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

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• Get started with River
• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Planet Nix - Speakers
• SCALE 22x
• Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust — Yes, mixed language codebases are rough, and hard to maintain, but we are kernel developers dammit, we've been maintaining and strengthening Linux for longer than anyone ever thought was going to be possible. We've turned our development model into a well-oiled engineering marvel creating something that no one else has ever been able to accomplish. Adding another language really shouldn't be a problem, we've handled much worse things in the past and we shouldn't give up now on wanting to ensure that our project succeeds for the next 20+ years. We've got to keep pushing forward when confronted with new good ideas, and embrace the people offering to join us in actually doing the work to help make sure that we all succeed together.
• Kees Cook on Rust in the kernel — In other words, I don't see any reason to focus on replacing existing code -- doing so would actually carry a lot of risk. But writing new stuff in Rust is very effective. Old code is more stable and has fewer bugs already, and yet, we're still going to continue the work of hardening C, because we still need to shake those bugs out. But new code can be written in Rust, and not have any of these classes of bugs at all from day one.
• Linus Re: Rust kernel policy — You are not forced to take any Rust code, or care about any Rust code in the DMA code. You can ignore it. But "ignore the Rust side" automatically also means that you don't have any say on the Rust side.
• Texas Linux Fest is back again in 2025!
• Pick: treetrum/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader — Allows you to bulk download all your Kindle eBook in a more automated fashion. This tool allows you to create backup copies of the books you've already purchased.
• Amazon removes your right to download Kindle books
• Amazon will stop allowing Kindle book downloads to your PC soon
• How to Download Kindle Books to Your Computer Before Amazon Kills the Feature
• Simplest Way to Remove DRM from Books – No Kindle Serial Number Needed!
• Pick: nping — 🏎 Nping mean NB Ping, A Ping Tool in Rust with Real-Time Data and Visualizations

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• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• River - Buy Bitcoin. Easy & Secure.: River is the most trusted place in the U.S. for individuals and businesses to buy, sell, send, and receive Bitcoin.

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

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• Generating cooking recipes using TensorFlow and a LSTM Recurrent Neural Network
• ARM-based Japanese supercomputer is now the fastest in the world
• Ampere donates Arm64 server hardware to Debian to fortify the Arm ecosystem
• Google’s Bringing Its Apple AirDrop Rival to Linux, Windows, and Mac
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
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• Apple is switching Macs to its own processors starting later this year
• Tim Cook says first Mac with Apple Silicon shipping to consumers by end of this year
• r/linux: How will Apple’s ARM announcement affecting Linux going forward?
• r/linux: Let’s suppose Apple goes ARM, MS follows its footsteps and does the same. What will happen to Linux then? Will we go back to “unlocking bootloaders”?
• Jared Domínguez on Twitter — Today’s cynical take: Apple supporting Linux VMs is a way to make devs feel good with minimal effort (offload the work to Parallels/BSD community) while allowing Apple to deprecate their already super stale Unix userland. macOS itself will become less accessible.
• unsilence: Console Interface and Library to remove silent parts of a media file 🔈