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• Pick: ws4kp — A web-based WeatherStar 4000
• Pick: ytdl-sub — Lightweight tool to automate downloading and metadata generation with yt-dlp.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• Flock 2024 Introducing Fedora Miracle, a proposed Fedora spin built on Mir - YouTube
• miracle-wm-org/miracle-wm — Miracle is a Wayland tiling window manager built on Mir
• miracle-wm
• miracle-wm wiki
• Roadmap - miracle-wm wiki
• nwg-piotr/nwg-shell — Installer & meta-package for the nwg-shell project: a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
• nwg-shell - a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
• fast fedora 41 mirror
• What’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 41 - Siosm’s blog — With Fedora 41, we are now building two new unofficial images: Kinoite Mobile and COSMIC Atomic. They join our other unofficial images: XFCE Atomic and LXQt Atomic.
• bootupd change
• bootupd GitHub
• containers/bootc — Boot and upgrade via container images
• Introduction - bootc docs
• Modifying Kernel Arguments :: Fedora Docs
• Getting Started with Bootable Containers :: Fedora Docs
• Booting local builds - bootc docs
• fedora-ostree-desktops Registry
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• asahi-audio - Fedora Packages
• AsahiLinux/asahi-audio: Userspace audio for Asahi Linux — PipeWire and WirePlumber DSP profiles and configurations tod rive the speaker arrays in Apple Silicon laptops and desktops.
• AAA gaming on Asahi Linux — We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL 3.0.
• FEX
• Wine
• DXVK
• vkd3d-proton
• muvm
• Fedora Media Writer
• FedoraQt/MediaWriter — A tool to create a live USB drive with an edition of Fedora
• Preparing Boot Media - Fedora Docs
• GDM Settings
• GDM Settings Web Site — Customize your login screen
• Web Apps
• eyekay/webapps source — Install websites as desktop apps, so that they appear in their own windows separate from any browsers installed. This is similar to the "Install as App" feature found in popular web browsers.

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• FOSDEM 2023 Transcribed by Whisper
• The Coder Robe — The Coder Robe is back and is a one-size-fits-most robe made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear.
• 192 Brewing Company — Mt. Vernon is proud to offer strictly Washington-made beers, wines and ciders. We rotate through guest taps from local breweries and feature a variety of red and white wines, as well.
• power-profiles-daemon Issue: Choppy GNOME animations when using “balanced power” mode on Intel platform
• krunvm — Create microVMs from OCI images.
• ViMusic — An Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music.
• GRC SpinRite
• Moonlight Game Streaming
• https://github.com/Wowu/docker-rollout — Zero Downtime Deployment for Docker Compose
• Podcasting 2.0 Introduction - Blubrry Podcasting
• NEW in Podverse 4.12.0 🥳 — Major audio and video playback fixes, faster app performance, value-for-value streaming for videos.
• boxxy — boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files.
• This week in KDE: The best Plasma 5 version ever

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• Pre-show: PSATA HATs support up to four drives on Raspberry Pi 4 or Rock Pi 4 — Radxa’s Dual ($25) and Quad ($35) SATA HATs work on the Raspberry Pi 4 or Rock Pi 4 at up to 400 MB/s via USB 3.0.
• JPL Lottery — 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. - If you don't get picked, don't worry. We're having another meetup while we are in town!
• Fedora Silverblue User Guide — Unlike other operating systems, Silverblue is immutable. This means that every installation is identical to every other installation of the same version. The operating system that is on disk is exactly the same from one machine to the next, and it never changes as it is used.
• Fedora 34 Silverblue on Raspberry Pi 4 / 400de
• RPi4: Raspberry Pi 4 UEFI Firmware Images — This repository contains installable builds of the official EDK2 Raspberry Pi 4 UEFI firmware.
• Self-Hosted 67: The No Container Theory
• Ventoy
• Endless OS
• Fitting Everything Together — TLDR: Hermetic /usr/ is awesome; let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, uniformity – built from traditional distribution packages, but deployed via images.
• Steam Deck Guide — A guide covering Steam Deck including the applications and tools that will make you a better and more efficient with your Steam Deck device.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• BoostCLI — Command line tool to send and review Podcasting 2.0 Value.
• Podcasting 2.0 Podcast — The Podcast Index presents Podcasting 2.0 - Upgrading Podcasting.
• Podcasting 2.0: “Bells Out” — Adam & Dave discuss the week's developments on podcastindex.org with Chris Fisher from Jupiter Broadcasting.
• Impervious API — Impervious API is a programmatic layer that sits on top of the Bitcoin Lightning Network
• Pick: Audio Sharing — Running Audio Sharing will automatically share the current audio playback in the form of an RTSP stream. This stream can then be played back by other devices, for example using VLC.
• Audio Sharing on Flathub
• Bottles on Flathub — Run Windows software on Linux with Bottles! Our built-in dependency installation system grants automatic software compatibility access. Use the download manager to download the official components: the runner (Wine, Proton), DXVK, dependencies, etc.

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• Office Hours — Join ChrisLAS for an update on all things Jupiter Broadcasting.
• What’s New in Fedora 36 — In a blog post introducing the Fedora 36 beta in late March, Red Hat said Fedora 36 continues the project’s “emphasis on delivering leading-edge open source technologies.”
• Fedora 36 ChangeSet
• Fedora 36 Release Date and New Features
• LXQt 1.1 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New
• Podman 4.0 — Podman 4.0 is one of our most significant releases ever, featuring over 60 new features. Headlining this release is a complete rewrite of the network stack for improved functionality and performance.
• The Best New Features in GNOME 42 — GNOME 42 features a plethora of GTK4/libawaita app ports, intros a retooled screenshot experience, and makes several notable performance upticks.
• Relocate RPM database to /usr
• Wayland By Default with NVIDIA proprietary Driver
• Cockpit File Sharing
• Stratis 3.0.0
• Fedora 37 Planning To Use RPM 4.18 For Better Security
• Fedora Planning To Introduce Major Package Management Changes Next Year
• Fedora Plans to Drop Support for Legacy BIOS Systems
• Fedora 37 Considering Removal Of Legacy X.Org Drivers
• Canonical Experiences Record Channel Business Growth and Momentum
• Upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04? Look Out for These Features in 22.04 — Wayland is the default display server in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS — but don’t panic: it’s 2022 and Wayland is pretty solid these days. Plus, thanks to technologies like Pipewire, even previously tricky areas like screen sharing work out of the box, and without fuss under Wayland. Heck, in Ubuntu 22.04 Wayland is so robust it even ships as default for computers for those with select NVIDIA graphics cards.
• Ubuntu Upgrade warning
• Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop Will be Able to Run on 2GB Raspberry Pi 4
• Linux_5.15 - Linux Kernel Newbies
• Ubuntu’s Zsys For OpenZFS Linux Installs Sees First Update In A Year
• ‘Ubuntu Pro’ Settings Pulled from Ubuntu 22.04
• How to Upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish
• RSSHub: 🍰 Everything is RSSible — RSSHub is an open source, easy to use, and extensible RSS feed generator. It's capable of generating RSS feeds from pretty much everything.
• RSSHub Introduction

What's new, what's changed, and what's broken. It's a Fedora special.

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• Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust — I've been working on a new operating system kernel Kerla, written from scratch in Rust which aims to be Linux-compatible at the ABI level. In other words, support running unmodified Linux binaries!
• Roving With Perseverance - NASA Mars — Displays including full-scale models of Perseverance and the Ingenuity Mars helicopter will be on exhibit in museums across the country
• The Museum of Flight – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program — NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter models will be on display, October 30, 2021 - April 3, 2022
• Remote desktop and screen casting in Wayland - GNOME Wiki! — Remote desktop functionality is not implemented in mutter but in GNOME Remote Desktop. GNOME Remote Desktop currently supports "screen share", also known as "remote assistance" mode through VNC or RDP. VNC support is provided via LibVNCServer and RDP support is provided via FreeRDP.
• GNOME remote desktop RDP setup guide — The RDP server in gnome-remote-desktop currently doesn't have the UI to setup yet. To be able to use the RDP server, the server certificate, private keyfile and credentials therefore need to be created manually.
• Zoom Supports Continued Access for Basic Users with Advertising Program
• Worth the wait: Fedora Linux 35 is here! — We switched the default audio system to PipeWire in Fedora Linux 34, and now we’re improving this by adding the new WirePlumber session manager. WirePlumber allows for more customization of the policy and rules for audio and video. It provides a richer development experience and adds bindings for most languages.
• WirePlumber 0.4.4 documentation — WirePlumber is a modular session / policy manager for PipeWire and a GObject-based high-level library that wraps PipeWire’s API, providing convenience for writing the daemon’s modules as well as external tools for managing PipeWire.
• Tom Wagner / Helvum — Helvum is a GTK-based patchbay for pipewire, inspired by the JACK tool catia.
• Common F35 bugs - Fedora Project Wiki
• DNF System Upgrade :: Fedora Docs
• Fedora Spins Prereleases
• Fedora Docs
• Changes/Restart User Service after Upgrade - Fedora Project Wiki
• Fedora Flathub Filter List
• Plasma Discover rpm-ostree_backend
• Ryujinx - Nintendo Switch Emulator — Ryujinx is an open-source Nintendo Switch emulator created by gdkchan and written in C#.
• Ryujinx on GitHub
• Ryujinx Setup & Configuration Guide

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Joe Ressington, and Neal Gompa.

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• LINUX Unplugged 281: 2019 Predictions
• LINUX Unplugged 334: Particularly Poor Predictions
• LINUX Unplugged 335: Practically Perfect Predictions

Plus Ubuntu's Director of Desktop Martin Wimpress covers the details everyone missed in 20.04.

Special Guests: Martin Wimpress, Matthew Miller, and Neal Gompa.

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• Red Hat Summit 2020 Virtual Experience
• Wimpy on Twitter: There are new ✨ features in #Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 that no one is aware of or talking 🙊 about, so here they are; straight from the horses mouth 🐴 Also, a little peek behind the curtain 👀 regarding how OEM requirements help shape desktop #Linux 🐧
• What’s new in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS?
• LINUX Unplugged 350: Focal Focus
• Lenovo is Bringing Fedora Linux to its ThinkPad Laptops
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• ACG launches Cloud Playgrounds for B2B
• Fedora 32 Officially Released With EarlyOOM, SSD TRIM Finally Flipped On, GNOME 3.36
• Fedora 32 Schedule: All Tasks
• Fedora Release Life Cycle
• Fedora 32 Cleared For Release Next Week
• Fedora 32 ChangeSet
• Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years — Christian F.K. Schaller
• GNOME 3.36
• Login and unlock in GNOME Shell 3.36
• Enable Earlyoom
• Previously covered on LINUX Unplugged 348: OK OOMer
• Change firewalld default to nftables
• Make iptables-nft preferred iptables implementation
• Nftables: a new packet filtering engine (2009)
• The return of nftables (2013)
• Why nftables
• And maybe it will be eBPF before long anyway… (2018)
• Adopting sysusers.d format
• DNF Better Counting
• Enable FSTrim Timer
• Restart services at end of rpm transaction
• Systemd 245 Released - First Version Including Systemd-Homed
• GCC 10
• GCC’s New Static Analysis Capabilities Are Getting Into Shape For GCC 10 - Phoronix
• Static analysis in GCC 10 - Red Hat Developer
• GLIBC 2.31
• LLVM 10
• Python 3.8
• Retire Python 2
• Fedora 32 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Engaged In Some Healthy Competition Over Performance
• Initial Benchmarks Of Fedora 32 Linux Performance
• Firefox Performance On Wayland Is Looking Good - Browser Benchmarks With KDE vs. GNOME
• Fedora Alternate Architectures
• Fedora Magazine Mentions Better Rock64 Support
• Bonus Pick: bashtop

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• Neal’s DNF-on-Tumbleweed Hack
• New LA free course for November
• Yellow Dog Linux - Wikipedia
• APT-RPM — APT-RPM is a port of Debian's APT tools to a RPM based distribution.
• URPMI - Mageia wiki — urpmi is Mageia's command line tool for managing packages and repositories
• Linux Millionaire Question Form — Jupiter Broadcasting wants to create a fun game for Linux enthusiasts to test their knowledge on the depths of technology and Linux history. Please help by providing us your thoughtful questions and suggested answers!

Plus we fall down the openSUSE rabbit hole when Ell updates us on her desktop challenge.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Danielle Foré, Ell Marquez, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa.

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• KDE Plasma 5.15: Lightweight, Usable and Productive — Discover, Plasma's software and add-on installer, has received tonnes of improvements to help you stay up-to-date and find the tools you need to get your tasks done.
• CVE-2019-5736: runc container breakout (all versions) — However, it *is* blocked through correct use of user namespaces (where the host root is not mapped into the container's user namespace).
• Container Bug Allows Attackers to Gain Root Access on Host Machine — The container bug, CVE-2019-5736, affects runc, the underlying container runtime for Docker, containerd, Kubernetes, cri-o and other container software, which means that nearly everyone running containers is affected.
• Doomsday Docker security hole uncovered | ZDNet
• Linux Coin Miner Removes All Other Malware and Miners
• Fedora logo redesign — The current Fedora Logo has been used by Fedora and the Fedora Community since 2005. However, over the past few months, Máirín Duffy and the Fedora Design team, along with the wider Fedora community have been working on redesigning the Fedora logo.
• Fedora's FESCo Approves Of A "Sane" Approach For Counting Fedora Users Via DNF — Baked over the past month was a new privacy-minded plan for counting users via DNF that relies upon a "countme" bit that will be incremented weekly or so and not have any UUID as originally envisioned
• Fedora 30 Will Get Bash 5.0 But Yum's Death Sentence Postponed To F31
• Draft Fedora 31 schedule available – Fedora Community Blog — After some discussion before the end of the year, we decided not to go with an extended development cycle for Fedora 31.
• SCALE Saturday Dinner JB Meetup — Let's eat and be merry at P.F. Changes Saturday night of SCALE17x!
• Containers: What you need to know; so you know what you need to know - Ell Marquez at S
• Elementary Staging COPR Repo — This repository contains packages of official elementaryOS projects which are not (yet) ready for inclusion in fedora as official packages.
• Ellopunk/OSchallenge - openSUSE — Ell's openSUSE journey notes.
• Pantheon Desktop on Fedora — The Pantheon desktop environment is the DE that powers elementaryOS. It builds on GNOME technologies, but utilizes components that were written from scratch in vala, using the GTK+3 toolkit.
• UberWriter — It's a simple markdown editor that offers a lot of features.
• solVItaire — An implementation of the classic solitaire games Klondike and Spider which has some nice to use vi(1) like keybindings, but can also be played with standard cursor keys, the number pad/row or even the mouse.
• VIM Adventures — Learn VIM while playing a game!
• Solvitaire As a SNAP
• FireQOS Reference
• FireQOS New User Tutorial

Plus community news, a reality check on Linux gaming, and some shiny new hardware.

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• Pretty much every recent Windows Phone is now hackable
• Fedora 31 Isn't Expected To Be Delayed After All — Since November the developers behind Fedora Linux had been discussing whether to significantly delay or even cancel Fedora 31 so they could spend around one year working on re-tooling how the distribution is crafted and work on other fundamental changes. But it turns out now they have decided against this big shake-up delay
• Fedora Planning A Per-System Unique Identifier For DNF — The proposal is quick to acknowledge the intent isn't for tracking users but only counting and this UUID wouldn't be re-used by other systems.
• Linux 5.0 is on the way — The numbering change is not indicative of anything special. If you want to have an official reason, it's that I ran out of fingers and toes to count on, so 4.21 became 5.0
• Track Chris and Lady Jups
• GNU ed 1.15 released
• Bash 5.0 release available
• Fish Shell 3.0.0 — Fish 3 is a major release, which introduces some breaking changes alongside improved functionality.
• Peter (@ridiculous_fish) | Twitter
• "Would totally skip Linux." — We shipped Planetary Annihilation on Win, Mac, and Linux. Linux uses we're a big vocal part of the Kickstarter and forums. In the end they accounted for <0.1% of sales but >20% of auto reported crashes and support tickets
• Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets | Hacker News
• Jason Evangelho on Twitter — Re: Adobe Premiere on Linux. I have a call next week with both Bill Roberts (Sr. Director Product Management) & Patrick Palmer (Principal Product Manager). They reached out to ME. I think a genuine effort is being made here to listen to & understand various perspectives.
• Jason Evangelho @ Forbes
• Entroware Apollo 14"