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• Rich Hickey: Simple Made Easy — Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path.
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• Should I use NixOS? Short answer: no. — If words like "declarative", "generational", and "immutable" don't put your sexuality in jeopardy, you're considering NixOS for the wrong reasons.
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• OliveTin/OliveTin: OliveTin gives safe and simple access to predefined shell commands from a web interface.
• Pick: isd — Simplify systemd management with isd! isd is a TUI offering fuzzy search for units, auto-refreshing previews, smart sudo handling, and a fully customizeable interface for power-users and newcomers alike.
• Pick: planify — Task manager with Todoist & Nextcloud support designed for GNOME
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• Super Productivity on Flathub
• Super Productivity GitHub — Keep organized and focused!
• LUP 553: Portably Predictable Productivity

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• Spotify App Stops Working for Linux Users
• GrapheneOS version 2023051600 Released — Add initial Contact Scopes feature as an alternative to granting the Contacts permission... Add production ready Pixel 7a support.
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• GrapheneOS on Twitter — Our new Contact Scopes feature is now available in the Alpha channel. It provides a way to avoid granting the Contacts permission for apps requiring it. It's similar to our Storage Scopes feature replacing needing any of the media/storage permissions.
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — GmsCompatConfig (sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer configuration) version 53 released.
• Asahi Linux To Users: Please Stop Using X.Org — Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin issued a lengthy post encouraging users of this Apple Silicon focused Linux distribution to stop using X.Org as Wayland is the future.
• RHEL 9: Deprecated functionality — The X.org display server is deprecated, and will be removed in a future major RHEL release. The default desktop session is now the Wayland session in most cases.
• r/linux: The whole X11 vs. Wayland thing… — Whilst I get Wayland is the future I have a bunch of issues with it. Off the top of my head…
• Rustdesk ‘wontfix’ a naive privilege escalation on Linux
• The LUP Odroid H3+ Chassis — I recently got an Odroid H3+ and desperately needed a chassis for it so I decided to make one. Since I am a long-time listener and a big fan of the Linux Unplugged podcast I wanted to pay tribute to it.
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• Pull Request #378 by DECbot — "JB is live!" indicator - on page load, call the script to highlight the #livebutton red if jupiter.tube is live
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• Fountain 0.4.8 - Referrals, Search Editorial and Other Improvements
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• Report: Default Desktop Environments for Linux and Unix
• How Much Does KDE Pay Developers?
• KDE Issue Reporting Guidelines - Have Realistic Expectations
• KDE neon
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• All bugs submitted by Brent during Kubuntu Jammy beta testing
• Firefox icon missing from panel following Kubuntu upgrade 20.04->22.04
• kdesu fails to authenticate with sudo from Jammy
• KDE Issue Reporting
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• Fedora Workstation bug - Guake
• PhotoPrism — PhotoPrism is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web
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• iDrive — Cloud backup solutions for home and business.
• Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program.
• FolderSync — FolderSync enables simple sync to cloud based storage to and from local folders on the device SD cards.

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• NASA greenlights two new Mars helicopters and lengthens Perseverance’s resume — Perseverance’s high-flying robotic companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, has inspired the design of two future rotorcraft that would swerve over the Martian terrain to pick up other samples.
• Get your name in the hat for our JPL tour — Join the JB Crew at JPL! We only have 15 spots. Please enter your info, and our happy little python script might just pick your name from the virtual hat.
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• remembertoremember on Twitter — I haven’t really had major Linux woes in a long time and I use new hardware with 4k but always shop with Linux in mind.
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• nixos-generators — The nixos-generators project allows to take the same NixOS configuration, and generate outputs for different target formats.
• MinisForum DeskMini UM350 Ryzen Mini PC
• Dell Wyse 5070 thin client
• New Features in Linux Mint 21 ‘Vanessa’ Cinnamon Edition — Linux Mint 21 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop experience more comfortable.
• Linux Mint 21 Released - Built Atop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Office Hours 9 — We Hate Crypto Too
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• Steam Deck Tech Specs
• (Video) Steam Deck Teardown — Everything Valve Said Not to Do!
• Chris' Known Good USB C Docking Station
• Boost Pick: Furtherance — Track your time without being tracked.
• Furtherance on Flathub
• Impractical Python Projects
• Understanding all of Python, through its builtins
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• Pick: Droidcam — DroidCam turns your phone/tablet into a webcam for your PC.
• Droidcam with Linux
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• Ubuntu MATE 22.04 Will Include Flatpak Support by Default — Ubuntu MATE isn’t shipping the Flathub repo (like Flathub) preconfigured, or bundling in any Flatpak apps by default. There are also no plans at present to add or expose Flatpak-friendly features in the distro’s homegrown tools like Software Boutique.
• Ubuntu 22.04 Dailies Show an Ubuntu Pro Notification on Login — The blurb mentions that Ubuntu Pro is free for personal use on up to 3 machines.
• Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager
• Kismet — A wireless network and device detector, sniffer, wardriving tool, and WIDS (wireless intrusion detection) framework.
• Slackware Release Announcement — Well folks, in spite of the dire predictions of YouTube pundits, this morning the Slackhog emerged from its development den, did *not* see its shadow, and Slackware 15.0 has been officially released.
• Slackware 15.0 Officially Released, Powered by Linux Kernel 5.15 LTS
• Grub Init Tune: Mario Bros. Mushroom Powerup
• Grub tune tester v0.5.0
• A collection of GRUB init tunes

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

Special Guest: Ethan Lee.

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• 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
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• 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

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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
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• 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

This episode kicks off the start of a bigger conversation series.

Plus community news, very handy picks, and more.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Maria Komarova, and Michael Aaron Murphy .

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• GNOME Shell 3.36 release Looking Great
• Firefox 75 On Wayland Now To Have Full WebGL, Working VA-API Acceleration - Phoronix
• Don’t forget about DST!
• FOSS Talk Live - June 20th at The Harrison near King’s Cross in London
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Late Night Linux – Episode 84 – Late Night Linux
• How Docker Makes All Linux Distros Look Alike - Container Journal
• Docker Desktop for Mac - Docker Hub
• Docker Desktop for Windows
• Simon Ferquel on Twitter: “We just updated @docker desktop edge channel with a build supporting Windows 10 Home Insider (you need WSL2 to run it on Home). So happy to see this at last!” / Twitter
• Yong Sheng on Twitter: “running #docker on #wsl2 from a fresh reboot of #windows10 20H1: 9 sec startup, 1.1gb of ram, no hyper-v MobyVM required. passthrough support into my existing ubuntu wsl instance. been waiting for this for years! https://t.co/6ernWi4Hoz” / Twitter
• Chris Tries a Mac and it Makes him Think
• Steam Survey Updated For February 2020 With Latest Linux Figures - Phoronix
• Carl Richell on Twitter: Pop!_OS tiling is shaping up nicely. We’re hoping to have a 20.04 beta release available in about a month.
• pop-os/shell: Pop!_OS Tiling GNOME Extension
• catt - Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources to your Chromecast.
• The Silver Searcher - A code searching tool similar to ack, with a focus on speed.
• Ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern

Plus an easy way to snapshot any workstation, some great feedback, and an extra nerdy command-line pick.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.

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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

Plus a few new GNOME features, some Arch server follow up, and more!

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Hayden Barnes.

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• New Gnome Extensions Tool
• GNOME 3.36 Bringing Better Multi-GPU Handling With Switcheroo-Control, NVIDIA Support
• Jonathon F in Launchpad
• Pocket Popcorn Computer
• Old Pocket C.H.I.P.
• Better Together: A Cloud Guru and Linux Academy Join Forces – Linux Academy
• Brunch w/Jason PT1
• Linux Headlines
• Jupiter Extras - NOW ON YouTube
• Leadership Transition at Whitewater Foundry
• Canonical co-sponsors Windows Subsystem for Linux conference
• https://github.com/sirredbeard/unofficial-webapp-office#how-this-works
• Hayden Barnes on Twitter: “Fixes inbound in a few days for @nim_lang snaps (stable, LTS & nightly) that will allow access to system libraries and non-gcc compilers. Also added bash completion for nim & nimble. Made w/ #UbuntuWSL & @ubuntu Hyper-V & @code, built on @github Actions & pushed to @snapcraftio.”
• Canonical makes Ubuntu for Windows SubSystem for Linux a priority
• WSLconf 1 - a community-initiated event on all things Windows Subsystem for Linux and WSL-related.
• grub-btrfs advice
• Bad Idea!
• Wikit - A command line tool for searching wikipedia
• Linux Spotlight w/Chris
• Linux Spotlight w/Chris audio version

Plus we share some big news of our own and the strange feels we get from Chrome OS.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Ell Marquez, and Philip Muller.

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• Kate Planning — Whereas Kate already works well as a general purpose editor, the competition in the text editor space got more intense in the last years. For example Sublime, Atom and Visual Studio Code are things to keep an eye on feature & polishing wise.
• Free software advocate Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week | ZDNet — Stallman gave a "mostly standard talk," covering the importance of free software, GPL v3, GNU vs. Linux. He added that "he had a list of 'small requests': make Github push users to better software license hygiene, make hardware manufacturers to publish their hardware specs, make it easier to workaround Secure Boot."
• Microsoft hosts first Windows Subsystem for Linux conference | ZDNet — Hayden Barnes, founder of Whitewater Foundry, a startup focusing on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) announced WSLconf 1, the first community conference for WSL.
• Manjaro is taking the next step - Announcements - Manjaro Linux Forum — On July 8th, Philip and Bernhard met together with the CEO of Blue Systems to officially found this business entity. As a result, Bernhard and Philip will now be able to commit full-time to Manjaro, while Blue Systems will take a role as an advisor.
• Manjaro CommunityBridge
• 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. Self-Hosted is a chat show between Chris and Alex two long-time "self-hosters" who share their lessons and take you on the journey of their new ones.
• Linux Headlines — Linux and open source headlines every weekday, in under 3 minutes.
• Free Courses at Linux Academy — September 2019 — On September 17th Linux Torvald first released the Linux Operating System Kernel on September 17th, 1991 so we are celebrating by offering free training for you to increase your Linux Skills.
• Texas Cyber Summit — October 10th-12th 2019 in San Antonio Texas
• Texas Cyber Summit Telegram Group
• Unofficial Hacker Family Dinner & Unbirthday Party — Join Chris, Wes, Chz and Ell for a meet and greet with fellow Texas Cyber Summit attendees and a belated celebration of Ell and Allie's Birthdays! There will be good food, good friends, and we hope some good conversation.
• LINUX Unplugged 296: Defining Desktop Linux — "[...] a desktop linux operating system where you are able to download the source code for the current version of the kernel, compile it, install it, reboot and boot off the kernel you just compiled and built. If you can't do that, it is not desktop linux." - Wimpy
• Linux for Chromebooks could get an installation menu for different distros – About Chromebooks — A Crostini user recently submitted a feature request to provide more options, such as Ubuntu, Fedora or theoretically, any Linux distro that Google could possibly offer.
• Google Launches Chrome OS, Says Windows is 'Torturing Users' | CIO — Google co-founder Sergey Brin said Windows and other traditional PC operating systems are "torturing users" at Google's Chrome OS launch event Wednesday, where the company claimed 75% of business users can be converted from Windows to Chrome OS right away.
• Elgan: Why Chromebooks will fail | Computerworld
• In the Clouds: Inventing Chromebook — While working for Google back in 2006, I had the good fortune to create a new operating system.
• dnschneid/crouton: Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment
• Chromebooks can now run Linux in a Chrome OS window – Gigaom — This is cool: Chromebook users can now run their favorite Linux distribution within a window right on their Chrome OS desktop. Google’s own happiness evangelist François Beaufort revealed with a Google+ post Tuesday that Chromebook oners who have set their device in developer mode can download special Crouton Chrome extension to run Linux without being forced to switch back and forth between the two operating systems.
• The Google Play store, coming to a Chromebook near you
• A new generation of Chromebooks, designed to work with millions of apps
• LINUX Unplugged Episode 248: Contain All The Things — Chrome OS is officially getting full-fledged Linux apps, and we ponder if this is truly a win for Linux.
• You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS | TechCrunch — For the longest time, developers have taken Chrome OS machines and run tools like Crouton to turn them into Linux-based developer machines. That was a bit of a hassle, but it worked. But things are getting easier. Soon, if you want to run Linux apps on your Chrome OS machine, all you’ll have to do is switch a toggle in the Settings menu. That’s because Google is going to start shipping Chrome OS with a custom virtual machine that runs Debian Stretch, the current stable version of the operating system.
• Chrome OS Stable Channel Gets Linux Apps | Linux Journal
• Neverware — Whether you’re a business, a school, or a home user, CloudReady OS is the fast, easy way to convert your hardware to the security and manageability of Google's Chrome ecosystem.
• chromefy — Transforming Chromium to Chrome
• Brunch with Brent: A Chat with Drew DeVore — Brent sits down with Drew DeVore, Jupiter Broadcasting's latest addition to the Audio Editing Engineer team and cohost of Choose Linux. We chat shoes, his love for linux, adventures in audio, and why JB feels like home.

Plus an update to the most important text editor in the world, the new distro causing controversy, and what is a tainted kernel.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Ell Marquez, and Neal Gompa.

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• Could ‘alcosynth’ provide all the joy of booze – without the dangers? — David Nutt has long been developing a holy grail of molecules – also referred to as “alcarelle” – that will provide the relaxing and socially lubricating qualities of alcohol, but without the hangovers, health issues and the risk of getting paralytic.
• Happy 21st, curl — We estimate that there are now roughly 6 billion curl installations world-wide. In phones, computers, TVs, cars, video games etc. With 4 billion internet users, that’s like 1.5 curl installation per Internet connected human on earth.
• nano 4.0 has been released — An overlong line is no longer automatically hard-wrapped, smooth scrolling (one line at a time) has become the default, and more!
• Hackers Hijacked ASUS Software Updates to Install Backdoors on Thousands of Computers - Motherboard — The researchers estimate half a million Windows machines received the malicious backdoor through the ASUS update server, although the attackers appear to have been targeting only about 600 of those systems.
• Malicious updates for ASUS laptops — The trojanized utility was signed with a legitimate certificate and was hosted on the official ASUS server dedicated to updates, and that allowed it to stay undetected for a long time. The criminals even made sure the file size of the malicious utility stayed the same as that of the original one.
• Shadow Hammer APT MAC Check — Check if your device has been targeted by the ShadowHammer cyberattack
• SigintOS: A Linux Distro for Signal Intelligence — SigintOS is an Ubuntu based distribution with a number of built in signal intelligence applications for software defined radios such as RTL-SDRs and other TX capable SDRs like the HackRF, bladeRF and USRP radios.
• SigintOS — SigintOS; as the name suggests, SIGINT is an improved Linux distribution for Signal Intelligence. This distribution is based on Ubuntu Linux. It has its own software called SigintOS. With this software, many SIGINT operations can be performed via a single graphical interface.
• Careers – Linux Academy — Ruby on Rails Dev? Maybe some angular love or willing to learn? Linux Academy is hiring RIGHT NOW
• LFNW: T-shirt preorder closes on 3/31 — While we will have some for sale on site during LFNW2019, the only way to guarantee that you get a shirt is to register for the event, and buy an Individual Sponsorship.
• Virtual Linux Ansible Fundamentals Study Group | Meetup — Join us before Linux Unplugged for an introduction to Ansible.
• Call for Proposals - DebConf19 — The DebConf Content team would like to call for proposals in the DebConf 19 conference, which will take place in Curitiba, Brazil, between July 21th and 28th.
• Fedora 29 Wifi Warning Bug
• Tainted kernels — The Linux Kernel documentation — The primary reason for the ‘Tainted: ‘ string is to tell kernel debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has occurred.
• What is a tainted kernel in Linux? — The feature is intended to identify conditions which may make it difficult to properly troubleshoot a kernel problem. For example, the loading of a proprietary module can make kernel debug output unreliable because kernel developers don't have access to the module's source code and therefore cannot determine what the module may have done to the kernel. Likewise, if the kernel had previously experienced an error condition or if a serious hardware error had occurred, the debug information generated by the kernel may not be reliable.
• Install Fests - Free Software Foundation — My new idea is that the install fest could allow the devil to hang around, off in a corner of the hall, or the next room. (Actually, a human being wearing sign saying “The Devil,” and maybe a toy mask or horns.) The devil would offer to install nonfree drivers in the user's machine to make more parts of the computer function, explaining to the user that the cost of this is using a nonfree (unjust) program.
• NexDock 2 by Nex Computer — Kickstarter — Turn your Smartphone or Pi into a laptop.

Plus two popular Linux desktop apps see a big upgrade, and Wes explains to Chris why he should care a lot more about cgroups.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Neal Gompa.

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• MX-18.1 Continuum Official Release — MX-18.1 is a refresh of our MX-18 release, consisting of bugfixes and application updates since our original release of MX-18.
• Bootstrap Your Snap | Snapcraft — The goal of Snapcraft Live is to bootstrap developers in building snaps and publishing them in the Snap Store
• Shoreline Firewall Maintainer Retires — Shorewall 5.2.3 will be my last Shorewall release. If you find problems with that release, I will attempt to resolve them. But, I am now departing on an extended trip to visit some of the places in the world that I have always dreamed of seeing.
• Shoreline Firewall — Shorewall is a gateway/firewall configuration tool for GNU/Linux.
• Geary 0.13.0 released! — This is a major new release, featuring a number of new features — including a new user interface for creating and managing email accounts, integration with GNOME Online Accounts (which also provides OAuth login support for some services), improvements in displaying conversations, composing new messages, interacting with other email apps, reporting problems as they occur, and number of important bug fixes, server compatibility fixes, and security fixes.
• digiKam 6.0.0 is released — Dear digiKam fans and users, following the long stage of integrating a lots of work from students during the Summer of Code, and after 2 years of intensive developement, we hare proud to announce the new digiKam 6.0.0.
• Fedora 31 Planning To Use Cgroups V2 By Default - Phoronix — Enabling Cgroups V2 by default will allow systemd and the various Linux container technologies along with libvirt and friends to make use of the new features and improvements over the original Cgroups like offering a unified hierarchy.
• CGroupsV2 Changes - Fedora Project Wiki — The world will eventually move to CGroupsV2 and Fedora should lead the way.
• Why Clear Linux OS? - YouTube — A quick introduction to why and what the Clear Linux OS is about.
• Pi MusicBox - A Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Music player for the Raspberry Pi, with remote control — Welcome to the Swiss Army Knife of streaming music using the Raspberry Pi.
• eta: Generic tool for monitoring ETA and progress of an arbitrary process. — A tool for monitoring progress and ETA of an arbitrary process.
• netdata, the open-source real-time performance and health monitoring, released v1.12 ! : linux — Introducing netdata.cloud, the free netdata service for all netdata users High performance plugins with go.d.plugin (data collection orchestrator written in Go) 7 new data collectors and 11 rewrites of existing data collectors for improved performance A new management API for all netdata servers Bind different functions of the netdata APIs to different ports Improved installation and updates