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

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• 🎉 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.
• 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.

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• Git from the inside out — The essay focuses on the graph structure that underpins Git and the way the properties of this graph dictate Git’s behavior.
• gitk — The Git repository browser
• ungit — The easiest way to use git. On any platform. Anywhere.
• Trustix — Distributed trust and reproducibility tracking for binary caches
• Kexec and Kdump on Raspberry Pi
• Install NixOS on Oracle Cloud
• Kexec and Kdump on arm64
• An update to Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye — So with this latest release, the default “pi” user is being removed, and instead you will create a user the first time you boot a newly-flashed Raspberry Pi OS image.
• Build a Raspberry Pi Linux System the Hard Way — The instructions below will explain how to build a Linux environment for a Raspberry Pi 3B from scratch, focusing on extreme minimalism. I will build most components from source code and use BusyBox as the only user application on the target.
• NixOS Wiki: NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi 4
• Installing NixOS on a Raspberry Pi
• NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi
• nixos-pi — How to install NixOS on raspberry PI
• Generating Raspberry Pi Images with NixOS
• NixOS on a Raspberry Pi: creating a custom SD image with OpenSSH out of the box
• nixos-docker-sd-image-builder — Build custom SD images of NixOS for your Raspberry Pi (or any other supported AArch64 device) in 5-20 minutes.
• NixOS + Raspi4
• Installing NixOS on the Raspberry Pi 4
• How to Setup NixOS on a Raspberry Pi
• NixOS on Raspberry Pi 4
• Kernel Support for miscellaneous Binary Formats (binfmt_misc) — The Linux Kernel documentation
• Cross-compiling the Raspberry Pi OS Linux kernel on macOS | Jeff Geerling
• NixOS on ARM
• Cross Compiling - NixOS Wiki
• ARMing Yourself - Working with ARM on x86_64
• Debian Wiki: qemu-user-static
• ARM64/QEMU - Ubuntu Wiki
• Emulating a Raspberry Pi with QEMU
• Emulating ARM on Debian/Ubuntu
• Raspberry Pi Documentation - Remote Access
• Emulating ARM with QEMU on Debian/Ubuntu
• Using QEMU to build arm64 experimental environment
• How to set up an ARM64 playground on Ubuntu 18.04
• Emulating ARM with QEMU on Debian/Ubuntu
• NixOS — tmpfs as root
• Erase your darlings — immutable infrastructure for mutable systems
• Umbrel — A personal server OS for self-hosting
• Umbrel Troubleshooting Guide
• JB London Meetup — August 5th 6pm, Jubilee Park & Garden
• Home Manager Manual — This manual will eventually describe how to install, use, and extend Home Manager.
• Tutorial: Getting started with Home Manager for Nix
• Merkle Tree
• Git Book - Git Internals
• Commits are snapshots, not diffs - The GitHub Blog — I believe that Git becomes understandable if we peel back the curtain and look at how Git stores your repository data. After we investigate this model, we’ll explore how this new perspective helps us understand commands like git cherry-pick and git rebase.
• Fear Not The SHA! - Git Internals - YouTube
• Git Internals by John Britton of GitHub - CS50 Tech Talk - YouTube
• Merkle tree in Bitcoin - BitcoinWiki
• Merkle Tree with real world examples - YouTube
• What is the merkle tree in Bitcoin? - YouTube
• OpenMPTCProuter — Internet connection bonding
• Podverse — NEW: Embed a Podverse player on your website! 🥳
• Nebula v1.6.0 — Experimental: nebula clients can be configured to act as relays for other nebula clients. Primarily useful when stubborn NATs make a direct tunnel impossible.

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• It Seems Pop OS Linux Will Soon be Available on Raspberry Pi and Other ARM Devices — System76’s Principal Engineer and maintainer of Pop!_OS, Jeremy Soller shared a teaser photo on Twitter recently.
• PipeWire and fixing the Linux Video Capture stack — With PipeWire having stabilized a lot for audio now we feel the time has come to go back to the video side of PipeWire and work to improve the state-of-art for video capture handling under Linux.
• PipeWire
• Linux Action News 209 — Why Linus believes keeping Linux fun is critical, the massive investment Fedora is about to make in video, and why we suspect Cloudflare's R2 service will make Amazon squirm.
• AlmaLinux OS Foundation Membership Opens to the Public — An individual can qualify for membership as anyone who uses AlmaLinux OS, contributes to AlmaLinux OS, provides services to the AlmaLinux OS community or otherwise supports the AlmaLinux OS. All past and present contributors or mirror maintainers would qualify as Contributor members.
• What AlmaLinux Foundation Membership Means for You - AlmaLinux OS Blog — We all own AlmaLinux now and no one can change that. Forever. Not CloudLinux, not any other corporation or anyone else. Our fate and future are in the hands of every member and is ours alone to control. We're no longer bound by one person, group or entity. It can not be bought nor sold, nor transferred or fought about.
• Unofficial user repositories/Repo-ck - ArchWiki
• tubearchivist has a docker-compose.yml
• Which “server” distro should we go with next? | StrawPoll.com
• Pick: Helvum — Helvum is a GTK-based patchbay for pipewire, inspired by the JACK tool catia.
• Pick: tubesync — Syncs YouTube channels and playlists to a locally hosted media server.