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• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

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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.
• Hector Martin's Controversial Question — Would you be okay with us adding some really trivial telemetry to the Asahi installer?
• Berlin with Brent — Brent will be back in Berlin for the Nextcloud Conference and can't get enough of Berlin Meetups! Friday, September 8th, 6 PM.
• Fedora Asahi Remix
• Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware — Fedora Asahi Remix will be their new flagship distribution for providing a polished Linux experience on Apple Silicon.
• Fedora Asahi Remix: bringing Fedora to Apple Silicon Macs (Flock To Fedora 2023)
• Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix — We’re still working out the kinks and making things even better, so we are not quite ready to call this a release yet. We aim to officially release the Fedora Asahi Remix by the end of August 2023. Look forward to many new features, machine support, and more!
• Hector Martin: “Okay, I’m going to be honest…” — I apologize to all Asahi Linux users. You deserve better. When I chose Arch Linux ARM as a base I didn't realize it would have so many basic QA issues.
• Coming soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs! (Fedora Discourse)
• The first conformant M1 GPU driver — Our reverse-engineered, free and open source graphics drivers are the world’s only conformant OpenGL ES 3.1 implementation for M1- and M2-family graphics hardware. That means our driver passed tens of thousands of tests to demonstrate correctness and is now recognized by the industry.
• Asahi Linux’s Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant — It's even more rewarding for the community developers in that Apple doesn't provide any conformant (OpenGL or Vulkan) graphics drivers for their Arm-based platform.
• Feature Support · AsahiLinux/docs Wiki
• Switch to the kernel-16k variant - Fedora Discussion
• NixOS: Unlocking your LUKS via SSH and Tor
• StreetComplete — Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android.
• getumbrel/llama-gpt: A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot. Powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device.
• serge-chat/serge: A web interface for chatting with Alpaca through llama.cpp. Fully dockerized, with an easy to use API.
• liltom-eth/llama2-webui: Run any Llama 2 locally with gradio UI on GPU or CPU from anywhere (Linux/Windows/Mac). Use
• llama.cpp — Port of Facebook’s LLaMA model in C/C++
• Llama2.c — Inference Llama 2 in one file of pure C
• Koboldcpp — A simple one-file way to run various GGML models with KoboldAI’s UI
• lollms-webui — Lord of Large Language Models Web User Interface
• LM Studio — Discover, download, and run local LLMs
• text-generation-webui — A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models. Supports transformers, GPTQ, llama.cpp (ggml/gguf), Llama models.
• A comprehensive guide to running Llama 2 locally — Code Llama is a state-of-the-art LLM capable of generating code, and natural language about code, from both code and natural language prompts.
• Meta Releases Code Llama, a Coding Version of Llama 2
• Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding
• Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source
• Meta launches Llama 2, a source-available AI model that allows commercial applications — A family of pretrained and fine-tuned language models in sizes from 7 to 70 billion parameters.
• Meta’s Llama 2 is not open source — Meta's newly released large language model Llama 2 is not open source.

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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

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• Redesigned Flathub Site Launches For Flatpak Apps — A redesigned version of the Flathub website has launched for this weekend's Linux App Summit. Flathub remains the centralized website for exploring and finding new Flatpak sandboxed Linux apps.
• Flathub — Welcome to Flathub, the home of hundreds of apps which can be easily installed on any Linux distribution. Browse the apps online, from your app center or the command line.
• Olympia Linux Spring Meetup
• Announcing Fedora Linux 38 — Fedora Linux 38 introduces several new Spins ­— variants that showcase different desktop environments.
• Fedora 38 Released With GNOME 44 Desktop, GCC 13, Many New Features — Fedora 38 brings many changes including the GCC 13 system compiler and other updated toolchain components like GNU Make 4.4, Glibc 2.37, Binutils 2.39, Golang 1.20, Ruby 3.2, and more.
• What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38
• How to rebase to Fedora Linux 38 on Silverblue
• Fedora Linux 38 Spins
• Fedora Workstation Download
• asahi-fedora-builder — Builds a minimal Fedora image to run on Apple M1/M2 systems
• music-player — An extensible music server written in Rust 🚀🎵✨
• Tools on Tech
• The Split Kit
• Podverse
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Reaper on Flathub

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

Special Guest: Danielle Foré.

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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.