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• OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE To Provide A Security and Performance Win For Dealing With Containers
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• What is Clan? - Documentation
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• Pick: booklog — B{ook}log is a self-hosted, multi-user book tracking platform for avid readers. Each user maintains a personal library and wishlist, with per-user readings, stats, and timeline.
• Pick: whosthere — Local Area Network discovery tool with an interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there? 🚪
• Pick: Weylus — Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.

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• Pick: hwatch — A modern alternative to the watch command, that records the result of command execution and can display history and diffs.
• Pick: rnote — A simple drawing application to create handwritten notes.
• Pick: dog dns client — dog is an open-source DNS client for the command-line. It has colourful output, supports the DoT and DoH protocols, and can emit JSON.

Plus our reaction to RMS's return to the FSF, some big project updates, picks, and more!

Special Guests: Dalton Durst and Danielle Foré.

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• Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux — Torvalds thinks "Rust's primary first target seems to be drivers, simply because that's where you find just a lot of different possible targets, and you have these individual parts of the kernel that are fairly small and independent. That may not be a very interesting target to some people, but it's the obvious one."
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• How To Forward Ports through a Linux Gateway with Iptables
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• Pick: dsnet — Simple command to manage a centralised wireguard VPN. Think wg-quick but quicker: key generation + address allocation.
• How to set up a wireguard VPN in minutes with dsnet
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• Project POCKIT — PocKit is a computer made for the real, physical world. On top of its powerful, versatile Core, you can attach BLOCKS - any number of any kind - to suit your application.
• Video: A small, plug-and-play Linux computer — Project POCKIT
• GNOME 40’s Best New Features
• FreeBSD kernel-mode WireGuard moves forward out-of-tree

Plus our plan to help make a difference in free software, and we reunite with some old friends.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:42 Intro
1:08 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:59 Arch Update
4:13 Big News for Jupiter Broadcasting
6:58 Coder Radio Returns
8:08 Linux Action News Returns
9:45 The Future of Jupiter Broadcasting
10:23 Unplugged Core Contributors
15:01 Arch Update Part 2
16:49 Housekeeping
18:20 Arch Update Part 3
19:05 Bug Squashers Assemble
24:11 Fedora 33 Test Week
28:27 Fedora IoT
33:51 Pick: FetchCord
34:50 Wimpy's Discord Plea
37:14 Arch Update Part 4
38:16 Pick: Chowdown
40:59 Catching Up with Mike
52:21 Catching Up with Joe
54:30 Catching Up with Wimpy
1:01:19 Outro
1:03:34 Post-Show

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• Fedora IoT becomes an edition
• (Test Week) Fedora 33 Btrfs Test Day" - Fedocal
• Feedback: Dylan’s friend made a Discord app
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• chowdown on GitHub
• Recipe schema
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• 2.5 Admins
• The Mike Dominick Show

Plus Dan and Cassidy from elementary OS join us to discuss version 6.0.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:45 Intro
2:25 KDE Neon 20.04
4:17 Mozilla Resturcturing
8:21 elementary OS 6
18:29 Housekeeping
20:00 Matrix
22:33 Silver Salvage
29:43 Matrix Server Punishment Test
33:04 Clients Galore
35:06 Secure By Default
43:56 Outro
45:08 Post-Show

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.

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