudible-To-AudibleBookShelf — This script automates the process of moving audiobook files from OpenAudible or Libation to an organized folder structure and updates AudioBookShelf accordingly. It handles file organization, metadata mapping, and interaction with the AudioBookShelf API.

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There have been major Rust developments in the Linux Kernel; we discuss what's new and how it will impact the future. Plus, we're joined by a special guest.

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Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust — Yes, mixed language codebases are rough, and hard to maintain, but we are kernel developers dammit, we've been maintaining and strengthening Linux for longer than anyone ever thought was going to be possible. We've turned our development model into a well-oiled engineering marvel creating something that no one else has ever been able to accomplish. Adding another language really shouldn't be a problem, we've handled much worse things in the past and we shouldn't give up now on wanting to ensure that our project succeeds for the next 20+ years. We've got to keep pushing forward when confronted with new good ideas, and embrace the people offering to join us in actually doing the work to help make sure that we all succeed together.
Kees Cook on Rust in the kernel — In other words, I don't see any reason to focus on replacing existing code -- doing so would actually carry a lot of risk. But writing new stuff in Rust is very effective. Old code is more stable and has fewer bugs already, and yet, we're still going to continue the work of hardening C, because we still need to shake those bugs out. But new code can be written in Rust, and not have any of these classes of bugs at all from day one.
Linus Re: Rust kernel policy — You are not forced to take any Rust code, or care about any Rust code in the DMA code. You can ignore it. But "ignore the Rust side" automatically also means that you don't have any say on the Rust side.
Texas Linux Fest is back again in 2025!
Pick: treetrum/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader — Allows you to bulk download all your Kindle eBook in a more automated fashion. This tool allows you to create backup copies of the books you've already purchased.
Amazon removes your right to download Kindle books
Amazon will stop allowing Kindle book downloads to your PC soon
How to Download Kindle Books to Your Computer Before Amazon Kills the Feature
Simplest Way to Remove DRM from Books – No Kindle Serial Number Needed!
Pick: nping — 🏎 Nping mean NB Ping, A Ping Tool in Rust with Real-Time Data and Visualizations

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Our FreeBSD Challenge comes to a close, and chances are one of us will be paying the Windows tax.

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Planet Nix
Flox — Your dev environment, everywhere
The Launch 🚀 09: The Eagle has Landed
The Rules of the FreeBSD Challenge
libluksde — Library and tools to access LUKS Disk Encryption encrypted volumes
linuxulator-steam-utils — Linux Steam on FreeBSD
bhyve/Windows - FreeBSD Wiki
Chapter 12. Linux Binary Compatibility
doas - dedicated openbsd application subexecutor
doas mastery
Chapter 33. Firewalls
ardour « audio - ports - FreeBSD ports tree
jellyfin « multimedia - ports - FreeBSD ports tree
Hank wrote in about his testing with a Pi4
FreeBSD pi4 tweak — I got lucky - that was posted two days before I gave this a go. I installed on a 4GB Pi 4B.
Hank's BSD Notes — IMO should get a point just for figuring out how to configure NTP and time zone. Sheesh!
Mizutamari — User-friendly Wine front-end primarily for FreeBSD
Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD
Games - GhostBSD Wiki
What’s Coming for Future Releases of GhostBSD? — We're making some important changes to how GhostBSD is built and released to provide a better, more stable experience for our users.
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Gene's Portable Screen
NetBSD Root on ZFS
Music Assistant — Music Assistant is a free, opensource Media library manager that connects to your streaming services and a wide range of connected speakers.
Pick: HedgeDoc — HedgeDoc lets you create real-time collaborative markdown notes.
Pick: Add Water — A utility app to easily install the Firefox GNOME Theme and automatically update it in the background. This theme keeps Firefox fashionable within the GNOME design ecosystem, and provides many helpful features to customize the interface to make browsing even more pleasant

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It's week one of our FreeBSD challenge, and for one of us, that penalty Windows install looks uncomfortably close! Plus, Zach Mitchell joins us to update us on Planet Nix.

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LINUX Unplugged - 2025 FreeBSD Challenge Rules.md
Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kit
FreeBSD 14.0 on aarch64 Raspberry Pi 4/400 - Download, Install & Configure
LinuxBoot: Booting FreeBSD from Linux
EuroBSDCon booting FreeBSD using Linux
Provisioning LinuxBoot Images for FreeBSD
FreeBSD Handbook: Chapter 1. Bootstrapping and Kernel Initialization
FreeBSD Handbook: Chapter 15. The FreeBSD Booting Process
How to Manage FreeBSD Boot Process?
LinuxBoot: let Linux do it!
LinuxBoot Introduction
LinuxBoot on GitHub
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Planet Nix — March 6th-7th, 2025 in Pasadena, CA
Zach Mitchell
LINUX Unplugged 554: SCaLEing Nix
LINUX Unplugged 538: Surprisingly Smooth Transition
LFNW2025 - April 25 - 27, 2025 • Bellingham Technical College
Pick: GarminDB — Download and parse data from Garmin Connect or a Garmin watch, FitBit CSV, and MS Health CSV files into and analyze data in Sqlite serverless databases with Jupyter notebooks.

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We celebrate 600 episodes, announce a new show feature, and officially launch the FreeBSD challenge.

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nixbsd: An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel
Speedruns - FreeBSD Wiki
Pick: direnv-vscode — This extension adds direnv support to Visual Studio Code by loading environment variables for the workspace root.
Pick: Warehouse on Linux | Flathub — Warehouse provides a simple UI to control complex Flatpak options, all without resorting to the command line.

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On the eve of episode 600, we introduce our next challenge and explore the new wave of Linux phones.

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Liberux – Privacy, Security, Freedom
PinePhone Braveheart Linux smartphone begins shipping January 17th - Liliputing
Mecha Comet - Modular Linux Handheld Computer powered by Open-Source Software — The Comet is a handheld Linux computer that brings extensibility in hardware and software adapting to your needs.
Mecha Comet - Modular Linux Handheld Computer by Mecha Systems Inc. — Kickstarter
Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers — The Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers will provide a neutral space where industry leaders, academia, developers, and the broader open source community can work together to support projects within the Chromium ecosystem.
Wine 10.0 Released With Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI — Wine 10.0 brings more than six thousand changes that built up over the past year in the bi-weekly Wine 9.xx development releases.
LUP 600 Pacific Northwest Party · Colony Events
Comprehensive Audio Stack Improvements for Modern Hardware and Software
Detailed AMD IOMMU Driver Development for Enhanced Core Support
FreeBSD Foundation's Sponsored Development Projects for 2024
metapac: multi-backend declarative package manager
decman: declarative package & configuration manager for Arch Linux.
aconfmgr: a configuration manager for Arch Linux
GeneBean's Dots
Replit
OliveTin — OliveTin gives safe and simple access to predefined shell commands from a web interface.
Open-tv — Ultra-fast, simple and powerful cross-platform IPTV app.
ErsatzTV — Stream custom live channels using your own media
Deepin Linux 25 Goes (Almost) Immutable
deepin 25 Preview Release Note – Deepin Technology Community

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With more criticisms of NixOS than ever—do they have a point? We'll dig into the tough critiques and give our perspective.

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NixOS is interesting, but has fatal flaws
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Planet Nix — March 6-7, Before and Alongside SCaLE
SCALE 22x — March 6-9, 2025 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA.
LFNW2025 - "25 Years of Community Excellence" — April 25 - 27, 2025
Nix - Death by a thousand cuts — TLDR: In its current state (2025), I don't generally recommend desktop use of Nix(OS), even for seasoned Linux users.
Rich Hickey: Simple Made Easy — Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path.
Simple Made Easy Transcript
Ansible is a Lisp
Should I use NixOS? Short answer: no. — If words like "declarative", "generational", and "immutable" don't put your sexuality in jeopardy, you're considering NixOS for the wrong reasons.
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OliveTin/OliveTin: OliveTin gives safe and simple access to predefined shell commands from a web interface.
Pick: isd — Simplify systemd management with isd! isd is a TUI offering fuzzy search for units, auto-refreshing previews, smart sudo handling, and a fully customizeable interface for power-users and newcomers alike.
Pick: planify — Task manager with Todoist & Nextcloud support designed for GNOME
Pick: Super Productivity — A to do list to get your head free
Super Productivity on Flathub
Super Productivity GitHub — Keep organized and focused!
LUP 553: Portably Predictable Productivity

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We're taking on some of the toughest critiques of the Linux desktop, then taking a look at CachyOS and what makes it feel like a million bucks.

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Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition
Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition | Hacker News
Why Desktop Linux Matters, Even If (Almost) No One Uses It
Colony Events
CachyOS — Blazingly Fast OS based on Arch Linux — CachyOS is designed to deliver lightning-fast speeds and stability, ensuring a smooth and enjoyable computing experience every time you use it. Whether you're a seasoned Linux user or just starting out, CachyOS is the ideal choice for those looking for a powerful, customizable and blazingly fast operating system.
CachyOS/linux-cachyos: Archlinux Kernel based on different schedulers and some other performance improvements.
firelzrd/bore-scheduler: BORE (Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer) CPU Scheduler — BORE (Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer) is enhanced versions of CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler) and EEVDF (Earliest Eligible Virtual Deadline First) Linux schedulers. Developed with the aim of maintaining these schedulers' high performance while delivering resilient responsiveness to user input under as versatile load scenario as possible.
oracle/bpftune: bpftune uses BPF to auto-tune Linux systems — bpftune aims to provide lightweight, always-on auto-tuning of system behaviour.
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Self-Hosted Toronto Crew -- Meetup2 · Gathio
Amazon.com: Wi-Fi Smart LED Controller | WLED Pre-Installed | Internal Antenna | Designed to Control WS2811 or WS2812B 5volt Smart LEDs : Tools & Home Improvement
Cryptomator on Flathub
cryptomator on GitHub — Cryptomator for Windows, macOS, and Linux: Secure client-side encryption for your cloud storage, ensuring privacy and control over your data.
Flatsweep on Flathub — When you uninstall a Flatpak, it can leave some files behind on your computer. Flatsweep helps you easily get rid of the residue left on your system by uninstalled Flatpaks.
Buffer
Buffer on Flathub — Celebrating transience, Buffer provides a minimal editing space for all those things that don't need keeping. Designed for keyboard workflows on desktop.

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We make our big Linux predictions for 2025, but first, we score how we did for 2024.

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LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later
MAGI OS: AI powered Linux
MakuluLinux AI podcast – MakuluLinux
MakuluLinux X – AI Integration Update – MakuluLinux
OpenZFS Native Encryption Use Raises Data Corruption Concerns
Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 Brings RISC-V & Drops i386 Installer
After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends
mesa-dri-drivers-24.2.4-1.fc41 - Fedora Packages
UbuntuUpdates - Package Search (all versions of mesa)
Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Moving To NVK + Zink For OpenGL On Newer GPUs - Phoronix
Mesa's NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3 Support - Phoronix
NixOS-based distributions - NixOS Wiki
It's time for change, it's time for Linux. - YouTube
How I Broke up with Adobe
Automotive Grade Linux Launches New Expert Group Led by Toyota to Help Automakers Manage Open Source Activities - Automotive Grade Linux
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Enclosed - Send private and secure notes — Minimalistic web application designed for sending end-to-end encrypted notes and files.
enclosed - GitHub

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We tested out the OpenWRT One and tried it in a unique use case. Then, Wes goes back to 1999 to solve a problem.

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Qobuz — Buy your favourite albums in CD or Hi-Res quality and enjoy them forever.
Los Machucambos In Phase 4, Los Machucambos - Qobuz
Los Machucambos – In Phase 4 – Vinyl (LP, Album, Stereo), 1961 [r5061780] | Discogs
Los Machucambos - Wikipedia
cdrdao: cdrdao is a free and open source utility software application for authoring and ripping of audio and data CD-ROMs
cdrdao-pled: Portable Linux x86_64 pre-built download of the open source CD burning/ripping utility cdrdao that works on all modern Linux distros.
freac.org: fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders
k3b: Full-featured CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning and ripping application
CD writing using cdrecord
xfburn
jlesage/docker-xfburn: Docker container for Xfburn
OpenWrt One
OpenWrt One Introduction
Banana Pi OpenWrt One
Banana Pi OpenWrt One PCBA Router Board
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mjvc's 2014 nix config
incus gpu docs
veyman's immich-frame config
GitHub - LACT: Linux GPU Configuration Tool
exislow/tidal-dl-ng: Multithreaded TIDAL Media Downloader Next Generation! Up to HiRes Lossless / TIDAL MAX 24-bit, 192 kHz.
ebb-earl-co/tidal-wave: Waving at the TIDAL music service
DXX-Rebirth — DXX-Rebirth is a modern port of the Descent game engine, based on the late D1X and D2X source ports (which, in turn, were based on the original Descent source release and LDescent). The Rebirth Team has spent a lot of time working to improve the source code by fixing old bugs and adding some improvements, while always staying true to our philosophy: Keep it Descent!
Descent on GOG.COM
dxx-rebirth on GitHub

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It's the fifth annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, and desktops of 2024. Join us for the final Tuxies, and the second annual Boosties!

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A special guest joins us for the news, then we dive headfirst into our RT Linux kernel adventures—where speed seduced, but stability ghosted us.

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Xfce 4.20 Desktop Released With Wayland Improvements & New Features
Xfce 4.20 Release Notes
The Last Tuxies
Plan your meetup: Colony Events
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Introducing CentOS Stream 10 — CentOS Stream serves as a development branch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), providing a continuous preview of features before they are incorporated into RHEL.
EPEL 10 is now available — The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) 10 has been officially released, offering users access to over 10,000 packages built from 3,600 source packages, thanks to the efforts of over 150 Fedora package maintainers.
Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller: A change of hats! — Matthew Miller, the Fedora Project Leader for over a decade, has announced his decision to step down from the role. Initially aiming for a five-year term, he extended his tenure after feeling there was more to accomplish. Now, after ten years, Miller believes it is the right time for a leadership change to bring fresh energy and ideas to Fedora.
Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Proposed For Fedora 42 — The Fedora Project is considering a new "Fedora COSMIC" spin for Fedora 42, featuring the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment developed by System76.
Changes/FedoraCOSMIC - Fedora Project Wiki
Ptyxis Becomes Ubuntu's Recommended Replacement To GNOME Terminal — Ptyxis was introduced as an option in Ubuntu 24.10, though it was not the default terminal. While GNOME Console remains the default in Ubuntu 25.04 daily builds, there is growing support for Ptyxis within the Ubuntu community. Canonical Desktop Software Engineer Jeremy Bicha confirmed this shift, stating that Ptyxis is now the "recommended replacement for GNOME Terminal."
Zen Kernel FAQ — Result of a collaborative effort of kernel hackers to provide the best Linux kernel possible for everyday systems
The MuQSS CPU scheduler
Linux Audio System Configuration Guide
I've turned preempt=full on and it solved most of my problems : r/Fedora
How to 'test' if kernel is truly PREEMPT=FULL and threadirqs? - Fedora Discussion
Revisiting the kernel's preemption models (part 1) [LWN.net]
configpreemptdynamic - kernelconfig.io
Kernel preemption - Wikipedia
Dynamic Preemption Support Sent In For The Linux 5.12 Kernel - Phoronix
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kb6nu study guide
ARISS SSTV Gallery
Libro.fm, Your Independent Bookstore for Digital Audiobooks
Fountain 1.1.10 - Payment UX Improvements and Faster Boosts
Ports-info — Simple utility to show open ports on linux systems

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USB thumb drives are old and busted. No hard drive? No problem. Need a quick system rescue or work in another distro for the day? Easy.

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ODROID H4 PLUS
ODROID H4 Mini-ITX Kit
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Request for Proposals: Flathub Program Management — The GNOME Foundation, in partnership with KDE e.V., is bootstrapping Flathub LLC to become a self-sustaining entity.
Flathub to become a self-sustaining entity and they're looking to hire someone to help
Flathub Statistics
Flathub Verified Apps
Verification | Flathub Documentation
open issues on FlatHub-Infra GitHub
netboot.xyz — Your favorite operating systems in one place. A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.
Booting Methods
boot netboot.xyz from grub
boot netboot.xyz from a USB Disk
Windows | netboot.xyz
Windows PE image as an ISO, instructions on how to build it can be found here
LUP 333
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Proxmox and Veeam backups
home-assistant-technitiumdns — This custom integration allows you to integrate TechnetiumDNS with Home Assistant, providing sensors for various DNS statistics.
sam h's nix config with Blocky
Rescuezilla — Rescuezilla is an open-source easy-to-use disk imaging app that's fully compatible with Clonezilla — the industry-standard trusted by tens of millions.
rescuezilla/rescuezilla: The Swiss Army Knife of System Recovery

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The KDE and GNOME projects are working on official Linux distributions, but do we need more distros? We dig into their special sauce.

Plus: Wes' top DNS server pick, and it's not one we've heard before.

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First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released — The OpenWrt One costs $89 with a case ($68.42 for the logic board only) and is hacker-friendly, featuring robust hardware specifications such as a MediaTek MT7981B SoC, dual Ethernet ports (2.5 GbE and 1 GbE), USB-C power, and modular expansion options.
Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros
"KDE Linux" (codenamed "Project Banana")
Akademy 2024 - Saturday 7th September - Room 1 - YouTube
An Operating System of Our Own - Akademy 2024 - FTV
Adrian Vovk
A Desktop for All
GNOME OS Nightly
Fitting Everything Together
Shell Yes! | Push the Button
2024 Tuxies.Party — New category based on your feedback, and we've cleared out the hall of fame, all distros and desktops up for a vote!
Reminder that PlanetNix Call for Papers is still open!
Technitium DNS Server
TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer: Technitium DNS Server — Technitium DNS Server is an open source authoritative as well as recursive DNS server that can be used for self hosting a DNS server for privacy & security. It works out-of-the-box with no or minimal configuration and provides a user friendly web console accessible using any modern web browser.
Technitium Blog: Running Technitium DNS Server on Ubuntu Linux
DnsServer/docker-compose.yml
technitium-dns-server - MyNixOS
NixOS Search - Options - technitium
technitium-dns-server.nix
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Errands — Todo application for those who prefer simplicity.
Errands GitHub Page

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Two years ago, we took a small step toward digital privacy. Today, we're rethinking everything about our online lives, and we'll give you the tools to do the same.

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Syncthing — Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
2024 Tuxies.Party — New category based on your feedback, and we've cleared out the hall of fame, all distros and desktops up for a vote!
BlueBubbles
Davx5
Location | Home Assistant Companion Docs
Garmin Forerunner 265
Obtainium: Get Android app updates straight from the source.
OSS-DocumentScanner: Android document document scanning app
Simple Mobile Tools
Simple-Calendar
2FAS - the Internet's favorite open-source authenticator
FUTO Keyboard
Releases · futo-org/android-keyboard
streamyfin: A Jellyfin client build with Expo
Tubular: A fork of NewPipe that implements SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike.
Fossify - fork of SimpleMobileTools
Soundcore Motion 300 by Anker
LubeLogger
Self-Hosted 127: Can't Fix What You Don't Track
Mealie.io — Self-hosted Recpie Managment
Self-Hosted 135: Rebuilding For the Last Time
pinchflat: Your next YouTube media manager
Self-Hosted 134: YouTube Unplugged
Embrace Alby Hub - phasing out Alby’s shared wallet | Alby User Guide — In the beginning of 2024, we shared our vision in "Where Does Alby Fly From Here". Since then we launched Alby Hub, your self-custodial wallet accessible from anywhere to integrate with dozens of apps. We’ve also launched Alby Go - the easiest-to-use mobile app to connect your Alby Hub and use your sats on the go.
Wes' half-finished Alby Hub Flake
Alby Go — The easiest mobile app to use bitcoin on the Go and that works great with Alby Hub.
Alby Go - Apps on Google Play
Breez App — The Breez mobile app is a favorite of Lightning wizards and rookies alike. With a non-custodial Lightning node running on your mobile device, digital cash register, podcast player, and its own marketplace, the app delivers a standard-setting UX with 100% bitcoin DNA under the hood.
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Discount Bandit — Self Hosted product tracker for Amazon, Walmart And many more
Discount-Bandit on GitHub
Discount-Bandit docker-compose.yaml
Fountain on X — Music discovery isn’t what it used to be. Fountain Radio makes it fun again. Wave goodbye to algorithmic playlists and say hello to a new communal listening experience powered by Bitcoin and Nostr. Fountain Radio is live in version 1.1.8 now. Here's how it works 👇

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The Linux 6.12 kernel isn't just another update — it's a game-changer that deserves our full attention, from performance improvements to fascinating new features.

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Linux 6.12 Features Are Super Exciting With Real-Time, Schedext, Intel Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5 - Phoronix
Release v6.12 · torvalds/linux
LKML: Linus Torvalds: Linux 6.12
The 6.12 kernel has been released
Linux6.12 - Linux Kernel Newbies
Linux Kernel Release Model
How do kernel version numbers work? : r/linux4noobs
1. How the development process works — The Linux Kernel documentation
oracle/bpftune: bpftune uses BPF to auto-tune Linux systems
What's scheduled for schedext
Schedext at LPC 2024
schedext: scheduler architecture and interfaces (Part 2)
sched-ext/scx: schedext schedulers and tools
Raspberry Pi 5 Initial Patch
Printk Changes Submitted For Linux 6.12 Finish NBCON Console Preparations - Phoronix
Real-Time "PREEMPTRT" Support Merged For Linux 6.12 - Phoronix
Real-time programming with Linux, part 1: What is real-time? - Shuhao's Blog
realtime:documentation:howto:applications:preemptrtsetup [Wiki]
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LINUX Unplugged 563: Nix's People Problem
Btrfs Assistant — Btrfs Assistant is a GUI management tool to make managing a Btrfs filesystem easier.
kernelconfig.io — search config information for linux kernel modules

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We go back in time to revisit our favorite classic SUSE release and then fix Brent's broken box the hard way.

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Test openSUSE Tumbleweed GNOME online
Fountain 1.1.6 is now live on iOS and Android — Our latest release contains more bug fixes than ever before - plus we have improved navigation by making the bottom nav bar persistent across all pages.
Planet Nix — CFP Submission Deadline: December 9th, 2024
LINUX Unplugged 432: Three Tumbleweed Temptations
LINUX Unplugged 461: Deep in the Tumbleweeds
nix-community/nixos-images — netboot and kexec images for NixOS
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bees: Best-Effort Extent-Same, a btrfs dedupe agent — bees is a block-oriented userspace deduplication agent designed for large btrfs filesystems. It is an offline dedupe combined with an incremental data scan capability to minimize time data spends on disk from write to dedupe.
markfasheh/duperemove: Tools for deduping file systems — Duperemove is a simple tool for finding duplicated extents and submitting them for deduplication. When given a list of files it will hash their contents on an extent by extent basis and compare those hashes to each other, finding and categorizing extents that match each other.
MicroMirror CDN: Mirroring FOSS as a Managed Appliance :: SeaGL 2024
Minisforum UM790 Pro 7940HS Mini PC
Beelink open sources the design of the Beelink EX GPU dock
Beelink Multi-Functional EX Docking Station
tmate • Instant terminal sharing
NixOS Manual - Installing From Another Distro
Documentation for lustrating does not actually work as it is · Issue #49520 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub
nixos-anywhere: install nixos everywhere via ssh
ownCloud becomes part of Kiteworks
open-webui: User-friendly AI Interface
The Trouble With Tumbleweed - YouTube
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Fedora 41 is here! We break down the best new features, then branch out for a three-way spin showdown. Which flavor will come out on top?

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miracle-wm-org/miracle-wm — Miracle is a Wayland tiling window manager built on Mir
miracle-wm
miracle-wm wiki
Roadmap - miracle-wm wiki
nwg-piotr/nwg-shell — Installer & meta-package for the nwg-shell project: a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
nwg-shell - a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
fast fedora 41 mirror
What’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 41 - Siosm’s blog — With Fedora 41, we are now building two new unofficial images: Kinoite Mobile and COSMIC Atomic. They join our other unofficial images: XFCE Atomic and LXQt Atomic.
bootupd change
bootupd GitHub
containers/bootc — Boot and upgrade via container images
Introduction - bootc docs
Modifying Kernel Arguments :: Fedora Docs
Getting Started with Bootable Containers :: Fedora Docs
Booting local builds - bootc docs
fedora-ostree-desktops Registry
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asahi-audio - Fedora Packages
AsahiLinux/asahi-audio: Userspace audio for Asahi Linux — PipeWire and WirePlumber DSP profiles and configurations tod rive the speaker arrays in Apple Silicon laptops and desktops.
AAA gaming on Asahi Linux — We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL 3.0.
FEX
Wine
DXVK
vkd3d-proton
muvm
holesail
eikosiena's nixtcloud
FOSSCOMM
Emerald Coast Linux User Group
Fedora Media Writer
FedoraQt/MediaWriter — A tool to create a live USB drive with an edition of Fedora
Preparing Boot Media - Fedora Docs
GDM Settings
GDM Settings Web Site — Customize your login screen
Web Apps
eyekay/webapps source — Install websites as desktop apps, so that they appear in their own windows separate from any browsers installed. This is similar to the "Install as App" feature found in popular web browsers.

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We're hot-swapping our rigs to Fedora 41; then Graham Christensen gives us the inside scoop on a new Nix distribution, and Determinate Systems' big week!

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Reboot Linux faster using kexec
Linux.com :: Reboot like a racecar with kexec
Linux 3.14 To Support EFI Kexec Capability
ByteDance Working To Make It Faster Kexec Booting The Linux Kernel
Defeating Secure Boot With Linux Kexec
Google Engineers Get Windows Booting When Kexec'ed Under Linux
The Future is Nix — Today, we still find ourselves sitting on the most powerful technology of our lifetimes and we can’t even decide on small steps in the direction of making it easier for folks to adopt it.
The future of software is Nix. — Today, we still find ourselves sitting on the most powerful technology of our lifetimes and we can’t even decide on small steps in the direction of making it easier for folks to adopt it.
Announcing Determinate Nix
Determinate Nix documentation — With Determinate Nix, our goal is to transform Nix from what it is today—a tool with great potential but with too many hard edges to be ready for prime time
Introducing Determinate - YouTube
Nix at work: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes — Today, we’re delighted to announce a new chapter for FlakeHub with the general availability of two new features: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes.
Graham Christensen on X — Yesterday at work we launched a binary cache that goes beyond bytes in a bucket. This launch means you can deploy to brand new cloud environments with two lines of userdata:
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lobe-chat — an open-source, modern-design AI chat framework. Supports Multi AI Providers
Dnote: A Simple Command Line Notebook
plastic — NES emulator in rust with egui and TUI
cool-retro-term: A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...
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Wes got Mom a new Linux laptop, and he lets her pick the distro. Plus, we take a look at the new Ubuntu 24.10, and why we think this release might be a good sign for the future.

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Ubuntu 24.10 - Oracular Oriole
Ubuntu Unity
AMD Framework 13
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imagegenius/docker-immich — Monolithic (Single) Docker Container for Immich
rramiachraf/dumb — Private alternative front-end for Genius.
qdm12/gluetun: — VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in.
SCaLE 22X Call for Papers
SCaLE CFP Feedback Livestream
cli-ai — A simple command-line AI assistant that translates natural language into shell commands. Supports all Windows and Unix-based systems (Linux, MacOS).

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After building nodes, climbing roofs, swapping antennas, and even some war driving, it's time for our Meshtastic deep dive!

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Meshtastic — An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices
Bitcoin Vets: Establish communications via meshtastic & ham radio network
Meshtastic in the air — Avery Airfield in Spruce Pine which is running air delivery of critical supplies to HLZs in the AO is now equipping flights with Meshtastic airborne nodes which significantly increases coverage of vital communications.
Heltec V3
27100 Cell holder
MPPT Solar Charge controller for 1S cells
25 Watt Solar Panels
Project Box
Pole Mounts
Programmable GPS
Preferred 27100 Cells
2nd choice 21700 Cells
Tdeck
GPS
Battery
3D printed case files
Screw inserts for case
m2 screw kit, nice to have for these kind of projects (threaded for inserts above)
5 dbi antenna
2 dbi antenna
5.8 dbi antenna
SMA - RPSMA adapters if needed
12' SMA cable
Wiseblock RAK
Hundreds Weigh in on FCC NextNav Petition for 900 MHz Band Change — At issue is a NextNav petition filed in April to the FCC to expand the power level, bandwidth and priority of its licenses in the 902 to 907 and 918 to 928 MHz bands in the United States—a band currently in use by UHF RFID, Z-Wave, Zigbee, LoRa and numerous other wireless technologies. Additionally, NextNav proposes to use 5G connectivity over the relatively low bandwidth.
Consumer Choice Center submits FCC comments to protect radio frequency for open-source projects and amateur radio
meshbbs — This is a BBS project to run on a meshtastic node. The system allows for message handling, bulletin boards, mail systems, and a channel directory.
nostrastic — Bridge to publish Nostr posts and send/receive DMs over LoRa using Meshtastic.
Home Assistant and Meshtastic — On this page, we'll guide you through the process of creating Meshtastic MQTT sensor entities within Home Assistant. Whether you want to keep an eye on battery levels, environmental conditions, or even receive notifications from your mesh network, these integrations provide you with the tools to make it happen.
T-Watch S3
awesome-meshtastic — A curated list of amazingly awesome Meshtastic resources
MeshMap - Meshtastic Node Map
Meshtastic Routing Issues & Deployment Scenarios - YouTube
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Nix-ld: A clean solution for issues with pre-compiled executables on NixOS
nix-ld on GitHub
DIYmall 2 Sets 915MHZ ESP32 Lora V3 WiFi+BLE Development Board — WiFi LoRa 32 is a classic IoT dev-board. The newly launched V3 version retains Wi-Fi, BLE, LoRa, OLED display, and other functions
LILYGO T-Echo Meshtastic LoRa SX1262 — NRF52840 module, SX1262 wireless transceiver BME280 temperature pressure sensor, GPS RTC, NFC, LoRa

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Wes gives his shell superpowers to solve a tricky problem. Then, we share an update on our favorite Google Photos alternative, including breaking changes and a great new way to run it.

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bda in the Nix Nerds Matrix Chat with Python Woes
Install a couple of Python packages : r/NixOS
Anyone using python UV on NixOS? : r/NixOS
devenv — Fast, Declarative, Reproducible and Composable Developer Environments using Nix
devenn's direnv integration
POLL: Do you use any tools to "move between machines"?
Immich Release v1.117.0
NixOS Immich Module
Immich Nix Package
immich-machine-learning.nix
LINUX Unplugged 476: Canary in the Photo Mine
LINUX Unplugged 409: Launch Your Memories Into the Future
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Meshtastic Matrix Chatroom — Chatastic for Meshtastic.
nixy — Nixy is a Hyprland NixOS configuration with home-manager, secrets and custom theming all in one place. It's a simple way to manage your system configuration and dotfiles.
I'm not sure if Jeff can be called a Producer
Seattle GNU/Linux Conference
DistroStu's Computer Keyboards! Talk on YouTube
Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition — This guide is a beginner's guide to Nix and related tooling, focusing on the newer nix command, and flake.nix compared to older tools like nix-env and default.nix. It does not require any prior Nix knowledge, and instead builds up the Flake based world from first principles, so that it can serve as an introduction to Nix itself, as well as the concept and uses of Flakes.
NixOS & Flakes Book — Want to know NixOS & Flakes in detail? Looking for a beginner-friendly tutorial? Then you've come to the right place!
EtchDroid — An application to write OS images to USB drives, on Android, no root required. Use it to make a bootable operating system USB drive when your laptop is dead.
EtchDroid on Github

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We explain the one-packet attack on CUPS and discuss its real-world implications. Plus, a Meshtastic update and more.

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Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS — A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace existing printers’ (or install new ones) IPP urls with a malicious one, resulting in arbitrary command execution (on the computer) when a print job is started (from that computer).
Marcus Hutchins Scan finds 107,287 servers responding to the UDP port 631 — Instead of relying on Shodan data, I performed my own internet-wide scan using a distributed network of servers. This resulted in discovering drastically more exposed cups-browsed instances, causing my total count to rise from 13,289 to 107,287.
Shodan on X: 75,000 exposed CUPS daemons on the Internet
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nodeboard — Your Ultimate Digital Inventory Manager
Lightning Pay
activate-linux — The "Activate Windows" watermark ported to Linux
Install Frog on Linux | Flathub — Extract text from images, websites, videos, and QR codes by taking a picture of the source.
Clapgrep — Ever had a folder full of PDF files, where you knew, somewhere in there, is what you're looking for. But you did not know in which file. So you had to search each of them at a time...

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What if we had to abandon ship and stop using Desktop Linux? We've come up with a master plan, and put it to the test.

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Meshtastic Linux-Native Application
MeshMap — Meshtastic Node Map
LINUX Unplugged 269 — What if desktop computing went a very different direction in the late 90s? Deeply multithreaded from the start, fast, intuitive, and extremely stable. This is the world of Haiku, and we go for a visit.
The Dawn of Haiku OS — Haiku, unlike its more established competitors, is exceedingly good at tackling one of the toughest challenges of modern computing: multicore microprocessors. Let's take a look at why that is, how Haiku came to be, and whether the operating system running on your computer really performs as well as it should.
Haiku Project History
Haiku R1/beta5 Release Notes — The fifth beta for Haiku R1 over a year and a half of hard work to improve Haiku’s hardware support and its overall stability, and to make lots more software ports available for use.
docker-qemu-haiku — A Docker image for the Haiku operating system.
golang-haiku/go — The Haiku port of the Go programming language for upstream support. Changes are made in 'golang-1.11-haiku' or 'golang-haiku-master'.
Using the remote app server | Haiku Project
JB Haiku Server
Lighttpd
DHH Talks Apple, Linux, and Running Servers
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dadjoke-cli
colmena
spectorus' NixOS Config
Pick: rustpad — Efficient and minimal collaborative code editor, self-hosted, no database required
Is the Nostr moment officially here?

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The things we like in the new Nextcloud release, and we attempt to upgrade our production server live—from a big blue bus.

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OpenSats Grants Long-Term Support for WireGuard Creator Jason Donenfeld
OpenSats Lightning Node
Nextcloud Hub 9
Introducing Nextcloud Hub 9 - the world's leading open source collaboration platform! - YouTube
Day 1: Nextcloud Community Conference 2024 - YouTube
Day 2: Nextcloud Community Conference 2024 - YouTube
Nextcloud Community Conference 2024
Mailvelope — Mailvelope is a browser add-on that you can use in Chrome, Edge and Firefox to securely encrypt your emails with PGP using webmail providers
Nextcloud Server Releases
nextcloud/docker: ⛴ Docker image of Nextcloud
Bug: Unable to update background execution mode: conflict between new type (mixed) and old type (string)
VLESS
hacompanion: Daemon that sends local hardware information to Home Assistant.
LNXlink: 🖥 Effortlessly manage your Linux machine using MQTT.
Waycheck — Waycheck is a simple graphical application that connects to your Wayland compositor and displays the list of Wayland protocols that it supports, along with the list of protocols that it doesn't.
Supersonic — A lightweight cross-platform desktop client for Subsonic and Jellyfin music servers.

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Secret moments from the show you've never heard before. We kick off with some hardware hurdles, then dive into the news and share a few surprising stories.

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Rust meets Linux in a clash of coding cultures. Why some developers are resisting, and where things go from here.

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Berlin with Brent: September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Sat, Sep 14, 2024
Berlin Buds on Matrix
Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust adoption, and why the Linux kernel is 'the only thing that matters'
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit + AI_Dev China 2024
Rust for filesystems — At the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Wedson Almeida Filho and Kent Overstreet led a combined storage and filesystem session on using Rust for Linux filesystems.
Filesystem in Rust - Kent Overstreet and Wedson Almeida Filho
Asahi Lina: "I think people really don't appreciate just how incomplete Linux kernel API docs are, and how Rust solves part of the problem."
One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense" — One of the several Rust for Linux kernel maintainers has decided to step away from the project. The move is being driven at least in part due to having to deal with increased "nontechnical nonsense" raised around Rust programming language use within the Linux kernel.
[PATCH 0/1] Retiring from the Rust for Linux project - Wedson Almeida Filho
On Rust, Linux, developers, maintainers — There's been a couple of mentions of Rust4Linux in the past week or two, one from Linus on the speed of engagement and one about Wedson departing the project due to non-technical concerns. This got me thinking about project phases and developer types.
The revival of the Linux C++ discussion
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Thank you Core Contributors
BrewHouse by the Lake – Amsterdam Brewery Shop
BITCOIN WELL — The fastest and safest way to buy bitcoin in Canada
The new JB server - KTZ systems — Join Alex, Chris, and Brent as we fly to Toronto to deploy our shiny new colo server in Canada. We'll be deploying the 45homelab HL15 server.
Projectivy Launcher
Aerial Views Screensaver
OpenEBS — OpenEBS is a modern Block-Mode storage platform, a Hyper-Converged software Storage System and virtual NVMe-oF SAN (vSAN) Fabric that is natively integrates into the core of Kubernetes.
oppy1984's Satoshi Survey
Coder Radio 582
Keybase Filesystem Storage Limits
I Don't Care for Gnome
DAVx5 — DAVx⁵ DAVx⁵ – CalDAV / CardDAV / WebDAV for Android
Flock 2024 Universal Blue: Building the Future using Fedora Atomic
Pick: Shotcut - New Version 24.08
Install Shotcut on Flathub — Shotcut supports many video, audio, and image formats via FFmpeg and screen, webcam, and audio capture. It uses a time-line for non-linear video editing of multiple tracks that may be composed of various file formats. Scrubbing and transport control are assisted by OpenGL GPU-based processing and a number of video and audio filters are available.
Bonus Pick: Butler — Access your Home Assistant dashboard from a native companion UI, integrating better with your OS.
Butler on GitHub
Rust for Linux revisited
Redox OS — Redox is a Unix-like general-purpose microkernel-based operating system written in Rust, aiming to bring the innovations of Rust to a modern microkernel, a full set of programs and be a complete alternative to Linux and BSD.

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Sixty vulnerabilities and exposures disclosed in one week sounds like a lot. We'll explain why it's just business as usual.

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Check out Alex’s “Building a Colo Server” video
Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs — The cause: an update Microsoft issued as part of its monthly patch release. It was intended to close a 2-year-old vulnerability in GRUB, an open source boot loader used to start up many Linux devices.
What the f*** is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care — This update was not supposed to apply to dual-boot systems, but did anyway.
SBAT Revocations: Boot Process - Ubuntu Community Hub
“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update
Ubuntu Will Be Skipping Non-Critical Linux Kernel Updates For September - Phoronix
SRU Mailing List Annoucement
Canonical Moves To Shipping Very Latest Upstream Kernel Code For Ubuntu Releases
Kernel Version Selection for Ubuntu Releases - Kernel - Ubuntu Community Hub
Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs — The bcachefs patches have become these kinds of "lots of development during the release cycles rather than before it", to the point where I'm starting to regret merging bcachefs.
Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs fixes for 6.11-rc5 - Linus Torvalds — No one is being jerks here, Linus and I are just sitting in different places with different perspectives. He has a resonsibility as someone managing a huge project to enforce rules as he sees best, while I have a responsibility to support users with working code, and to do that to the best of my abilities.
LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later — Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.
Linux is a CNA — As was recently announced, the Linux kernel project has been accepted as a CNA as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) for vulnerabilities found in Linux.
The Linux security team issues 60 CVEs a week, but don't stress. Do this instead
What is a "good" Linux Kernel bug?
Keynote: Linux Kernel Security Demystified - Greg Kroah-Hartman - YouTube
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added pihole nix module by Tdback · Pull Request #3 · JupiterBroadcasting/nixconfigs — Recently, I wanted to start 'nixifying' some of my docker-compose setup. I've created a simple module for spinning up a podman container running pihole as a systemd service, so that way I can just stick it on any NixOS machine and easily make it my DNS server.
NetworkManager cli (nmci) wrapper to easily create a new network connection
Distrohopper Wheel
No idea where to distrohop next? Let the ultimate distrohopper decide for you!
Proxmox Virtual Environment - NixOS Wiki
Pick: SaunaFS is a distributed file system — A robust distributed POSIX file system meticulously designed to revolutionize your storage solutions by offering unmatched efficiency, security, and redundancy. At its core, SaunaFS is a distributed file system primarily written in C++, inspired by the pioneering concepts introduced by Google File System.
Google File System - Wikipedia
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We reveal how we turned our humble LAN into a public server farm, all while keeping our IP address under wraps and our ISP blissfully unaware.

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Check out Alex's "Building a Colo Server" video — Building a colo server for Jupiter Broadcasting using the 45Homelab HL15 server.
Firewall - NixOS Wiki
nftables wiki
The netfilter.org "nftables" project
Gentoo Nftables Examples
networking/nftables: add .tables property and disable ruleset flushing by default by mkg20001
Example nftables config
Olympia Mike on "verified only Flatpaks" — I'm curious your take on a recent update that happened in Linux Mint, and the possible knock on effect of it.
Incus is a next generation system container and virtual machine manager.
Incus - NixOS Wiki
Moving from Proxmox to Incus
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OneTab extension for Google Chrome and Firefox
Tubular — A fork of NewPipe that implements SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike.

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Brent's computer pulls an all-nighter at the worst possible moment, and the hits keep coming for open-source Android distributions and our new 2FA tool.

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Anker PowerConf S330 USB Speakerphone
Corsair Void RGB Elite Wireless Premium Gaming Headset
Loss of popular 2FA tool puts security-minded GrapheneOS in a paradox
GrapheneOS on X — Google can either permit GrapheneOS in the Play Integrity API in the near future
GrapheneOS on X — If Authy insists on using it, they should use the standard Android hardware attestation API to permit using GrapheneOS too. Banning 250k+ people with the most secure smartphones from using your app is anti-security, not pro-security.
GrapheneOS on X — Authy simply delegated checking device integrity to Google. It's Google choosing to block GrapheneOS users from using Authy. Google chooses to allow using a device with no security patches for the past 8 years but bans using an OS much more secure than the stock Pixel OS.
Twilio kills off Authy for desktop, forcibly logs out all users
GrapheneOS on X — Our latest release with prevention for most VPN app DNS leaks is currently available in our Alpha and Beta channels. We need more feedback from testing VPN apps and services with leak blocking toggled on, which GrapheneOS already enables by default.
GrapheneOS on X — Our current approach to DNS leak blocking appears to work well without breaking compatibility. We've made progress towards fixing a related issue for some VPN apps where rare connections are made to VPN DNS outside of the tunnel. We can hopefully ship stricter enforcement soon.
GrapheneOS on X — We've become aware of another company selling devices with GrapheneOS while spreading harmful misinformation about it to promote insecure products. We're making our usual attempt at resolving things privately. However, we need to quickly address what has been claimed regardless.
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How You Guys Expect to Beat Me?
Blue Iris Container
netbird — Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls.
netbird on GitHub
OpenZiti — Open Source Zero Trust Networking
OpenZiti on GitHub
Collapse OS — Bootstrap post-collapse technology
Docker-OSX — Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers.

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The COSMIC desktop is just around the corner. We get the inside scoop from System76 and go hands-on with an early press build.

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System76 tips Fedora Cosmic spin for 2025 release with Fedora 42 — It looks like System76's exciting new Rust-based Cosmic DE will get an official Fedora spin in the upcoming Fedora 42, potentially giving Linux users with bleeding-edge hardware an official way to try Cosmic.
Pop!_OS Mattermost — An excellent place to engage if you want to bring COSMIC to a distro near you.
iced — A cross-platform GUI library for Rust
Smithay — A smithy for rusty wayland compositor
Testing COSMIC — The easiest way to test COSMIC DE currently is by building a systemd system extension.
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Portal:Kalpa - openSUSE Wiki — openSUSE MicroOS Desktop Gnome was renamed to openSUSE Aeon, and the Plasma Desktop version is being renamed to openSUSE Kalpa.
pop-os/kernelstub: A simple EFI boot manager manager for Linux
Alpaca — GTK App to Chat with local AI models
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Think Silverblue, but with cloud-native tooling used to build it. From Aurora to Bazzite, our impressions of the ambitious Universal Blue project.

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Universal Blue — The Universal Blue project builds a diverse set of continuously delivered operating system images using Fedora Atomic Desktop's support for OCI/Docker containers.
Universal Blue Architecture Diagram
Aurora — Aurora is a clean and reliable desktop operating system for every type of user. Many batteries included.
Bluefin — Bluefin is a custom image of Fedora Silverblue offering the best of both worlds: The reliability and ease of use of a Chromebook and the power of a GNOME desktop.
Bazzite — The next generation of Linux Gaming for all of your devices - including your favorite handheld.
uCore — An OCI base image of Fedora CoreOS with batteries included; a lightweight server image including most used services or the building blocks to host them.
Bazzite Desktop Environment Tweaks - Bazzite - Docs - Universal Blue
Installing and Managing AppImages on Bazzite - Bazzite - Docs - Universal Blue
Universal Blue Contributing Guide
Jazz up your Bluefin command line with some bling!
Jorge Castro on YouTube
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zap.store — a permissionless app store.
Asking AI To Make A Caveman Rock Song - Me Like Rock
winapps — Run Windows applications (including Microsoft 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud) on GNU/Linux with KDE, GNOME or XFCE, integrated seamlessly as if they were native to the OS.
The Mooltipass Hardware Authenticator — A Simple Hardware Authenticator
ptyxis — Ptyxis is a terminal for GNOME with first-class support for containers.
Gearlever — Manage AppImages with ease 📦

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Wes' self-decrypting bcachefs disk and a GrapheneOS twist that'll make you ditch your iPhone.

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clevis — Clevis is a pluggable framework for automated decryption. It can be used to provide automated decryption of data or even automated unlocking of LUKS volumes.
bcachefs Encryption
What measured boot and trusted boot means for Linux
Automatically decrypt your disk using TPM2 — Entering the passphrase to decrypt the disk at boot can become quite tedious. On modern systems a secure hardware chip called “TPM” (Trusted Platform Module) can store a secret and automatically decrypt your disk. This is an alternative factor, not a second factor. Keep that in mind.
Use systemd-cryptenroll with FIDO U2F or TPM2 to decrypt your disk
Automatic LUKS 2 disk decryption with TPM 2 on Fedora
Safe automatic decryption of LUKS partition using TPM2 | 221b
FOSDEM 2024: Clevis/Tang - unattended boot of an encrypted NixOS system
Clevis & Tang on NixOS Slides
Decrypt LUKS volumes with a TPM on Fedora Linux
Self-Hosted 127: Can't Fix What You Don't Track
Garmin Forerunner 265 — Forerunner 265 is a running smartwatch with a touchscreen AMOLED display, training metrics, phone-free music, & up to 13 days of battery life in smartwatch
HRV Status
Garmin Sleep Tracking
Nap Detection
Garmin Pay
Tribit Stormbox Micro 2 Wireless Portable Speaker: 10W
USB-C Charging Converter for Garmin Watch Without Charger Cable
Obtainium — Obtainium allows you to install and update apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available.
Managing your personal access tokens
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Iotas — Iotas aims to provide distraction-free note taking with optional speedy sync with Nextcloud Notes.
LINUX Unplugged 567: So Long sudo
Celeste — GUI file synchronization client that can sync with any cloud provider
vt52's Blog: Migrating from NixOS channels to Flakes
FUTO Keyboard
autossh
LINUX Unplugged 570: RegreSSHion Strikes
Aeon — The Linux Desktop for people who want to "get stuff done"
Aeon: openSUSE for lazy developers
Grayjay — Follow Creators Not Platforms
Grayjay on GitLab
CrowdSec
Bustle — Bustle draws sequence diagrams of D-Bus activity. It shows signal emissions, method calls and their corresponding returns, with time stamps for each individual event and the duration of each method call. This can help you check for unwanted D-Bus traffic, and pinpoint why your D-Bus-based application is not performing as well as you like. It also provides statistics like signal frequencies and average method call times.
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pyenv-flake: experimental nix flake that can build pyenv pythons
dotenvx-flake: A nix flake for dotenvx
auto-patchelf.sh - NixOS/nixpkgs
Packaging/Binaries - NixOS Wiki
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Fix Kate sudo saves - use Plasma 6 version of Kate by MarkSort · Pull Request #3 · ChrisLAS/nix
Running OpenBSD 7.5 on your laptop is really hard (not) — I couldn't use OpenBSD exclusively; there's software that I need/want which isn't available. But I do appreciate certain of OpenBSD's qualities: it's a simple, ultra-lightweight, traditional UNIX. I have an ancient ThinkPad running OpenBSD configured as a minimalist desktop: it's nice for focused work. Sure, it can't run Steam or play Netflix, but sometimes that's a plus...
@fabean's NixOS configs
IBM Classroom LAN Administration System V 1.30 User Guide
0xchat: Secure chat built on Nostr
Get NIP-05 verified
Pick: termscp — 🖥 A feature rich terminal UI file transfer and explorer with support for SCP/SFTP/FTP/S3/SMB
Learn Nix The Fun Way — Sure, it’s sort of portable, if you tell the person running it to have curl and jq. What if you relied on a specific version of either though? Nix guarantees portability.

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We dig into the RegreSSHion bug, debate it's real threat and explore clever tools to build a tasty fried onion around your system.

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Plasma/Krunner Docs — Brent's tip: 'https://search.nixos.org/options?query={@}' (the '{@}' is the magic sauce)
autossh — Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels
autossh on GitHub
Spokane Meetup — No-Li Brewhouse, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PM
RegreSSHion — Remote Code Execution Vulnerability In OpenSSH Server
regreSSHion — Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution Vulnerability in OpenSSH server.
NixOS Security advisory: OpenSSH CVE-2024-6387 “regreSSHion” – update your servers ASAP
Nasty regreSSHion bug affects around 700K Linux systems
Qualys CVE-2024-6387 Write-up
Letmein: Authenticating port knocker - Written in Rust — Letmein is a simple port knocker with a simple and secure authentication mechanism. It can be used to harden against pre-authentication attacks on services like SSH, VPN, IMAP and many more.
fwknop: Single Packet Authorization > Port Knocking — fwknop stands for the "FireWall KNock OPerator", and implements an authorization scheme called Single Packet Authorization (SPA). This method of authorization is based around a default-drop packet filter
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pick: stu — TUI (Terminal/Text UI) application for AWS S3

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Why we think Plasma 6.1 is the desktop for people who like to mess with computers.

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Marknote - KDE Applications
Marknote 1.3 - KDE Blogs — Marknote lets you create rich text notes and easily organise them into notebooks. You can personalise your notebooks by choosing an icon and accent color for each one, making it easy to distinguish between them and keep your notes at your fingertips. Your notes are saved as Markdown files in your Documents folder, making it easy to use your notes outside of Marknote as well as inside the app.
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No-Li Brewhouse Menu
10 best beer gardens in the US where you can quench your thirst
KDE Plasma 6.1 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here's What's New
Plasma 6.1 - KDE Community — This release introduces explicit GPU synchronization support for NVIDIA users and triple buffering support on Wayland for smoother animations.
KDE Plasma 6.1.1 Desktop Environment Released with Various Bug Fixes
LUP 552 — Plasma 6 is out, and we've been giving it a go. What's new, our thoughts, and the lessons other desktops should learn.
KDE Plasma 6.1 Performing Much Better On Older Intel Integrated Graphics
Fixing KWin's performance on old hardware
plasma6-desktop package versions
plasma-desktop package versions
KRdp on GitLab — Currently, the main client that has been used for testing and is confirmed to work is the FreeRDP client.
Open KRdp Bugs
appiumtests: test adaptive panel opacity (!2324) · Merge requests · Plasma / Plasma Desktop · GitLab
Why the next GNOME Release will be one of the Best Ever
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Gathio
JB Events Gathio hosted by HybridSarcasm
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Crossover: Run Microsoft Windows software on Mac and Linux | CodeWeavers
FUTO Keyboard — Your keyboard shouldn't connect to the internet.
FUTO Keyboard · Wiki

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Online identity is a ticking time bomb. Are trustworthy, open-source solutions ready to disarm it? Or will we be stuck with lackluster, proprietary systems?

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XZ Utils Backdoor Vulnerability (CVE-2024-3094): Comprehensive Guide
The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
Who is ‘Jia Tan,’ the coder behind the XZ Utils Linux backdoor?
Reflections on Distrusting xz
The Linux kernel does not accept anonymous contributions due to legal reasons. — The Linux kernel does not accept anonymous contributions due to legal reasons.
Kernel.org Docs on contributions — It is imperative that all code contributed to the kernel be legitimately free software.
Elon Musk wants to ‘authenticate all real humans’ on Twitter.
Elon Musk claims alien identity, links human brain function to AI purpose
Elon Musk Finally Realizes That Verification Requires More Than A Credit Card, Planning To Make Users Upload Gov’t ID
Elon Musk can show the world how to really do ID
World ID
Nostr: All Your Silos Are Broken
Nostr Iceberg Meme
NIP-01
Mapping Nostr keys to DNS-based internet identifiers
Navigating the social graph — In this paper, you will find a definition of the social graph, principles for thinking about it, and practical ideas for using it for DoS prevention, social discovery, anti-impersonation, accurate ratings, and more.
Highlighter — Highlighter is like Substack & Patreon but on Nostr.
Satlantis — Satlantis is like Trip Advisor, meets Instagram and Google Places.
HiveTalk — Free Video Calls, Messaging and Screen Sharing
zap.stream — Twitch alt powered by value for value and Nostr
ostrGit — A truly censorship-resistant alternative to GitHub that has a chance of working.
Blogstack — Write decentralized blogs over relay using nostr w/ ⚡ lightning tips.
Ditto — Ditto is a Nostr community server. It has a built-in Nostr relay, a web UI, and it implements Mastodon's REST API.
UseNostr
awesome-nostr
Decentralized publishing for the web
Nostr Apps
Nosta — New to Nostr? You're in the right place. Here you can easily set up your profile, discover apps, and browse other profiles.
Amethyst
amethyst: Nostr client for Android
yana
Primal App
Dan's Nostr Relay
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SpeechNote — Speech Note let you take, read and translate notes in multiple languages. It uses Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine Translation to do so.
rhasspy/piper: — A fast, local neural text to speech system.
Starship — The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
starship on GitHub
ZSH Docs: ZDOTDIR
distrobox-assemble — distrobox-assemble takes care of creating or destroying containers in batches, based on a manifest file.
Pick: Gathio — Gathio is a simple, federated, privacy-first event hosting platform.

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Your Linux box is a-changin'. systemd has a huge new release; we'll get into the most impressive features, including the new sudo replacement. Plus, our thoughts on the new Linux Arm laptops that are just around the corner.

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Announcing systemd v256 — In the weeks leading up to this release I have posted a series of serieses of posts to Mastodon about key new features in this release.
systemd changes with v2⁸:
systemd 256 Released With run0, systemd-vpick, importctl & Other New Features
Lennart on systemd-vpick — Basically, you can now place multiple versions of the same resource in some dir of your choice, suffix that dir's name with .v/ and the you get some basic version management in place: delete or add new versions by just removing/adding new files, and the tools will find the newest item dropped in automatically.
Introduction to Portable Services — “Portable services” do not provide a fully isolated environment to the payload, like containers mostly intend to. Instead, they are more like regular system services, can be controlled with the same tools, are exposed the same way in all infrastructure, and so on. The main difference is that they use a different root directory than the rest of the system.
Trying out systemd's Portable Services — All in all, the core pieces are already in place for a very promising new technology that should make it easier for 3rd parties to provide Linux system-level software in a safe and convenient way, well done to the systemd team for a well executed concept. All it lacks is some polish around the tooling and integration.
systemd sleep — Putting a PC to sleep is complicated business and there are different mechanisms available to achieve this on Linux.
Lennart on SSH and AFVSOCK — This automatic ssh-via-AFVSOCK logic is particularly useful
DDIs and systemd-nspawn — Or in other words: there's now unprivileged systemd-npsawn containers. Yay!
Lennart on systemd-vmspawn
Lennart on sd_notify
Lennart on dlopen
Lennart on run0 — There's a new tool in systemd, called run0. Or actually, it's not a new tool, it's actually the long existing tool systemd-run, but when invoked under the run0 name (via a symlink) it behaves a lot like a sudo clone. But with one key difference: it's not in fact SUID.
doas - dedicated openbsd application subexecutor
Doas - NixOS Wiki
Doas on Wikipedia
The Tragedy of systemd — Join me on a journey through the bootstrap process, the history of init, the reasons why change can be scary, and the discovery of a part of your OS you may not even know existed.
The Two Year Journey Funded By Arm/Qualcomm For Improving ARM Linux Laptop Support — ARM Kernel developers spent the last two years working on improving ARM Linux laptop support with a focus on the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s powered by a Qualcomm SoC.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS support to the Lenovo ThinkPad x13s
Snapdragon 8cx
Ubuntu Asahi project
TUXEDO Working on Snapdragon X Elite Linux Laptop
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A Nix Flake for Bitfocus Companion
ChrisLAS' Beelink NixOS Config
Bluetooth - NixOS Wiki
nix-direnv
xscreensaver on Android
Rainier cherry - Wikipedia
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We try Omakub, a new opinionated Ubuntu desktop for power users and macOS expats.

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Nextcloud Conference 2024: call for speakers - Nextcloud
Nextcloud Conference 2024 - Nextcloud
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notch on X — Alright, that's enough spyware in my OS. Do I go desktop Mac, or do I have the energy to go full Linux? Not sure, but I'm tired of my operating system treating me like the product.
DHH on X — If I have such a fundamental misalignment with where Apple has gone, why stay? I think that was the question I finally just asked myself for the umph-teenth time, and realized I didn’t have a good answer that wasn’t just based on comfort.
For the Love of Linux — In this podcast episode, REWORK host Kimberly Rhodes talks with David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of 37signals and CTO, about his personal shift from using Apple products to exploring Linux and Windows platforms. He discusses the expanded platform integration at 37signals, which now includes all three operating systems.
DHH on X — The big YearofLinuxontheDesktop will be 2025. Snapdragon X chips will be ready. Folks will be sick of AI shoved into every crevasse of their life. Thank heaven for disagreeable nerds refusing to bend the knee to the corporate agenda!
Linux as the new developer default at 37signals — I've personally been having a blast over the last few months digging deeper and deeper into the Linux rabbit hole, and it's been a delight discovering just how good its become as developer platform.
Introducing Omakub — Omakub turns a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system by running a single command.
Xournal++
Flameshot
Pinta
Framework
Omakub list of installed apps
Omakub — An Omakase Developer Setup for Ubuntu 24.04 by DHH
Omakub on GitHub
Omakub introductory video
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devenv — Fast, Declarative, Reproducible and Composable Developer Environments using Nix
squid
GeneBean on X — My dad was so happy with his desktop after I switched him to #Pop_OS! that he had me do the same to the laptop he takes on trips. Thanks for such a stellar distro @system76
Walkthrough of Nix Install and Setup on MacOS by zmre on YouTube
Wildspaces.work — Wildpsaces.work is designed for remote workers interested in reconnecting with community and working from new and wild places.
Chris' Amazon Tablet — 10.1 Inch Android 13 Octa-core with 8(4+4) GB+128GB Tablets, 5MP+8MP Camera, Bluetooth 5.0
Fully Kiosk Browser Lockdown
Jellyfin Media Player — Desktop client using jellyfin-web with embedded MPV player. Supports Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
kthresher: Tool to remove unused kernels in Debian/Ubuntu
helipad-flake — A Nix flake to provide a helipad package and NixOS module. Intended for use with nix-bitcoin.
Kopia — Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup Software
Pick: Multiplex — Multiplex is an app to watch torrents together, providing an experience similar to Apple's SharePlay and Amazon's Prime Video Watch Party.
weron — weron provides lean, fast & secure overlay networks based on WebRTC.

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The facepalm moments that make us question our sanity—and swear off sudo for a week.

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Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare — What if you care about AI's environmental impact, privacy holes, and the ethical problems of training on data without the creators' permission? The answer might be to switch to Linux. Yes, Linux.
Kate Asks about Mistakes to Avoid — Hey boys-Microsoft has officially gone off the deep end with this AI stuff. I'm pretty sure AI Clippy is pulling the strings behind the scenes. Any tips for escaping to Linux before I get assimilated? What are the big don'ts for a newbie?
Jeremy Molina on X — sudo rm -rf ./ on the root directory 😓
Lee Ball on X — I thought I was in a backup directory when I did an rm -rf but turned out I'd forgotten the ./ and just went into /var/lib/mysql and not the backup of said directory.
ChaoticHuman on X — I think my most major beginner mistake once was something like sudochownuseraccount/ because I wanted to not have to deal with file-ownership-conflicts though I no longer remember what exactly I did. I only remember that it led to completely destroying my Linux-system.
Ken Starks on X — What are all these files with a dot before them. They aren't programs. Might as well delete them.
PDunn on X — Using fringe distos and too much distrohopping causing loss of time and not being productive. Linux can be a time sink I don't have time for. So I installed Ubuntu and moved on. I just use what works and is easy to maintain. Unplugged contributor here.
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Chris' Beelink Nix Config
Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition — This guide is a beginner's guide to Nix and related tooling, focusing on the newer nix command, and flake.nix compared to older tools like nix-env and default.nix. It does not require any prior Nix knowledge, and instead builds up the Flake based world from first principles, so that it can serve as an introduction to Nix itself, as well as the concept and uses of Flakes.
Pick: Delfin — Delfin is a native client for the Jellyfin media server. It features a fast and clean interface to stream your media in an embedded MPV-based video player.
Delfin on Flathub
Delfin repo
Delfin nix package
A fireside chat with Nextcloud founder Frank Karlitschek - Nextcloud — Part of this talk was on LUP, now you can hear the full thing.

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We're following one simple rule to build a Linux desktop so stable it could outlive us.

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Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature for Windows 11 could already be in legal hot water
Apple GPT — What We Know About Apple's Work on Generative AI
Chris' BeeLink — Beelink Ryzen 7 5700U Up to 4.3GHz 8C/16T
RV BeeLink Nix configuration.nix
Slack - NixOS Wiki
Chris' Win 7 Inspired Look
musnix — Real-time audio in NixOS
Boost Pick: nh — NH reimplements some basic nix commands. Adding functionality on top of the existing solutions, like nixos-rebuild, home-manager cli or nix itself.
Pick: gridplayer — Simple VLC-based media player that can play multiple videos at the same time. You can play as many videos as you like, the only limit is your hardware. It supports all video formats that VLC supports (which is all of them). You can save your playlist retaining information about the position, sound volume, loops, aspect ratio, etc.

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After months of debate, the Nix community might be coming to a resolution. We'll examine what happened, what's changing.

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Report on NixOS Governance Discussions - by Chris McDonough
The NixOS Foundation board announced on April 30 that Eelco Dolstra is stepping down from the board following the recent calls for his resignation.
A leadership crisis in the Nix community (LWN) — On April 21, a group of anonymous authors and non-anonymous signatories published a lengthy open letter to the Nix community and Nix founder Eelco Dolstra calling for his resignation from the project.
NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
NixOS Foundation Board: Constitutional Assembly Appointment - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
Full Email with Graham
Chris' s nginx Config
NixOS Manual: Using DNS validation with web server virtual hosts
NixOS Manual: SSL/TLS Certificates with ACME
Unplugged Core Membership
Signing up with an email address
Dell OEM Replacement Parts
Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source — Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application's source code will be open to developers worldwide.
RcloneShuttle — Upload your files to anywhere - GTK4 GUI for Rclone

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Three revelations from Red Hat Summit. Our on-the-ground report will separate fact from hype.

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Introducing image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a new deployment method that takes a container-native approach to deliver the OS as a bootc container image.
Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Overview
Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux YouTube Example
podman-desktop-extension-bootc — Support for bootable OS containers (bootc) and generating disk images.
bootc Introduction — Transactional, in-place operating system updates using OCI/Docker container images. bootc is the key component in a broader mission of bootable containers.
Show HN: Convert your Containerfile to a bootable OS
What is InstructLab? — InstructLab is an open source project for enhancing large language models (LLMs) used in generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) applications.
InstructLab — InstructLab is a model-agnostic open source AI project that facilitates contributions to Large Language Models (LLMs).
instructlab CLI — Command-line interface. Use this to chat with the model or train the model (training consumes the taxonomy data).
IBM's Granite code model family is going open source — We're releasing a series of decoder-only Granite code models for code generative tasks, trained with code written in 116 programming languages. The Granite code models family consists of models ranging in size from 3 to 34 billion parameters, in both a base model and instruction-following model variants.
ibm-granite/granite-code-models — A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence.
Getting Started with Fedora/CentOS bootc — The Fedora/CentOS bootc project generates reference base images that are designed for use with the bootc project. Its goal is to provide a host system easily configurable via container tooling, usable as a container host, but also to allow non-containerized deployments with applications bound to the host context.
CentOS/centos-bootc — Create and maintain base bootable container images from Fedora ELN and CentOS Stream packages.
LAB Paper: Large-Scale Alignment for ChatBots
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psitransfer — Simple open source self-hosted file sharing solution. It's an alternative to paid services like Dropbox, WeTransfer.
bhh32's food-journal — Command line tool and web application to keep track of my food intake.
Pick: URL to PNG — A URL to PNG generator over HTTP with a fairly simple API accessed via query params passed to the server.
Bonus Pick: Telegraph — Telegraph is a simple Morse translator, start typing your message to see the resulting Morse code and vice versa.

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We test the Linux-first, all-AMD Sirius 16 laptop, discuss the new Hyprland release, and share a few stories from our recent trip.

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Introducing GNOME 46 — GNOME 46 is code-named “Kathmandu”, in recognition of the amazing work done by the organizers of GNOME.Asia 2023.
S.O.D.A Machine (Shell On Demand Appliance) — A fusion of hardware, software, art, and hacking, all encapsulated in a project derived from recycled materials.
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Nostr Protocol Docs — Details on how the Nostr Protocol works and why.
Hyprland — Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
Hyprland Wayland Compositor Celebrates Two Years With A New Release
hyprland 0.37.1 nixpkgs PR
Hyprland Release v0.37.1 on GitHub
Hyprland Release v0.37.0 on GitHub
Installing NixOS with Hyprland! - by Josiah - Tech Prose — In this guide, we will install a minimal version of NixOS with the Wayland compositor Hyprland and Waybar.
TUXEDO Sirius 16 - Gen1 — First all-AMD Linux gaming laptop with highly efficient Ryzen 7 7840HS and fast Radeon RX 7600M XT graphics.
All AMD: TUXEDO Sirius 16 - Gen1 on YouTube
Background information on the new keyboard lighting control - TUXEDO Computers
Texas Linux Festival 2024 — April 12-13, 2024 in Austin, Texas.
Scinary Cybersecurity — Your On-Demand Cybersecurity Firm.
nixos-mailserver — A complete and Simple Nixos Mailserver.
List of all NixOS Services
jus10mar10's NixOS Config
dockur/windows — Windows in a Docker container.
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Pick: ATLauncher — A launcher for Minecraft which integrates multiple different modpacks to allow you to download and install modpacks easily and quickly.
Pick: Dissent — Unofficial GTK4 Discord client in Go, use at your own risk!

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We're on the ground live at NixCon and SCaLE. We catch up with old friends, and discover how Nix is devouring the Linux world one function at a time.

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Eelco Dolstra’s PhD Thesis — The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model
Docker and Nix (DockerCon 2023)
Flox — Create development environments with all the dependencies you need and easily share them with colleagues. Work consistently across the entire software lifecycle.
flox on GitHub — Developer environments you can take with you.
Gsettings - Monitor All System Settings Change
dconf Reference Manual
foss-north — foss-north is a free / open source conference covering both software and hardware from the technical perspective. We provide a meeting place for the Nordic foss communities and will bring together great speakers with great audiences.
An Open Letter from NixOS Users Against MIC Sponsorship — Several members of the community are uneasy with the current happenings around the North American Gathering aimed at NixOS Users and its community (also known as NixCon [sic] NA).
pjones/plasma-manager — Manage KDE Plasma with Home Manager.
Bastard Keyboards — Custom-designed split keyboards with feature-full firmware.
Bastardkb on GitHub
Pick: nix-starter-configs — Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes.

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We each bring surprise topics, a mix of hardware and software, as we prepare to hit the road for NixCon and SCaLE.

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Fountain — Podcasts powered by community
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Super Productivity — Super Productivity is an advanced todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities. It also comes with integrations for Jira, Gitlab, GitHub and Open Project.
Super Productivity on GitHub
Super Productivity Demo
fort-nix/nix-bitcoin — A collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easily installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an emphasis on security.
Podcastindex-org/helipad — This is a simple lnd poller and web front-end to see and read boosts and boostagrams.
Added settings page and webhook settings by ericpp · Helipad PR #79
noblepayne/helipad-flake — Basic nix flake for helipad.
R36S Retro Handheld — Handheld Video Game Console, Linux System, 3.5 Inch IPS Screen, 64GB
Amazon.com: Retro Handheld Game Console
ArkOS Emulators and Ports information
ArkOS Wiki
nixos-bsd/nixbsd — An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel.
Akylas/OSS-DocumentScanner — Android document scanning app.
upscayl — Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows built with Linux-First philosophy.
Pick: AnyType — The everything app for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
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Plasma 6 is out, and we've been giving it a go. What's new, our thoughts, and the lessons other desktops should learn.

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HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD — The HDMI Forum has rejected our proposal unfortunately. At this time an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation is not possible without running afoul of the HDMI Forum requirements.
NVK is now ready for prime time — Today, I'm proud to announce that NVK, the open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, is now ready for prime time.
FUSE Passthrough Support May Land For Linux 6.9 To Help Boost I/O Performance — The FUSE passthrough mode patches were recently queued up into FUSE.git's for-next branch. With the patches now in the "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.9 merge window in March, the code will hopefully be merged for this next kernel cycle barring any last minute issues.
First NixCon North America!
Southern California Linux Expo 21
Jupiter Broadcasting Calendar
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Sirius 16 all Ryzen laptop from TUXEDO Computers
KDE MegaRelease 6 — With Plasma 6, our technology stack has undergone two major upgrades: a transition to the latest version of our application framework, Qt, and a migration to the modern Linux graphics platform, Wayland.
This Week in Bitcoin — A high-signal Bitcoin news podcast focused on analysis you'll find valuable.
42keebs.eu — Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded custom keyboard shop.
NixOS Plasma 6 PR
starcoder2 — StarCoder2 models are intended for code completion.
PromtEngineer/localGPT — Chat with your documents on your local device using GPT models.
Introducing: Fountain Radio — Fountain Radio is a community station for music - powered by Bitcoin.
Pick: cpu-controller — CPU Controller for Linux is a straightforward GUI application based on PyQt6, enabling users to toggle individual CPU cores on or off in a Linux system to save battery life.
FlyGoat/RyzenAdj: Adjust power management settings for Ryzen APUs
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Corporate AI is a hot mess, but open-source alternatives can be open-ended chaos. We’ll test some of the best ways to get local AI tools under your control.

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Google halts Gemini image generation to fix White balance — Google has suspended availability of text-to-image capabilities in its recently released Gemini multimodal foundational AI model, after it failed to accurately represent White Europeans and Americans in specific historical contexts.
Stable Diffusion 3 — The Stable Diffusion 3 suite of models currently ranges from 800M to 8B parameters. This approach aims to align with our core values and democratize access, providing users with a variety of options for scalability and quality to best meet their creative needs.
Deedy on X — Stable Diffusion 3 launched today and may be the best image gen alternative to Gemini! (with examples)
AI doomsayers funded by billionaires ramp up lobbying
Google goes “open AI” with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family — Developed by Google DeepMind and other Google AI teams, Gemma pulls from techniques learned during the development of Gemini, which is the family name for Google's most capable (public-facing) commercial LLMs, including the ones that power its Gemini AI assistant. Google says the name comes from the Latin gemma, which means "precious stone."
ollama release v0.1.27 adds Gemma
gemma.cpp — Lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Google's Gemma models.
InvokeAI — InvokeAI is an implementation of Stable Diffusion, the open source text-to-image and image-to-image generator. It provides a streamlined process with various new features and options to aid the image generation process.
Nixified AI — The goal of nixified.ai is to simplify and make available a large repository of AI executable code that would otherwise be impractical to run yourself, due to package management and complexity issues.
NixOS-WSL
Texas LinuxFest 2024
TXLF Hotel Group Rate Link
LFNW2024 - Ready or not… — April 26 - 28, 2024 • Bellingham Technical College
LinuxFest Northwest 2024 Schedule Posted
LINUX Unplugged Membership
ryantm/agenix — age-encrypted secrets for NixOS and Home manager
Mic92/sops-nix — Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops
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Chris spends the week in a VR desktop, revealing the glitches, gains, and VR's open-source future.

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Simula One - Standalone (Preorder) — Contains detachable compute pack with SimulaOS pre-installed. Can be optionally tethered to host PCs for gaming and other purposes.
SimulaVR Headsets Delayed into 2024
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Immersed — Empower Work With Spatial Computing
Immersed on Meta Quest
Immersed: Linux + Mac + PC Compatibility!
Immersed Reddit Wiki
Plasma Desktop in VR - JupiterTube — Quest 3 with the Immersed app running on KDE Neon.
HDMI Dummy Plug Display Emulator
DisplayPort Headless Ghost Display Emulator
Immersed + Linux = Life by Alexandre E Souza
umlaeute/v4l2loopback — This module allows you to create "virtual video devices". Normal (v4l2) applications will read these devices as if they were ordinary video devices, but the video will not be read from e.g. a capture card but instead it is generated by another application.
Linux VR Adventures Wiki — A collection of links, useful resources and guides for the amazing world of VR on Linux.
Monado — Open Source XR Platform
OpenComposite GitLab repository
Completely stutter-free VR reprojection on Linux WITHOUT SteamVR!
nixpkgs-xr — Automated packages for XR/AR/VR tools and apps for NixOS
Monado NixoOS Module Pull Request
LFNW Schedule is LIVE
bravohotel91/ipfspodcastnode — IPFS Podcast Node for IPFSPodcasting.net
ipfspodcastnode on Docker Hub
IPFS Podcasting
The kernel becomes its own CNA — As many of you all know, I have talked a lot about CVEs in the past, and yes, I think the system overall is broken in many ways, but this change is a way for us to take more responsibility for this, and hopefully make the process better over time. - Greg Kroah-Hartman
aksiksi/compose2nix — A tool to automatically generate a NixOS config from a Docker Compose project.
arion via NixOS configuration example — Example setup running the Grocy kitchen inventory management system via linuxserver.io image and arion on NixOS.
vt52's pebkac.lol BBS
Nebula is Not the Fastest Mesh VPN — For this first public release of data, we’ve chosen to test the most popular mesh VPN options we’re aware of, so we will be comparing Nebula (in AES mode), Netmaker, Tailscale, and ZeroTier (note, this list is intentionally in alphabetical order, as additional confirmation of our commitment to fairness).
DESTEK QH3 Pressure-Free Head Strap
BOBOVR S3 Pro Super Strap Accessories, Head air conditioning and 10000

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Deploying Nextcloud the Nix way promises a paradise of reproducibility and simplicity. But is it just a painful trek through configuration hell? We built the dream Nextcloud using Nix and faced reality.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Introducing Fedora Atomic Desktops
45Drives/autotier — A passthrough FUSE filesystem that intelligently moves files between storage tiers based on frequency of use, file age, and tier fullness.
Ok, what is the “actual” way to install Nextcloud completely, fully, as in all the features, and best performance?
Help a newbie to make a choice - 🚧 Installation - Nextcloud community
Nextcloud All-in-One
NextcloudPi — NextcloudPi is a ready to use image for Virtual Machines, Raspberry Pi, Odroid HC1, Rock64 and other boards.
NextcloudPi | Nextcloud Conference 2022
Nextcloud - Official Docker Image
nextcloud/ansible-collection-nextcloud-admin: The ansible galaxy for your nextcloud administrative needs.
ReinerNippes/nextcloud: Ansible playbook to install nextcloud, php, nginx or apache, mariadb or postgres, redis-server, onlyoffice or collabora office
LINUX Unplugged 307 — What’s your NextCloud?
Top 10 Self-Hosted Apps - Perfect Media Server
Self-Hosted - Episodes Tagged with “nextcloud”
The Holy Grail Nextcloud setup made easy by NixOS
NixOS Nextcloud Module Docs
NixOS Nextcloud Service Source
Nextcloud Apps Packaged in NixOS
LUP’s nextcloud.nix
NixOS Nextcloud Module Options
Soltros’ Nextcloud-on-NixOS
TODO: ExecStartPost to copy off backups
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Eric's Nextcloud on NixOS
Eric's Collabora
Nextcloud NixOS Setup Overview
Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition
hercules-ci/arion — Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS
Arion documentation

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Some uncomfortable truths about using Linux, and then we introduce a new segment: Will it Nix?

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FOSDEM 2024
Nextcloud NixOS Module
Nextcloud NixOS Wiki Entry
The Holy Grail Nextcloud setup made easy by NixOS · Carlos Vaz — Hosting Nextcloud has become easier over time, thanks to its docker-compose example setups and to the Snap for use mostly on Ubuntu systems. However, having a faster and more optimized setup can take some effort on these platforms. Thankfully, on NixOS it’s not hard at all, as I’ll show you.
Mitch Downey on PodcastIndex Social — I've been working on Podverse for 10 years now (I didn't even know how to code when I started), and I absolutely love what we've accomplished, but I had always hoped we would have a thriving open source community by now...
New Podcast Apps
The Open Road by Dave Jones — They [Apple] chose to respect podcaster’s choices by reading the Podcasting 2.0 tag from the RSS feed also. By making this choice, they planted their flag firmly on the side of open, RSS based podcasting.
TrueFans
Podverse
Fountain
Nix Revolution : Crafting the Ultimate Dev Toolkit - Part 1
Value 4 Value Audiobooks – oppy1984.com — For a few months now both Adam and Dave have talked about value 4 value (v4v) audiobooks [...] But after the discussion in episode #146 I decided to start writing and get my ideas out there.
Libro.fm — Pick your local bookstore to support with your purchases.
Bookshop.org — Bookshop.org works to connect readers with independent booksellers all over the world.
Unplugged Core Membership

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Data-hoard with purpose and manage your audiobooks and podcasts with one application, plus the lone Linux box that remains on Mars.

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audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
audiobookshelf showcase
Self-Hosted 114: Unintended Consequences
Libation: Liberate your Library — Free and open-source app to manage your Audible books. Fully supported on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
OpenAudible Home — Download, Backup and Manage Audible Audiobook Libraries
Readarr — Book Manager and Automation (Sonarr for Ebooks)
r/audiobooks thread
New Releases | Audiobooks.com
New Audiobook Releases | Downpour.com
Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups | Nothing Much Happens
Announcing - First NixCon North America!
NixCon NA 2024 Schedule is Live! — March 14 – 15, 2024
Southern California Linux Expo 21
🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM — The Yardhouse has always been a solid go-to, so sit down and break bread with the Unplugged crew during the lunch break on Saturday!
Yard House Menu
Administrator Bill Nelson announces the end of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter - YouTube — NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has announced that the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has come to an end. The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history by achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021. Despite initial plans for up to five flights, the helicopter has exceeded expectations and executed an impressive 72 flights on the Red Planet. NASA pays tribute to its accomplishments, which have far exceeded what was thought possible and have paved the way for future flights in our solar system.
Legacy of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter - YouTube
ThanksIngenuity – NASA’s Mars Helicopter Team Says Goodbye - YouTube — The Mars Ingenuity Helicopter flew for the last time on Jan. 18, 2024, and NASA concluded its flight operations after post-flight imagery confirmed damage to at least one of the rotorcraft’s rotor blades that rendered it no longer capable of flight. As the historic mission comes to its end, Ingenuity’s team reflects on some of their favorite moments and memories from the helicopter’s time on Mars.
Clear Course is Set for openSUSE Leap — The openSUSE release team confirms there will be a successor to Leap 15 and it’s a numerical leap forward.
Zellij — A terminal workspace with batteries included
nix-flatpak — Declarative flatpak manager for NixOS inspired by declarative-flatpak and nix-darwin's homebrew module. NixOs and home-manager modules are provided for system wide or user flatpaks installation.
Smart AudioBook Player — The app is designed specially for playing audio books.
ShelfPlayer — A beautifully designed Audiobookshelf client that feels right at home on iOS 17.
hass-audiobookshelf — Adds sensors for an Audiobookshelf server to Home Assistant to show connection and active sessions
LINUX Unplugged 522: Practical Privacy
BadaBoomBooks: An audiobook organizer — Quickly organize audiobooks using a terminal and web-browser
audiobookshelf-sonos: Play your audiobooks from Audiobookshelf on your Sonos speakers — A standalone server that adds support for listening to an Audiobookshelf library on Sonos speakers. Built on top of the Sonos Music API (SMAPI).

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Trying NixOS can be fraught with complexity, half-completed guides, and boring videos. Even if you never plan to switch to NixOS, we invite you to come along for a hype-free ride that digs into one of the most rapidly developing areas of Linux.

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FOSDEM 2024 - Feb 3-4 — FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don't need to register. Just turn up and join in!
Getting started with NixOS by Mike Kelly — I previously wrote Why do people love NixOS so much? to try and explain the advantages of using Nix. So now let’s dive in and actually do an install!
Zero to Nix — Your guide to learning Nix and flakes.
distrobox — Use any linux distribution inside your terminal.
distrobox in nixpkgs
Building SnowflakeOS ISO
Icicle Installer
Jake Hamilton on Mastodon — I'm happy to announce that #SnowflakeOS and its related projects from @vlinkz is joining #SnowfallOrg!
Snowfall — Making nix better one project at a time.
Snowfall on GitHub
Snowfall Flake — Simplify Nix Flakes on the command line.
Unplugged Core Membership
Boltz.Exchange — Easily move between on-chain, Lightning, and Liquid
t2linux — Linux support for Apple devices with the T2 security chip.
Mac-on-Linux
pick: Spotube — Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron!
Pick: Cider — A new cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind.
Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition

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Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.

Special Guest: Kent Overstreet.

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bcachefs — bcachefs is an advanced new filesystem for Linux, with an emphasis on reliability and robustness and the complete set of features one would expect from a modern filesystem.
bcachefs Erasure coding — Bcachefs takes advantage of the fact that it is already a copy-on-write filesystem. If we're designing our filesystem to avoid update-in-place, why would we do update-in-place in our RAID implementation?
bcachefs Caching — bcachefs can be configured for writethrough, writeback, and writearound caching, as well as other more specialized setups.
bachefs Compression — Unlike other filesystems that typically do compression at the block level, bcachefs does compression at the extent level - variable size chunks, up to (by default) 128k.
bcachefs Encryption — bcachefs uses AEAD style encryption (ChaCha20/Poly1305), where each encrypted block is authenticated with a MAC, with a chain of trust up to root (the superblock), and every encrypted block has a unique nonce.
bcachefs Snapshots — bcachefs provides Btrfs style writeable snapshots, at subvolume granularity.
(2015) [ANNOUNCE] bcachefs - a general purpose COW filesystem — It's taken a long time to get to this point - longer than I would have guessed if you'd asked me back when we first started talking about it - but I'm pretty damn proud of where it's at now.
Kent Overstreet's Patreon
Unplugged Core Membership
Jupiter Signal PROMO 2024 — $3 off a month forever.
Webamp — Winamp 2 re-implemented for the browser.
Webamp on GitHub — Winamp 2 reimplemented for the browse.
The Official JB BBS! — vt52 hosts our new official JB BBS! telnet http://pebkac.lol

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This challenge gets ugly as we slowly realize we've just become zombie slayers.

We load Linux on three barely alive systems, and it takes a turn we didn't expect.

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Linux 6.7 Set For Release With Bcachefs File-System, Intel Meteor Lake Graphics In Good Shape - Phoronix
32-Bit Challenge Details
HP Mini 110-4100CA Netbook
Intel Atom Processor N2600 Specifications
Crunchbangplusplus — Debian Based Minimal Linux Distro
CBPP/cbpp: #!++ - GitHub
FreeBSD Handbook | Chapter 5. The X Window System
Guide to FreeBSD Desktop Distributions – FreeBSD Foundation
MidnightBSD — MidnightBSD is a BSD-derived operating system developed with desktop users in mind. It includes all the software you'd expect for your daily tasks — email, web browsing, word processing, gaming, and much more.
MidnightBSD - Linux® Binary Compatibility
GhostBSD | A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System
Intel T2300
Announcing - First NixCon North America! — Date: March 14th and 15th
Southern California Linux Expo 19
LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Call for Speakers @ Sessionize.com — We invite you to submit your proposal to speak at LFNW2024!
LMDE — LMDE is a Linux Mint project which stands for "Linux Mint Debian Edition".Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint can continue to deliver the same user experience if Ubuntu was ever to disappear. It allows us to assess how much we depend on Ubuntu and how much work would be involved in such an event. LMDE is also one of our development targets, as such it guarantees the software we develop is compatible outside of Ubuntu.
nohang: A sophisticated low memory handler for Linux — nohang is earlyoom on steroids and has many useful features
zram — Pages written to these disks are compressed and storedin memory itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression providesgood amounts of memory savings.
PSI — This helps users understand the resource pressure their workloads areunder, which allows them to rootcause and fix throughput and latencyproblems caused by overcommitting, underprovisioning, suboptimal jobplacement in a grid, as well as anticipate major disruptions like OOM.
pressure stall information
nohang-desktop.conf
nheko: Desktop client for Matrix using Qt and C++20. — The motivation behind the project is to provide a native desktop app for Matrix that feels more like a mainstream chat app (Element, Telegram etc) and less like an IRC client.
PROMO 2024 - $3 off a month forever
Is a 32 bit machine still usable in 2024? — Luckily, someone had JUST donated this perfectly working Dell Latitude D820, running Windows XP. They were in college actually trying to use this for their school work, but couldn’t even access many of the websites they needed because it was so out of date. I gave her a much newer 64 bit machine in trade.
How I Automated All the Things - Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Fritzing - Everlanders Automate the World!
PICK: Linux Terminal Tools - Terminal Trove — Terminal Trove curates and showcases all things in the terminal such as command line interface tools (CLI), text mode interface tools (TUI), developer tools and more no matter what platform or medium.
SliTaz GNU/Linux (en) — SliTaz is a secure and high performance operating system using the Linux Kernel and GNU software.
tulir/gomuks — A terminal based Matrix client written in Go.
The Mutt E-Mail Client
Links home page — Links is text WWW browser with tables and frames. It runs on Linux, Unix, OS/2 and Windows.

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We make our big Linux predictions for 2024, but first, we score how we did for 2023.

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TuxDigital — TuxDigital creates podcasts and videos to help people improve their lives through technology. Our content covers everything from computer hardware and apps to fitness tips to help people live their best life through educational and entertaining media.
First NixCon North America!
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System76 Virgo laptop PCB design open sourced ahead of release — The company began sharing hints about the upcoming System76 Virgo laptop earlier this year. Now System76 has released the PCB design files, giving us a few more clues about what to expect.
System76 Virgo Laptop Project on Github
Bcachefs Merged Into The Linux 6.7 Kernel — Less than twenty-four hours after Bcachefs was submitted for Linux 6.7, this new open-source file-system has been successfully merged for this next kernel version.
Bcachefs Lands More Fixes Ahead Of Linux 6.7 Stable Debut — Linux 6.7 stable will likely debut on New Year's Eve unless the cycle is extended by an extra week due to the holidays.
CVE-2023-39191: 8.2 HIGH — An improper input validation flaw was found in the eBPF subsystem in the Linux kernel. The issue occurs due to a lack of proper validation of dynamic pointers within user-supplied eBPF programs prior to executing them. This may allow an attacker with CAP_BPF privileges to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of the kernel.
holoiso — This project attempts to bring the Steam Deck's SteamOS Holo redistribution into a generic, installable format, and provide a close-to-official SteamOS experience.
butterfish — A shell with AI superpowers.
New MakuluLinux Release Brings AI to the Max — Max is a new distro for MakuluLinux developer Jacque Montague Raymer. It is the first AI-integrated operating system designed with Debian compatibility running on the Gnome backend framework.
Download Ubuntu Desktop
Ubuntu Flavors
Pick: BoxBuddy — BoxBuddy is a graphical user interface for Distrobox.

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It’s the fourth annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, and desktops of 2023.

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32-Bit Challenge Details — Can you live and work for a week on a 32-bit system? That's the challenge. It might seem simple, but we think you'll be surprised.
Texas LinuxFest CFP Extended — The CFP deadline for #TXLF has been extended until December 30, 2023, 05:00 UTC (December 29, 2023, 23:00 CST)!
Texas Linux Fest Matrix Chat
⚠️ Did we miss something in the 2023 Tuxies?

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The stories that kept us talking all year, and are only getting hotter!

Plus the big flops we're still sore about.

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32-Bit Challenge Details — Can you live and work for a week on a 32-bit system? That's the challenge. It might seem simple, but we think you'll be surprised. Let's find out if the world has moved on too far for 32-bit systems, or if they can still be saved from the landfill.
First NixCon North America!
Southern California Linux Expo 19
Ubuntu’s New Installer Milestone
Ubuntu 23.10 Restores ZFS File-System Support In Its Installer
Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop’s New Installer Set To Ship Without OpenZFS Install Support
HDR Beginning To Work For Linux Gaming
The State Of HDR On The Steam Deck With Valve’s Gamescope Compositor
KDE KWin Preparing Preliminary Support For Running HDR Games
End of the 4.9 Kernel Series
CVE-2023-0179: Linux kernel stack buffer overflow in nftables
Wine 8.0 is out now with major compatibility improvements
Wine 9.0-rc2 Released With 33 More Fixes - Including Wine Wayland Fixes
Stadia Shuts Down Jan 28th
Google Stadia: Leaked Documents Explain its Failure
elementary OS 7 Available Now
Xfce Going Wayland
FOSDEM 2023: Fedora Asahi
Fedora Asahi Aims To Provide The Fedora Workstation Experience For Apple Silicon Systems
SIGs/Asahi - Fedora Project Wiki
Ubuntu Gets Real
Canonical Promotes Ubuntu’s Real-Time “RT” Kernel To General Availability
Plasma 5.27
KDE Plasma 5.27 Released
Final Version of KDE Plasma 5 Released – This is What’s New
FFmpeg 6.0 Released
FFmpeg on X: “FFmpeg CLI multithreading is now merged!” / X
Flathub in 2023
Flathub in 2023 - Flathub Discourse
Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know
Docker: We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan
GNOME 44 Released
GNOME 44 Released With Many Desktop Enhancements
GNOME 44 Getting New Background Apps UI
Ubuntu Cinnamon Flavor Status Announcement
Plasma 6 Early Builds
Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions
Btrfs Improvments in 6.4
Announcing Fedora Linux 38
What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38
Red Hat Cutting “Hundreds Of Jobs”
Message to Red Hat associates today
Linux Kernel 6.3 Officially Released
The new Flathub Website
Flathub Website Gets a Brand New Look
Ubuntu 23.04 Released
Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)
Ubuntu 23.04 with GNOME 44 and a stable Steam Snap
HDR hackfest wrap-up
CVE-2023-28410: i915 graphics driver improperly restricts operations within the bounds of a memory buffer
New NetFilter flaw gives attackers root privileges
bcachefs out for review
Fedora Program Manager Laid Off
Fedora Program Manager Laid Off As Part Of Red Hat Cuts
Podman Desktop 1.0 Annouced
Introducing Azure Linux
CodeWeavers An Employee Ownership Trust
CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership Trust
XFS Metadata Corruption On Linux 6.3 Tracked Down To One Missing One-Line Patch
Linux 6.3.5 Released With XFS Metadata Corruption Fix
Plasma 6 is Wayland only - No X11 for Plasma 6
Xorg server is deprecated since RHEL 9.0
Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base
Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement
LibreOffice to be cut out of RHEL installs
Debian 12 “bookworm” released
Linux 6.4 Released
Linux 6.4 Released, focus on 6.5
Btrfs In Linux 6.5 May Bring A Cumulative Performance Improvement
Linux Kernel 6.4 Released with Interesting Mix of Changes
Bcachefs File-System Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.5
Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes
Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream
A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model
Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code
The future of AlmaLinux | Hacker News
Rocky Linux: Keeping Open Source Open
LXD Moves to Canonical
LXD has been re-licensed and is now under a CLA
Fedora Asahi Remix
Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware
Fedora Asahi Remix: bringing Fedora to Apple Silicon Macs (Flock To Fedora 2023)
Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix
The first conformant M1 GPU driver
Asahi Linux’s Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant
Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA’s Proprietary Driver
Ubuntu Desktop: Charting a course for the future
Ubuntu Desktop “Charting A Course For The Future” With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year
Leap Replacement Discussion
Linux’s Marketshare on Steam Still Higher Than Apple macOS
Hub 6: Healthy meeting culture and the first local AI Assistant
“Nextcloud Hub 6” launched🚀
Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5!
Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks
Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics Continue With Open-Source Driver & Crazy Fast Compared To RPi 4
Raspberry Pi 5 Review: A New Standard for Makers
Raspberry Pi Approved Reseller – Raspberry Pi
CPU decoding acording to Eben Upton in an interview
Intel is killing off its NUC mini PCs
Ubuntu 23.10 Released
Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations
Linux Mint Starts working on Wayland Support
Linux 6.6 Features Include The EEVDF Scheduler, Shadow Stack, Intel IVSC, AMD DBC & More
Btrfs For Linux 6.6 Brings Fixes, Partially Recovers From Scrub Performance Regression
XFS File-System Maintainer Stepping Down
XFS Begins Landing Online Repair, New Release Manager Takes Over
Element Going AGPL
Synapse goes AGPL Discussion on Hacker News
Fedora Linux 39 Released As A Wonderful Upgrade For Leading Workstations & Servers
Fedora Change: Retire Modularity
Fedora Web Installer Delayed
What’s new in Fedora Workstation 39
GNOME 45 Release Notes
Amazon Making its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android
🎉 PipeWire 1.0 🎉
PipeWire 1.0.0 (El Presidente)
Quick OwnTracks-Recorder-in-Docker dummies guide
Pick: trippy — Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the analysis of networking issues.

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We test two popular methods to run local language models on your Linux box. Then, we push the limits to see which language models will toe the line and which won't.

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Brent in Berlin Meetup — Brent is back in Berlin and we're having a LOW KEY meetup at the NixOS night at cbase.
One Time Fiat Fun for SCaLE 2024
Southern California Linux Expo 19
Purchase a SCALE Pass 63
First NixCon North America!
NixCon North America | SCALE 21x
NixCon North America Call for Proposals
Texas Linux Fest 2024
LFNW 2024: Ready or not
LFNW 2024: Call for Sessions
Jupiter Broadcasting Live Calendar
2023 Unplugged Tuxies
Ollama — Get up and running with Llama 2 and other large language models locally.
OllamaHub — Explore and Download Custom Ollama Modelfiles.
ollama library
Ollama Manual Install
Ollama Docker Image
ollama-webui
LlamaGPT
llama-gpt — A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot. Powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device. New: Code Llama support!
Continue.dev — An open-source autopilot in your IDE
Refact.ai — Refact is an open-source AI coding assistant with blazing-fast code completion, powerful code improvement tools, and chat.
32-Bit Challenge Chat room
Speech Note — Speech Note let you take, read and translate notes in multiple languages. It uses Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine Translation to do so. Text and voice processing take place entirely offline, locally on your computer, without using a network connection. Your privacy is always respected. No data is sent to the Internet.
Speech Note on GitHub
LFNW: Call for Sponsors
Framework 13 (Intel) NixOS Module
GeneBean's hyprland nix config
Razer Core X - Thunderbolt™ 3 eGPU
CompleteNoobs: Ubuntu KVM to Windows 10 - Thinkpad T470 - Razer Core X - GTX 970 -
LINUX Unplugged 308: The One About GPU Passthrough — Our crew walks you through their PCI Passthrough setups that let them run Windows, macOS, and distro-hop all from one Linux machine.
Pick: Marker — Convert PDF to markdown quickly with high accuracy

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This week, our embarrassment is your entertainment. Then, we check the age and health of all our disks with one app.

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LFNW 2024: Ready or not — Quick on the heels of our wildly successful MiniFest this Fall, LinuxFest Northwest is proud to announce a full event: LinuxFest Northwest 2024 - April 26-28 2024!
LFNW 2024: Call for Sessions
LFNW: Call for Sponsors
My $500M Mars Rover Mistake — A Failure Story by Chris Lewicki
Unplugged Tuxies 2023 — Vote in the 2023 Tuxies before it's too late!
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Scrutiny — Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T Monitoring, Historical Trends & Real World Failure Thresholds.
Soltros's configbuilder — This Nix Configuration Manager is a Go-based tool designed to facilitate the management of NixOS configurations.
Cookie AutoDelete Firefox Add-on
Self-Hosted 110: Google Photos Replacement
Brent in Berlin Meetup — Brent is back in Berlin and we're having a LOW KEY meetup at the NixOS night at cbase - join us!
chezmoi — Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.
AnalogJ on GitHub — I'm a Devops/Automation guy, focused on building tools that help you automate & manage your servers.
lexicon — Manipulate DNS records on various DNS providers in a standardized way.
Fasten Health — Fasten is an open-source, self-hosted, personal/family electronic medical record aggregator.
LUP 307: What's your Nextcloud?
GNU Stow — GNU Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct packages of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem, and makes them appear to be installed in the same place.

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PipeWire hits 1.0, and Wim Taymans joins us to reflect on the smooth success of PipeWire. Plus the details on the first NixCon North America, and more.

Special Guests: Wim Taymans and Zach Mitchell.

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How to get started with Tailscale in under 10 minutes
First NixCon North America! — We envisage NixCon North America as a complement to the core NixCon in Europe, enriching the global Nix community through more localized events. This event is not just a conference; it’s a celebration of our growth, diversity, and the shared passion for Nix.
Southern California Linux Expo 19
Purchase a SCALE Pass
One time Fiat donation for JB @ SCaLE 21x
🎉 PipeWire 1.0 🎉 — PipeWire 1.0 retains API/ABI compatibility with the long-lived PipeWire 0.3.xx series. PipeWire 1.0 delivers improved time reporting for less jitter in ALSA when using IRQ mode, various module fixes, Bluetooth LC3 codec and compatibility improvements, improved transport and time handling for JACK, optimized buffer re-use with JACK, and a variety of other improvements.
PipeWire 1.0.0 (El Presidente)
LINUX Unplugged 370 — PipeWire Progress
SpiralLinux — SpiralLinux is a selection of Linux spins built from Debian GNU/Linux, with a focus on simplicity and out-of-the-box usability across all the major desktop environments.
grub-btrfs — Include btrfs snapshots in the Grub menu.
timeshift — System restore tool for Linux.
timeshift-autosnap-apt — Timeshift auto-snapshot script for Ubuntu and Debian
Ubuntu Desktop with btrfs-luks, auto-apt snapshots with Timeshift
jordan-bravo's Nix config
ladder — Selfhosted alternative to 12ft.io. and 1ft.io bypass paywalls with a proxy ladder and remove CORS headers from any URL.
Pick: whisper 🎤 → 🎧️ — Listen to your mic - with PipeWire. This app does more or less the same thing as Helvum does, but with a simple UI.
Whisper on Flathub
Helvum on Flathub — Helvum is a graphical patchbay for PipeWire.

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Can we save an old Arch install? We'll attempt a live rescue, then get into our tips for keeping your old Linux install running great.

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Is Arch Linux suitable for server environment? — Probably the biggest issue with Arch as a server operating system is that it's not clear where and when applications may break after an upgrade. More often than not, you have to keep up with what's going on in the wiki and on the forums before doing any sort of upgrade
Unplugged Tuxies - 2023
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Texas Linux Festival 2024 — Texas Linux Fest is the first state-wide annual community-run conference for Linux and open-source software users and enthusiasts from around the Lone Star State. Much like SCALE in Los Angeles, Ohio Linux Fest in Columbus, and Linux Fest Northwest – and an ever-growing list of successful regional shows.
Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention — On February 2nd, the base-devel package group has been replaced by a meta package of the same name.
Git migration announcement
Git migration completed — We are proud to announce that the migration to Git packaging succeeded! 🥳
[Arch News] Changes to default password hashing algorithm and umask settings
Linus’s law — In software development, Linus's law is the assertion that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".
The Linux Scheduler: a Decade of Wasted Cores — In our experiments, these performance bugs caused many-fold performance degradation for synchronization-heavy scientific applications, 13% higher latency for kernel make, and a 14-23% decrease in TPC-H throughput for a widely used commercial database.
The Linux kernel scheduler has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for the past 15 years and nobody noticed – The HFT Guy
The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores | Hacker News
sched: Update normalized values on user updates via proc · torvalds/linux@acb4a84 · GitHub — This patch updates the internally used scheduler tuning values that arenormalized to one cpu in case a user sets new values via sysfs.
BackTrack Linux
Flatseal
Why you probably shouldn’t add a CLA to your open source project — Contributor license agreements (or CLAs for short) have gained a lot of visibility in recent years as some prominent open-source projects have opted to adopt them. If all the cool kids are doing it, should your open source project? Probably not. Here’s why
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The problem with GNOME's great news, plus our first look at Plasma 6. Then, the surprising place NixOS is getting adopted.

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Amazon Making its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android — Amazon’s new operating system is also based on a flavor of Linux, and is using a more web-forward application model. App developers are being told to use React Native as an application framework, which allows them to build native apps with Javascript-powered interfaces,
webOS Open Source Edition — The open-source software platform built for smart and connected devices of tomorrow.
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GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure — The GNOME Foundation is thrilled to announce the GNOME project is receiving €1M from the Sovereign Tech Fund to modernize the platform, improve tooling and accessibility, and support features that are in the public interest.
GNOME Receives €1M Investment from Sovereign Tech Fund
Sovereign Tech Fund — The Sovereign Tech Fund supports the development, improvement and maintenance of open digital infrastructure. Our goal is to sustainably strengthen the open source ecosystem. We focus on security, resilience, technological diversity, and the people behind the code.
Recession-hit Germany is facing a flurry of global headwinds: Goldman Sachs
KDE’s 6th Megarelease - Alpha — It has been nearly 10 years since the last big release of our flagship Plasma desktop environment, and the time has come again. KDE is making available today the Alpha version of all the software we will include in a megarelease scheduled for the end of February 2024.
KDE Timeline of major releases - Wikipedia
Schedules/Plasma 6 - KDE Community Wiki
Plasma 5.27.80 complete changelog
This week in KDE: Wayland by default, de-framed Breeze, HDR games, rectangle screen recording – Adventures in Linux and KDE — Yep you read that right, we’ve decided to throw the lever and go Wayland by default! The three remaining showstoppers are in the process of being fixed and we expect them to be done soon–certainly before the final release of Plasma 6.
KDE neon Plasma 6 ISOs
KDE neon Unstable downloads
KDE Plasma 6.0 Alpha Released, Plus KDE Frameworks & KDE Gear
nix-bitcoin — nix-bitcoin is a collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easily installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an emphasis on security.
Jonas Nick — Jonas Nick has been a Bitcoin developer with Blockstream since 2015. He is also a contributor to free and open source projects like Bitcoin Core, libsecp, rust-bitcoin and many others.
Jonas Nick talk on nix-bitcoin - YouTube
nevoyu's Nix Config
International Space Station Abandons Windows In Favour Of Debian — “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable – one that would give us in-house control. So if we needed to patch, adjust or adapt, we could,” explained Keith Chuvala of United Space Alliance, a NASA contractor involved in ISS operations.
Ground command to major tom, please do a push up - YouTube
KDE Activities: How To - Nicco/YouTube

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A special guest joins us, and we each give Fedora 39 a try. What’s new, what we liked, and what didn’t make the cut!

Special Guest: Drew DeVore.

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Element Going AGPL — 📣⚠️📣 Announcing a new home and license (AGPLv3) for Synapse and friends: going forwards Element’s work on Synapse, Dendrite & related server-side projects is going to be released as AGPLv3 rather than Apache.
A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends — The benefit of switching to AGPLv3 is that it obliges downstream developers to contribute back to the core project - either by releasing their modifications as open source for the benefit of the whole Matrix ecosystem, or by contacting Element for an alternative license. Future code contributors to Synapse will need to sign a contributor license agreement (CLA) based on the Apache Software Foundation’s CLA, giving Element the right to license the contribution commercially to third party proprietary forks so we can use it to help fund Matrix core development in future.
Synapse goes AGPL Discussion on Hacker News
Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL
Ask Noah Show 362 — Ubuntu Summit 2023 with Jon Seager
Future of the bitcoin-dev mailing list — Our current mailing list host, Linux Foundation, has indicated for years that they have wanted to stop hosting mailing lists, which would mean the bitcoin-dev mailing list would need to move somewhere else. We temporarily avoided that, but recently LF has informed a moderator that they will cease hosting any mailing lists later this year.
Unplugged Tuxies - 2023 — There's still time to vote in the 2023 Tuxies!
⚠️ DID WE MISS SOMETHING IN THE 2023 TUXIES?
Fedora Appreciation Week 2023 — Today is a special day, a day where we celebrate 20 years of Fedora! 🎉
Photos and Favorite Moments from the Fedora Community
Say Thank You during Fedora Appreciation Week 2023
Fedora Linux 39 Released As A Wonderful Upgrade For Leading Workstations & Servers
Fedora Change: Retire Modularity — Fedora will discontinue building modules for Fedora Linux 39 and further in the Fedora infrastructure and shipping modular content to users.
Fedora Web Installer Delayed
What’s new in Fedora Workstation 39 — Fedora Workstation 39 includes the latest version of the GNOME desktop environment, GNOME 45. This version features stylish new widgets in several core apps, a brand new Image Viewer app, a new keyboard backlight setting on supported systems, a more informative Activities button, improved performance, and many other refinements to the user experience all throughout.
Introducing Fedora Onyx: Immutable Variant with Budgie Desktop — Built with the same robust technologies as other Fedora immutable variants such as Kinoite, and Silverblue, Fedora Onyx is designed for users who value the Fedora computing platform and Budgie Desktop environment but need the added immutability and atomic capabilities that rpm-ostree provides.
11 Future-Proof Immutable Linux Distributions
Fedora Onyx — The Budgie desktop experience in an immutable fashion.
LINUX Unplugged 468 — The Read Only Scenario
Fedora Silverblue Technical Information
Fedora Change: vm.maxmapcount — The goal is to improve compatibility with Windows games through wine or steam.
GNOME 45 Release Notes — For the new version we’ve focused on refining your daily interactions, enhancing performance, and making the overall experience smoother and more efficient. From subtle design tweaks to functional upgrades, GNOME 45 is all about refining the core desktop environment you rely on.
KDE Plasma 6.0 Approved For Fedora 40 - Including Dropping The X11 Session — The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has signed off on shipping KDE Plasma 6.0 as the KDE desktop option for Fedora 40. Additionally, as part of this change, the plan is to drop the KDE X11 session to leave only the KDE Plasma Wayland session available.
iancleary's nixos-config
Determinate Systems' nix-github-actions
Example of Github Action using Nix
bcachefs merged into Linux 6.7
gitfs — gitfs is a FUSE file system that fully integrates with git.
VyOS — Democratizing how we access networks through a universal Router and Open source software.
FlakM's Nix Config
Podman Desktop 1.5
lima — Lima launches Linux virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding (similar to WSL2).
colima — Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup.
ProjectM — Cross-platform Music Visualization Library. Open-source and Milkdrop-compatible.

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We did Proxmox dirty last week, so we try to explain our thinking. But first, a few things have gone down that you should know about.

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Fedora 39 Delayed To At Least 7 November — While Fedora 39 was aiming for an ideal "early final" release on 18 October, that didn't happen, it was delayed, and then delayed again. Now the earliest Fedora 39 will possibly shift is 7 November.
Bug: F39 RC1.2 images have sometimes “RC” in their name
Bug: Failed media check immediately disappears on bare metal, shows a black screen instead
F39 Final Go/No-Go meeting
Linux Mint Starts working on Wayland Support — The work started on Wayland. As mentioned earlier this year, this was identified as one of the major challenges our project had to tackle in the mid to long term.
Cinnamon Wayland Trello
Linux Mint Starts Working On Wayland For Cinnamon, Likely Not Fully Ready Until 2026
Six Great Features With The Upcoming Linux 6.6 Kernel — While there were many last minute fixes this week, the changes don't appear to be too scary or invasive. In any event the Linux 6.6 kernel is bringing some exciting features.
Linux 6.6 Features Include The EEVDF Scheduler, Shadow Stack, Intel IVSC, AMD DBC & More
Btrfs For Linux 6.6 Brings Fixes, Partially Recovers From Scrub Performance Regression — David Sterba of SUSE sent out the Btrfs updates on Monday for the Linux 6.6 kernel merge window. There are no explicit new features this cycle but a variety of bug fixes, including work to address the Btrfs scrub performance following a rework back in Linux 6.4. The scrub performance isn't entirely restored but at least it's inching ahead in the right direction with Linux 6.6.
EXT4 Lands A Nice Performance Improvement For Appending To Delalloc Files — I conducted tests in my 32-core environment by launching 32 concurrent threads to append write to the same file. Each write operation had a length of 1024 bytes and was repeated 100000 times. Without using this patch, the test was completed in 7705 ms. However, with this patch, the test was completed in 5066 ms, resulting in a performance improvement of 34%.
XFS File-System Maintainer Stepping Down — My final act as maintainer is to write down every thing that I've been doing as maintainer for the past six years. There are too many demands placed on the maintainer, and the only way to fix this is to delegate the responsibilities. I also wrote down my impressions of the unwritten rules about how to contribute to XFS.
XFS Begins Landing Online Repair, New Release Manager Takes Over — We now have in-memory pageable memory for staging btrees, a bunch of pending fixes, and we've started the process of refactoring the scrub support code to support more of repair.
SELinux In Linux 6.6 Removes References To Its Origins At The US NSA — We've come a long way from the original NSA submission and I would consider SELinux a true community project at this point so removing the NSA branding just makes sense.
Linux 6.6 To Bring Another Rust Toolchain Upgrade — Some of the other Rust changes for this imminent merge window include supporting the rust-analyzer for out-of-tree kernel modules, the Rust availability detection script has been improved, a new "paste!" proc macro, new pinned-init APIs, and a variety of other additions to continue to make Rust programming possibilities for the Linux kernel more robust.
[SOLVED] - LXC Nvidia Passthrough | Proxmox Support Forum
Contribute to Podverse
Soltros' Nix Config
SilverBullet — SilverBullet is an extensible open-source, personal knowledge management system. Indeed, that’s fancy talk for “a note-taking app with links.” However, SilverBullet goes a bit beyond just that.
Nixpkgs supply chain security project — The focus of this project is on reducing our reliance on foreign binaries to compile Nixpkgs from scratch, ensuring we are are indeed running the code we compiled by leveraging existing security components in NixOS, and putting in place mechanisms that allow us to deliver the most up-to-date, secure software whenever it is available in a way that can be sustained given our maintainer capacities.
Pick: kmon — Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor 🐧💻
kmon in nixpkgs
LinuxFest Northwest Youtube
LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Minifest: What’s New in Nextcloud?
LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Minifest Videos
docker-wyze-bridge — WebRTC/RTSP/RTMP/LL-HLS bridge for Wyze cams in a docker container.
wzminihacks — Run whatever firmware you want on your camera and have root access to the device.
Bitcoin Beach — The project Bitcoin Beach is creating a sustainable Bitcoin Economic ecosystem on the coast of El Salvador, where the majority of people do not have access to bank accounts and the local businesses could never qualify for merchant accounts needed to accept credit cards.

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We try and pull off one too many projects, but you can't argue with the results. We report on our week of rebuilds and rescues and having a blast at LinuxFest Northwest.

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Call for Feedback: Unplugged Tuxies - 2022 - Forms — You have one week! Let's make this the best Tuxies EVER!
Texas Linux Festival 2024 Call For Papers Open Now
Stones Throw Brewery
1-Up Lounge Video Game Bar & Lounge
Brandywine Kitchen
BitMaker-hub/NerdMiner_v2: Improved version of first ESP32 NerdMiner — The main aim of this project is to let you learn more about minery and to have a beautiful piece of hardware in your desktop.
IPFS Podcasting — Decentralized Podcast Distribution over IPFS - Crowd hosting podcast episodes with storage & bandwidth provided by volunteer nodes.
AI in Nextcloud: what, why and how - Nextcloud — To fit everyone’s needs, we offer several types of integrations for AI, from completely self-hosted options to integrations with external services.
How to debloat Windows 11 from junk apps (best method) — Debloat Windows 11 and (partially) retake control of your computer with a third-party tool from GitHub.
ninite.com — No toolbars. No clicking next. Just pick your apps and go.
Beepy by SQFMI
Orchestra plays Microsoft Windows™ - the waltz
Find the Dragon
Moonlight PC v5.0.0
Vectorpea - Online Vector Editor — Vectorpea.com is a free online tool for editing vector graphics with support for AI, PDF and SVG files.

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Has Canonical finally nailed snaps? Why it looks like Ubuntu has turned a new corner; our thoughts on the latest release. Plus, a special guest and more.

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Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox’s Wayland Backend Soon — So as we near the end of 2023 or going into early 2024, it's looking like we're nearing the point of finally having native Wayland support with the upstream Firefox builds.
LinuxFest Northwest Meetups
Ubuntu 23.10 Released — This is the release where the team aims to land as many major changes as possible to ensure that the community has the chance to take them for a spin and provide feedback for further refinement ahead of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Brave New Trusted Boot World — This document looks at the boot process of general purpose Linux distributions. It covers the status quo and how we envision Linux boot to work in the future with a focus on robustness and simplicity.
Fitting Everything Together — Let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, and uniformity.
Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur): Best New Features — Key highlights of Linux Kernel 6.5 include WiFi 7 support, and MIDI 2.0 compatibility.
Ubuntu 23.10 is Available to Download, This is What’s New
Intel Arc Graphics See Faster Performance On Ubuntu 23.10 — Overall though Ubuntu 23.10 is a nice upgrade for those making use of Intel Arc Graphics and sticking to the kernel/Mesa default versions as shipped by Ubuntu. If you are more advantageous, upgrading to Linux 6.6 and Mesa 23.3-devel can mean some very nice performance wins across various OpenGL and Vulkan workloads.
Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations — We have identified hate speech from a malicious contributor in some of our translations submitted as part of a third party tool outside of the Ubuntu Archive. The Ubuntu 23.10 image has been taken down and a new version will be available once the correct translations have been restored.
Why You Can’t Currently Download Ubuntu 23.10
Bug: chrome-gnome-shell extension fails to detect native host connector
Tiling Assistant GNOME Extension — An extension which adds a Windows-like snap assist to GNOME. It also expands GNOME's 2 column tiling layout.
Wyse Terminal Picture
WiFi232 — An Internet Hayes Modem for your Retro Computer
Pick: tags — A simple text tagger.
Tags on Flathub — Create tags with color schemes and give color to your logs or text files

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We ran Windows for the week with three seemingly simple objectives. How we did, our take on what's gotten a lot better about Windows, and what still needs some work.

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Support for XPS 13 9343
Microsoft launches new web app store for Windows — Microsoft has rebuilt its web version of the Microsoft Store from the ground up with a new UI and easier ways to find apps.
Use the winget tool to install and manage applications — The winget command line tool enables users to discover, install, upgrade, remove and configure applications on Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers.
winget-cli — WinGet is the Windows Package Manager.
Chocolatey Community — The Largest Repository of Windows Packages
Install Windows the Arch Linux Way
Install Docker Desktop on Windows
Terminals Wiki
Remote Serial Console HOWTO
My first look at the Beelink SER6 7735HS | 412Linux
Sysinternals — Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows and Linux systems and applications.
Rumor: Windows 12 could become a subscription based operating system
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Why the Raspberry Pi 5 doesn't meet our expectations, and the x86 boxes you should consider instead.

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ESP32 board equipped with Ethernet and MicroSD card slot
Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! — Today, we’re delighted to announce the launch of Raspberry Pi 5, coming at the end of October. Priced at $60 for the 4GB variant, and $80 for its 8GB sibling.
Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks — Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O.
Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics Continue With Open-Source Driver & Crazy Fast Compared To RPi 4
Raspberry Pi 5 Review: A New Standard for Makers — The Raspberry Pi 5 is significantly faster than its predecessor while costing almost the same price. Its only drawback, which is likely temporary, is that some older HATs and add-ons may not have have software support right away.
Raspberry Pi Approved Reseller – Raspberry Pi
CPU decoding acording to Eben Upton in an interview
Intel is killing off its NUC mini PCs
HP ProDesk 600 G1 Desktop Mini PC
HP ProDesk 600 G1 DM - Geekbench
HP ProDesk 600 G1 Desktop Mini PC for sale | eBay
Beelink U59 Mini PC 11th Gen 4-Cores N5105
Beelink SER5 MAX with 8-Core AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, 32GB DDR4, 500GB NVMe
Beelink Gaming Mini PC SER7 AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS pre-in W11 Pro,32GB DDR5,1TB SSD
Beelink SER7 7840HS Mini-PC Review | TechPowerUp
ODROID-H3 / H3+ — ameriDroid
LinuxFest Northwest | Meetup
Adopting Bitcoin OSS Track
RealDudePerson/beakon — Beakon is designed to be a self-host location sharing webserver. Beakon aims to leak as little data as possible and uses mostly self-contained libraries and local database files.
Meet the DEC VT Family
RetroDECK — RetroDECK is a polished and beginner-friendly environment for playing your retro games on Steam Deck, available with just one click from the Discover app.
Pick: Waycheck — Waycheck is a simple graphical application that connects to your Wayland compositor and displays the list of Wayland protocols that it supports, along with the list of protocols that it doesn't.
Pick: Wayland or X11 GNOME Shell Extension
How To Identify XWayland Applications on Wayland | DeviceTests

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Even if you don't game, the data is in, and the impact of the Steam Deck on Linux is massive. We'll go into details and then share our long-term review of the Deck.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Listener Jeff.

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Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’
How SteamOS is Contributing to the Linux Ecosystem - OSS EU 2023
Open Source Summit Europe 2023: How SteamOS is Contributing to the Linux Ecosystem
Igalia — Open Source Consultancy and Development
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community — Alberto Garcia of the open-source consulting firm Igalia, which continues to collaborate with Valve on some of these Linux ecosystem improvements, talked at length around how SteamOS is contributing to the Linux ecosystem.
Docking Station for Valve Steam Deck Dock
The Steam Deck wasn’t born ready, but it’s ready now
Awesome Deck List
Steam Deck
Steam Store
Valve Corporation
Alby 🐝 on X — Humble reminder: In August, Alby accounts have processed over 1 million transactions! 😊😊😊 And it’s all thanks to… you! 💙 Our users, partners, wallet holders, contributors!
Walkthrough of Nix Install and Setup on MacOS
GeneBean's dot files
RetroDECK — RetroDECK is an emulation and retro gaming solution to catalog and play your game collection directly from Linux in one unified application.

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Today's theme is data sovereignty, and we'll check in with two crucial projects that are giving you more options.

Special Guest: Noah Chelliah.

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Ask Noah Show 354 — Google makes the news this week in one of the largest cases in history over meaningful competition. Do we need the regulation to stop Google? Ubuntu will start allowing you to use a TPM chip for encryption, plus your livestreaming, ZFS, and VPN questions are answered!
LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Postponed
LinuxFest Northwest Meetups
Hub 6: Healthy meeting culture and the first local AI Assistant
“Nextcloud Hub 6” launched🚀 — Nextcloud Hub 6 has evolved into a robust collaboration platform that empowers organizations and individuals to work seamlessly while ensuring data privacy.
Element X — Element X isn’t just the fastest Matrix client ever - it’s up to 6000x faster than any other Matrix client.
Element X preview is now on Android too!
sliding-sync Proxy — An implementation of MSC3575.
MSC3575: Sliding Sync (aka Sync v3) — This MSC outlines a replacement for the CS API endpoint /sync.
Matrix Community Summit 2023 — Join us from Thu, 21st to Sat, 24th September 2023!
Beeper — All your chats in one app. Yes, really.
Atari VCS Base — Featuring AMD Raven Ridge 2 APU and AMD Ryzen processor GPU with 8GB DDR4 RAM (upgradable), and 32GB eMMC fixed internal storage.
BeardedTek/linode-dyndns — Linode Dynamic DNS Updater
Pick: yazi — ⚡️ Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.

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Brent's new Framework laptop has been torn apart and put back together again. We'll find out if it's up to his standards. Plus, we're kicking off a new build.

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CCCamp23 — Chaos Communication Camp 2023
Framework — The time has come for consumer electronics products that are designed to last: products that give you back the power to upgrade, customize, and repair them. We’re excited for the opportunity to fix the consumer electronics industry together.
Framework 13 — Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition (13th Gen Intel® Core™)
Nextcloud Conference 2023
LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Fundraising Merch is Live — Your fest is back! Support its return with a shirt and/or donation.
I use NixOS for the same reason. Cleanliness is empowering.
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The Blog Index — TheGoldenDragon and I have hashed out some basic ideas about what Boost 4 Blogs should be and in a moment of glory I decided to mimic The Podcast Index by registering blogindex.org!
Linus Torvalds Comments On Bcachefs Prospects For Linux 6.6 — That very much means NOT continuing this "I'll just do it my way". You need to show that you can work with others, that you can work within the framework of upstream, and that not every single thread you get into becomes an argument.
Box64 — Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64 Linux devices.
Podcasting 2.0 Top 100 (Music) — This chart is a ranking of the music tracks played on podcasts that have been boosted the most over the last 7 days. It is recalculated hourly. Thank you to Nathan Gathright for the page design. ❤
Neo-Store — An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.
Obtainium — Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source.

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While chaos is brewing in SUSE and Red Hat land, Canonical stays the course and doubles down on the Linux desktop. Plus, our thoughts on the kernel team GPL-blocking NVIDIA.

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AMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5 Million Lines, Entire Linux Kernel At 34.8 Million
Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules — It changes the behavior of symbolget(), causing it to fail when asked to look up a symbol that is not marked GPL-only. This is an inversion of the usual test, which denies access to symbols that are marked GPL-only. The reasoning is that symbolget() has always been intended for low-level cooperation deep within the kernel, where everything is expected to be GPL-only anyway.
Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA’s Proprietary Driver — Back in 2020 when the original defense was added, NVIDIA recommended avoiding the Linux 5.9 for the time being. They ended up having a supported driver several weeks later. It will be interesting to see this time how long Linux 6.6+ thwarts their kernel driver.
[Hacker News] Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules
PATCH: modules: only allow symbolget of EXPORTSYMBOLGPL modules — Given that symbolget was only ever inteded for tightly cooperating modules using very internal symbols it is logical to restrict it to being used on EXPORYSYMBOLGPL and prevent nvidia from costly DMCA circumvention of access controls law suites.
Ubuntu Desktop: Charting a course for the future — Recently, we embarked on an internal exercise to consolidate and bring structure to our values and goals for how we plan to evolve the desktop experience over the next few years. This post is designed to share the output of those discussions and give insight into the direction we’re going.
Ubuntu Desktop “Charting A Course For The Future” With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year
Leap Replacement Discussion — I've been looking at the results from the recent contributor survey to gauge the interest and feasibility of replacing openSUSE Leap with a new community-built offering.
Linux’s Marketshare on Steam Still Higher Than Apple macOS
Wavlake — We envision a new, online world where creators and listeners can freely transact with one another in an open ecosystem.
Music Side Project Studio
The Boostagram Ball
The Fairly Fun Show
DJ V4V Podcast | All music - no Talk
Before The Sch3m3s 8.21.2023 - Behind the SchƎmƎs
V4V SHOW — How To Access V4V Music
Office Hours 34 — Podcast Bounty Hunters
Free Secure Phone Calls. Private Network Coms Access

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We daily drive Asahi Linux on a MacBook, chat about how the team beat Apple to a major GPU milestone, and an easy way to self-host open-source ChatGPT alternatives. Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

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Can we build an indestructible server that stands up to the test of giving out root login to the Internet?

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We're trying out Rhino Linux—a unique take on rolling Ubuntu with AUR-like powers and other surprises.

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Why Linux reigns for privacy; our recommendations for secure tools from chat to DNS.

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Two important news stories, plus our thoughts on GNOME’s new windowing proposal and the Framework 16.

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Do they build them better in Germany? We try out the next-generation InfinityBook Pro 14 and dig into TUXEDO OS.

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Have Oracle and SUSE lost their minds? Plus, we dig into Fedora's proposal to add telemetry collection to Workstation.

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Can Ubuntu make a great immutable desktop? We're trying the brand-new "Everything is a Snap" Ubuntu Core Desktop.

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Just about every take on the Red Hat news seems to have missed the mark. Special Guest: Carl George.

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Chris tears into two old PCs, and builds a surprisingly powerful multi-monitor Wayland workstation.

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Is Ham Radio a natural hobby for Linux users? An old friend joins us to explain where the two overlap. Special Guest: Noah Chelliah.

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We get the inside scoop on SouthEast LinuxFest, and share a few stories from the early days of the Linux community. Special Guest: Noah Chelliah.

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We attempt to swap Linux distributions live on our production server, to prove that new tooling makes the Linux distro model obsolete.

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Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice [LWN.net] — Red Hat's Matthias Clasen has let it be known that LibreOffice will be dropped from a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux release, and the future of its support in Fedora is unclear as well.
The distribution model is changing
The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support — Estimated Monthly Costs - ~$9000 / month for hosting cache.nixos.org
NixOS 23.05 released
Introducing NixOS Anywhere
Nixos-anywhere: install nixos everywhere via ssh — You can then initiate an unattended installation with a single CLI command. Since nixos-anywhere can access the new machine using SSH, it's ideal for remote installations.
Quickstart - nixos-anywhere
Disko Examples
NetBird — NetBird is an open-source VPN management platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home.
netbird GitHub repo — Connect your devices into a single secure private WireGuard®-based mesh network with SSO/MFA and simple access controls.
Nix-portable — Nix - Static, Permissionless, Installation-free, Pre-configured
Nix-bundle — Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere!
nix-user-chroot: Install & Run nix without root permissions
Nix Release 2.10 (2022-07-11)
Nix Portable: Nix - Static, Permissionless, Install-free, Pre-configured - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
Send a Boost with Alby — Top off Alby, and then boost from the Web.
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
KTailctl — A GUI for the Tailscale mesh network.
SABnzbd

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We take a "Rust-only tools" challenge for a week and admit what worked, and what sucked. Plus, a surprise guest.

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Why I left Rust
LinuxFest Northwest 2023
LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Call for Speakers
GrapheneOS on Twitter — GrapheneOS will be undergoing restructuring of the organization and development team. Daniel Micay has stepped down as lead developer and will be stepping down as a non-profit director. Features and security patches will continue to be delivered to users as rapidly as before.
Daniel Micay on Twitter — It appears the wording above was unclear. I'm stepping down as a GrapheneOS Foundation director and as lead developer. I won't have any leadership role in the GrapheneOS project. It will take time/work to transfer my responsibilities to others, especially non-development roles.
Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora
Adopting Bitcoin 2023
LUP on in the top 10 charts TWICE.
Bitcoin Dad Pod
Polaris — Polaris is a music streaming application, designed to let you enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device.
Polaris Demo
docker-polaris: Small docker of Polaris based on Alpine Linux
Polaris on Google Play
Polaris Android on F-Droid
Polarios on App Store
Lapce — Lapce is written in pure Rust with a UI in Druid (which is also written in Rust). It is designed with Rope Science from the Xi-Editor which makes for lightning-fast computation, and leverages OpenGL for rendering.
Lapce on Flathub
Lapce packaged in Nix
Lapce Plugins
flosse/text-editors-written-in-rust
xi-editor: A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
awesome-alternatives-in-rust: A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust
awesome-rust: A curated list of Rust code and resources.
BitFocus Companion — Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck to be a professional shotbox surface for a huge amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Alby
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
Pick: Please Run That — A Python socket app for letting a friend execute a command on your system without using a ssh server all, with a simple GUI It has active development and works OOTB.
Pick: turtle — Turtle is a gtk4 + libadwaita frontend for pygit2 with nautilus plugin support. The project is currently in a very early development stage.

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How we found peace with the Linux community’s perpetual debates; and our tricks for finding the signal from the noise.

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Spotify App Stops Working for Linux Users
GrapheneOS version 2023051600 Released — Add initial Contact Scopes feature as an alternative to granting the Contacts permission... Add production ready Pixel 7a support.
GrapheneOS Discussion Forum: Version 2023051600 Released
GrapheneOS on Twitter — Our new Contact Scopes feature is now available in the Alpha channel. It provides a way to avoid granting the Contacts permission for apps requiring it. It's similar to our Storage Scopes feature replacing needing any of the media/storage permissions.
GrapheneOS on Twitter — GmsCompatConfig (sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer configuration) version 53 released.
Asahi Linux To Users: Please Stop Using X.Org — Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin issued a lengthy post encouraging users of this Apple Silicon focused Linux distribution to stop using X.Org as Wayland is the future.
RHEL 9: Deprecated functionality — The X.org display server is deprecated, and will be removed in a future major RHEL release. The default desktop session is now the Wayland session in most cases.
r/linux: The whole X11 vs. Wayland thing… — Whilst I get Wayland is the future I have a bunch of issues with it. Off the top of my head…
Rustdesk ‘wontfix’ a naive privilege escalation on Linux
The LUP Odroid H3+ Chassis — I recently got an Odroid H3+ and desperately needed a chassis for it so I decided to make one. Since I am a long-time listener and a big fan of the Linux Unplugged podcast I wanted to pay tribute to it.
Live APRS Map
Podcast Guru — The simple & free podcast player for Android & iOS
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Alby
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
yt-fts: Youtube Full Text Search — Search all of a YouTube channel's subtitles from the command line

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The push for free software takes years, maybe even generations. Brent gets the inside story from the Free Software Foundation Europe.

Special Guest: Matthias Kirschner.

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SteamDeckHQ on Twitter — What is your opinion on the ROG ALLY? Is it something you’ll be getting after seeing the stream and reading the reviews? We are on the fence here. Love the idea of extra power, but the worse battery life, using windows, glitches, and lack of touchpads does hamper our excitement.
ROG Ally (2023) — The ROG Ally is a true Windows 11 gaming machine, and comes bundled with 3 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for free.
FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe — Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology.
Matthias Kirschner - FSFE
EU Parliament wants to protect Free Software in AI regulation — Today the European Parliament's responsible committees voted by a large majority to protect Free Software in the AI regulation.
FSFE and the antitrust case against Microsoft
Public Money? Public Code! - FSFE — Why is software created using taxpayers' money not released as Free Software? We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence.
Activities - FSFE — As a non-profit, non-governmental organisation, Free Software Foundation Europe works to create general understanding and support for Free Software and Open Standards.
Contribute - FSFE — We are a diverse community of people from all over Europe and beyond, who are committed to Free Software. If you feel likewise, join us in our work for freedom.
Ada & Zangemann — This illustrated book tells the story of the famous inventor Zangemann and the girl Ada, a curious tinkerer. Ada begins to experiment with hardware and software, and in the process realises how crucial it is for her and others to control technology.
Fountain on Twitter — BALLER BOOSTS ARE BACK We have partnered with @bitrefill to give away a $50 Bitrefill Balance Card to two super-fans on Fountain every week. All you have to do is BOOST
GardenBot — GardenBot is an open source garden monitoring system. This site is a collection of tutorials for how to build things (like a soil moisture sensor), software for running GardenBot, resources, links, and more.
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
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LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
ubuntu-debullshit — TL;DR, you will end up with a clean GNOME desktop with flatpaks, similar to a fresh Fedora install.

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The first new desktop environment in a while that has caught our attention, and it promises to unlock the full power of cutting-edge Linux.

Why we think every desktop will copy ideas from Hyprland soon.

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Hyprland Hall of Fame
Hyprland Master Tutorial — If you are coming to Hyprland for the first time, this is the main tutorial to read.
Hyprland - ArchWiki — Hyprland bundles its own version of wlroots, which closely follows the wlroots-gitAUR. This improves stability, while also avoiding dependency conflicts with other wlroots-based compositors.
Nix | Hyprland Wiki — Hyprland on Nix can be installed either from Nixpkgs (release version) or from the flake (directly from the main branch).
Hyprland on Nix Os | Hyprland Wiki — The NixOS module enables critical components needed to run Hyprland properly, such as: polkit, xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland, graphics drivers, fonts, dconf, xwayland, and adding a proper Desktop Entry to your Display Manager.
awesome-hyprland — Usefull tools and libraries that either work or are designed for Hyprland!
Outdoor Home Assistant — Why Chris needs ANOTHER Home Assistant instance and a major breakthrough for self-hosters.
The Sprinkler Geeks, LLC — Irrigation service, repair, and maintenance. Servicing Thurston, Lewis, & Gray's Harbor Counties.
Brocade ICX 6610-24P Switch
Boost Vs Patreon — I have one friend who loves podcasts, but he still doesn't get how it offers anything new compared to Patreon. Could you guys please give a short rundown of how boosts are different and how they have helped LUG?
Evernote on Linux — Evernote for Linux is currently in private beta.
xwmx/nb — nb is a command line and local web note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application
Ecowitt weather station
Tidal-Media-Downloader — Tidal-Media-Downloader is an application that lets you download videos and tracks from Tidal.
When Stars and Salt Collide” by The Piano Guys.
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Alby
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
Vod2pod-rss — Vod2Pod-RSS converts a YouTube or Twitch channel into a podcast with ease. It creates a podcast RSS that can be listened to directly inside any podcast client.

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Two listeners race to set up a web server on Suicide Linux. One slip-up and it's all gone. Who will survive?

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The Sprinkler Geeks
Suicide Linux — It's a game. Like walking a tightrope. You have to see how long you can continue to use the operating system before losing all your data.
Suicide-linux — now available on Docker!
Suicide Linux bashrc
JupiterBroadcasting.com, hugo-based and community-driven!
Hugo — The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
The Determinate Nix Installer. — nix-installer is an opinionated alternative to the official Nix install scripts.
NixOS Package Search: Hugo
Hugo in nixpkgs
Mike Kelly on Twitter — Dammit @ChrisLAS, @wespayne, and @brentgervais, I could have won yesterday's challenge, had I only embraced Nix-Shell. Better late than never?
Notes for Dom C’s setup using Podgrab and AudiobookShelf
podgrab — A self-hosted podcast manager/downloader/archiver tool to download podcast episodes as soon as they become live with an integrated player.
audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
nala — a wrapper for the apt package manager.
pacstall — An AUR-inspired package manager for Ubuntu
Dendron — The personal knowledge management (PKM) tool that grows as you do!
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Why Fedora 38 might Sway you to try it; and how it runs on the MacBook M1 Max.

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Redesigned Flathub Site Launches For Flatpak Apps — A redesigned version of the Flathub website has launched for this weekend's Linux App Summit. Flathub remains the centralized website for exploring and finding new Flatpak sandboxed Linux apps.
Flathub — Welcome to Flathub, the home of hundreds of apps which can be easily installed on any Linux distribution. Browse the apps online, from your app center or the command line.
Olympia Linux Spring Meetup
Announcing Fedora Linux 38 — Fedora Linux 38 introduces several new Spins — variants that showcase different desktop environments.
Fedora 38 Released With GNOME 44 Desktop, GCC 13, Many New Features — Fedora 38 brings many changes including the GCC 13 system compiler and other updated toolchain components like GNU Make 4.4, Glibc 2.37, Binutils 2.39, Golang 1.20, Ruby 3.2, and more.
What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38
How to rebase to Fedora Linux 38 on Silverblue
Fedora Linux 38 Spins
Fedora Workstation Download
asahi-fedora-builder — Builds a minimal Fedora image to run on Apple M1/M2 systems
music-player — An extensible music server written in Rust 🚀🎵✨
Tools on Tech
The Split Kit
Podverse
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Reaper on Flathub

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We surprise each other with three secret topics, with one big catch.

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Fleek — Install and manage all the tools you need to be productive. Use a simple command line tool or edit one YAML file and you're off to the races.
ublue-os/fleek: Own your $HOME
Fleek First Steps — You have two choices with Fleek. You can use Fleek with a simple CLI tool and YAML file to manage your installed packages, aliases and path, or you can use Fleek as a one-time generator to create a lightly-opinionated Nix Home Manager flake for you.
nix-community/home-manager — Manage a user environment using Nix.
Home Manager - NixOS Wiki
DeterminateSystems/nix-installer — nix-installer is an opinionated alternative to the official Nix install scripts.
Sharing Fleek Configurations — You can use Fleek to share your configurations across multiple computers. This is useful if you use multiple computers and want to keep your configurations in sync.
Containers and Kubernetes Explained | Linode, now Akamai
Olympia Linux Spring Meetup — Let's have a local PNW get-together. Saturday, April 29, 2023.
Boston Harbor Marina
LinuxFest Northwest 2023: Call for Speakers
Start your NOSTR-Market with LNbits
Nostr, a Basic tour
Awesome-nostr
Nostr Apps
Bitwarden on Twitter — Is your Bitwarden vault jam-packed with entries? Here are a few tips for organizing your vault to better suit your everyday needs.
linuxserver.io — Building and maintaining community images
Raspberry Pi SD card image for NixOS on BTRFS root
Pick: difftastic — A structural diff that understands syntax.
difftastic is packaged in Nix
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We try out the most secure messaging app in the world, and Wes’ new note system that's so great you’ll want to abandon your current one.

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Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups — Two April Meetups: Raleigh - April 8th and Olympia - April 29th.
LinuxFest Northwest on Twitter — Call for Speakers is open from March 5th through June 4th, so if you are interested in being a speaker please submit a proposal now!
LinuxFest Northwest 2023: Call for Speakers
Logseq — A privacy-first, open-source knowledge base. Logseq is the open toolbox for workflows that deal with lots of information.
logseq-publish — Publish your Logseq graph with a GitHub Action.
logseq-schrodinger — A plugin to export pages in Logseq to Hugo.
logseq-searchable — A quick utility to conduct OCR parsing on images and insert the result as a property.
SimpleX Chat — The first messenger without user IDs.
SimpleX on Google Play
SimpleX APK
SimpleX on iOS
SimpleX TestFlight preview for iOS
SimpleX CLI
SimpleXMQ — A reference implementation of the SimpleX Messaging Protocol for simplex queues over public networks.
LFNW Matrix Chat
gping — Ping, but with a graph.
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Pick: Codex.docs — Free Docs app powered by Editor.js ecosystem
Editor.js — Free block-style editor with a universal JSON output

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Why using the iPhone makes it harder to run Linux; Chris follows up on his four-month-long challenge to ditch iOS for GrapheneOS.

Plus, Brent's extended stay in Berlin has led to some developments you won't want to miss.

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c-base interface — welcome onboard c-base
matelight: — Show text and gifs on mate crates.
Raleigh-Durham Pizza Party! — Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 3pm EST
Olympia Linux Spring Meetup — Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 1:00 PM PDT
Podverse Call for Help
LINUX Unplugged 486: Goodbye, Google
Immich — Self-hosted photos and videos backup solution from your mobile phone
KDE Connect — Enabling communication between all your devices. Made for people like you.
iodé — The Eco Friendly Smartphone Protecting Your Privacy
Berlin Buds Matrix Room
LibreSign — Libre digital signature app for Nextcloud.
Develop for Nextcloud — Have you always wanted to learn how to develop apps for your Nextcloud? These tutorials should flatten your learning curve.
Berlin with Brent | LINUX Unplugged 503
Nextcloud Cookbook on iOS
nextcloud/cookbook — A library for all your recipes. It uses JSON files following the schema.org recipe format.
Nextcloud AIO — Nextcloud AIO stands for Nextcloud All In One and provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance.
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Brent dives deep into Nextcloud's new release from inside their offices, and takes an unexpected dip in the local lake with a listener.

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DoomLinux — A bash script to build a minimal linux operating system just to play Doom.
Hub 4 pioneers ethical AI integration for a more productive and collaborative future — Today, we are excited to announce a major step forward with Hub 4 – the very first on-premises collaboration platform to integrate intelligent features across its applications.
Linux Action News 285 — Nextcloud moves to the front of the pack with their new release, a moment to appreciate curl, and Amazon goes all in with Fedora.
Develop for Nextcloud
Brunch with Brent
Jupiter Extras
Litestream: Streaming SQLite Replication — Stop building slow, complex, fragile software systems. Safely run your application on a single server.
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Linux Has Become Complicated and Limiting (Gnome, Wayland, etc.)

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The story of an open-source hero who became a villain.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Berlin Meet Up — Join Brent for an impromptu, short-notice, Nextcloud-esque meetup in Berlin!
Berlin Buds on Matrix
Docker is deleting Open Source organisations — Yesterday, Docker sent an email to any Docker Hub user who had created an "organisation", telling them their account will be deleted including all images, if they do not upgrade to a paid team plan. The email contained a link to a tersely written PDF (since, silently edited) which was missing many important details which caused significant anxiety and additional work for open source maintainers.
Coder Radio 66: Docker All The Things
We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams — We apologize for how we communicated and executed sunsetting Docker “Free Team” subscriptions, which alarmed the open source community.
Deploy a Docker registry server
Introducing lscr.io — We are partnering with Scarf to create our own pseudo-registry, lscr.io. This isn't a true docker registry, we're not hosting the images ourselves, it's more of a load-balancer/stats platform/vanity URL.
Dodge the next Dockerpocalypse: how to own your own Docker Registry address — What if you could use your own fixed registry URL, on your own domain & entirely under your control, but without having to self-host forever, or even commit to any particular registry, or handle all the bandwidth & storage costs?
Reddit Discussion: DockerHub replacement stratagy and options on ipfs
Podman — Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System.
nerdctl — Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...
whats-up-docker at noted — What's up Docker ( aka WUD ) gets you notified when a new version of your Docker Container is available.
LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — October 20-22, 2023 at Bellingham Technical College
Office Hours 9 — We Hate Crypto Too
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The future of Linux Containers — At PyCon Solomon Hykes shows docker to the public for the first time.
Docker Open-sourced — dotCloud, a PaaS provider, has open sourced Docker, a key component of their platform.
First commit for Kubernetes
Microsoft tried and failed to buy docker for $4b
New Red Hat project looks a lot like a Docker fork
Introducing Moby Project
Solomon Hykes leaves Docker, the company he founded
Rate limiting starts on Docker Hub

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Robert McQueen shares the inside scoop on Flathub’s ambitious plans to create a universal app store for all distros—and we ask the hard questions.

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Robotic Tendencies » Flathub in 2023
Rule of Acquisition 57 — Good customers are as rare as latinum… treasure them.
Fountain on Twitter — The veterans are dominating the charts as we celebrate some major milestones this week 👏
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Pick: abcde — A Better CD Encoder
A collection of abcde.conf files

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We're celebrating 500 episodes with the biggest announcement yet.

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Wes' First Episode: LUP 100 — We reflect on 100 episodes of LINUX Unplugged, the themes from episodes past & then review Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon edition.
Brent's First Episode: LUP 255 — Big changes are coming to Fedora with the merger of CoreOS. We chat with a couple project members to get the inside scope about what the future of Fedora looks like.
Fountain charts
1701home.com — 1701 Home is a trek-based Mastodon where people can discuss the Star Trek franchise while sharing and connecting about their other interests!
Peertube Headless Seeder — This container uses Python, Selenium, and Firefox to monitor and seed live streams of a PeerTube channel headlessly.
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Eleven Labs AI — The most realistic and versatile AI speech software, ever.
AI Voice Conversion Demo

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Ubuntu makes its anti-Flatpak stance official, while KDE and GNOME team up to turn Flathub into a universal Linux app store.

Plus, we try the Intel Arc GPU. Could this new hardware make Linux bulletproof?

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LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup — Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PM
Linux 6.2 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Promoted — Linux 6.2 overall has been in good shape from my continued testing and especially for Skylake/Skylake-derived cores is looking better if opting for Call Depth Tracking and it's great to have stable Arc Graphics A380/A750/A770 working out-of-the-box in the labs.
Performance is looking better with later Arcs
mesa 23.0.0 Released
intel-extension-for-pytorch at xpu-master
Install intel-extension-for-pytorch
Intel® Extension for PyTorch — PyTorch Tutorials
rahulunair/stablediffusionarc — Stable Diffusion inference on Intel Arc dGPUs
bes-dev/stable_diffusion.openvino — Implementation of Text-To-Image generation using Stable Diffusion on Intel CPU or GPU.
ShuffleBox: Quick Benchmark for Whisper by OpenAI
Flatpak will no longer be available “out-of-the-box” in any of Ubuntu’s official flavors. — Do keep in mind that “not installed by default” is not the same as “not available to install at all”.
Wimpy on Fosstodon — "@bluesabre Did we agree? I think we complied with the requested change. You and I both played our part in ensuring this was clearly and openly communicated."
Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults - Community - Ubuntu Community Hub — As part of our combined efforts, the Ubuntu flavors have made a joint decision to adjust some of the default packages on Ubuntu: Going forward, the Flatpak package as well as the packages to integrate Flatpak into the respective software center will no longer be installed by default in the next release due in April 2023, Lunar Lobster.
KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop — Promote diversity and sustainability in the Linux desktop community by adding payments, donations and subscriptions to the Flathub app store.
ZFS send/receive over ssh on linux without allowing root login
ZFS on Object Storage by George Wilson, Matt Ahrens, Paul Dagnelie, Manoj Joseph - YouTube
JB Geocache Kit Request
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GPU-Viewer — This project aims to capture all the important details of glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo in a GUI.

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Sometimes running the latest and greatest means you have to pave your own path. This week two examples from living on the edge.

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LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup, Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PM — Come celebrate episode 500 with some brews the night before!
BorgBase — Hosting for Borg and Restic Repositories
Vorta for BorgBackup — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops.
BorgBackup — Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption
Why should I switch from Restic to Borg? - r/BorgBackup
Moonlight Game Streaming — Play Your PC Games Remotely
LizardByte/Sunshine — Sunshine is a Gamestream host for Moonlight.
Sunshine documentation
KRDC — KRDC is a client application that allows you to view or even control the desktop session on another machine that is running a compatible server. VNC and RDP is supported.
Krfb — Krfb Desktop Sharing is a server application that allows you to share your current session with a user on another machine, who can use a VNC client to view or even control the desktop.
Hook up keyevents on Wayland (!44) Krfb · GitLab
wayvnc — A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors
Waypipe — waypipe is a proxy for Wayland clients. It forwards Wayland messages and serializes changes to shared memory buffers over a single socket. This makes application forwarding similar to ssh -X feasible.
TeamViewer Support on Wayland - Experimental State
Add a InputCapture portal by whot · Pull Request #714 · flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal
PiKVM — Open and inexpensive DIY IP-KVM on Raspberry Pi
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weihanglo/sfz — A simple static file serving command-line tool written in Rust.
sfz is packaged in nix

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How Chris wasted three months tracking down a Wi-Fi problem, plus we debate if immutable distros need to be simplified.

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FOSDEM 2023 Transcribed by Whisper
The Coder Robe — The Coder Robe is back and is a one-size-fits-most robe made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear.
192 Brewing Company — Mt. Vernon is proud to offer strictly Washington-made beers, wines and ciders. We rotate through guest taps from local breweries and feature a variety of red and white wines, as well.
power-profiles-daemon Issue: Choppy GNOME animations when using “balanced power” mode on Intel platform
krunvm — Create microVMs from OCI images.
ViMusic — An Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music.
GRC SpinRite
Moonlight Game Streaming
https://github.com/Wowu/docker-rollout — Zero Downtime Deployment for Docker Compose
Podcasting 2.0 Introduction - Blubrry Podcasting
NEW in Podverse 4.12.0 🥳 — Major audio and video playback fixes, faster app performance, value-for-value streaming for videos.
boxxy — boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files.
This week in KDE: The best Plasma 5 version ever

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Chris attempts to get Fedora 37 on his M1 Max MacBook Pro, while Wes and Brent try the "every distro at once" desktop.

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blendOS — The Ultimate Distro-Blend. — A seamless blend of all Linux distributions.
blendOS on Github
distrobox — Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with.
Rudra Saraswat's Homepage
Bedrock Linux — Bedrock Linux is a meta Linux distribution which allows users to mix-and-match components from other, typically incompatible distributions. Bedrock integrates these components into one largely cohesive system.
Brent's BlendOS PR
Fedora on the Apple M1 Max MBP
Fedora on Apple Silion: Easy Install Script
digint/btrbk — Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes.
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elementary OS 7 Available Now — It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and fixes based on your feedback, introduced new office productivity features, and expanded compatibility with a wide range of hardware.

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Are the free software alternatives good enough? The conclusion to our 60-day challenge to drop Google, Apple, and the iPhone.

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Jupiter Broadcasting Community Links
Jupiter Jobs Matrix Room
New JB Contact Page
Patreon Problems Thread on Twitter
A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal
immich — Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.
Donate to GrapheneOS
Duplicacy: A new generation cloud backup tool — Duplicacy backs up your files to many cloud storages with client-side encryption and the highest level of deduplication.
duplicity — Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm.
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Pick: carbonyl — Chromium running inside your terminal
Fathy Boundjadj: Forking Chrome to render in a terminal — It's snappy, starts in less than a second, runs at 60 FPS, and idles at 0% CPU usage. It does not require a window server (i.e. works in a safe-mode console), and even runs through SSH.

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Today we are finally taking on a project months in the making, and we're switching to an entirely new generation of Linux tech in the process.

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This week in KDE: The best Plasma 5 version ever — Plasma 5 has officially branched for the beta version of its 5.27 release. Go check out the announcement and test out the beta!
BorgWarehouse — BorgBackup Web UI for your central repository server.
Vorta — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty BorgBackup with your desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft.
BorgBase — Simple and Secure Offsite Backups
borgmatic — Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations.
Emborg — Front-End to Borg Backup
emborg on GitHub
Office Hours 21: Boiling the Frog — If you've noticed something a little off about your favorite podcasts, we might know why.
aj-snapshot — Tool for storing/restoring JACK and/or ALSA connections to/from a file.
jack-matchmaker — Auto-connect new JACK ports matching the patterns given on the command line.
qpwgraph — qpwgraph is a graph manager dedicated to PipeWire, using the Qt C++ framework, based and pretty much like the same of QjackCtl.
qpwgraph on Flathub
streamdeck-ui — A Linux compatible UI for the Elgato Stream Deck.
obsws-python — A Python SDK for OBS Studio WebSocket v5.0
kirino — A lightweight media server that adapts to you
BackupPC — Open Source Backup to disk
Fedora 38 Change: Modernize Live Media
rsync.net — We give you an empty UNIX filesystem to access with any SSH tool. Built on ZFS for data security and fault tolerance.
ZnapZend — Open source ZFS backup with mbuffer and ssh support.
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
Pick: Jellyfin Server Flatpak
Jellyfin Release 10.8.9

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Chris' sticky upgrade situation, and we chat with the developer behind an impressive mesh VPN with new tricks.

Special Guest: Ryan Huber.

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NixOS 22.11 Released
VERY Simple NixOS NGINX Config
NixOS Manual: SSL/TLS Certificates with ACME — NixOS supports automatic domain validation & certificate retrieval and renewal using the ACME protocol. Any provider can be used, but by default NixOS uses Let's Encrypt. The alternative ACME client lego is used under the hood.
NixOS Manual: Configuring Nginx for Pleroma
go-acme/lego — Let’s Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go.
hackclub’s proxyparty
Easily Deploy a Mastodon Server with Linode's Marketplace
Defined Networking is Open for Business — On behalf of everyone here at Defined Networking, I’m excited to announce that our cloud managed version of Nebula is now available to everyone!
Automating Nebula Host Creation with the API
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LINUX Unplugged 329: Flat Network Truthers — Build one flat network across cloud providers, personal networks, with even thousands of nodes. We feature two amazing open source solutions, and the creators behind them.
Trakt — Track what you watch and when.

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Join us on a journey to true software freedom. We embark on our 30-day challenge and discover a whole new philosophy that will change the way you think about technology.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Mastodon Sees Dip in Active Users After Twitter Exodus Surge
SCaLE 20x — The 20th Annual Southern California Linux Expo will take place on March 9-12, 2023 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA.
Easily Deploy a Mastodon Server with Linode Marketplace
Self-Hosted 87: Jellyfin January — We kick off our Jellyfin January challenge and invite you to join us. Plus, Chris has some new hardware and our thoughts on the trouble at the Matrix foundation.
Top 10 Self-Hosted Apps - Perfect Media Server
The Definitive Guide to Jellyfin
Ubuntu Manpage: intelgputop — Display a top-like summary of Intel GPU usage.
jellyfin/Swiftfin — Native Jellyfin Client for iOS and tvOS.
intel-gpu-tools Repo
Alex's Jellyfin Ansible Setup
Fountain Rewind 2022
List of all Star Trek episodes sorted by original airdate
List of all Star Trek episodes sorted by star date
Alby
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Pick: Btrfsmaintenance — Scripts for btrfs maintenance tasks like periodic scrub, balance, trim or defrag on selected mountpoints or directories.
btdu — sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs.

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We assemble to predict what will happen in 2023 and score how our 2022 predictions turned out.

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The Matrix Holiday Update 2022
Steam Linux Market Share
Ideas on growing the Flathub Community in 2022
Heroic Games Launcher | Flathub Beta Site
Flathub-Codethink Collaboration
[GNOME Software Mock-up] Patronage by Tobias Bernard
How (and why) I minted 314 NFTs To Support Open Source Projects
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Each of us brings a secret topic to the show, and we discover a common theme about using the wrong tool for the right job. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Has Fedora pulled ahead of Ubuntu? We take a look at the new Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04 releases. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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We explore what makes NixOS so powerful, and why it might be the future of all Linux distributions.

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How each of us asks for features and help from free software projects, and one of our most prescient soapboxes in a while.

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We surprise each other with three different topics, hidden away by encryption in our show notes - we literally have no idea what we're talking about this week.

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We look at two new options that enable ANYONE to run a personal server at home or a small business.

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We put the sports car of Linux laptops to the test. Is it the multi-tasking machine it claims to be?

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Linux is the master of small computers, and this week it’s going to the next level. We chat with the creator of the $15 Linux box and share some significant updates for the Raspberry Pi. Special Guest: Brian Benchoff.

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There's just something off about Ubuntu these days, this week we put it all together.

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We all take it for granted, but it is one of the best things about Linux. We share the history of the live CD, how it all got started, and the times it saved our bacon.

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SUSE had an awkward week; we breakdown the very mixed launch of SUSE Liberty Linux.

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We make some last-minute changes to our server setup and catch up on a bunch of thought-provoking feedback. Special Guests: Martin Wimpress and Neal Gompa.

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Our new server setup is bonkers, but we love it.

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We do our best to predict what will happen in 2022, and own up to what we thought might happen in 2021. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Drew DeVore, and Joe Ressington.

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It's the second annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, desktops, and services of 2021.

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We each try out the new Pop_OS! and Carl Richell from System76 joins us to get into the details.

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This was not the year of the Linux Desktop. We’ve been slacking on the mailbag, so we go on a feedback frenzy and answer some hard questions about desktop Linux. Special Guests: Carl George and Martin Wimpress.

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The Director of EndlessOS joins us to respond to recent Flatpak criticism.

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We revisit some old assumptions about the open-source Plex-alternative, Jellyfin. We each try it out, and along the way, gain a few insights about open source.

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Can we live with openSUSE Tumbleweed?

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Is the true path to mastering Linux fully embracing the command line? Why it's time to change our mindset about the terminal. Special Guests: Martin Wimpress and Neal Gompa.

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We check-in with Fedora Project lead Matthew Miller on the state of the project, then conduct our exit interview with Fedora 34, and review Fedora 35.

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We attempt a live production over Starlink, and dig into the secrets of this giant Linux network in space.

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We try out POP!_OS on the Raspberry Pi 4, and chat with its creator Jeremy Soller from System76.

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Wimpy stops by with a new tool that will change your virtualization game, and we share our thoughts on Ubuntu 21.10 and take the flavor challenge. Special Guest: Martin Wimpress.

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It's the worst time ever to upgrade or buy a new PC, so we cover our favorite tips for getting the most out of your current hardware. Then we pit a 2014 desktop against a 2021 laptop and find out if our old clunker can beat the Thinkpad. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Christian F.K. Schaller, Jack Aboutboul, and Martin Wimpress.

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Sometimes things go wrong; this week, we admit we've got a problem.

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A serious problem is brewing in Desktop Linux that hasn't impacted end users yet, but will soon. We break down why distribution makers are getting upset and explain what's next.

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Why it might be time to re-think who is and who is not a Linux user, plus we do a reality check on the state of Linux phones. Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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We try out what might be the most fun Linux distribution around. It started as a laugh, but now we’re in love.

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A surprise server outage at the studio requires we jump into action with a few last-minute solutions and deploy one of our favorite open-source tools.

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We share some stories from our Denver meetup, the strange reason we found ourselves at a golf course, and some news you should know. Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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Big things are happening in the world of WireGuard, Jim Salter joins to catch us up.

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We try to pull off a show while recovering from an epic server crash. Then we build the ultimate remote Linux desktop—in the cloud!

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Have you noticed the Linux news has gotten a little weird? Michael Tunnell joins us to break down the changes we've observed over the last year.

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Linux server admins don't know where to turn next; how the cult of personality might be shaping Linux's most important market. Special Guest: Jack Aboutboul.

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Is Fuchsia a risk to Linux? We try out a cutting-edge Fuchsia desktop and determine if it is a long-term threat to Linux.

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Is it possible to have Arch’s best feature on other Linux distros? We attempt it and report our findings. Plus our reaction to NVIDIA’s beta Wayland support–is this the milestone we’ve been waiting for?

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We revisit the seminal distros that shaped Linux’s past. Find out if these classics still hold up.

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We’re joined by a special guest who’s built his very own Linux battle bus. We get the technical details on how Linux is at the core of this open road machine. Special Guest: Aaron Bockelie.

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From our origins with Linux to preparing your home LAN for a solar storm, it’s an Ask us Anything special edition!

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Tim Canham, Mars Helicopter Operations Lead at NASA’s JPL joins us again to share technical details you've never heard about the Ingenuity Linux Copter on Mars. And the challenges they had to work around to achieve their five successful flights. Special Guest: Tim Canham.

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We’re taking a look at an underdog distro. We may have found a diamond in the rough with a few tricks up its filesystem.

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It's episode III, Return of the Email. Everyone says never host your own email, so we're doin it.

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The new release of Fedora has more under the hood than you might know. It's a technology-packed release, and nearly all of it is coming to a distro near you.

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You should never host your own email, so we’ve gone and done just that. What we learned trying to build an email server in 2021.

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Do as we say, not as we do. This week we're setting off to host our own email. We'll cover the basics, what's we're using, and why.

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Lutris developer Mathieu Comandon joins us to share his perspective on the uncomfortable issues facing Linux desktop developers.

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We break down the next-level features coming to a Linux near you in just a few weeks.

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Tim Canham, the Mars Helicopter Operations Lead, shares Linux’s origins at JPL and how it ended up running on multiple boxes on Mars.

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It's our worst idea yet. We share the password to our brand-new server and see who can own the box first. Whoever wins gets a special prize.

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Something special has been achieved this week, a new benchmark in the desktop experience. We dig in.

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We try out GNOME 40 and its new workspace layout. Who we think this works well for, and who might want to avoid it.

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Wendell joins the show to cover the state of graphics on Linux, and what Intel has in store for the future.

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We have some strong opinions about the state of openSUSE Tumbleweed. We've secretly been running it for the past week, and share our experience.

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Friends join us for a special edition of the show to review last year's predictions, and forecast the future. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Joe Ressington, and Neal Gompa.

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We reveal the winners of the 2020 Tuxies.

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It's light as a feather, fast as hell, and everything is upstream. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon ships with Fedora, and this week we put it to the test.

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We review the Dell Precision 5750, a born and bred MacBook killer that runs Linux.

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We round up our favorite tweaks to the desktop, and apps that make it great.

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Fedora 33 is a bold release, and we’ve put it through the wringer. We tell you what’s great, and what you should know before diving in.

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We're reminded that you can't judge a distro by its screenshots. We use Pop!_OS for a few weeks and share our embarrassing discovery.

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We embrace new tools to upgrade your backup game, securely move files around the network, and debunk the idea that Windows will ever be based on Linux.

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What would it really take to get you to switch Linux distributions? We debate the practical reasons more and more people are sticking with the big three.

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Friends join us to discuss Cabin, a proposal that encourages more Linux apps and fewer distros.

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We get an update from PipeWire developer Wim Taymans on the status of Linux's new audio and video subsystem.

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The Raspberry Pi might be getting a small software fix that makes a big performance improvement.

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We refurbish a special machine from the Jupiter Broadcasting Hardware Archive and try out Matrix, the one chat platform to rule them all.

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We explain why BootHole is getting so much attention and break down the key issues. Then we review our favorite Linux-compatible headsets.

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Fedora makes a bold move and Microsoft seems to be working on their ideal "Cloud PC", we ponder what Linux has to offer.

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Our team has been using Nextcloud to replace Dropbox for over a year, we report back on what has worked great, and what's not so great.

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Fedora's getting to work and reconsidering some long held-assumptions.

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Why we think Apple just handed market share to Desktop Linux, and why you can kiss running Linux on the Mac goodbye forever. Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Neal Gompa.

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From the low-end to the high-end we try out both ends of the Linux hardware spectrum. Wes reviews the latest XPS 13, and Chris shares his thoughts on the Pinebook Pro.

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Chris' tale of woe after a recent data loss, and Wes' adventure after he finds a rogue device on his network. Special Guest: Drew DeVore.

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Windows is getting more competitive by adopting core Linux features, so we cover the latest Linux-inspired additions to Windows. Then review the new release of Pi-hole, sort through recent PINE64 updates, and read your feedback. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Drew DeVore, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller.

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We're blown away by the Enlightenment desktop, and its little known features, and we share a quick way for you to try it out yourself.

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Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller joins us to discuss Lenovo shipping ThinkPads loaded with Fedora, and our review of the new 32 release.

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What makes a fresh install of Linux perfect? We ask our panel and share a few tools, tips, and habits that make our Linux installs perfect.

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CentOS goes rolling and announces version 8. Find out why we're excited to take a dip in this stream.

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Richard Stallman has resigned as president and director of the Free Software Foundation, and that's just one of the major shifts this week.

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It’s official, Manjaro is a legitimate business; so what happens next? We chat with Phil from the project about the huge news.

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We take a trip to visit Level1Tech's Wendell Wilson and come back with some of his performance tips for a smoother Linux desktop.

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Safely host your own password database using totally open source software. We cover BitWarden, our top choice to solve this problem.

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We spend our weekend with Wayland, discover new apps to try, tricks to share, and dig into the state of the project.

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It's huge, and it's getting bigger every month. How do you test the Linux Kernel? Major Hayden from Red Hat joins us to discuss their efforts to automate Kernel bug hunting.

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We put the Raspberry Pi 4 to the desktop test, and try it as our daily driver.

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Manjaro takes significant steps to stand out, and the shared problem major distributions are trying to solve, and why it will shape the future of Linux.

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Keynote presenter from Texas LinuxFest and established industry expert Thomas Cameron joins us to discuss the end of the distro wars, the future of Linux jobs, his personal take on IBM's acquisition of Red Hat, some really great Linux job tips, and much more.

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What’s surprised us, what we got wrong, right, and what the biggest game changers have been in 2019 so far. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Jim Salter.

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Open Source has taken over the world, as IBM's purchase of Red Hat closes. We reflect on this historic moment.

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Our crew walks you through their PCI Passthrough setups that let them run Windows, macOS, and distro-hop all from one Linux machine.

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Go full self-hosted with our team’s tips, and we share our setups from simple to complex.

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We attempt something you never should, we live flip our FreeNAS ZFS install to a Fedora server.

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Is Resilient Linux truly an indestructible distro? Or is this our toughest distro challenge yet?

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Adopting a distro like it’s a religion is stupid. That’s one of many hard lessons we take away from Texas Linux Fest this week; we’ll share some of the best.

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We visit Intel to figure out what Clear Linux is all about and explain a few tricks that make it unique.

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Can the Free Desktop avoid being left behind in the going dark revolution? Cassidy from elementary OS joins us to discuss their proposal.

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We scale the Red Hat Summit and come back with a few stories to share.

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Is Fedora 30 the peak release of this distribution? We put it through the ultimate test, live on the air, and put everything on the line.

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Fresh back from LinuxFest Northwest we share a few of our favorite stories and memories.

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This week we discover the good word of Xfce and admit Joe was right all along. And share our tips for making Xfce more modern.

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Ubuntu's new release is here, and this one might be one of the most important in a while. But is it worth upgrading from an LTS? We review and debate just that.

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The way we’ve been thinking about Desktop Linux is all wrong. We start by defining Desktop Linux, and where it might be going in the future.

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Is there really any advantage to building your software vs installing the package? We discuss when and why you might want to consider building it yourself.

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Why we sometimes go too far with our Linux advocacy, and a few humble strategies to switch people to Linux.

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Developers at Netflix are creating the next set of super powers for Linux, we'll get the details straight from the source.

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A new voice joins the show, and we share stories from our recent adventures at SCaLE 17x.

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We reveal all and look at the mess that is our home directories. How we keep them clean, back them up, and organize our most important files.

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We head to the Raspberry Pi corner and pick the very best open source home automation system.

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Will there ever be another "big" Linux distro, or has that time passed?

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The hype around a new security flaw hits new levels. Fedora has a bunch of news, and we discover what's new in the latest Plasma release.

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Why FOSDEM might be the quintessential community event, and our thoughts after playing with Pi-Hole.

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We're playing Robin Hood with the content, and a new member of our team joins to tell you all about it.

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An embarrassing vulnerability has been found in the apt package manager, we’ll break it all down. Plus Alessandro Castellani tells us about his plans to build a professional design tool for Linux.

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ZFS on Linux is becoming the official upstream project of all major ZFS implementations, even the BSDs. But recent kernel changes prevent ZFS from even building on Linux. Neal Gompa joins us to discuss why it all matters.

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Joe joins Wes to discuss the state of Adobe's Creative Cloud on Linux and why the Fish shell might be your favorite new tool.

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We start off the new year with our hopes and dreams for Linux and open source in 2019 and beyond.

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We get serious and bring in a special referee to help us lock in our Linux predictions for 2019. Special Guest: Alan Pope.

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We’re just back from touring System76’s new factory, and getting the inside scoop on how they build their Thelio desktop. This is our story about walking in as skeptics, and walking out as believers.

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We have a WireGuard success story to share, and it's probably not what you're expecting.

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We chat with a developer who's gotten Linux running on iOS devices, do a deep dive into Clear Linux, and discuss Xubuntu ending 32bit support.

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Fedora might take a year off, to focus on it self. Project Lead and Council Chair Matthew Miller joins us to explain this major proposal.

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Android and Ubuntu are working exceptionally hard to create longer support cycles. We’ll highlight the work that makes this possible, and what’s motivating these two different projects to strive for Very Long Term Support.

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Christian F.K. Schaller from Red Hat joins us to discuss seamless Linux upgrades, replacing PulseAudio, some of the recent desktop Projects Red Hat’s been working on... And the value they get from them.

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Have the revolutionaries won the war against proprietary software? That’s the argument being made. And we argue, what else did you expect?

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We speculate about a future where IBM owns Red Hat, and review the latest Fedora 29 release that promises a new game changing feature.

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Linus is back in charge with the whole world watching, IBM is buying Red Hat, and Pine64 says they’re working on a Plasma phone.

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The lead developer of PipeWire Wim Taymans joins us to discuss Linux’s multimedia past, and its exciting future. They promise to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. Plus we review the professional grade Precision 5530, tour our new s

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Elementary OS’ latest and greatest released today, and we talk with Dan and Cassidy from the project about their biggest release yet. Then community news, a preview of upcoming Ubuntu 18.10, and we announce our own free software project. Plus a chat with

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Red Hat developer Andy Grover joins us to discuss Stratis Storage, an alternative to ZFS on Linux and its recent milestone.

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What if desktop computing went a very different direction in the late 90s? Deeply multithreaded from the start, fast, intuitive, and extremely stable. This is the world of Haiku, and we go for a visit.

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We chat with Nate Graham who’s pushing to make Plasma the best desktop on the planet. We discuss his contributions to this effort, and others.

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Linus takes a break and the Linux kernel adops a new Code of Conduct. We work through these major watershed moments, and discuss what it means for the community.

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We announce our big news, Jupiter Broadcasting is joining Linux Academy and what we have planned for the future is huge! Plus a new NextCloud lands, concerns are brewing for the Solus project, and a report from the recent Libre Application Summit.

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Intel has disappointed the kernel community with its latest security disclosures but there's still hope for a better future. That's more than can be said for the state of privacy on Android, so we discuss some alternatives. Plus the latest community upda

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Steam Play rocks the Linux world as it promises new levels of compatibility with AAA Windows games. But the story of how Valve is doing it might be just as fascinating.

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Docker controversy is brewing but it's probably not what you think. We get a round of community updates directly from the source and why Debian and Intel are playing the game of he said, she said.

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The FreeBSD community shares the hard lessons learned from systemd, we play some great clips from a recent event.

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GNOME is discussing big changes, Elementary OS has big news, and a big bug has been found in Linux.

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We get an update from Dell’s Barton George on their Linux initiative Sputnik, cover some important community news, and the uncomfortable questions raised by Krita’s new financial boost.

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Another potential desktop Linux app is scared away by an aggressive free software community, and we struggle to find the balance between our moral ideals, and getting work done.

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Atari has released details about its upcoming Linux powered console, some of us are sold… And some of us are rather skeptical.

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We reflect on recent FOSS security screw ups and ponder a solution powered by community.

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A major Internet monopoly might just be on the edge of cracking thanks to free software, a bit of initiative, and a lot of gumption. We'll follow up on a major experiment we kicked off last week.

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Big changes are coming to Fedora with the merger of CoreOS. We chat with a couple project members to get the inside scope about what the future of Fedora looks like.

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Free Software projects concerned about Article 13 are claiming it could destroy free software as we know it. We debate this controversial copyright law about to be voted on in the EU.

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There is trouble at CopperheadOS, Plasma has a shiny new release, and we share the story of how Linux has powered the curiosity rover for 17 years. Plus our stories from a weekend of Linux parties, Texas LinuxFest, SouthEast LinuxFest, and FOSS Talk Live

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Microsoft has purchased GitHub, sending shock-waves through the free software community. We discuss the bidding war that took place, and it leaves us questioning what the future of Electron might be. Plus we’ve found a great batch of Linux apps you're go

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After we make ourselves at Gnome, we look at some future open source goodies coming your way, look at how Canonical’s upstream pitch, and get excited about the next great Linux filesystem hope. Plus Chris’ first wreck on the road to Texas, Thunderbolt ne

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What is the best laptop for Linux in 2018? How about the best Evernote killer, and production setup? We cover the best of the best this week.

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The Linux community is eating its own this week, as attention seeking plucky YouTuber’s trade on free software’s good name for clicks. We learn the real story behind some of the Internet’s recent free software freak-out.

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Chris ends a multi-year experiment with Fedora on the server, and shares his surprising results. Chrome OS is officially getting full-fledged Linux apps, and we ponder if this is truly a win for Linux.

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Ubuntu and Fedora have new releases, and our early impressions are great.

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We get the inside scope from the Ubuntu flavors prepping for the 18.04 release, and then we finally make good on a long running threat.

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Azure Sphere is Microsoft making silicon as a service, with Linux at its core. We’ve chatted with the folks behind Azure Sphere and breakdown this huge announcement.

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We have some Plasma problems this week, but we’re sticking with it and still putting it into production in our most ambitious event yet.

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Richard Stallman has some practical steps society could take to roll back the rampant and expanding invasion of our privacy.

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A new version of Slax is out this week, and they might just be onto something really unique. We take this Debian powered, Fluxbox running, net bootin distro for a test drive.

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We’re playing just one interview from SCaLE this year, tons of community news, and two handy app picks.

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