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Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2026 — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
• LFNW2026 Schedule
• Linux 7.0: Btrfs — A translation layer of logical block addresses that allows changes without moving or rewriting blocks for relocation
• Linux 7.0: XFS — Autonomous self-healing; delivers live filesystem health events to userspace for automatic repairs
• Linux 7.0: EXT4 — Improves write performance for concurrent direct I/O writes
• Linux 7.0: IO-uring — Adds support for BPF filtering to IO_uring for high performance async I/O
• Linux 7.0: Scheduler — Scheduler updates land with time slice extension, performance and scalability work for high core count systems
• Linux 7.0: Rust — Formally concluding the 'Rust experiment'; Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay
• Linux 7.1: i486 — Begins phasing out Intel 486 CPU support; no known Linux distributions still ship with i486 support
• Give Up GitHub — We realize this is not an easy task; GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their effective marketing, GitHub has convinced FOSS developers that GitHub is the best (and even the only) place for FOSS development.
• opengist — Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, open-source alternative to Github Gist.
• Forgejo on Codeberg — Beyond coding. We forge.
• Forgejo — Self-hosted alternative to GitHub; liberate your software from proprietary shackles with a familiar environment
• NixOS Wiki: Forgejo — Lightweight software forge; completely free software and a fork of Gitea
• Forgejo Actions — Reusable pieces of code for CI workflows; compatible with GitHub Actions
• NixOS Forgejo Actions Runner — NixOS configuration for turnkey deployment of Forgejo Actions runners
• Forgejo Federation (PR #10453) — Work-in-progress for federated repositories; enabling decentralized software development
• Forgejo Snippets (Issue #1069) — Create a shareable piece of text, be it code or plain text, publicly or privately
• Git Novice Guide — Free interactive tutorial; learn version control with Git from scratch
• Pick: sshroute — Network-aware SSH router - routes connections to different IPs/ports/keys/jump hosts based on active VPN or network
• Pick: rendercv — Resume builder for academics and engineers
• Pick: ESPHome Starter Kit — DIY sensor kit for Home Assistant with ESPHome; build your own smart home devices

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• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

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

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• 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.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• eBPF Perf Tools 2019 | SCaLE 17x
• SCALE2019_eBPF_Perf_Tools.pdf
• Oracle Releases DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 For Linux Systems
• Gentoo Linux Touts DTrace 2.0 Support
• bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018
• Full-system dynamic tracing on Linux using eBPF and bpftrace
• A thorough introduction to eBPF
• BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more — The BPF Compiler Collection: BCC or BPF Compiler Collection is a set of tools leveraging eBPF for kernel tracing, Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more.
• BCC Tutorial
• xdp-tools: Utilities and example programs for use with XDP
• ply: a dynamic tracer for Linux
• Liam's Multi-Monitor Setup
• Pick: netop — Network Top -- Help you monitor network traffic with bpf
• Pick: bpftune — bpftune aims to provide lightweight, always-on auto-tuning of system behaviour.

Plus some good Debian news, our tips for better battery life, and we play a little Hot SUSE Potato.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Ell Marquez.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• Google Stadia announced, a game streaming service for Chrome, Android, and TVs — Powered by Linux, it supports the Vulkan graphics API and Google partnered with Unreal to fully support the Stadia platform.
• Chris on Instagram — We found a great spot to work for the day, great signal. Just one problem. We sorta got taken hostage for a few hours.
• Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Candidates — We're now into the campaigning period. We have 5 candidates.
• Linux Laptop Battery Optimization Tool TLP 1.2 Released — TLP 1.2 was released today after being in development for more than a year, and it brings support for NVMe, and removable drives like USB and IEEE1394 devices, support for multi queue I/O schedulers (blk-mq), and other significant enhancements.
• TLP – Configuration
• Suse is once again an independent company — Few companies have changed hands as often as Suse and yet remained strong players in their business. Suse was first acquired by Novell in 2004. Novell was then acquired by Attachmate in 2010, which Micro Focus acquired in 2014. The company then turned Suse into an independent division, only to then announce its sale to EQT in the middle of 2018.
• SUSE is now an independent company after being acquired by EQT for $2.5 billion | Packt Hub — As the company has been owned by EQT, so according to few users it’s still not independent. One of the users commented on HackerNews, “Being owned by a Private Equity fund can really not be described as being “independent”.
• MATE 1.22 released — Wanda the Fish now works properly on HiDPI displays
• Albert Vaca Cintora on Twitter — KDE Connect has been removed from @GooglePlay for violating their new policy on apps that access SMS. The policy has an explicit exception for companion apps (like KDE Connect), but it was removed anyway and *there's no way to talk to Google*
• Use of SMS or Call Log permission groups - Play Console Help
• Full-system dynamic tracing on Linux using eBPF and bpftrace — What if you want to trace what happens inside a system call or library call? What if you want to do more than just logging calls, e.g. you want to compile statistics on certain behavior? What if you want to trace multiple processes and correlate data from multiple sources? In 2019, there's finally a decent answer to that on Linux: bpftrace, based on eBPF technology.
• Learn eBPF Tracing: Tutorial and Examples — eBPF can be used for many things: network performance, firewalls, security, tracing, device drivers, and more!
• IO Visor Project — The IO Visor Project is an open source project and a community of developers to accelerate the innovation, development, and sharing of virtualized in-kernel IO services for tracing, analytics, monitoring, security and networking functions. It builds on the Linux community to bring open, flexible, distributed, secure and easy to operate technologies that enable any stack to run efficiently on any physical infrastructure.
• IO Visor Project on GitHub — Organization that hosts the repos for bpftrace, bcc, and other tools.
• BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more — BCC is a toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs, and includes several useful tools and examples.
• bpftrace: High-level tracing language for Linux eBPF
• Install bpftrace for Linux using the Snap Store
• BCC Tool Diagram — Diagram that breaks down useful tools in BCC
• eBPF Perf Tools 2019: Slides
• eBPF Perf Tools 2019: Video (resynced by Squigly)
• eBPF Perf Tools 2019: Video (original)

Plus some important community news, some Darktable tips for beginners, and some select clips from this year’s LinuxFest Northwest.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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Support LINUX Unplugged

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• Announcing the release of Fedora 28 — Fedora 28 Workstation has big news too. For the first time, we’re making it easy for users to enable certain third-party software sources, including proprietary Nvidia drivers.
• Fedora Atomic Host — This is our first release of Fedora 28 Atomic Host!
• What's New in Fedora 28 Workstation — Battery life on laptops running Fedora Workstation is improved with various hardware power-saving features now enabled by default.
• Google Just Forked a Popular GTK Theme — Not just any GTK theme but one forked from the Material Design inspired Adapta GTK theme.
• Why is the kernel community replacing iptables with BPF? — The Linux kernel community recently announced bpfilter, which will replace the long-standing in-kernel implementation of iptables with high-performance network filtering powered by Linux BPF
• VoidLinux Serious Issues — The current project leader has disappeared. We have had no contact with him since the end of January.
• darktable 2.4.3 released | darktable — We’re proud to announce the third bugfix release for the 2.4 series of darktable, 2.4.3!
• LFNW 2018 - Images | Brent Gervais Photography — Great photos from LinuxFest Northwest 2018
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Top 10 Major Changes
• Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 Official Flavor Debuts as First Long-Term Supported Version — Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 LTS official flavor will be supported for three years, until April 2021, and ships with the latest Budgie Desktop 10.4 "Irish Summer" desktop environment by default, accompanied by GNOME 3.28 applications.
• Breeze through Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver — GNOME Initial Setup was chosen for this job as we will be exploring how to integrate more features of the tool during the 18.10 cycle.