LINUX Unplugged

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

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

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

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

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

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• Release v6.12 · torvalds/linux
• LKML: Linus Torvalds: Linux 6.12
• The 6.12 kernel has been released
• Linux_6.12 - Linux Kernel Newbies
• Linux Kernel Release Model
• How do kernel version numbers work? : r/linux4noobs
• 2. How the development process works — The Linux Kernel documentation
• oracle/bpftune: bpftune uses BPF to auto-tune Linux systems
• What's scheduled for sched_ext
• Sched_ext at LPC 2024
• sched_ext: scheduler architecture and interfaces (Part 2)
• sched-ext/scx: sched_ext schedulers and tools
• Raspberry Pi 5 Initial Patch
• Printk Changes Submitted For Linux 6.12 Finish NBCON Console Preparations - Phoronix
• Real-Time "PREEMPT_RT" Support Merged For Linux 6.12 - Phoronix
• Real-time programming with Linux, part 1: What is real-time? - Shuhao's Blog
• realtime:documentation:howto:applications:preemptrt_setup [Wiki]
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• binary boost sound
• LINUX Unplugged 563: Nix's People Problem
• Btrfs Assistant — Btrfs Assistant is a GUI management tool to make managing a Btrfs filesystem easier.
• kernelconfig.io — search config information for linux kernel modules

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

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

Fedora 41 is here! We break down the best new features, then branch out for a three-way spin showdown. Which flavor will come out on top?

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

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

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

Wes got Mom a new Linux laptop, and he lets her pick the distro. Plus, we take a look at the new Ubuntu 24.10, and why we think this release might be a good sign for the future.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• Toronto Meetup — Thursday, Aug 29, 2024
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• Check out Alex’s “Building a Colo Server” video
• Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs — The cause: an update Microsoft issued as part of its monthly patch release. It was intended to close a 2-year-old vulnerability in GRUB, an open source boot loader used to start up many Linux devices.
• What the f*** is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care — This update was not supposed to apply to dual-boot systems, but did anyway.
• SBAT Revocations: Boot Process - Ubuntu Community Hub
• “Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update
• Ubuntu Will Be Skipping Non-Critical Linux Kernel Updates For September - Phoronix
• SRU Mailing List Annoucement
• Canonical Moves To Shipping Very Latest Upstream Kernel Code For Ubuntu Releases
• Kernel Version Selection for Ubuntu Releases - Kernel - Ubuntu Community Hub
• Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs — The bcachefs patches have become these kinds of "lots of development during the release cycles rather than before it", to the point where I'm starting to regret merging bcachefs.
• Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs fixes for 6.11-rc5 - Linus Torvalds — No one is being jerks here, Linus and I are just sitting in different places with different perspectives. He has a resonsibility as someone managing a huge project to enforce rules as he sees best, while I have a responsibility to support users with working code, and to do that to the best of my abilities.
• LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later — Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.
• Linux is a CNA — As was recently announced, the Linux kernel project has been accepted as a CNA as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) for vulnerabilities found in Linux.
• The Linux security team issues 60 CVEs a week, but don't stress. Do this instead
• What is a "good" Linux Kernel bug?
• Keynote: Linux Kernel Security Demystified - Greg Kroah-Hartman - YouTube
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• added pihole nix module by Tdback · Pull Request #3 · JupiterBroadcasting/nixconfigs — Recently, I wanted to start 'nixifying' some of my docker-compose setup. I've created a simple module for spinning up a podman container running pihole as a systemd service, so that way I can just stick it on any NixOS machine and easily make it my DNS server.
• NetworkManager cli (nmci) wrapper to easily create a new network connection
• Distrohopper Wheel
• No idea where to distrohop next? Let the ultimate distrohopper decide for you!
• Proxmox Virtual Environment - NixOS Wiki
• Pick: SaunaFS is a distributed file system — A robust distributed POSIX file system meticulously designed to revolutionize your storage solutions by offering unmatched efficiency, security, and redundancy. At its core, SaunaFS is a distributed file system primarily written in C++, inspired by the pioneering concepts introduced by Google File System.
• Google File System - Wikipedia
• saunafs/INSTALL.md

We reveal how we turned our humble LAN into a public server farm, all while keeping our IP address under wraps and our ISP blissfully unaware.

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

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

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

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

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

Think Silverblue, but with cloud-native tooling used to build it. From Aurora to Bazzite, our impressions of the ambitious Universal Blue project.

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

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

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• clevis — Clevis is a pluggable framework for automated decryption. It can be used to provide automated decryption of data or even automated unlocking of LUKS volumes.
• bcachefs Encryption
• What measured boot and trusted boot means for Linux
• Automatically decrypt your disk using TPM2 — Entering the passphrase to decrypt the disk at boot can become quite tedious. On modern systems a secure hardware chip called “TPM” (Trusted Platform Module) can store a secret and automatically decrypt your disk. This is an alternative factor, not a second factor. Keep that in mind.
• Use systemd-cryptenroll with FIDO U2F or TPM2 to decrypt your disk
• Automatic LUKS 2 disk decryption with TPM 2 on Fedora
• Safe automatic decryption of LUKS partition using TPM2 | 221b
• FOSDEM 2024: Clevis/Tang - unattended boot of an encrypted NixOS system
• Clevis & Tang on NixOS Slides
• Decrypt LUKS volumes with a TPM on Fedora Linux
• Self-Hosted 127: Can't Fix What You Don't Track
• Garmin Forerunner 265 — Forerunner 265 is a running smartwatch with a touchscreen AMOLED display, training metrics, phone-free music, & up to 13 days of battery life in smartwatch
• HRV Status
• Garmin Sleep Tracking
• Nap Detection
• Garmin Pay
• Tribit Stormbox Micro 2 Wireless Portable Speaker: 10W
• USB-C Charging Converter for Garmin Watch Without Charger Cable
• Obtainium — Obtainium allows you to install and update apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available.
• Managing your personal access tokens
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• Iotas — Iotas aims to provide distraction-free note taking with optional speedy sync with Nextcloud Notes.
• LINUX Unplugged 567: So Long sudo
• Celeste — GUI file synchronization client that can sync with any cloud provider
• vt52's Blog: Migrating from NixOS channels to Flakes
• FUTO Keyboard
• autossh
• LINUX Unplugged 570: RegreSSHion Strikes
• Aeon — The Linux Desktop for people who want to "get stuff done"
• Aeon: openSUSE for lazy developers
• Grayjay — Follow Creators Not Platforms
• Grayjay on GitLab
• CrowdSec
• Bustle — Bustle draws sequence diagrams of D-Bus activity. It shows signal emissions, method calls and their corresponding returns, with time stamps for each individual event and the duration of each method call. This can help you check for unwanted D-Bus traffic, and pinpoint why your D-Bus-based application is not performing as well as you like. It also provides statistics like signal frequencies and average method call times.
• open-and-shut — Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

Wes reports from the Skunkworks lab, and Brent tells us about his new computing lifestyle.

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• Nix Nerds Matrix Room
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• Minisforum UM690 Pro
• pyenv-flake: experimental nix flake that can build pyenv pythons
• dotenvx-flake: A nix flake for dotenvx
• auto-patchelf.sh - NixOS/nixpkgs
• Packaging/Binaries - NixOS Wiki
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• Try the JB Test Gathio Instance hosted by HybridSarcasm
• Berlin with Brent: September Meetup at Nextcloud Conference · JB Events
• Fix Kate sudo saves - use Plasma 6 version of Kate by MarkSort · Pull Request #3 · ChrisLAS/nix
• Running OpenBSD 7.5 on your laptop is really hard (not) — I couldn't use OpenBSD exclusively; there's software that I need/want which isn't available. But I do appreciate certain of OpenBSD's qualities: it's a simple, ultra-lightweight, traditional UNIX. I have an ancient ThinkPad running OpenBSD configured as a minimalist desktop: it's nice for focused work. Sure, it can't run Steam or play Netflix, but sometimes that's a plus...
• @fabean's NixOS configs
• IBM Classroom LAN Administration System V 1.30 User Guide
• 0xchat: Secure chat built on Nostr
• Get NIP-05 verified
• Pick: termscp — 🖥 A feature rich terminal UI file transfer and explorer with support for SCP/SFTP/FTP/S3/SMB
• Learn Nix The Fun Way — Sure, it’s sort of portable, if you tell the person running it to have curl and jq. What if you relied on a specific version of either though? Nix guarantees portability.

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

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

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

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• Marknote - KDE Applications
• Marknote 1.3 - KDE Blogs — Marknote lets you create rich text notes and easily organise them into notebooks. You can personalise your notebooks by choosing an icon and accent color for each one, making it easy to distinguish between them and keep your notes at your fingertips. Your notes are saved as Markdown files in your Documents folder, making it easy to use your notes outside of Marknote as well as inside the app.
• Spokane Meetup - No-Li Brewhouse, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PM
• No-Li Brewhouse Menu
• 10 best beer gardens in the US where you can quench your thirst
• KDE Plasma 6.1 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here's What's New
• Plasma 6.1 - KDE Community — This release introduces explicit GPU synchronization support for NVIDIA users and triple buffering support on Wayland for smoother animations.
• KDE Plasma 6.1.1 Desktop Environment Released with Various Bug Fixes
• LUP 552 — Plasma 6 is out, and we've been giving it a go. What's new, our thoughts, and the lessons other desktops should learn.
• KDE Plasma 6.1 Performing Much Better On Older Intel Integrated Graphics
• Fixing KWin's performance on old hardware
• plasma6-desktop package versions
• plasma-desktop package versions
• KRdp on GitLab — Currently, the main client that has been used for testing and is confirmed to work is the FreeRDP client.
• Open KRdp Bugs
• appiumtests: test adaptive panel opacity (!2324) · Merge requests · Plasma / Plasma Desktop · GitLab
• Why the next GNOME Release will be one of the Best Ever
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• Gathio
• JB Events Gathio hosted by HybridSarcasm
• GitHub Issue: Can't create events — An unexpected error has occurred. Please try again later.
• Crossover: Run Microsoft Windows software on Mac and Linux | CodeWeavers
• FUTO Keyboard — Your keyboard shouldn't connect to the internet.
• FUTO Keyboard · Wiki

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

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

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

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• Announcing systemd v256 — In the weeks leading up to this release I have posted a series of serieses of posts to Mastodon about key new features in this release.
• systemd changes with v2⁸:
• systemd 256 Released With run0, systemd-vpick, importctl & Other New Features
• Lennart on systemd-vpick — Basically, you can now place multiple versions of the same resource in some dir of your choice, suffix that dir's name with .v/ and the you get some basic version management in place: delete or add new versions by just removing/adding new files, and the tools will find the newest item dropped in automatically.
• Introduction to Portable Services — “Portable services” do not provide a fully isolated environment to the payload, like containers mostly intend to. Instead, they are more like regular system services, can be controlled with the same tools, are exposed the same way in all infrastructure, and so on. The main difference is that they use a different root directory than the rest of the system.
• Trying out systemd's Portable Services — All in all, the core pieces are already in place for a very promising new technology that should make it easier for 3rd parties to provide Linux system-level software in a safe and convenient way, well done to the systemd team for a well executed concept. All it lacks is some polish around the tooling and integration.
• systemd sleep — Putting a PC to sleep is complicated business and there are different mechanisms available to achieve this on Linux.
• Lennart on SSH and AF_VSOCK — This automatic ssh-via-AF_VSOCK logic is particularly useful
• DDIs and systemd-nspawn — Or in other words: there's now unprivileged systemd-npsawn containers. Yay!
• Lennart on systemd-vmspawn
• Lennart on sd_notify
• Lennart on dlopen
• Lennart on run0 — There's a new tool in systemd, called run0. Or actually, it's not a new tool, it's actually the long existing tool systemd-run, but when invoked under the run0 name (via a symlink) it behaves a lot like a sudo clone. But with one key difference: it's not in fact SUID.
• doas - dedicated openbsd application subexecutor
• Doas - NixOS Wiki
• Doas on Wikipedia
• The Tragedy of systemd — Join me on a journey through the bootstrap process, the history of init, the reasons why change can be scary, and the discovery of a part of your OS you may not even know existed.
• The Two Year Journey Funded By Arm/Qualcomm For Improving ARM Linux Laptop Support — ARM Kernel developers spent the last two years working on improving ARM Linux laptop support with a focus on the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s powered by a Qualcomm SoC.
• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS support to the Lenovo ThinkPad x13s
• Snapdragon 8cx
• Ubuntu Asahi project
• TUXEDO Working on Snapdragon X Elite Linux Laptop
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• Spokane Meetup, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PM
• Berlin with Brent: September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Fri, Sep 13, 2024 | Meetup
• A Nix Flake for Bitfocus Companion
• ChrisLAS' Beelink NixOS Config
• Bluetooth - NixOS Wiki
• nix-direnv
• xscreensaver on Android
• Rainier cherry - Wikipedia
• Pick: Iotas — Markdown notes that syncs with NextCloud Notes.

We try Omakub, a new opinionated Ubuntu desktop for power users and macOS expats.

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• Have a pint with Alex in Norwich , Sun, Jun 16, 2024, 2:30 PM | Meetup
• Spokane Meetup, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PM
• Nextcloud Conference 2024: call for speakers - Nextcloud
• Nextcloud Conference 2024 - Nextcloud
• Berlin with Brent: September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Fri, Sep 13, 2024 | Meetup
• notch on X — Alright, that's enough spyware in my OS. Do I go desktop Mac, or do I have the energy to go full Linux? Not sure, but I'm tired of my operating system treating me like the product.
• DHH on X — If I have such a fundamental misalignment with where Apple has gone, why stay? I think that was the question I finally just asked myself for the umph-teenth time, and realized I didn’t have a good answer that wasn’t just based on comfort.
• For the Love of Linux — In this podcast episode, REWORK host Kimberly Rhodes talks with David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of 37signals and CTO, about his personal shift from using Apple products to exploring Linux and Windows platforms. He discusses the expanded platform integration at 37signals, which now includes all three operating systems.
• DHH on X — The big YearofLinuxontheDesktop will be 2025. Snapdragon X chips will be ready. Folks will be sick of AI shoved into every crevasse of their life. Thank heaven for disagreeable nerds refusing to bend the knee to the corporate agenda!
• Linux as the new developer default at 37signals — I've personally been having a blast over the last few months digging deeper and deeper into the Linux rabbit hole, and it's been a delight discovering just how good its become as developer platform.
• Introducing Omakub — Omakub turns a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system by running a single command.
• Xournal++
• Flameshot
• Pinta
• Framework
• Omakub list of installed apps
• Omakub — An Omakase Developer Setup for Ubuntu 24.04 by DHH
• Omakub on GitHub
• Omakub introductory video
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• devenv — Fast, Declarative, Reproducible and Composable Developer Environments using Nix
• squid
• GeneBean on X — My dad was so happy with his desktop after I switched him to #Pop_OS! that he had me do the same to the laptop he takes on trips. Thanks for such a stellar distro @system76
• Walkthrough of Nix Install and Setup on MacOS by zmre on YouTube
• Wildspaces.work — Wildpsaces.work is designed for remote workers interested in reconnecting with community and working from new and wild places.
• Chris' Amazon Tablet — 10.1 Inch Android 13 Octa-core with 8(4+4) GB+128GB Tablets, 5MP+8MP Camera, Bluetooth 5.0
• Fully Kiosk Browser Lockdown
• Jellyfin Media Player — Desktop client using jellyfin-web with embedded MPV player. Supports Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
• kthresher: Tool to remove unused kernels in Debian/Ubuntu
• helipad-flake — A Nix flake to provide a helipad package and NixOS module. Intended for use with nix-bitcoin.
• Kopia — Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup Software
• Pick: Multiplex — Multiplex is an app to watch torrents together, providing an experience similar to Apple's SharePlay and Amazon's Prime Video Watch Party.
• weron — weron provides lean, fast & secure overlay networks based on WebRTC.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A few of our go-to tools for one-liner web servers, sharing media directly from folders, and a much needed live Arch server update, and more!

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• Berlin with Brent — May Meetup, Sat, May 11, 2024, 6:30 PM CEST
• Linuxfest Northwest 2024 Videos
• Tiny File Manager — Web based File Manager in PHP, Manage your files efficiently and easily with Tiny File Manager and it is a simple, fast and small file manager with a single file.
• Tiny File Manager Password Options
• Tiny File Manager Project Demo
• noblepayne/tinyfilemanager-flake — nix run github:noblepayne/tinyfilemanager-flake
• Big list of http static server one-liners — python -m http.server 8000
• awesome-webservers: ⚙️ — Collection of one-liner static servers.
• static-web-server — A cross-platform, high-performance and asynchronous web server for static files-serving. ⚡
• The smallest Docker image to serve static websites
• Self-Hosted 122: Back to the Future — How Chris created live TV streaming from his local media collection, Alex breaks down the new Open Home Foundation and what it means for self-hosters. Brent's been trying out an open-source AirDrop replacement for all systems, and much more!
• LocalSend — An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop.
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• SouthEast LinuxFest — June 7-9, 2024 in Charlotte, NC.
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• Pick: audioserve — Simple personal server to serve audiofiles files from folders. Intended primarily for audio books, but anything with decent folder structure will do.
• Neofetch is Dead! Here are 7 Alternatives for Your Linux System

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.

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• 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.

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• 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."

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• 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.

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• 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]
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• 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.

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• 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.

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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!
• 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

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• 💥 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.

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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!
• 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.

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• 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.

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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!
• 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

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• 💥 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.

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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!
• 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

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• 💥 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.

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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!
• 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

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• 💥 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.

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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.
• 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

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• 💥 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.

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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!
• 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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• 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.
• 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

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• First NixCon North America!
• Southern California Linux Expo 19
• 🍔 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.

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.
• 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

Support LINUX 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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• 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.
• 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

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 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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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• 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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• 💥 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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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.
• 🎉 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.
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• ⚡️ 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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• 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.
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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.
• 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?
• Get your Tuxies “I Voted” sticker from TheGoldenDragon — $2 Digital Sticker
• 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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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• 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.
• Unplugged Tuxies 2023 — Vote in the 2023 Tuxies!
• ⚠️ Did we miss something in the 2023 Tuxies?
• 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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• 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.
• 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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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
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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
• Remote Serial Console HOWTO
• My first look at the Beelink SER6 7735HS | 412Linux
• Sysinternals — Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows and Linux systems and applications.
• Rumor: Windows 12 could become a subscription based operating system
• LinuxFest Northwest Meetups

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.
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• The Blog Index — TheGoldenDragon and I have hashed out some basic ideas about what Boost 4 Blogs should be and in a moment of glory I decided to mimic The Podcast Index by registering blogindex.org!
• Linus Torvalds Comments On Bcachefs Prospects For Linux 6.6 — That very much means *NOT* continuing this "I'll just do it my way". You need to show that you can work with others, that you can work within the framework of upstream, and that not every single thread you get into becomes an argument.
• Box64 — Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64 Linux devices.
• Podcasting 2.0 Top 100 (Music) — This chart is a ranking of the music tracks played on podcasts that have been boosted the most over the last 7 days. It is recalculated hourly. Thank you to Nathan Gathright for the page design. ❤
• Neo-Store — An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.
• Obtainium — Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source.

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.