LINUX Unplugged

The first LinuxFest is back and better than ever. We share stories and friends from one of the best Linux gatherings of the year: LinuxFest Northwest.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2024 — An annual open-source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group, the Information Technology department at BTC, Cascade STEAM, and Jupiter Broadcasting.
• Bellingham Technical College — At BTC, we're here to help you access the hands-on education that can give you an advantage in today's job market.
• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Downloads Now Available — Ubuntu 24.04 is an exciting Long Term Support (LTS) update with this new Linux distribution release being powered by the Linux 6.8 kernel, making use of Netplan for networking on the desktop, features the modernized desktop OS installer, various performance optimizations, and a ton of new features.
• x32-proxy — UDP and Web Socket proxy server for Behringer and Midas digital mixer control.
• LinuxFest Northwest YouTube
• Peyton's GitHub
• Electromagnetic Field — A non-profit camping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things: hackers, artists, geeks, crafters, scientists, and engineers.
• completenoob's NixOS ZFS on Root Setup — Install NixOS with ZFS on root on a ThinkPad T470 with 24gb Ram and a 1TB nvme ssd.
• radio-browser.info — This is a community driven effort (like wikipedia) with the aim of collecting as many internet radio and TV stations as possible. Any help is appreciated!
• Pick: Playlifin — A tool to convert a Youtube Music playlist to a Jellyfin playlists.
• Pick: Playlifin Voyager — Playlifin Voyager is a tool to export and import playlists from and to your Jellyfin Server.

We're back from Austin, with interviews and stories to share. Plus, it's Gentoo week and we take our first look at Fedora 40.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Fedora 40 beta is fastest operating system I've tested — Apps opened in the blink of an eye. The Overview appeared instantly. Everything seemed to be built around the idea that the user works at the speed of madness and the OS is there to help make it happen.
• Fedora Linux 40 Docs
• Fedora Linux 40 Cleared For Release — Fedora 40 thus will see its official release happen next Tuesday, 23 April.
• F40 Change Proposal: Drop Delta RPMs — According to early feedback from Release Engineering, it looks like it will not be feasible to address the shortcomings of Delta RPMs as they are currently implemented, and since they often no longer result in a net reduction in download sizes for upgrades, this Change proposes both to disable the generation of DeltaRPMs during the compose process, and to disable the deltarpm support in dnf / dnf5 by default.
• Berlin with Brent May Meetup — May 11, 2024
• LinuxFest Northwest 2025 — April 26 - 28, 2024
• System76 and Jupiter Broadcasting Epic Parking Lot BBQ — Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 12:00 PM
• LFNW Talk: 5 Reasons to Love NixOS — NixOS seems to be everywhere these days and has the fanatic energy usually reserved for Arch users. But WHY is it so popular? In this talk, I'll go over 5 reasons I love NixOS and you might too.
• LFNW Talk: Deploying NixOS Anywhere — In this talk, we'll unlock the full potential of NixOS by exploring how its unique architecture enables installation just about anywhere—from bare metal and VMs to a VPS provider near you.
• LFNW Talk: LINUX Unplugged LIVE — We're recording a live edition of LINUX Unplugged in person. Our weekly Linux talk show with no script, no limits, surprise guests, and tons of opinions.
• Scinary Cybersecurity — Founded in 2015, we are proud to be one of few full-service cybersecurity firms focused on small and midsized governmental entities. Serving clients in mutiple states, we provide quality services and solutions that best fit your needs.
• Jupiter Extras — Texas LinuxFest Day 1
• Jupiter Extras — Texas LinuxFest Day 2
• 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.
• MIL-STD-1553 — MIL-STD-1553 is a military standard published by the United States Department of Defense that defines the mechanical, electrical, and functional characteristics of a serial data bus.
• Chris' Cave Pictures
• Buc-ees — If you've been to Buc-ee's, you may already know that this friendly neighbor along the highways has the cleanest restrooms in America. In 2012, Cintas ran a nationwide restroom contest and made it official!
• Street Fighter 2 Music — Arcade Intro
• Street Fighter 2 Music — OC Remix
• UEFI Boot Standalone NixOS (2024-04-20) — This guide will explain how to install NixOS on the internal NVMe drive of an Apple Silicon Mac using a customized version of the official NixOS install ISO, then boot it without the help of another computer.
• TeX Shinobi Keyboard
• nixos-conf-editor — A libadwaita/gtk4 app for editing NixOS configurations.
• nix-software-center — A simple gtk4/libadwaita software center to easily install and manage nix packages.
• bhh32's app installer
• dharple/detox — Tames problematic filenames
• Jovian NixOS — NixOS on the Steam Deck
• Pick: Shortwave — Shortwave is an internet radio player that provides access to a station database with over 30,000 stations, including Jupiter Broadcasting.

We asked, and you answered: Your top 5 Linux app essentials and post-install rituals. Plus, some news to better cope with "extreme file-system damage."

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Berlin with Brent: May Meetup — Brent is back in Berlin! Please join the Jupiter Broadcasting community for an evening together, and bring your friends!
• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Warp — Warp allows you to securely send files to each other via the internet or local network by exchanging a word-based code.
• Bcachefs Repair Code Reaching Complete & Robust Recovery — "This patchset was kindly tested by a user from India who accidentally wiped one drive out of a three drive filesystem with no replication on the family computer - it took a couple weeks but we got everything important back."
• Linux 6.9-rc3 Released With Many Bcachefs Patches — "[...] but hey, if you had a corrupted bcachefs filesystem you'd probably want this, and if you thought bcachefs was stable already, I have a bridge to sell you. Special deal only for you, real cheap."
• Fedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOME
• F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation — Switch the default desktop experience for Workstation to KDE Plasma. The GNOME desktop is moved to a separate spin / edition, retaining release-blocking status.
• Changes/FedoraPlasmaWorkstation - Fedora Project Wiki
• 412linux.io — N100 Media Serving Efficiency with Quick Sync
• Pick: FreeTube — FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. Use YouTube without advertisements and prevent Google from tracking you with their cookies and JavaScript. Available for Windows, Mac & Linux thanks to Electron.
• FreeBSD Speedruns — The zero-to-desktop FreeBSD speedrun category records the time taken from the first boot of a FreeBSD image, through installation, to the display of a desktop environment or window manager.
• FreeBSD Zero to Desktop Speedrun Challenge — The operations and commands that needed to be done took me 1:33 and installation of base.txz/kernel.txz datasets took 0:28. Downloading and installing needed pkg(8) packages took 2:22 of time.

We're building a completely hidden Linux OS inside an existing system—with no trace left behind.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — The global money app for fast, safe payments and bitcoin. Get sats easy.
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM — Grab the Fountain app and listen live, boost along, and more.
• Shufflecake — Plausible deniability for multiple hidden filesystems on Linux
• System76 and Jupiter Broadcasting Epic Parking Lot BBQ, Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 4:30 PM | Meetup
• Jupiter Extras: Nostr Workshop — Our Nostr workshop. We'll help you get your Nostr identity and answer any questions.
• 24.05 Call for Release Manager & Editor - NixOS — Both roles are fulfilled in tandem, meaning you get paired with an experienced partner, who already filled the role during the previous release.
• HiddenVM — Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace. — HiddenVM is a simple, one-click, free and open-source Linux application that allows you to run Oracle's open-source VirtualBox software on the Tails operating system.
• Tails
• persistent volume feature
• VeraCrypt
• Defeating Plausible Deniability of VeraCrypt Hidden Operating Systems — This paper analyzes the security of VeraCrypt hidden operating systems.
• How To Emulate Persistent Memory using the Linux "memmap" Kernel Option
• kexec [ArchWiki]
• Unplugged Core Membership
• PodHome.FM — Unlimited Shows and Episodes
• PodBean Example: This Week in Bitcoin Podcast
• Atuin - Magical Shell History — Sync, search and backup shell history with Atuin
• I quit my job to work full time on my open source project — The 22nd of December was my last day leading the infrastructure team at PostHog. Going forwards, I'm starting a company and working full time on Atuin.

We're breaking down the attack: how it works, how it was hidden, and why time was running out for the attacker.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• oss-security mailing list — Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise.
• Fedora Announcement
• Debian Announcement
• Ubuntu Announcement
• Kali Linux Announcement
• Arch Linux Announcement
• Gentoo Announcement
• openSUSE Tumbleweeed Announcement
• NixOS Unstable Discussion
• Why does it take two weeks for NixOS to replace xz?
• Andres Freund on Mastodon — I was doing some micro-benchmarking at the time, needed to quiesce the system to reduce noise. Saw sshd processes were using a surprising amount of CPU, despite immediately failing because of wrong usernames etc....
• rwmj on Hacker News — Very annoying - the apparent author of the backdoor was in communication with me over several weeks trying to get xz 5.6.x added to Fedora 40 & 41 because of its "great new features"
• A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects — Make no mistake. This is the way it works. It needs to change.
• Devuan GNU/Linux on X — Devuan is not affected by the latest vulnerability caused by systemd.
• systemd PR: Dynamically load compression libraries
• Matteo Croce on X — I'm the author of such PR. While I absolutely didn't know that libxz had a backdoor, I really think that libraries should be loaded on-demand when rarely used, hence my change :)
• Ryan C. Gordon on X — This is probably how the xz thing happened, right?
• Jan Wildeboer on the Fediverse — Again the FOSS world has proven to be vigilant and proactive in finding bugs and backdoors, IMHO.
• Unplugged Core Membership
• TXLF is coming up! — April 12 - 13 in Austin, Texas.
• LFNW coming up! — April 26 - 28
• Mobile Game Ads Are Boosting Podcast Follower Counts — Wondery, iHeart and Lemonada Media are all using a non-public product from MowPod - which gives extra lives and game credits to gamers if they follow shows on Apple Podcasts from game apps.
• MowPod's podcast promotion tools: tales from the bar
• fortydeux's NixOS Configs
• Prism Launcher — An Open Source Minecraft launcher with the ability to manage multiple instances, accounts and mods.
• World Backup Day — March 31st — One small accident or failure could destroy all the important stuff you care about.
• Updating Our Fiddly Bits | LINUX Unplugged 494

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

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• FlakeHub.com: FlakeHub.com is the all-in-one platform for secure, compliant, and transformative Nix development. Bring Nix to work the way you always wanted with FlakeHub.com. Register for the private beta and get a secure, compliance-friendly Nix and all the support you need.
• Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• 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.
• LINUX Unplugged on Fountain
• 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.
• Unplugged Core Membership
• 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!

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.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• FlakeHub.com: FlakeHub.com is the all-in-one platform for secure, compliant, and transformative Nix development. Bring Nix to work the way you always wanted with FlakeHub.com. Register for the private beta and get a secure, compliance-friendly Nix and all the support you need.
• Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• nix-community/lanzaboote — Secure Boot for NixOS
• Eelco Dolstra’s PhD Thesis — The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model
• Docker and Nix (DockerCon 2023) [YouTube]
• 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.

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

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• FlakeHub.com: FlakeHub.com is the all-in-one platform for secure, compliant, and transformative Nix development. Bring Nix to work the way you always wanted with FlakeHub.com. Register for the private beta and get a secure, compliance-friendly Nix and all the support you need.
• Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• NVIDIA SHIELD Portable — Stream PC games, play android games, run apps, movies, music, and more.
• Fountain — Podcasts powered by community
• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
• Yard House Menu
• 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.
• Unplugged Core Membership
• Jupiter Signal PROMO 2024 - $3 off a month forever

Plasma 6 is out, and we've been giving it a go. What's new, our thoughts, and the lessons other desktops should learn.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• FlakeHub.com: FlakeHub.com is the all-in-one platform for secure, compliant, and transformative Nix development. Bring Nix to work the way you always wanted with FlakeHub.com. Register for the private beta and get a secure, compliance-friendly Nix and all the support you need.
• Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• 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
• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
• Yard House Menu
• 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
• Unplugged Core Membership

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.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Warp Terminal: Warp - the re-imagined terminal now available for Linux with multiple distributions available including Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Arch Linux.
• FlakeHub.com: FlakeHub.com is the all-in-one platform for secure, compliant, and transformative Nix development. Bring Nix to work the way you always wanted with FlakeHub.com. Register for the private beta and get a secure, compliance-friendly Nix and all the support you need.
• Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• First NixCon North America!
• Southern California Linux Expo 21
• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
• Yard House Menu
• Fountain.fm
• 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
• Pick: Hugging Face Daily Papers

Chris spends the week in a VR desktop, revealing the glitches, gains, and VR's open-source future.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps.
• Warp Terminal: Warp - the re-imagined terminal now available for Linux with multiple distributions available including Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Arch Linux.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• 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
• Fountain.fm — Podcasts powered by community
• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
• Yard House Menu
• 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
• CitraVR: Port of the leading 3DS emulator — Play 3DS homebrew and personal game backups in 3D on the go with your Quest. CitraVR is a GPL-licensed, engineless OpenXR application with all source code publicly available.

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.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Warp Terminal: Warp - the re-imagined terminal now available for Linux with multiple distributions available including Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Arch Linux.
• Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• 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
• First NixCon North America!
• Southern California Linux Expo 21
• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
• Yard House Menu
• 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
• GabMus / Envision · GitLab — A VR stack for Linux, recently running directly on the NVK driver and Wayland.

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

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• Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps.
• The Bitcoin Company: You can spend your sats, and keep the show on the road. Earn Bitcoin with every credit card, gift card, flight, hotel stay, prepaid Visa card purchase, and shopping through our app. Promo Code: UNPLUGGED

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
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• First NixCon North America!
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• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇 — Saturday, March 16th, 2024, 1:30 PM
• Yard House Menu
• 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

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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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps.
• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• The Bitcoin Company: You can spend your sats, and keep the show on the road. Earn Bitcoin with every credit card, gift card, flight, hotel stay, prepaid Visa card purchase, and shopping through our app. Promo Code: UNPLUGGED

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Jupiter Extras: Brunch With Brent: Tim Canham
• LINUX Unplugged 478: The Best of Both Worlds
• 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).

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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• The Bitcoin Company: You can spend your sats, and keep the show on the road. Earn Bitcoin with every credit card, gift card, flight, hotel stay, prepaid Visa card purchase, and shopping through our app. Promo Code: UNPLUGGED

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• 💥 Get Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• First NixCon North America!
• Southern California Linux Expo 21x — SCaLE is the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America. It is held annually in the greater Los Angeles area.
• SCALE 21x Registration
• 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.
• Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition
• 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.

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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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
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• Boltz — Privacy First, Non-Custodial Bitcoin Exchange.
• 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`

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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• Core Contributor Membership: Get double the content, and support the production directly. When you use promo code 2024 you'll take $3 off a month, forever. This a limited offer, with only 50 redemptions possible. Promo Code: 2024

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
• 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 stored in memory itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression provides good amounts of memory savings.
• PSI — This helps users understand the resource pressure their workloads are under, which allows them to rootcause and fix throughput and latency problems caused by overcommitting, underprovisioning, suboptimal job placement 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.

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

Special Guest: Michael Tunnell.

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• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
• 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!
• Southern California Linux Expo 19
• 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.

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

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• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
• 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?

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

Plus the big flops we're still sore about.

Special Guest: Kenji Berthold.

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• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps.

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• 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
• ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• 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 [YouTube]
• “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.

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

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!
• ⚠️ Did we miss something in the 2023 Tuxies?
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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.

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.

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
• ⚠️ DID WE MISS SOMETHING?
• Get your Tuxies "I Voted" sticker from TheGoldenDragon — $2 Digital Sticker
• 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 are normalized 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
• Strike Global Now

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.
• Unplugged Tuxies 2023 — Vote in the 2023 Tuxies
• ⚠️ DID WE MISS SOMETHING IN THE 2023 TUXIES?
• 2023 Tuxies Sticker by TheGoldenDragon
• 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

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.max_map_count — 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.

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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• Unplugged Tuxies - 2023 — It's time to vote on the 2023 Unplugged Tuxies!
• ⚠️ Tuxies 2023: Did we miss something? Let us know!
• 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.
• wz_mini_hacks — 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.

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.

Special Guest: Frank Karlitschek.

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• LinuxFest Northwest
• Scuba.Tech
• 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.

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

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
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• 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

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 [YouTube]
• 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!
• [YouTube] 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.

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 [YouTube]
• “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.

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.
• zap
• 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.

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 symbol_get(), 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 symbol_get() 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 symbol_get of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL modules — Given that symbol_get was only ever inteded for tightly cooperating modules using very internal symbols it is logical to restrict it to being used on EXPORY_SYMBOL_GPL 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
• [YouTube] Free Secure Phone Calls. Private Network Coms Access

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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• Hector Martin's Controversial Question — Would you be okay with us adding some really trivial telemetry to the Asahi installer?
• Berlin with Brent — Brent will be back in Berlin for the Nextcloud Conference and can't get enough of Berlin Meetups! Friday, September 8th, 6 PM.
• Fedora Asahi Remix
• Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware — Fedora Asahi Remix will be their new flagship distribution for providing a polished Linux experience on Apple Silicon.
• Fedora Asahi Remix: bringing Fedora to Apple Silicon Macs (Flock To Fedora 2023)
• Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix — We’re still working out the kinks and making things even better, so we are not quite ready to call this a release yet. We aim to officially release the Fedora Asahi Remix by the end of August 2023. Look forward to many new features, machine support, and more!
• Hector Martin: “Okay, I’m going to be honest…” — I apologize to all Asahi Linux users. You deserve better. When I chose Arch Linux ARM as a base I didn't realize it would have so many basic QA issues.
• Coming soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs! (Fedora Discourse)
• The first conformant M1 GPU driver — Our reverse-engineered, free and open source graphics drivers are the world’s only conformant OpenGL ES 3.1 implementation for M1- and M2-family graphics hardware. That means our driver passed tens of thousands of tests to demonstrate correctness and is now recognized by the industry.
• Asahi Linux’s Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant — It's even more rewarding for the community developers in that Apple doesn't provide any conformant (OpenGL or Vulkan) graphics drivers for their Arm-based platform.
• Feature Support · AsahiLinux/docs Wiki
• Switch to the kernel-16k variant - Fedora Discussion
• NixOS: Unlocking your LUKS via SSH and Tor
• StreetComplete — Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android.
• getumbrel/llama-gpt: A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot. Powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device.
• serge-chat/serge: A web interface for chatting with Alpaca through llama.cpp. Fully dockerized, with an easy to use API.
• liltom-eth/llama2-webui: Run any Llama 2 locally with gradio UI on GPU or CPU from anywhere (Linux/Windows/Mac). Use
• llama.cpp — Port of Facebook’s LLaMA model in C/C++
• Llama2.c — Inference Llama 2 in one file of pure C
• Koboldcpp — A simple one-file way to run various GGML models with KoboldAI’s UI
• lollms-webui — Lord of Large Language Models Web User Interface
• LM Studio — Discover, download, and run local LLMs
• text-generation-webui — A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models. Supports transformers, GPTQ, llama.cpp (ggml/gguf), Llama models.
• A comprehensive guide to running Llama 2 locally — Code Llama is a state-of-the-art LLM capable of generating code, and natural language about code, from both code and natural language prompts.
• Meta Releases Code Llama, a Coding Version of Llama 2
• Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding
• Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source
• Meta launches Llama 2, a source-available AI model that allows commercial applications — A family of pretrained and fine-tuned language models in sizes from 7 to 70 billion parameters.
• Meta’s Llama 2 is not open source — Meta's newly released large language model Llama 2 is not open source.

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

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• Spokane Linux Love, Sat, Sep 16, 2023, 1:00 PM | Meetup — It's finally happening! Let's get together at Iron Goat Brewing.
• Best laptops for NixOS - Help - NixOS Discourse
• Mobile NixOS
• Devices List — Mobile NixOS
• Iron Goat Brewing
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Sponsorship Prospectus — LinuxFest Northwest 2023 will be held October 20-22, 2023 at Bellingham Technical College. The Fest is a free and open community event dedicated to provide and support educational activities related to Linux and Open Source Software.
• NixOS friendly hosters - NixOS Wiki
• Install and Configure NixOS on a Linode | Linode Docs
• Star-History — We know, you can't fully trust a project's GitHub stars alone. It is, however, a good way to determine if a tool is an adequate one and if it's likely to grow, if you use it correctly.
• disko — NixOS is a Linux distribution where everything is described as code, with one exception: during installation, the disk partitioning and formatting are manual steps. disko aims to correct this sad 🤡 omission.
• nixos-anywhere — 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.
• Immutable infrastructure for mutable systems — I erase my systems at every boot.
• NixOS Series 4: "Stateless" Operating System — Here's the question: is it really necessary to store the contents of /etc on the disk drive? They're going to be regenerated on each reboot or config switch anyway.
• NixOS ❄: tmpfs as root — One fairly unique property of NixOS is the ability to boot with only /boot and /nix. Nothing else is actually required. This supports doing all sorts of weird things with your root file system.
• Nixos and Erasing My Darlings
• Impermanence - NixOS Wiki — Impermanence in NixOS is where your root directory gets wiped every reboot (such as by mounting a tmpfs to /). Such a setup is possible because NixOS only needs /boot and /nix in order to boot, all other system files are simply links to files in /nix. /boot and /nix still need to be stored on a hard drive or SSD.
• impermanence: Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]
• Example ZFS + tmpfs root configuration
• NixOS on Btrfs+tmpfs
• A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally — Ever since the closing of RFC 49, we've had the new CLI and Flakes marked as experimental, with no clear plan forward.
• project Stratis
• Backups - Perfect Media Server
• Podverse GitHub — Podverse has a bounty out for Android Auto.
• Jay Sam Bee in Philadelphia NixOS Bounty — Jay has a bounty for getting Wallabag on NixOS.
• Self-Hosted 102: NixOS is a bit Flakey
• completenoobs.com
• OpenStreetMap.org — OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
• OSMand.net
• OSM is an extensible editor for ​OpenStreetMap
• OSM is an extensible editor for ​OpenStreetMap
• Street­Complete — Help to improve the OpenStreetMap with StreetComplete!
• nixpkg.py

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

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• Rhino Linux — Rhino Linux re-invents the Ubuntu experience as a rolling release distribution atop a stable Desktop Environment.
• Rhino Linux 2023.1, how we made the distro. — Rhino Linux has now officially moved out of Beta! We have released Rhino Linux 2023.1 on x86_64, ARM, Pine64 and Raspberry Pi devices.
• Pacstall — Pacstall uses the stable base of Ubuntu but allows you to use bleeding edge software with little to no compromises, so you don't have to worry about security patches or new features.
• rhino-pkg Documentation
• Rhino Linux | Unicorn Desktop — Based on XFCE, this desktop experience is lightweight and fast, but 100% powerful.
• Rhino Linux Quick Start Guide
• Rhino Linux ISO Builder Source
• Rhino Linux Bug Tracker
• Rhino Linux bug report form
• Nala: a front-end for libapt-pkg — We aim to solve this by not showing some redundant messages, formatting the packages better, and using color to show specifically what will happen with a package during install, removal, or an upgrade.
• friedow/search — Your trusty omnibox search.
• Berlin with Brent, Fri, Sep 8, 2023 — Brent will be back in Berlin for the Nextcloud Conference and can't get enough of Berlin Meetups!
• Nextcloud Conference 2023 — Annually bringing the global Nextcloud Contributor Community together for a week of coding, design, discussion, talks & fun!
• SearXNG — A free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services.

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

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• Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration — This project is aimed at being simple while allowing a ton of customisation and flexibility. To get started, you’ll need an instance of Home Assistant running with the ESPHome add-on as well as the Home Assistant companion app on your mobile phone to receive notifications when someone presses the doorbell button.
• Alex in Chicago, Aug 10, 2023 | Meetup
• The U.K. Government Is Dangerously Close to Eroding Encryption and Normalizing Mass Surveillance — "The U.K. government wants to grant itself the right to scan every message online for content related to child abuse or terrorism—and says it will still, somehow, magically, protect peoples’ privacy. That’s simply impossible. U.K. civil society groups have condemned the bill, as have technical experts and human rights groups around the world."
• U.K. civil society groups
• human rights groups around the world
• WhatsApp, Signal, and the UK-based Element
• Now Apple takes a bite out of encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law — "End-to-end encryption is a critical capability that protects the privacy of journalists, human rights activists, and diplomats," Apple argued in a statement to the media.
• Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Snowflake ❄️ — Snowflake is a system that allows people from all over the world to access censored websites and applications. Similar to how VPNs assist users in getting around Internet censorship, Snowflake helps you avoid being noticed by Internet censors by making your Internet activity appear as though you're using the Internet for a regular video or voice call.
• Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking — Instead of browser plugins or other software on each computer, install Pi-hole in one place and your entire network is protected.
• AdGuard Home
• NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
• UnifiedPush — UnifiedPush is a set of specifications and tools that lets the user choose how push notifications* are delivered. All in a free and open source way.
• NextPush - Server App — UnifiedPush provider for Nextcloud - server application
• UnifiedPush: a decentralized, open-source push notification protocol
• Proton Drive — Proton Drive is an end-to-end encrypted Swiss vault for your files that protects your data.
• SimpleLogin — Open source anonymous email service
• Simple NixOS Mailserver
• Proton Calendar
• EteSync - Secure Data Sync — Secure, end-to-end encrypted, and privacy respecting sync for your contacts, calendars, tasks and notes.
• Nextcloud + DAVx5 — DAVx⁵ has been successfully tested with Nextcloud.
• Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it’s transmitted over the internet.
• Nextcloud - Online collaboration platform — Regain control over your data
• Send — Send lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires. So you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn’t stay online forever.
• nitter: Alternative Twitter front-end — A free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. Inspired by the Invidious project.
• FreeTube — The Private YouTube Client
• NewPipe - a free YouTube client — NewPipe has been created with the purpose of getting the original YouTube experience on your smartphone without annoying ads and questionable permissions.
• yattee — Privacy-oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS
• libredirect — A browser extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.
• Aegis Authenticator - Secure 2FA app for Android — Aegis Authenticator is a free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens for your online services.
• SimpleX Chat: private and secure messenger without any user IDs (not even random) — Other apps have user IDs: Signal, Matrix, Session, Briar, Jami, Cwtch, etc. SimpleX does not, not even random numbers. This radically improves your privacy.
• Element — A secure communications platform built around you.
• PrivacyGuides.org
• PrivacyTools.io
• Surveillance Self-Defense - EFF
• Funding Developers With Lightning
• Tailscale on GL.iNet Routers — Tailscale feature available since V4.2.
• Nix-on-Droid — Nix-on-Droid brings Nix package manager of NixOS fame to your mobile device.
• InvidTUI — InvidTUI is an invidious client, which fetches data from invidious instances and displays a user interface in the terminal, and allows for selecting and playing Youtube audio and video.

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

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• The Framework Laptop 16 DIY AMD 7040
• Nextcloud Conference 2023 — Annually bringing the global Nextcloud Contributor Community together for a week of coding, design, discussion, talks & fun!
• Berlin with Brent, Fri Sep 8, 2023 | Meetup.com — Brent will be back in Berlin for the Nextcloud Conference and can't get enough of Berlin Meetups!
• Alex will be in Chicago August 10th!
• PayPal Shut Down GrapheneOS Foundation’s Account Used For Donations
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — Unfortunately, PayPal permanently locked our GrapheneOS Foundation account today. No reason has been provided for the account being locked. All we've done is accept donations. We added our bank account information yesterday in order to begin withdrawing money and it was locked.
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — PayPal has restored our non-profit GrapheneOS Foundation account. We should be able to withdraw all donations made through it in the past few weeks. We received no info on why our account was permanently banned with funds held for 180 days or why they now restored our account.
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — We use Bitcoin as the main way we transfer funds internally, including using it to pay most of our project members. It doesn't replace having bank accounts to pay other expenses or accepting donations in other ways.
• Ansible Creator Wants to Build a New Automation Platform in Rust — Ansible's creator Michael DeHaan thinks there is still plenty of room to make more tools that would add to the existing automation ecosystem. Especially, when infrastructure automation solutions like Chef and Puppet were acquired.
• A New IT Automation Project? — Moving Beyond Ansible And Keeping The Spirit
• Welcome to JetPorch — Jet's goal is to be an community-driven enterprise automation and orchestration platform for the modern era.
• jetporch/example_content: example content for learning, exploration, and testing
• Jetporch: Next generation IT orchestration — Jetporch is a next-generation IT orchestration platform aiming to handle modern enterprise workloads at a planetary scale.
• Rethinking Window Management — We’ve wanted more powerful tiling for years, but there has not been much progress due to the huge amount of work involved on the technical side and the lack of a clear design direction we were happy with. We now finally feel like the design is at a stage where we can take concrete next steps towards making it happen, which is very exciting!
• Open Podcast API — The Open Podcast API is an initiative aiming to provide a feature-complete synchronisation API specification for podcast (web) apps and user-focussed servers.
• OpenPodcastAPI Meeting Notes
• HamWAN — HamWAN is a non-profit organization (501c3) developing best practices for high speed amateur radio data networks. HamWAN also runs the Puget Sound Data Ring, which is a real-world network implementation of the proposed designs.
• SUSE Liberty Linux — SUSE Liberty Linux is a technology and support solution that will secure your Linux future without fear of vendor lock-in. With SUSE Liberty Linux, you get trusted support and optional proven management tools that are optimized for mixed Linux environments, including Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux ®, CentOS, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
• anytype.io — the everything app for those who celebrate trust & autonomy
• bfs 3.0: the fastest find yet! — bfs is a tool I wrote to do breadth-first search through a filesystem. It started out simply enough, but over the years it's grown to include almost every feature from every other find implementation I could find, plus many of its own innovations.

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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• Office Hours 33: Just Burn it all Down — Why independent media is getting just as bad as mainstream media, and Brent's escape from a wildfire. Plus, an update on our new bounty release format!
• TUXEDO Computers — TUXEDO Computers are customizable Linux notebooks and Desktop PCs optimized in the first place to run with Ubuntu-based Linux operating systems.
• TUXEDO OS Download
• TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen8 Linux Ultrabook Is Now Available for Pre-Order
• TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen8 — 17 mm thin, 1.3 kg light, a chassis footprint of only 31 x 21.5 cm, paired with a top-notch 16:10 3K Omnia display, a max-sized 99 Wh battery and a 14-core Intel Core i7-13700H high-performance processor.
• ddev — Docker-based local PHP+Node.js web development environments.
• [nixpkgs PR] ddev: init at 1.21.4 by jgonyea
• Flipper Zero — Portable Multi-tool Device for Geeks
• GNU Wget — GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS, the most widely used Internet protocols.
• GNU Guix — transactional package manager and distribution
• Cheogram — Extensible Messaging and Presence for the Telephone Network
• no-more-secrets — This project provides a command line tool called nms that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen on screen in the 1992 hacker movie Sneakers.
• Bard-Shell — Bard-Shell is a utility that allows you to use Google's Bard AI in the Linux terminal.

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

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• Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To — Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden.
• Berlin with Brent, Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 6:00 PM | Meetup
• Berlin Buds on Matrix
• Dissociated Press: Clone Wars
• SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment — SUSE is committed to working with the open source community to develop a long-term, enduring compatible alternative for RHEL and CentOS users. SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.
• Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux — SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen today argues that SUSE is wading into this because of its belief that “becoming more proprietary should not be the basis for competition between open source companies."
• The future of AlmaLinux | Hacker News
• Rocky Linux: Keeping Open Source Open — While we continuously explore other options, the aforementioned approaches are subject to change. However, our unwavering dedication and commitment to open source and the Enterprise Linux community remain steadfast.
• AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System — After much discussion, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board today has decided to drop the aim to be 1:1 with RHEL. AlmaLinux OS will instead aim to be Application Binary Interface (ABI) compatible.
• Fedora Workstation 40 Considering To Implement Privacy-Preserving Telemetry — Red Hat's desktop developers are interested in "limited data collection of anonymous Fedora Workstation usage metrics." They are not wanting to collect individual user data but are interested in aggregate usage metrics.
• Changes/Telemetry - Fedora Project Wiki
• What data will be collected, exactly? — A breakout topic for the F40 Change Request on Privacy-preserving telemetry for Fedora Workstation.
• Endless OS’s privacy-preserving metrics system — Let’s stare directly at the elephant in the room: usage metrics – telemetry, analytics, or whatever other terms one might like to use – is something that free software community members are often opposed to, with some good justification.
• This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends — The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth
• Alby
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• Office Hours 32: Things are Changing
• Our Fastest, Most Beautiful Release Ever: Thunderbird 115 “Supernova” Is Here! — We did our best to strike a comfortable balance between new features and interface changes to appeal to new users, while maintaining the current layout and interface that millions of our users know and love.
• rustdesk 1.2 — Rewritten with Flutter, Wayland support, Headless Linux, Resolution adjustment, Dark theme.

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

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• Berlin Buds on Matrix
• Things are Changing | Office Hours 32 — We've got a radically new format idea for Office Hours and want to tell you all about it.
• Linux Action News 299 — Recent advances in embedded Linux, Canonical takes full control of LXD, ZFS gets a handy Btrfs feature, and updates on the show's production.
• Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base — Behind the scenes, the Canonical team has been actively exploring the benefits of Ubuntu Core beyond the realm of IoT, most notably in the context of developers and daily users.
• ubuntu-core-desktop on GitHub — This directory contains an image of Ubuntu Core 22 with the GDM display manager loaded into the boot file system.
• Actions · canonical/ubuntu-core-desktop - GitHub
• canonical/workshops on GitHub — Workshops provides a user friendly interface to create and manage LXD containers as well as provides a full featured terminal.
• Workshops on the Snap Store
• Snikket Dev's take on XMPP and Embrace Extend Extinguish
• snikket-server: Image builder for Snikket server
• Snikket Chat — Simple, secure and private messaging.
• OLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and Expo — OLF is returning on September 8-9, 2023!
• Magnolia Mayhem’s CaterCloud
• Support LINUX Unplugged on Conshax
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• kz6fittycent/BobRossQuotes: A bunch of quotes from Bob Ross
• Bob Ross Quotes - Snap Store

Just about every take on the Red Hat news seems to have missed the mark.

Special Guest: Carl George.

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• Berlin with Brent Meetup — Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:00 PM
• Berlin Buds Matrix Room
• Our Essential Apps | Self-Hosted 100 — We cover our must-have self-hosted apps, reflect on the state of Self-Hosting now, and discuss what's new in Proxmox 8.
• Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes — There was a time, not too long ago, that Red Hat found value in the work done by rebuilders like CentOS. We pushed our SRPMs out to git.centos.org in a neat package that made them easy to rebuild; we even de-branded it for them. More recently, we have determined that there isn’t value in having a downstream rebuilder.
• Linux Action News 298 — Why everyone is excited about the next Linux kernel, Valve's big hire, and Red Hat's clone war.
• Ask Noah 343 Interview w/Mike McGrath — Mike McGrath joins the Ask Noah Show to discuss the changes Red Hat is making in how they make their source code available.
• A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model — We fear that be it through incompetence or malice, many RHEL salespeople and business development professionals may regularly violate GPL and no one knows about it. That said, the business model as described by IBM's Red Hat may well comply with the GPL — it's just so murky that any tweak to the model in any direction seems to definitely violate, in our experience.
• Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code — One option is through the usage of UBI container images which are based on RHEL and available from multiple online sources (including Docker Hub). Another method that we will leverage is pay-per-use public cloud instances. With this, anyone can spin up RHEL images in the cloud and thus obtain the source code for all packages and errata.
• Springdale Linux Discussions — While RedHat's action itself is not particularly surprising given somewhat-recent developments with regards to the likes of CentOS Stream, the timing has taken many in the RHEL-compatible-clone world by surprise.
• Red Hat & Fedora – largely stepping out of this ecosystem - Fedora Mailing-Lists — What Red Hat has done recently is depressing, but not a huge surprise to me. Red Hat struggled repeatedly with how to deal with "the clones".The core idea I always came back to in those discussions was that the value isn't in the bits, but in the stability, services and ecosystem Red Hat enables around the bits.
• How Red Hat killed its core product—and became a billion-dollar business — To move from small player to big-time enterprise software competitor, Cormier argued that Red Hat had to ditch the freely downloadable Red Hat Linux. Instead, it should replace Red Hat Linux with a more robust enterprise software package that maintained the principles of free (as in freedom) software without actually being free (as in price) to customers.
• Carl George on Fosstodon — “You should have already been using #CentOS Stream. There, I said it.”
• NASA secures contract with Rocky Enterprise Linux — NASA/NSSC has a requirement for FY23 CIQ Rocky Enterprise Linux Purchase. Item: CIQ Rocky Enterprise Linux Per Person Advanced - Annual Subscription. Quantity: 3
• NASA secures contract with Rocky Enterprise Linux (HN Discussion)
• catercloud.me — Originally, the project consisted of a web framework that glued together several other, more mature open-source projoects, but as scope creep and my own tendency toward re-inventing the wheel rose to the surface, the project’s development became more and more complex, slowly incorporating a lot of components that go way beyond a simple word cloud and into things like natural language processing.

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

Plus, Wes has a new device, and Brent wants answers.

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• Chris' Workstation neofetch
• Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard — Black. Wired, Comfortable, Ergonomic Keyboard with Cushioned Wrist and Palm Support. Split Keyboard.
• Magic TrackPad
• NixOS Remote Desktop
• FOUR Displays
• U.S. Intelligence Has Admitted Amassed Data on ‘Nearly Everyone’ — A newly declassified report confirms that the government has unprecedented insight into our lives through smartphones, cars, web browsing, and other tech.
• DNI Haines Statement on Declassified Report on Commercially Available Information
• ODNI Senior Advisory Group Panel Declassified Report on Commercially Available Information
• Millions of Americans’ personal data exposed in global hack
• US government agencies hit in global cyberattack
• Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear by Michael Bazzell — This textbook is PROACTIVE. It is about starting over. It is the complete guide that he would give to any new client in an extreme situation.
• Have I Been Pwned — Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach.
• Stalkerware Resources and Help – Darknet Diaries — It’s a nightmare scenario that’s alarmingly common. Your spouse, partner, ex, co-worker, or vengeful person is determined they want to spy on you. To follow you everywhere you go digitally. They might have access to your location, the cameras in your home, your emails. It’s extremely violating and horrible. Here are a few resources that can help if you’re in this situation.
• Darknet Diaries — True stories from the dark side of the Internet.
• Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Surveillance Self-Defense | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — We’re deprecating SeedVault and will be replacing it with a new implementation. SeedVault was created by a member of the GrapheneOS community in 2017 based on our design for it. Unfortunately, it has been taken over by an untrustworthy group of developers without aligned goals.
• GrapheneOS/platform_external_seedvault
• SeedVault - Calyx Institute
• seedvault-app/seedvault — A backup application for the Android Open Source Project.
• How to use SeedVault Backup for Android
• immich — Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.
• DAVx5 — Sync your contacts, calendars and tasks. Get live-access to your WebDAV Cloud files. All-in-one CalDAV/CardDAV/WebDAV solution for Android
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Pick: go2tv — Cast media files to UPnP/DLNA Media Renderers and Smart TVs.

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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• Ask Noah Show Episode 200: Ham Radio Linux Superstation — We celebrate episode 200 by sharing our plans to serve the community better! Ham Radio has come a long way from tubes and dials. Alex Archer KC0REL joins us to discuss building the ideal ham shack on Linux!
• HAM - Official Documentary (2022) - YouTube — HAM is a short documentary that follows a group of Montanan amateur radio enthusiasts that show the loyal community of amateur radio, explore what it means to be a ham, and how they are trying to keep the hobby alive.
• FT8—What Is It and How Can I Get Started? — FT8 is one of the many digital modes often referred to as sound card modes (SCM) because they utilize a computer’s sound card to bring in audio from your radio to be processed by software to decode the information embedded in the signal.
• Amateur Radio Software For Linux | KC7NYR
• Closed Source Ham Radio Software on GNU/Linux
• awesome-hamradio — Awesome hamradio repositories.
• Ham Radio Operators Tune In to Giant Waves in the Earth’s Ionosphere | Science Mission Directorate — This new technique vividly demonstrates the effect of these waves on radio communications.
• Amateur Radio: An Integral Tool for Atmospheric, Ionospheric, and Space Physics Research and Operations
• hamnix — A collection of Amateur Radio software packaged for Nix
• Remote Ham Radio — On the air from anywhere. Big stacks. Kilowatts of power. DX has never been closer.
• ARRL - American Radio Relay League
• Studying for a Technician License
• Linux’s Slice of HAM | Linux Action Show 356
• Zeroretries substack — If you’re not yet licensed as an Amateur Radio Operator, and would like to join the fun by literally having a license to experiment with radio technology, here are some pointers:
• Chromeo: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert - YouTube
• Sam and Dave - Hold on I’m coming - YouTube
• The Clash - The Magnificent Seven (Official Audio) - YouTube
• Pink Floyd - We Don’t Need No Education - YouTube
• bluetuith — A TUI bluetooth manager for Linux.
• NixOS Search - bluetuith
• Framework Cooler Master Mainboard Case — Cooler Master and Framework team up to produce a transparent case for the Framework Laptop 13 Mainboard.
• TrustedQSL — This is the TrustedQSL project, which provides tools for digitally signing Amateur Radio QSO records.

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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• DebianBookworm — Bookworm is the development codename for Debian 12, released on 2023-06-10.
• Debian 12 “Bookworm” Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
• For the LAS Time | Linux Action Show 468 - YouTube
• Ask Noah
• ThinLinX
• JMP: Your phone number on every device
• SouthEast LinuxFest — For the regulars and newbies, please review our schedule to get a feel for what’s happening at this year’s events. For the newbies, be sure to read our About Us page to understand a bit more about the event in general.
• SELF 2023 Schedule
• southeastlinuxfest - YouTube
• Argon ONE V2 Case for Raspberry Pi 4 — The Argon ONE Case is now better than ever as it has many new features
• comma — Comma runs software without installing it.
• org-roam
• Taking org-roam everywhere with logseq
• 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
• SUSE Partners with Collabora to Deliver Commercial LibreOffice Support
• Send a Boot from web with Alby — Top off Alby, then head over to the Podcastindex.org
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can Boost right from the web at the Podcast Index with Alby.
• Fractal — Fractal is a Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust. Its interface is optimized for collaboration in large groups, such as free software projects.
• fractal on GitLab
• FluffyChat — FluffyChat is an open-source, nonprofit and cute matrix messenger app. The app is easy to use but secure and decentralized.
• NixOS for the Impatient — This post is about how I set up NixOS.

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

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
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• 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.
• Chris Interviewed on Mere Mortals — In Conversation #90, Chris and I discuss: what it's been like to have 25+ podcasts, the current nosedive in advertising, how value for value is creating a richer experience for podcasters, his mindset in analyzing technological ideas, the coming pain from the messed up financial system, why Bitcoin/AI won't be as impactful as the internet and traveling across the US in an RV.

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

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
• Alby
• 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.

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-git. 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 NixOS — 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 — Useful 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 LUP?
• 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.

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!
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org

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
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Reaper on Flathub

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
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org

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.
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Pick: Codex.docs — Free Docs app powered by Editor.js ecosystem
• Editor.js — Free block-style editor with a universal JSON output

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.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org

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.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Linux Has Become Complicated and Limiting (Gnome, Wayland, etc.)

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
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• 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
• [Alex's YouTube] Secret Management with Ansible Vault and docker-compose — This video shows how I use Ansible and Ansible Vault in conjunction with docker-compose to keep my secrets safe and encrypted whilst still being able to push my repos to Github publicly.

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.

Special Guest: Robert McQueen.

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• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — October 20-22, 2023 at the Bellingham Technical College.
• Flathub in 2023 - Flathub Discourse — We’ve been busy behind the scenes, so I’d like to share what we’ve been up to at Flathub and why—and what’s coming up from us this year.
• 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 👏
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Trayscale — An unofficial GUI wrapper around the Tailscale CLI client.
• Trayscale on Flathub
• Pick: abcde — A Better CD Encoder
• A collection of abcde.conf files

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

Special Guest: Listener Jeff.

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• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — Your Fest is Back! October 20-22, 2023 at the Bellingham Technical College.
• 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.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Eleven Labs AI — The most realistic and versatile AI speech software, ever.
• AI Voice Conversion Demo
• Submit a Soundboard Clip on our GitHub

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/stable_diffusion_arc — 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
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• GPU-Viewer — This project aims to capture all the important details of glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo in a GUI.

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
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• weihanglo/sfz — A simple static file serving command-line tool written in Rust.
• sfz is packaged in nix

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

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.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• 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.

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.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• 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.

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

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
• Try Defined Networking’s Managed Nebula
• 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.

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
• [YouTube] The Definitive Guide to Jellyfin
• Ubuntu Manpage: intel_gpu_top — 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
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• 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.

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
• The Log4j security flaw could impact the entire internet. Here’s what you should know
• Log4j Vulnerability Detection: One year after Log4Shell
• LibRedirect
• Get Together — Get Together is an open source event manager for local communities.

It's the third annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, desktops, and services of 2022.

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• VIM Homepage
• Visual Studio Cod — Code Editing. Redefined.
• Kate — Get an Edge in Editing.
• Pop!_OS by System76 — Pop!_OS is an operating system for STEM and creative professionals who use their computer as a tool to discover and create.
• NixOS — Reproducible builds and deployments.
• COSMIC by System76 — Computer Operating System Main Interface Components
• KDE Plasma — Do it all in a beautiful environment that adapts to your needs, and with the safety, privacy-protection and peace of mind that the best Free Open Source Software has to offer.
• Ubuntu Server
• Debian — The Universal Operating System
• Jellyfin — The Free Software Media System
• Nextcloud — Online collaboration platform
• Steam Deck
• HP Dev One
• Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
• mastodon — Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community.
• Asahi Linux — Asahi Linux aims to bring you a polished Linux® experience on Apple Silicon Macs.
• AbdBarho/stable-diffusion-webui-docker — Easy Docker setup for Stable Diffusion with user-friendly UI
• Umbrel — A personal server OS for self-hosting.
• immich — Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.

Brent's been hiding your emails; we confront him and expose what he's been keeping from the show.

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• Linux teams up with partners to overthrow Google Maps’s dominance
• Tailnet lock white paper — Tailscale implements a novel mechanism, tailnet lock, to prevent a malicious control plane from inserting itself into a network. Tailnet lock requires the verification of a cryptographic signature on all WireGuard® node keys distributed by Tailscale’s control plane.
• Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History — In "Hardcore History" journalist and broadcaster Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", unorthodox way of thinking and applies it to the past.
• Knaves Out – Darknet Diaries — This is the story about how someone hacked into JP Morgan Chase, one of the biggest financial institutions in the world.
• Dana Carvey’s The Weird Place — The Weird Place is an episodic sci-fi comedy adventure that will blow your mind. From manipulative aliens to time-traveling pirates to a power-hungry mad man with a magic globe.
• Linux Out Loud — Linux Out Loud is a community powered podcast. We take conversations from the DLN Community from places like the DLN Discourse Forums, Telegram group, Discord server and more.
• Picture of Dennis V’s Keyboard
• Announcement: Direct Alby wallet top up with MoonPay
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Generate Let’s Encrypt Certificate with DNS Challenge and Namecheap
• Tailscale breaks DNS-over-TLS on Android · Issue #915 · tailscale/tailscale
• Moving entire Linux installation to another drive - Ask Ubuntu
• Migrate installation to new hardware - ArchWiki
• Disk cloning - ArchWiki
• NixOS Root on ZFS
• NixOS getting started - no mention of mkswap
• ZFS - NixOS Wiki
• NixOS install with ZFS — Dan’s Cheat Sheets 1 documentation
• Installing NixOS with multiple encrypted ZFS pools, decrypted with one password
• How I installed Encrypted ZFS root on NixOS
• Install NixOS on ZFS With Opt-In State
• NixOS on encrypted ZFS | The DevOps Blog
• How do you say SUSE?
• Packman
• SmartTubeNext — Ad free app for watching tube videos on Android TV boxes.
• Nobara Linux — The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.
• thoughtbot/rcm — rc file (dotfile) management
• GoToSocial — Fast, fun, ActivityPub server, powered by Go.
• JB FOSDEM 2023 Matrix Room

We complete a year-long journey and discover some unspoken truths about a great Linux distro. Plus one small, and one major update on our GrapheneOS adventure.

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• 2022 Tuxies — GO VOTE!
• Tasks.org — Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders
• nolooking — Joining the lightning network is daunting.
• Join the Podverse beta
• GrapheneOS Update
• Nextcloud Notes
• Three Tumbleweed Temptations | LINUX Unplugged 432
• wipegpt
• wipefs
• OpenSUSE Build Service
• opi: openSUSE Package Installer (CLI) — Search and install almost all packages available for openSUSE and SLE
• tumbleweed-cli — Command line interface for interacting with Tumbleweed snapshots.
• twups — Tumbleweed Update Scrutinizer
• Tumbleweed Snapshots
• GPSLogger for Android
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps

After nearly half a year of woe, Brent is ready to give Linux the go. Join us as we compare and contrast two Linux distros and end up with one going on Brent's machine.

Plus, follow-up on Chris' GrapheneOS adventures and more.

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• Apple Limits iPhone AirDrop Function Used for Protests in China
• Magic Earth — Free Maps & Navigation App
• Top 10 reasons to use Debian as your Linux distro
• Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of ‘move fast and break things’, and version 11 is no different
• ProtonPlus — A simple Wine and Proton-based compatiblity tools manager for GNOME.
• ProtonUp-Qt — Install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda & more for Steam and Wine-GE & more for Lutris with this graphical user interface.
• Why openSUSE - openSUSE Wiki
• The Nobara Project — The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.
• Who Wants To Be a Millionaire — Test your knowledge to see if you can answer all questions and win $1 million. Have fun!
• Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Questions and Source Code