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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
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• Xfce 4.20 Desktop Released With Wayland Improvements & New Features
• Xfce 4.20 Release Notes
• The Last Tuxies
• Plan your meetup: Colony Events
• LUP 600 Pacific Northwest Party · Colony Events
• Introducing CentOS Stream 10 — CentOS Stream serves as a development branch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), providing a continuous preview of features before they are incorporated into RHEL.
• EPEL 10 is now available — The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) 10 has been officially released, offering users access to over 10,000 packages built from 3,600 source packages, thanks to the efforts of over 150 Fedora package maintainers.
• Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller: A change of hats! — Matthew Miller, the Fedora Project Leader for over a decade, has announced his decision to step down from the role. Initially aiming for a five-year term, he extended his tenure after feeling there was more to accomplish. Now, after ten years, Miller believes it is the right time for a leadership change to bring fresh energy and ideas to Fedora.
• Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Proposed For Fedora 42 — The Fedora Project is considering a new "Fedora COSMIC" spin for Fedora 42, featuring the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment developed by System76.
• Changes/FedoraCOSMIC - Fedora Project Wiki
• Ptyxis Becomes Ubuntu's Recommended Replacement To GNOME Terminal — Ptyxis was introduced as an option in Ubuntu 24.10, though it was not the default terminal. While GNOME Console remains the default in Ubuntu 25.04 daily builds, there is growing support for Ptyxis within the Ubuntu community. Canonical Desktop Software Engineer Jeremy Bicha confirmed this shift, stating that Ptyxis is now the "recommended replacement for GNOME Terminal."
• Zen Kernel FAQ — Result of a collaborative effort of kernel hackers to provide the best Linux kernel possible for everyday systems
• The MuQSS CPU scheduler
• Linux Audio System Configuration Guide
• I've turned preempt=full on and it solved most of my problems : r/Fedora
• How to 'test' if kernel is truly PREEMPT=FULL and threadirqs? - Fedora Discussion
• Revisiting the kernel's preemption models (part 1) [LWN.net]
• config_preempt_dynamic - kernelconfig.io
• Kernel preemption - Wikipedia
• Dynamic Preemption Support Sent In For The Linux 5.12 Kernel - Phoronix
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• kb6nu study guide
• ARISS SSTV Gallery
• Libro.fm, Your Independent Bookstore for Digital Audiobooks
• Fountain 1.1.10 - Payment UX Improvements and Faster Boosts
• Ports-info — Simple utility to show open ports on linux systems

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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
• Spring Membership Discount — $3 off forever.
• 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.

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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

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• Berlin with Brent Meetup — Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:00 PM
• Berlin Buds on Matrix
• Things are Changing | Office Hours 32 — We've got a radically new format idea for Office Hours and want to tell you all about it.
• Linux Action News 299 — Recent advances in embedded Linux, Canonical takes full control of LXD, ZFS gets a handy Btrfs feature, and updates on the show's production.
• Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base — Behind the scenes, the Canonical team has been actively exploring the benefits of Ubuntu Core beyond the realm of IoT, most notably in the context of developers and daily users.
• ubuntu-core-desktop on GitHub — This directory contains an image of Ubuntu Core 22 with the GDM display manager loaded into the boot file system.
• Actions · canonical/ubuntu-core-desktop - GitHub
• canonical/workshops on GitHub — Workshops provides a user friendly interface to create and manage LXD containers as well as provides a full featured terminal.
• Workshops on the Snap Store
• Snikket Dev's take on XMPP and Embrace Extend Extinguish
• snikket-server: Image builder for Snikket server
• Snikket Chat — Simple, secure and private messaging.
• OLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and Expo — OLF is returning on September 8-9, 2023!
• Magnolia Mayhem’s CaterCloud
• Support LINUX Unplugged on Conshax
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• kz6fittycent/BobRossQuotes: A bunch of quotes from Bob Ross
• Bob Ross Quotes - Snap Store

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• Linux Live Kit is a set of shell scripts which allows you to create your own Live Linux!
• K3b — K3b was created to be a feature-rich and easy to handle CD burning application.
• Finnix — Finnix is the original utility live Linux distribution. Write it to a USB flash drive or burn it to a CD, boot it, and you're seconds from a root prompt with hundreds of utilities available for recovery, maintenance, testing and more.
• Finnix 123 released
• Cluster Knoppix
• Richard Brown on Twitter — Rebrand and rescope; Old expanded support was just RHEL and just for purpose of holding customers over until they migrated to SLE; Liberty includes CentOS and Leap, and doesn’t require customers to move to SLE.
• sc-im — Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised – An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal.

Plus, we've cracked what's driving Linux Distribution adoption these days.

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• Pictures of Brent's Server Cabinet Built — Some pics of the sweet server cabinet @brentgervais built this last weekend at the @jupitersignal studio.
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup
• Flathub to verify first-party apps and allow developers to collect monies — Flathub is going to gain a way to process and verify apps from first-party teams. As in, developers who directly publish their app and manage the Flatpak package process for Flathub.
• SUSE Liberty Linux Announced For Mixed Linux Environments — SUSE Liberty Linux is a new technology and support offering that provides customers a unified support experience for managing their heterogeneous IT environments.
• SUSE announces something for those who miss the old CentOS: Liberty Linux — SUSE Liberty Linux is a new technology and support offering that provides customers a unified support experience for managing their heterogeneous IT environments.
• Consistent-Lab-5595 comments on Suse Liberty Linux announcement - Is this a RHEL or CentOS clone ?
• New Features in Linux Mint 20.3 ‘Una’ Cinnamon Edition — Linux Mint 20.3 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2025.
• Edge ISO available for Linux Mint 20.3 — This image is made for people whose hardware is too new to boot the 5.4 LTS kernel included in Linux Mint 20.3. It ships with kernel 5.13.0-25 instead.
• mainline: A continuation of the free version of ukuu. — A tool for installing the latest Linux kernels on Ubuntu-based distributions.
• All Roads Lead to Arch: The Evolution of Linux Distros Used for Gaming Over Time — Ubuntu used to be a juggernaut, a staple in the world of Linux Gaming. Ubuntu was the default go-to distro for many users for probably a decade. It’s still an important distro at almost 20% share in our graph, but it’s not the first one anymore.
• Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager
• Canonical hiring a Desktop Gaming Product Manager for Ubuntu Linux
• Fountain podcast app
• Pick: ssh-tools — Making SSH more convenient.

We try three different builds and prepare ourselves for our journey into SUSE land. Our setups, what we liked, and what we still need to figure out.

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• SteamOS 3.0 will have an immutable filesystem - a first for arch? — During the Steam Deck Development live steam, Valve finally gave us some good news and said that SteamOS 3.0 will be generally available for everyone to install on their computers. They also revealed that SteamOS 3.0 will have an immutable root file system to prevent unauthorized access and use PipeWire for audio.
• Greg’s Company Buys Ads openSUSE Search Results — "Hey, @openSUSE have you been seeing a drop in downloads recently? I might know why..."
• They did this to AlmaLinux at the end of July.
• AlmaLinux AMA
• Setting up a containerized environment - openSUSE User Documentation Project
• Using the Linode Graphical Shell (Glish)
• How to switch from OpenSUSE Leap to Tumbleweed?
• Transactional Updates | Administration Guide | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
• The Transactional Update Guide
• Manpage for transactional-update — Transactional-update updates the system in a transactional way; this means updates are atomic, so either the patches are fully applied or nothing is changed. The update does not influence the running system and it can be rolled back. To activate the changes, the system needs to be rebooted. To achieve this transactional-update is using Btrfs' snapshot mechanism, combined with the default distribution tools
• YaST Online Update
• OpenSUSE System Updates
• Snapper rollback with btrfs
• openSUSE/transactional-update — Do transactional updates on openSUSE/SUSE Linux Enterprise products with btrfs, snapshots and rollback.
• Open Build Service
• OpenSUSE Conference 2017
• Post that explains some of the drawbacks of transaction updates
• Zypper cheat sheet VERY handy and recommend it
• JupiterGarage.com
• Pick: mp4grep — Command-line tool that searches audio/video files.
• JB All Shows Feed

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• Carl George on Twitter — "I’ve been playing around with matplotlib to chart this data over time. Due to the difference in scale it’s necessary to split into different ranges. The “Liberty” systems started showing up in August, with a high of 79 systems the week of 2021-09-06 to 2021-09-12."
• Microsoft transforms the Windows Subsystem for Linux into a Windows 11 app — “Our goals are to make WSL in the Microsoft Store the best way to install and use WSL, as you’ll be able to get the latest updates fastest through that route, and in the long term we’d like to move WSL users to use the store version.”
• A preview of WSL in the Microsoft Store is now available!
• Craig Loewen on Twitter — "A preview of WSL inside of the Microsoft Store is now available for Windows 11 machines!"
• Hayden Barnes on Twitter — "So many new goodies today! WSL in the Store, WSLg bundled with WSL, new WSL2 kernel version, a bunch of fixes for ARM64 👀, wsl.exe --mount, and a handful of nice refinements and fixes."
• Ubuntu 21.10 Release Date & New Features — Ubuntu 21.10 will be available to download from October 14, 2021.
• Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri - New Features and Release Date
• Ubuntu 21.10 is upon us, and it’s small changes for major improvements
• Ubuntu 19.10 To 21.10: AMD Zen 2 + Radeon Performance On Linux Over Two Years — Ubuntu 19.10 was the first release following the Zen 2 debut in the summer of 2019. The benchmarks today are looking at the Ubuntu 19.10 performance up against the Ubuntu 21.10 daily ISO in its near final form ahead of the official release on Thursday.
• MATE 1.26 released | MATE — The theme for this release has been adding new functionality to the MATE Desktop while maintaining the look and feel that we all know and love. While all the added features are surely quite exciting we also did not forget to do tons of bugfixing, modernising the code base and optimizing the performance.
• KDE Plasma desktop 5.22 Release Announcement — This time around, the big new feature is Adaptive Transparency: This means the panel and panel widgets will usually be pleasantly translucent, but will become entirely opaque if there are any maximized windows, to avoid any visual distractions when you need to focus.
• Bug #1944468 “Electron applications all crash upon launch”
• quickemu — Quickly create and run highly optimised desktop virtual machines for Linux, macOS and Windows; with just two commands. You decide what operating system you want to run and Quickemu will figure out the best way to do it for you.
• A GUI for Quickemu — Provides an interface for setting up new VMs with Quickget, starting and stopping existing VMs.
• PN50 review from Anandtech
• Phoronix Test Suite 10.6 Released With Various Improvements For Linux Benchmarking — Windows 11 support and various Windows improvements, a wide variety of Phoromatic fixes and improvements from cleaning-up/unifying the CSS to log improvements and making use of the new log viewer, and more.
• Why I have decided to step down from the AlmaLinux OS Foundation Board — "So, here we are. I am no longer on the board - and I am no longer deciding what is next for AlmaLinux OS Foundation. I will continue to be heavily involved in the day-to-day of AlmaLinux. CloudLinux and TuxCare will continue being just one of many corporate sponsors. benny Vasquez was voted to become a new chair of the board, and I am sure that the foundation and the board will flourish under her guidance."

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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.

Plus new details about the Steam Deck everyone has missed, and an old friend stops by the show with an update.

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• Amazon’s Astro home robot is like having Alexa on wheels — Amazon claims the Astro can do a wide variety of things you might want from a home robot. It can map out your floor plan and obey commands to go to a specific room. It can recognize faces and deliver items to a specific person.
• “Intel Software Defined Silicon” Coming To Linux For Activating Extra Licensed Hardware Features — The Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) driver is for supporting the "post-manufacturing mechanism for activating additional silicon features."
• One of the Steam Deck’s biggest hurdles just disappeared: EAC has come to Linux and BattlEye is inbound — While developers would still need to patch their games, this immediately means some of the most popular games on Steam are now theoretically within reach, including Apex Legends, Dead by Daylight, and War Thunder, which are all among the top 25 games on Steam.
• Syscall User Dispatch — The Linux Kernel documentation — Compatibility layers like Wine need a way to efficiently emulate system calls of only a part of their process - the part that has the incompatible code - while being able to execute native syscalls without a high performance penalty on the native part of the process. Syscall User Dispatch brings the filtering of the syscall dispatcher address back to userspace.
• Steam Deck :: FAQ
• Poll: Which “server” distro should we go with next? — So it's time to replace our garage server... We've been running Arch, and so far it's worked mostly great. Should we keep pushing our luck, or try something new?
• PowerEdge R820 Rack Server Details
• PhoneTrack - Nextcloud Apps — PhoneTrack is a Nextcloud application to track and store mobile device's locations.
• Pick: tubearchivist — Your self-hosted YouTube media server.

Plus, our thoughts on how Valve might successfully ship Arch to consumers, a batch of feedback, and more.

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• CBL-Mariner Stories
• microsoft/CBL-Mariner — Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
• Linux Action News 186
• Ethan Lee on Twitter — "If you have released a Linux version of your game on Steam and are directly approached by Valve about using Proton instead, please get in touch (DMs open). They’ve already done this a few times, but I would like to see how aggressive they’re planning to be going forward."
• Ethan “flibitijibibo” Lee May Retire from Programming Due to Valve’s Proton
• Destination Linux 235 — Valve’s Steam Deck & Right To Repair Goes Mainstream
• Rocky and Gred Spin BS to avoid coming on LUP
• I agree with Johnny Hughes - CentOS Project dev and Board Member - if Stream does not do the job - Alma seems like the way to go
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup(s)
• Salt Lake City Meetup
• Denver Meetup
• JB Telegram
• Pick: Hotwire — Hotwire allows you to study network traffic of a few popular protocols in a simple way
• Hotwire Screenshot
• Pick: RustScan — 🤖 The Modern Port Scanner 🤖
• RustScan Screenshot
• “Head of Strategy” of Muse Group (Muse Score, Audacity, Ultimate Guitar) continues to threaten developer in public

Plus, we set up private and secure location tracking and tell you how and why.

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• NASA is mapping out plans for bigger, more capable Mars helicopters — One concept is the Mars Science Helicopter, advocated as a way to greatly expand the exploration zone on Mars — including possible deep dives into Red Planet caves.
• This Week in Linux - TuxDigital — This Week in Linux is a weekly news show that covers the latest news in the world of Linux. We cover a wide variety of topics from application / distro releases to Linux Gaming and even news about core system items like the Linux kernel itself.
• Destination Linux Network — DLN is a media network powered by Linux & Open Source designed to bring passionate creators together to spread our love of open-source, technology, and Linux.
• Salt Lake City Meetup
• Denver Meetup Meetup
• Colony Tracker . LIVE — Track the Colony and join us for Micro Meetups!
• OwnTracks — OwnTracks allows you to keep track of your own location. You can build your private location diary or share it with your family and friends. OwnTracks is open-source and uses open protocols for communication so you can be sure your data stays secure and private.
• What it does - OwnTracks Booklet
• HTTP - OwnTracks Booklet
• Example: OwnTracks recorder in a container on Fedora with Let’s Encrypt and nginx
• Installing Owntracks recorder on FreeBSD – Dan Langille’s Other Diary
• Rocky and Gred Spin BS to avoid coming on LUP
• Current sitting CentOS Board Member Recomends People use AlmaLinux — Hey guys .. Igor and all .. I want to wish you all the very best. And for anyone out there who wants to move from CentOS Linux 8 to another downstream RHEL community build , this is the definitely the one I would recommend. I have known the Cloud Linux team for a while .. and I very much trust them.
• IRC Transcript from LUP 413
• Greg was too busy talking to the Reg to come on the show
• Feedback: Michael Staggs on Twitter — @ChrisLAS You mentioned recommending Deepin to new users. I know in current political climate, China and security are hotbutton issues, but I don't feel we can give Deepin a pass on security. So bad that OpenSUSE audit team won't audit them anymore.
• Portal:Deepin/Security Issues
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup(s)
• JB Telegram
• JB Mumble

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• name cannot be blank on Twitter — "The Linux Foundation announced a game engine, the build instructions are only for Windows 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️”
• Linux Foundation to Form New Open 3D Foundation
• IBM President and former Red Hat boss Jim Whitehurst quits — The CEO said Whitehurst had "played a pivotal role in the IBM and Red Hat integration" and was "instrumental in articulating IBM’s strategy" but alas "Jim has decided to step down".
• (YouTube) What I learned from giving up everything I knew as a leader | Jim Whitehurst | TED Institute
• Salt Lake City Meetup
• Denver Meetup Meetup
• Rocky Linux Community Update — After seven months of long, hard work, we are beyond excited to announce that Rocky Linux 8.4 has reached General Availability for x86_64 and aarch64!
• SpecialInterestGroup/Hyperscale - CentOS Wiki — The Hyperscale SIG will focus on enabling CentOS Stream deployment on large-scale infrastructures and facilitating collaboration on packages and tooling.
• Events/Dojo/May2021 - CentOS Wiki
• dotnet/maui — .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
• Stack from Rocky Bows out of Responding

Plus, have we all been missing the best new Linux distribution? We give this fresh distro a spin and report.

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• Linux 5.13 Released With Apple M1 Bringup, Landlock, FreeSync HDMI + Much More — There are also new Linux 5.13 security features like the Landlock LSM, Clang CFI support, and optionally randomizing the kernel stack offset at each system call.
• The 5.13 kernel has been released
• PipeWire 0.3.31 Released — JACK has seen massive stability improvements. Locking and correctness wrt to callbacks and has been reworked. Also thread priorities have improved.
• PipeWire Project on Twitter — Important change in PipeWire 0.3.31 is that we now have a database of weird Bluetooth hardware. This allows us to apply device specific tweaks to work around issues. This database is from Android and should let us support more devices seamlessly.
• Real-time audio streaming with ROC
• Deepin Linux 20.2.2 Introduces a Brand-New App Store, Secure Boot Support — With this release, fans of Deepin Linux can enjoy a brand-new App Store that supports installation of Android apps, offers a better app management with support for batch installation of applications, and has a fresh new design with simplified interaction.
• deepin 20.2.2 – Deepin Technology Community
• Deepin Screenshots Album
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• dahliaOS — dahliaOS is a modern, secure, lightweight and responsive operating system, combining the best of GNU/Linux and Fuchsia OS.
• dahliaOS Screenshots Album
• Google is releasing Fuchsia OS, starting w/ 1st-gen Nest Hub
• Here’s an easier way to try Fuchsia OS on your computer
• Reddit: A Question About Zircon And Its Capabilities
• A new version of Mixxx is out — Mixxx 2.3.0 comes with a new default skin: "LateNight" underwent a massive redesign and replaces "Deere" as default skin.
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• junest — The lightweight Arch Linux based distro that runs upon any Linux distros without root access.
• x11docker — Run GUI applications and desktops in docker. Focus on security.
• How to Run GUI Applications in a Docker Container
• jessfraz/dockerfiles — Various Dockerfiles I use on the desktop and on servers.
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• Can I make use of other containers like debian or arch - Desktop / Silverblue - Fedora Discussion
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• Pick: termbin.com — Netcat-based command line pastebin.

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• Thoughts on The University of Minnesota Kernel Ban
• Some 5.12 development statistics — By the time the 5.12 kernel was finally released, some 13,015 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline repository for this development cycle. That makes 5.12 the slowest development cycle since 5.6, which was released at the end of March 2020. Still, there was plenty of work done for 5.12.
• Linux 5.12 Release Announcement
• As Linux 5.12 released, Linus Torvalds warns next version will probably be rather large — "'Despite the extra week, this was actually a fairly small release overall. Judging by Linux-next, 5.13 will be making up for it."
• Flatpak 1.11.1 Brings Changes For Steam, Better Support For Command Line Programs — One of the changes with Flatpak 1.11.1 worth mentioning is allowing sub-sandboxes to have a different /usr and/or /app.
• steam-runtime-tools: pressure-vessel — pressure-vessel is a bit like a simplified version of Flatpak for Steam games.
• While we worry about WSLg Amazon is Positioned to Kill Server Linux
• Humble Bundle is removing their pay sliders and replacing them with two preset pay splits.
• Looking forward to Fedora 34 — In 2021, complaints about PulseAudio are scarce indeed; the quirks have long since been ironed out and, for most people, sound just works. Obviously, it must be time to rip out the audio infrastructure and start over. That is what Fedora has done in the 34 release; PulseAudio is gone, replaced by PipeWire.
• How to Upgrade to Fedora 34 from Fedora 33 Workstation
• Common Fedora 34 Bugs
• Fedora Linux 34 is officially here!
• Fedora 34 Changes
• Gnome40
• DefaultPipeWire
• XwaylandStandalone
• Some nice stuff not yet in stable that Fedora wanted
• WaylandByDefaultForPlasma
• AArch64 KDE Plasma Desktop image
• Fedora Media Writer — Write Fedora Images to Portable Media
• BtrfsTransparentCompression
• btrfs Wiki: Compression
• Fedora Workstation 34 feature focus: Btrfs transparent compression - Fedora Magazine — This article is going to go a little further under the hood and talk about data compression and transparent compression in btrfs. A term like that may sound scary at first, but less technical users need not be wary. This change is simple to grasp, and will help many Workstation users in several key areas.
• EnableSystemdOomd
• LINUX Unplugged 351: Lenovo Loves Linux
• Remove Support For SELinux Runtime Disable
• UnifyGrubConfig
• Unplugged Core Contributors
• Feedback: Running his own email for six years
• Feedback: Uses a Neat Trick with his Self Hosted Email
• Feedback PIck: Modoboa, Open Source email server
• PIck: zellij — A Rust and WebAssembly powered terminal workspace with batteries included.
• jupitergarage.com

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• 68k.news — Headlines From the Future
• Linux Action News 182 — GNOME 40 is out and we chat with the project’s Executive Director about the technical and visual improvements in the new release. Plus the facts around RMS’s return to the FSF board, and our analysis of the situation.
• Episode 118 — Stallman is back and ruffling feathers, PHP moves to GitHub, AMP might be on its way out, Audacity’s latest update gives us pause, Fairphone delivers an unlikely update, online events, and more.
• AlmaLinux OS Stable Release is live! — We are very happy to announce that today we are releasing the first AlmaLinux OS stable version. That's right, you can go right ahead and download the stable version and use it everywhere you need a stable, reliable, Linux distribution.
• Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week — Ubuntu and its flavors will be participating in another ‘Ubuntu Testing Week’ from April 1st to April 7th.
• Shells — Personal Workspaces Powered by Cloud Computers.
• An Interview With Zlatan Todoric, Open-Source Developer & Former Purism CTO
• Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer
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• [Mathieu's Blog] Not on the same page — The disconnect I feel between what I want to deliver in what I build and what the users asks for is now too big to ignore. In some way, I already knew it would be the case before I even started Lutris. I knew that what I was trying to achieve wasn’t in line with how Linux users usually behave…
• Feedback: Cockpit
• Feedback: Covid Appointment Script

Plus new insights into the future of CentOS, and Chris falls in love with a 14-inch screamer.

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• The unanswered question at CentOS community Q&A: How can we trust you now? — The CentOS board conducted a public Q&A just ahead of last week's FOSDEM 2021 open source conference – and there was an awkward silence when someone asked whether changing the end-of-life (EOL) date for a released project is something that might happen again.
• Events/Dojo/FOSDEM2021 - CentOS Wiki
• CentOS Dojo 2021: Board of Directors - YouTube
• Ubuntu Backports a Major App Update to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS — Ubuntu 20.04 LTS shipped with Thunderbird 68.x but this version is no longer supported upstream. This leaves Ubuntu developers will a problem: backport individual security fixes to Thunderbird 68, or port the newer (and still-supported) Thunderbird 78 to LTS users?
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• EndeavourOS Issues First 2021 Release For Easy-To-Use Arch-Based Linux Distro — For those that have been meaning to try out an Arch Linux based distribution that is easy-to-use and not time consuming with sensible defaults, EndeavourOS is out with its first new spin since 2021 -- and in fact their first fresh ISO release since September.
• Our first release of 2021 has arrived – EndeavourOS
• ASUS - ROG Zephyrus G14 14" Ultra-Slim Gaming Laptop
• Linux on Laptops: ASUS Zephyrus G14 with Ryzen 9 4900HS | Ars Technica
• AUR: snap-pac-grub — Pacman hook to update GRUB entries for grub-btrfs after snap-pac made snapshots.
• Feedback: Browser Sync
• xBrowserSync — Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!
• Feedback: Gaming on Wayland
• A free, open-source future for Mailspring - Information - Mailspring Community — Today, I am excited to announce that I am open-sourcing mailsync - the C++11 core of Mailspring that performs email sync - under the same GPLv3 license used by the rest of the app, making Mailspring entirely free software.
• Pick: ht — Yet another HTTPie clone, written in Rust.
• PIck: fddf — Fast data dupe finder, written in Rust.
• Pick: bottom — Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor, written in Rust.

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• LINUX Unplugged 281: 2019 Predictions
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• Cast Your Nominations for the 2020 Tuxies
• CloudLinux to invest more than a million dollars a year into CentOS clone — Project Lenix will be a free, open-source, community-driven, 1:1 binary compatible fork of RHEL 8 (and future releases).
• Feedback: Mike’s Stream Struggles
• Matrix Client: Fractal — Fractal is a Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust. Its interface is optimized for collaboration in large groups, such as free software projects.
• Matrix Client: nheko — The motivation behind the project is to provide a native desktop app for Matrix that feels more like a mainstream chat app.
• This Week in Matrix
• Lenovo begins rollout of Fedora Linux on their laptops, Ubuntu systems due soon — As the Fedora team mentioned in the original announcement, it's coming without any bloat as they said Lenovo "respects our open source principles". The only software they will have is from the included repositories, no extra fluff.
• ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 Spec (PDF)
• HW probe of Chris’ ThinkPad X1 Carbon
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• Feedback: Rob’s Academic Tuxies
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• Feedback from Marcus: The Best Top Tool
• Glances — An Eye on your system
• Pick: pbgopy — Copy and paste between devices.

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• Cast Your Nominations for the 2020 Tuxies — Nominate your favorite projects (the term used loosely here) and devices for the 2020 Tuxies.
• CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream — The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release.
• FAQ - CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream
• CentOS Stream: Building an innovative future for enterprise Linux — Since its introduction, we’ve seen great enthusiasm from partners and contributors around CentOS Stream and the continuous stream of innovation that the project provides. Given this, we’ve informed the CentOS Project Governing Board that we are shifting our investment fully from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream.
• When Red Hat bought CentOS in 2014 they said…
• CentOS Git server
• OG CentOS Founder Wants to build another CentOS — I am considering creating another rebuild of RHEL and may even be able to hire some people for this effort. If you are interested in helping, please join the HPCng slack (link on the website hpcng.org).
• LUP 320: RHELhide
• Pi-KVM — A very simple and fully functional Raspberry Pi-based KVM over IP that you can make with your own hands without any soldering!
• Check out Self-Hosted — Discover new software and hardware to get the best out of your network, control smart devices, and secure your data on cloud services.
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• Hector Martin is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs | Patreon — The goal is to bring Linux support on Apple Silicon macs to the point where it is not merely a tech demo, but is actually an OS you would want to use on a daily driver device.
• Hector Martin
• Pick: radeontop — View your GPU utilization, both for the total activity percent and individual blocks.
• Pick: bpytop — Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

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• Google slams Samsung for making changes to Linux kernel code
• Mitigations are attack surface, too
• Regular Release Distributions Are Wrong (archive.org cache)
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Timeshift: system restore tool for Linux
• Timeshift 19.08.1 does not apply file/folder exclude/include settings
• New Users and Linux Mint
• T480 Fingerprint Reader?
• Cockpit and ZFS
• Bcachefs prediction feedback
• jc: This tool serializes the output of popular gnu linux command line tools and file types to structured JSON output. This allows piping of output to tools like jq.
• Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century | Brazil’s Blog
• Regular Release Distributions Are Wrong

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• Unpatched KDE vulnerability disclosed on Twitter — When a user opens the KDE file viewer to access the directory where these files are stored, the malicious code contained within the .desktop or .directory files executes without user interaction.
• KDE rips out ability for KConfig to run shell code — KDE responded on Wednesday by removing the feature to have shell commands as values in the KConfig files, which was described as an intentional feature that allowed for flexibility.
• First modern coreboot server platform — This platform is the first modern upstream coreboot server platform on the market with an Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 processor also known as Kabylake-DT.
• Open-source firmware is the future - Blog | Mullvad VPN — This is the first time a modern off-the-shelf server platform gains coreboot support, and it is an integral part of realizing our vision of transparent and independently auditable VPN servers.
• Adder WS - System76
• System76 Preparing To Roll Out Their First Coreboot-Enabled Laptop - Phoronix — Ahead of this year's Open-Source Firmware Conference (OSFC) being held from 3 to 6 September at the Google and Facebook offices in Mountain View, System76 announced the Darter Pro OSFC Edition that ships with Coreboot.
• System76 Granted A Thunderbolt License To Integrate Into Their Open Firmware - Phoronix — System76 has been granted a Thunderbolt license, meaning that we can now integrate Thunderbolt compatibility into our open firmware.
• Jupiter Extras — New ideas, great interviews, events, and other content you will love. We bring you the Extras.
• Free Courses at Linux Academy — August 2019 – Linux Academy
• major.io — words of wisdom from a systems engineer
• Continuous integration testing for the Linux kernel | Opensource.com — The call for continuous integration (CI) grows for more and more projects, the Continuous Kernel Integration (CKI) team forges ahead with a single mission: prevent bugs from being merged into the kernel.
• Major's Continuous Kernel Integration Talk at Texas Linuxfe 2019
• CKI Project — Continuous Kernel Integration
• Continuous Kernel Integration project on GitHub
• CKI hackfest agenda for Plumbers
• 0-Day Continuous Integration (CI) Test Service from Intel — With so much code contributed to each release, it’s impossible to avoid potential regressions. To eliminate them, you must first find the bugs that cause them, which can be like finding a needle in the proverbial haystack. This is what makes the 0-Day Continuous Integration (CI) Test Service so important. 0-Day delivers comprehensive, automated and continuous integration testing that monitors the Linux mainline and 800+ developer trees for regressions, helping find bugs before they reach the Linux kernel so problems can be fixed before they impact users. Simply put, 0-Day helps ensure Linux kernel quality in a highly complex development environment.
• Snowpatch: continuous-integration testing for the kernel — The Linux kernel project lags many others in its use of CI testing for a number of reasons, including a fundamental mismatch with how kernel developers tend to manage their workflows. At linux.conf.au 2019, Russell Currey described a CI system called Snowpatch that, he hopes, will bridge the gap and bring better testing to the kernel development process.
• Kernel CI Dashboard — FAQ
• Linux Test Project — Linux Test Project is a joint project started by SGI, OSDL and Bull developed and maintained by IBM, Cisco, Fujitsu, SUSE, Red Hat, Oracle and others. The project goal is to deliver tests to the open source community that validate the reliability, robustness, and stability of Linux.
• patchwork — Patchwork is a web-based patch tracking system designed to facilitate the contribution and management of contributions to an open-source project.
• Kernel Patch-Evaluated Testing — KPET is a framework which will execute targeted testing based on changes introduced in the patch, e.g. a network driver or similar would trigger network related testing to be invoked, or a filesystem change would invoke filesystem testing.
• Beaker lab automation project — Beaker is open-source software for managing and automating labs of test computers.
• google/syzkaller — syzkaller is an unsupervised, coverage-guided kernel fuzzer
• openQA | Introduction to the heart of openSUSE's automated testing — OpenSUSE is way too versatile for humans to test even the most common configurations. Therefore openQA was introduced and became an indispensable part of the openSUSE development and release processes. openQA is an automated test tool for operating systems. It allows to test the whole installation process of an operating system in a wide range of software and hardware configurations by leveraging qemu. This talk gives an introduction to openQA and explains how openQA works to help understand what it's output means.
• OpenQA - Fedora Project Wiki — Fedora uses the openQA automated testing system as a significant part of the release validation testing process, and for testing updates. On this page you can find more information about openQA, how Fedora uses it, and how to install your own instance of openQA so you can try it out and contribute to test development.
• AppImage by probonopd · Pull Request #72 · JupiterBroadcasting/CasterSoundboard — This PR, when merged, will compile this application on Travis CI upon each git push, and upload an AppImage to your GitHub Releases page.
• TeleCast with popey — An experiment in lean audio delivery via Telegram. TeleCast with popey is an informal short-form audio podcast-like show
• LINUX Unplugged 202: Halls of Endless Linux — Michael Hall from Endless joins us to discuss his new role, Endless’ involvement with Gnome & the unique approach they are taking with EndlessOS.
• End of life - Fedora Project Wiki — Fedora Project maintains each release of Fedora according to the Fedora Release Life Cycle. The following releases have reached End of Life, and are no longer maintained and do not receive any updates.
• quicktile — Adds window-tiling keybindings to any X11-based desktop.

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• Pepsi drops plans to use orbital billboard — “This was a one-time event; we have no further plans to test or commercially use this technology at this time.”
• Ataris VCS Delayed, But Does Anyone Even Care? — There’s no prototype (yet). There’s no Ubuntu-based OS (yet). There’s not even a convincing demo of any of the games which will run on it (yet).
• Announcing my Contract with Purism for an Adaptive Fractal UI — Overall, I’m very excited that Purism accepted my proposal and that I get to work on this. I have been looking forward to the day where I can run Fractal on my phone, and I’m glad to be bringing that closer.
• Scientific Linux Discontinued — Fermilab will continue to support Scientific Linux 6 and 7 through the remainder of their respective lifecycles. Thank you to all who have contributed to Scientific Linux and who continue to do so.
• Debian Project Leader Elections 2019
• DPL Platform for Sam Hartman — One of my key roles as DPL will be to make sure Debian is a community where we can be heard, and where we have the opportunity to reach understanding regardless of whether our ideas are chosen. I will do this by personally participating in such mediation and recruiting others to these mediation efforts. Eventually, I hope many of us will get better at seeking to understand and avoiding escalating discussions on our own.
• Red Hat Summit 2019
• DockerCon San Francisco 2019
• Linux Academy Sale!
• Manjaro XFCE Stable Edition — This edition is supported by the Manjaro team and comes with XFCE, a lightweight and reliable desktop with high configurability.
• Xubuntu — Xubuntu is a community developed operating system that combines elegance and ease of use.
• I Can't Believe I'm Writing This Linux Article About Loving The Xfce Desktop Environment — At this point, my Xfce desktop looks just as good or better than the Gnome DE I'm accustomed to.
• Ulauncher - The Linux Desktop Application Launcher — It has a minimal design, searches fast and uses less system resources, which makes it one of the best desktop launcher for Linux.
• OpenAudible — An open-source cross-platform audible audiobook manager. Download, view, convert to MP3, and manage all your audible.com content with our easy-to-use desktop application.
• Subspace: A simple WireGuard VPN server GUI
• Subspace by Portal Cloud — Subspace is an open source WireGuard® VPN server that supports connecting all of your devices to help secure your internet access.
• Dunst: Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
• ARandR: Another XRandR GUI — ARandR is designed to provide a simple visual front end for XRandR. Relative monitor positions are shown graphically and can be changed in a drag-and-drop way.
• Wavebox — The best of the web, in one focused place.
• nativefier — Make any web page a desktop application
• pop-os/icon-theme — System76 Pop icon theme for Linux

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• This Guy Made a Computer Mouse That Is Itself a Computer
• Apple’s FoundationDB open sources CloudKit database layer — The FoundationDB Record Layer is an open source library that provides a record-oriented datastore with semantics similar to a relational database, implemented on top of FoundationDB.
• FoundationDB Record Layer: A Multi-Tenant Structured Datastore
• 'Celluloid' is the new name of GNOME MPV — “The current name is a bit unelegant, and doesn’t really fit in with other apps on the GNOME platform. Good app names are usually a single noun that’s related to the app’s domain (e.g. “Fragments” for a torrent app, or “Peek” for a screen recorder).”
• Google is Adding 'Apt Search' to the ChromeOS App Launcher — Now, based on a code commit uncovered by Chrome Story, users of the Linux (beta) for Chromebooks will also be able to search for and install Linux apps from the Chrome OS launcher.
• Chrome OS to let companies use other Linux distros for apps — Device administrators will be able to designate a URL for Chrome OS to download the Linux distro, and a hash to ensure the download was successful.
• Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Release — OTA-7 is the release where we take a breath and focus on getting the launch just right.
• ZFS On Linux Runs Into A Snag With Linux 5.0 — ZFS On Linux currently fails to build against the Linux 5.0 kernel sources.
• Linux 5.0: _kernel_fpu{begin,end} no longer exported · Issue #8259 · zfsonlinux/zfs
• The future of ZFS in FreeBSD
• Datto — Datto offers business continuity and disaster recovery, networking, business management, and file backup and sync solutions, and has created a one-of-a-kind ecosystem of partners that provide Datto solutions to half a million businesses across more than 130 countries.
• Neal Gompa - DevOps Engineer II - Datto, Inc.
• Neal Gompa on Twitter @Det_Conan_Kudo
• Chezmoi: Manage your dotfiles securely across multiple machines.
• Introducing Ephemeral – Cassidy James Blaede — The always-incognito web browser for elementary OS.
• Introducing The Elementary OS 5 Linux Community Challenge
• Chris losing it on the Linux Academy Live Stream — Time code link to just before it all happens.