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• Jupiter Signal Network Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
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Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD
• Jupiter Uplink
• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• ConnecTen Internet: promo Jupiter35
• YouTube: Clanker Therapy 2: What We Have Been Building
• Audio: Clanker Therapy 2: What We Have Been Building
• Bootleg: Clanker Therapy 2: What We Have Been Building | Members Stream
• Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building? - Livestream Oct 16, 2026
• Texas Linux Festival 2026
• Frigate NVR
• blakeblackshear/frigate — NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras
• Frigate Documentation
• Frigate Releases
• Frigate Object Detector Configuration
• Ultralytics YOLO11 Documentation
• llama.cpp
• Ollama
• Ultralytics YOLO11
• ultralytics/yolo11 - GitHub — Ultralytics YOLO11 discovery and quickstart for detection, segmentation, classification, pose, OBB, and tracking.
• cage-kiosk/cage: A Wayland kiosk
• TomBursch/kitchenowl - GitHub — KitchenOwl is a self-hosted grocery list and recipe manager. The backend is made with Flask and the frontend with Flutter. Easily add items to your shopping list before you go shopping. You can also create recipes and add items based on what you want to cook.
• dahjah/muse-vm-hacks — Basic repo with what you need to go from a bare chat interface with your muse agent to an ssh-accessible VM with the nix package manager and full tailscale access (muse ships with a stipped down version
• Pick: wtfi2 — Live, visual network-path diagnostic that pinpoints exactly where your Wi-Fi connection dies — and how to fix it. Rust + ratatui TUI.
• Pick: SpaceScan — Fast disk-usage explorer for Linux: sunburst chart, keyboard-driven table, and text/CSV/JSON reports. Accurate like du, safe cleanup, 10 languages.
• Pick: Vermouth — A native C++/Qt Linux launcher for Windows, Steam, GOG and retro games. 2.3 MB installed. Zero bloat. KDE-first.
• Pick: RAWmakase — 📸 Free, fast, Lightroom-compatible RAW photo editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
• ArtCraft — Open Source Tools and Models for Makers, Builders, and Creatives (aka open source Adobe clones)
• storytold/lightcraft - GitHub — An open-source non-destructive photo editor written by scratch in pure Rust

Sponsored By:

• 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
• nebula-tower — A user-friendly server to manage your Slack Nebula mesh network.
• Texas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TX
• JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party, Sat Oct 4 - Meetup.com
• JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony Events
• Turnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TX
• Ad-Free Viewing By Showing Your Support During The Phoronix Oktoberfest / Autumn Sale — Through the end of the month (30 September), you can enjoy premium at the Oktoberfest rate. The normal Phoronix Premium rate is $45 USD per year or $250 for a lifetime subscription but for this year's Oktoberfest deal, you can go premium for just $30 per year or $150 for a lifetime subscription.
• GNOME 49 Release Notes — We code named the release “Brescia”, after a beautiful Italian city that hosted this year’s GUADEC.
• GNOME 49 Officially Released With Wayland Improvements, Showtime As Video Player
• Ubuntu 25.10 Beta Officially Released For Testing — Canonical today released the Ubuntu 25.10 Beta as they work toward the stable Ubuntu 25.10 release in mid-October.
• Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings — Ubuntu 25.10's transition to using Rust Coreutils in place of GNU Coreutils has uncovered a few performance issues so far with the Rust version being slower than the C-based GNU Coreutils.
• base64 implementation almost 8x slower than GNU for some large files
• sort does not finish for large one line file
• Fedora 43 Beta ISOs Released For Testing — Fedora 43 Beta ISOs are now available for those wanting to help in testing.
• Omarchy 3.0 — Omarchy 3.0 is here — faster installs, big MacBook support, and lots of polish.
• systemd 258 Released With systemd-factory-reset & Other New Tools — Systemd 258 brings systemd-factory-reset to request a factory reset on the next reboot, systemd-pty-forward to allocate a pseudo TTY/PTY, UEFI firmware images can now be embedded in a UKI, and many other new features.
• systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 Changes
• Kernel RFC: Introduce multikernel architecture support — This patch series introduces multikernel architecture support, enabling multiple independent kernel instances to coexist and communicate on a single physical machine. Each kernel instance can run on dedicated CPU cores while sharing the underlying hardware resources.
• The Multikernel: A new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems [PDF]
• mirdaki/computer-config — Config for server and personal deployments
• My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup — Matthew shares their ultimate self-hosting setup built on NixOS, ZFS, and Tailscale, balancing privacy, data control, and usability for family and friends.
• basecamp/once-campfire — Campfire is a web-based chat application.
• Pick: savr: Read it later. Keep it local. No server needed. — Savr is an app for saving online content to read later. It is file-centric, offline first, future proof, and favors decentralization.