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• 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
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• 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

Plus the questions we think the University of Minnesota kernel ban raises, and more.

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• Thoughts on The University of Minnesota Kernel Ban
• Some 5.12 development statistics — By the time the 5.12 kernel was finally released, some 13,015 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline repository for this development cycle. That makes 5.12 the slowest development cycle since 5.6, which was released at the end of March 2020. Still, there was plenty of work done for 5.12.
• Linux 5.12 Release Announcement
• As Linux 5.12 released, Linus Torvalds warns next version will probably be rather large — "'Despite the extra week, this was actually a fairly small release overall. Judging by Linux-next, 5.13 will be making up for it."
• Flatpak 1.11.1 Brings Changes For Steam, Better Support For Command Line Programs — One of the changes with Flatpak 1.11.1 worth mentioning is allowing sub-sandboxes to have a different /usr and/or /app.
• steam-runtime-tools: pressure-vessel — pressure-vessel is a bit like a simplified version of Flatpak for Steam games.
• While we worry about WSLg Amazon is Positioned to Kill Server Linux
• Humble Bundle is removing their pay sliders and replacing them with two preset pay splits.
• Looking forward to Fedora 34 — In 2021, complaints about PulseAudio are scarce indeed; the quirks have long since been ironed out and, for most people, sound just works. Obviously, it must be time to rip out the audio infrastructure and start over. That is what Fedora has done in the 34 release; PulseAudio is gone, replaced by PipeWire.
• How to Upgrade to Fedora 34 from Fedora 33 Workstation
• Common Fedora 34 Bugs
• Fedora Linux 34 is officially here!
• Fedora 34 Changes
• Gnome40
• DefaultPipeWire
• XwaylandStandalone
• Some nice stuff not yet in stable that Fedora wanted
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• AArch64 KDE Plasma Desktop image
• Fedora Media Writer — Write Fedora Images to Portable Media
• BtrfsTransparentCompression
• btrfs Wiki: Compression
• Fedora Workstation 34 feature focus: Btrfs transparent compression - Fedora Magazine — This article is going to go a little further under the hood and talk about data compression and transparent compression in btrfs. A term like that may sound scary at first, but less technical users need not be wary. This change is simple to grasp, and will help many Workstation users in several key areas.
• EnableSystemdOomd
• LINUX Unplugged 351: Lenovo Loves Linux
• Remove Support For SELinux Runtime Disable
• UnifyGrubConfig
• Unplugged Core Contributors
• Feedback: Running his own email for six years
• Feedback: Uses a Neat Trick with his Self Hosted Email
• Feedback PIck: Modoboa, Open Source email server
• PIck: zellij — A Rust and WebAssembly powered terminal workspace with batteries included.
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And why everyone will be looking for an open-source LastPass alternative.

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• AmpliPi - Home Audio System — Kickstarter — One thing that sets apart the AmpliPi design is that we have made it open source, from the software, to the firmware, to the schematics. The REST API and Web App are written in Python and run on a Raspberry Pi 3+ Compute Module.
• The Coder — The Coder is made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear. Embroidered on the left chest with a classic white on black Coder Radio logo.
• Windows Refund Day — For those who hadn't heard the story, February 15th 1999 was windows refund day. It was a worldwide day when open source OS users went to microsoft's offices to return their unused licenses of windows that they were forced to acquire since they were bundled with the machine they bought.
• VLC 4.0 is coming later this year with a new UI, focus on online video and security — The new version will also focus more on playing videos from the Internet, relying on extensions to find third-party content. The team is also working on a version of VLC that will work inside the browser (based on WebAssembly).
• The Movie Database (TMDb)
• Facebook’s Linux Desktop Choice Is Fedora But Ramping Up CentOS Stream — Among the reasons Facebook is now pursuing CentOS Stream on the desktop is to serve as a stable rolling-release, binary compatibility, punctual security updates, and its close relationship with Fedora.
• Changes to LastPass Free - The LastPass Blog — Starting March 16th, 2021, LastPass Free will only include access on unlimited devices of one type, Desktop or Mobile.
• KeePass Password Safe
• Bitwarden Open Source Password Manager | Bitwarden
• 1Password Linux
• Manjaro Linux on Twitter — We updated #PlasmaMobile to the latest #Plasma 5.21 stable release. This comes with the latest 5.10 LTS kernel and updated development packages. Checkout the latest software by @kdecommunity powered by @ManjaroLinuxARM for your #Pinephone!
• Manjaro on Shells.com
• JupiterBroadcasting Telegram Group
• The Opinion Dominion Episode 28 — A wild Chris Fisher appears… for an interview.
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Plasma 5.2 — Apart from the numerous improvements in stability, there are quite a few Plasma components that are getting much better support in Wayland. KRunner, for example, is now able to list all open windows in Wayland, a new component in the panel’s system tray informs you of the keyboard layout, and we now support features required for GTK 4, so all GTK 4 applications will now work.
• M.2 Enclosure for SATA NGFF SSD
• Feedback: Arch Upgrade Tips
• Feedback: Arch on the laptop of Chris’ son
• SonoBus — SonoBus is an easy to use, open-source, application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.

Plus, we debate the value that the Ubuntu community brings to Canonical, and share a pick for audiobook fans.

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0:00 Pre-Show
0:48 Intro
0:54 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:25 Future of Ubuntu Community
6:51 Ubuntu Community: Popey Responds
9:31 Ubuntu Community: Stuart Langridge Responds
16:26 Ubuntu Community: Mark Shuttleworth Responds
17:30 BTRFS Workflow Developments
19:09 Linux Kernel 5.9 Performance Regression
24:48 SPONSOR: Linode
27:34 Cabin
29:48 Cabin: More Apps, Fewer Distros
33:41 Cabin: Building Small Apps
36:40 Cabin: What is a Cabin App?
44:34 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
45:20 Feedback: Fedora 33 Bug-A-Thon
47:53 Goin' Indy Update
49:40 Submit Your Linux Prepper Ideas
50:11 Feedback: Dev IDEs
54:15 Feedback: Nextcloud
58:20 Picks: Cozy
1:00:25 Outro
1:01:38 Post-Show

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• Btrfs development update | Josef Bacik’s Blog
• Deploying Btrfs at Facebook Scale - Josef Bacik, Facebook - YouTube
• The Latest On The Linux 5.9 Kernel Regression Stemming From Page Lock Fairness - Phoronix — Last week we reported on a Linux 5.9 kernel regression following benchmarks from Linux 5.0 to 5.9 and there being a sharp drop with the latest development kernel. That kernel regression was bisected to code introduced by Linus Torvalds at the start of the Linux 5.9 kernel cycle. Unfortunately it's not a trivial problem and one still being analyzed in coming up with a proper solution.
• Linux Mailing List - Re: Kernel Benchmarking
• Making apps for Linux, a proposal — I have a few thoughts on this topic, and so does Alan Pope, and so we got chatting and put together a proposal for a programming environment for making simple apps in a way that new developers could easily grasp. We were quite pleased with it as a concept, but: it didn’t get selected for further development. Oh well, never mind. But the ideas still seem good to us, so I think it’s worth publishing the proposal anyway so that someone else has the chance to be inspired by it, or decide they want it to happen.
• Direct link to Core Contributors Downloads Page
• Feedback: IDEs and Editors
• Feedback: Nextcloud (and borg too)
• GitHub - geigi/cozy — A modern audio book player for Linux using GTK+ 3.
• OpenAudible — Audio Book Manager
• Boot from USB · Issue #28 · raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom · GitHub

Today's Btrfs is not yesterday's hot mess, but a modern battle-tested filesystem, and we'll prove it.

Plus our thoughts on GitHub dropping the term "master", and the changes Linux should make NOW to compete with commercial desktops.

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• Issue #54: Default disk partitioning layout for Workstation - fedora-workstation - Pagure.io
• 16 Jun, MEETING AGENDA - desktop - Fedora Mailing-Lists
• [Discussion] What do we think about Github’s decision to start using main instead of master as a branch name?
• ZFS co-creator boots ‘slave’ out of OpenZFS codebase, says ‘casual use’ of term is ‘unnecessary reference to a painful experience’
• OpenZFS: Remove unnecessary references to slavery
• GitHub will no longer use the term ‘master’ as default branch because of negative association - r/programming
• Community Central: Welcoming Nomenclature - YouTube
• PinePhone: postmarketOS community edition
• PineTab sold out in 72 hours.
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Plus we debate if OpenWrt is still the best router solution, and chew on Microsoft's new SELinux competitor.

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• Window Maker Version 0.95.9 Released
• Microsoft announces IPE, a new code integrity feature for Linux — Microsoft says that IPE is not intended for general-purpose computing. The IPE LSM was designed for very specific use cases where security is paramount, and administrators need to be in full control of what runs on their systems. Examples include embedded systems, such as network firewall devices running in a data center, or Linux servers running strict and immutable configurations and applications.
• OpenWrt - Opkg susceptible to MITM
• Brent sits down with Daniel Foré, founder of elementary OS
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• Fedora nightly compose finder
• Fedora 32 Looking At Using EarlyOOM By Default To Better Deal With Low Memory Situations — The oom-killer generally has a bad reputation among Linux users. This may be part of the reason Linux invokes it only when it has absolutely no other choice. It will swap out the desktop environment, drop the whole page cache and empty every buffer before it will ultimately kill a process. At least that's what I think that it will do. I have yet to be patient enough to wait for it, sitting in front of an unresponsive system.
• earlyoom - Early OOM Daemon for Linux — The oom-killer generally has a bad reputation among Linux users. This may be part of the reason Linux invokes it only when it has absolutely no other choice. It will swap out the desktop environment, drop the whole page cache and empty every buffer before it will ultimately kill a process. At least that's what I think that it will do. I have yet to be patient enough to wait for it, sitting in front of an unresponsive system.
• rfjakob/systembus-notify: systembus-notify - system bus notification daemon
• oomd — Out of memory killing has historically happened inside kernel space. On a memory overcommitted linux system, malloc(2) and friends usually never fail. However, if an application dereferences the returned pointer and the system has run out of physical memory, the linux kernel is forced to take extreme measures, up to and including killing processes. This is sometimes a slow and painful process because the kernel can spend an unbounded amount of time swapping in and out pages and evicting the page cache. Furthermore, configuring policy is not very flexible while being somewhat complicated.
• low-memory-monitor on GitLab
• low-memory-monitor — low-memory-monitor, as its name implies, monitors the amount of free physical memory on the system and will shoot off signals to interested user-space applications, usually session managers, or sandboxing helpers, when that memory runs low, making it possible for applications to shrink their memory footprints before it's too late either to recover a usable system, or avoid taking a performance hit.
• Nohang — Nohang is a highly configurable daemon for Linux which is able to correctly prevent out of memory (OOM) and keep system responsiveness in low memory conditions.
• Better interactivity in low-memory situations - devel - Fedora Mailing-Lists
• EnableEarlyoom - Fedora Project Wiki
• Nushell - The Unix philosophy of shells, where pipes connect simple commands together, and bring it to the modern style of development.
• Timekpr - simple and easy to use time managing software that helps optimizing time spent at computer.