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• 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

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• The mobile experience you've been asking for - Defined Networking — The most recent mobile release brings the mobile app to parity with what you’d expect from Nebula everywhere else: persistent connections, full configuration support, custom DNS, and firewall rules.
• Red Hat Summit 2026 Day 1 Keynote - The next platform is choice - YouTube
• Enabling long-term stability: Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle, Premium
• Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hummingbird model to the full operating system — Fedora Hummingbird primarily utilizes an image-based workflow, similar to containers, but also runs in virtual machines and even on bare metal. If you’ve been following Project Hummingbird‘s work on container images, or Project Bluefin’s work on the operating system, you already know the model. Fedora Hummingbird applies this model all the way down to the host OS.
• Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hummingbird model to the full operating system - Fedora Discussion
• After Ubuntu, Now Fedora is Jumping Onto the AI Bandwagon With Dedicated AI Developer Desktops — Now, Fedora has voted on an initiative called Fedora AI Developer Desktop that will spawn AI-flavored Fedora Atomic Desktops.
• Friction in Fedora over AI developer desktop initiative — After more than a month of sometimes heated discussion, the Fedora Council had voted to approve the initiative; however, a last-minute change to vote against the proposal by council member Justin Wheeler has (at least temporarily) sent it back to the drawing board.
• Fedora AI Developer Desktop Objective Discussion
• Pick: BudsLink — BudsLink is an application that provides battery monitoring and feature control for supported Bluetooth wearable audio devices, including AirPods, Beats, Sony Audio wearables, Samsung Galaxy Buds and Nothing/CMF buds.
• BudsLink on Flathub
• Pick: yamlcast — YAMLCast turns a YAML description of a terminal screencast into an animated GIF.
• Pick: lightroom-cc-on-linux — Reproducible recipe for running Adobe Lightroom CC on Linux via Wine 11.8 staging. Researched and verified end-to-end by Claude Opus 4.7.

Special Guest: Dustin Kirkland.

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• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• 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

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• 🤠 Texas Linux Festival Trip Support (Fake Boost)
• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Texas Tracker
• Texas Linux Fest
• TXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - The Design & Implementation of the Darwin Operating System
• TXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - Getting Started with Ansible on Linux
• TXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - Lessons They Don't Teach You in School: A Year in High-Performance Computing
• TXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - I got Malware, BTW. A quick look at the rising trend of Linux Malware
• A Gift for the Open Source Community: Chainguard’s CVE-Free Raspberry Pi Images (Beta)
• Chainguard for Raspberry Pi
• Chainguard's Images
• Wes Payne - Mesh Network Sidecars for NixOS Services - Texas Linux Fest
• noblepayne/meshSidecar: Mesh network sidecars for NixOS Services
• Pick: isd — isd (interactive systemd) – a better way to work with systemd units.
• ISD 0.6 Released For Interactive Systemd Management