Sponsored By:

• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
• Jupiter Signal Network Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2026 — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
• LFNW2026 Schedule
• Linux 7.0: Btrfs — A translation layer of logical block addresses that allows changes without moving or rewriting blocks for relocation
• Linux 7.0: XFS — Autonomous self-healing; delivers live filesystem health events to userspace for automatic repairs
• Linux 7.0: EXT4 — Improves write performance for concurrent direct I/O writes
• Linux 7.0: IO-uring — Adds support for BPF filtering to IO_uring for high performance async I/O
• Linux 7.0: Scheduler — Scheduler updates land with time slice extension, performance and scalability work for high core count systems
• Linux 7.0: Rust — Formally concluding the 'Rust experiment'; Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay
• Linux 7.1: i486 — Begins phasing out Intel 486 CPU support; no known Linux distributions still ship with i486 support
• Give Up GitHub — We realize this is not an easy task; GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their effective marketing, GitHub has convinced FOSS developers that GitHub is the best (and even the only) place for FOSS development.
• opengist — Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, open-source alternative to Github Gist.
• Forgejo on Codeberg — Beyond coding. We forge.
• Forgejo — Self-hosted alternative to GitHub; liberate your software from proprietary shackles with a familiar environment
• NixOS Wiki: Forgejo — Lightweight software forge; completely free software and a fork of Gitea
• Forgejo Actions — Reusable pieces of code for CI workflows; compatible with GitHub Actions
• NixOS Forgejo Actions Runner — NixOS configuration for turnkey deployment of Forgejo Actions runners
• Forgejo Federation (PR #10453) — Work-in-progress for federated repositories; enabling decentralized software development
• Forgejo Snippets (Issue #1069) — Create a shareable piece of text, be it code or plain text, publicly or privately
• Git Novice Guide — Free interactive tutorial; learn version control with Git from scratch
• Pick: sshroute — Network-aware SSH router - routes connections to different IPs/ports/keys/jump hosts based on active VPN or network
• Pick: rendercv — Resume builder for academics and engineers
• Pick: ESPHome Starter Kit — DIY sensor kit for Home Assistant with ESPHome; build your own smart home devices

Sponsored By:

• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
• Jupiter Signal Network Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
• Preferring Local OSS LLMs
• Qwen3.5 27B vs Gemma4 31B
• Open Models have crossed a threshold
• Gemma 4 — Google DeepMind
• Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device
• Gemma-4-31B-JANG\_4M-CRACK · Hugging Face
• mesh-llm — Mesh LLM lets you pool spare GPU capacity across machines and expose the result as one OpenAI-compatible API.
• hermes-agent: The agent that grows with you — The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.
• goose — An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions; install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM.
• Lobehub — The ultimate space for work and life. To find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you. We are taking agent harness to the next level; enabling multi-agent collaboration, effortless agent team design, and introducing agents as the unit of work interaction.
• LibreFang — LibreFang is an open-source agent operating system written in Rust.
• OpenHarness — OpenHarness is an open-source Python implementation designed for researchers, builders, and the community.
• Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents — Microsoft proclaims their new open-source project is the first toolkit that addresses all ten agentic AI risks identified last year by the OWASP
• Top 10 Risks and Mitigations for Agentic AI Security - OWASP Gen AI Security Project — Microsoft proclaims their new open-source project is the first toolkit that addresses all ten agentic AI risks identified last year by the OWASP. These risks include goal hijacking, tool musiuse, identity abuse, supply chain risks, code execution, memory poisoning, insecure communications, cascading failures, human-agent trust exploitation, and rogue agents. This new Agent Governance Toolkit is available for Python, Rust, TypeScript, Go, and .NET.
• googleworkspace/cli: Google Workspace CLI — One command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills.
• Tunarr API Reference
• Euro-Office launches as Europe's open-source Office rival
• Pick: single-file-cli — CLI tool for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file (based on SingleFile)
• Pick: html-to-markdown — Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.
• Pick: skim — Turns any HTML page into clean markdown.

Sponsored By:

• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED. Promo Code: UNPLUGGED
• Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Form
• Old Fart Form (markdown)
• Jellyswarrm — Bring all your Jellyfin servers together
• LiveTV support · Issue #9 · LLukas22/Jellyswarrm
• pangolin — Identity-Aware Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Dashboard UI.
• Pangolin | Secure Access Platform
• NixOS Search - Options - Pangolin
• Youtarr — Self-hosted web app that automates downloading, organizing, and scheduling YouTube channel content with support for Plex, Kodi, Emby and Jellyfin
• Add ability to set subfolder for manual downloads · Issue #287 · DialmasterOrg/Youtarr
• Dawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)
• dawarich CHANGELOG.md
• CVE-2025-40090 | Ubuntu — Since commit 305853cce3794 ksmbd_session_rpc_method() attempts to lock sess->rpc_lock. This causes hung connections / tasks when a client attempts to open a named pipe.
• SMB3 & KSMBD See Performance Improvements With Linux 6.18 — KSMBD also now adds a max IP connections parameter to optionally limit the maximum number of connections permitted per IP address.
• ksmbd vulnerability research · Doyensec's Blog
• ksmbd - Fuzzing Improvements and Vulnerability Discovery (2/3)
• ksmbd - Exploiting CVE-2025-37947 (3/3)
• doyensec's KSMBD-CVE-2025-37947 PoC
• GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance
• GrapheneOS exits France — what it means for encryption
• France's Encryption War Escalates: GrapheneOS Exodus Signals Dangerous Precedent for Open Source Privacy Tech
• Seems like the GrapheneOS phone collab may be with Motorolla.
• Rust For Linux Kernel Co-Maintainer Formally Steps Down
• Bcachefs Ousted from Mainline Kernel: The Move to DKMS and What It Means
• Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” Strategies
• Richard Hipp - Git: Just Say No - YouTube
• 2011 SouthEast LinuxFest - Richard Hipp - Fossilize Your Code - YouTube
• Pick: Gopher64 — Highly compatible N64 emulator.
• Gopher64 — simple64's official and spiritual successor - Libretro — It’s made by the same developer(s). Unlike simple64 however, it’s not based entirely on Mupen64Plus. And it’s aiming for a more LowSpec hardware overhang.
• Install Gopher64 on Linux | Flathub

Sponsored By:

• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
• CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED. Promo Code: UNPLUGGED
• Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Form
• Old Fart Form (markdown)
• ngrok — Go from code to global in just minutes with a developer-friendly, idiomatic solution for managing traffic to your APIs.
• Jellyswarrm — Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place.
• Sveske-Juice/declarative-jellyfin — This repository provides a Nix flake that allows for declarative configuration of Users, Libraries, Plugins, Settings, etc. Jellyfin 10.11 is NOT SUPPORTED.
• declarative-jellyfin full example
• Zigl3ur/jellyhub — JellyHub is a web app that allow you to fetch media from all of your jellyfin servers and regroup it in one place, so there is one place to search for specific media and tells you on wich server the desired media is located.
• Smiley-McSmiles/jellyman — Jellyman is a lightweight BASH CLI tool for installing and managing Jellyfin. As well as create a full backup (automatically or manually) so you can move or import all your metadata and user information to another machine.
• LSchallot/JellyRoller — JellyRoller is an open source CLI Jellyfin Controller written in Rust that works on Windows and Linux. Its primary purpose is to allow administration of a Jellyfin application from the command line.
• kjtsune/embyToLocalPlayer — etlp (embyToLocalPlayer) is a tool that lets Emby, Jellyfin, and Plex play videos using your local media players (like mpv or VLC) instead of the built-in web player, while optionally sending playback progress back to the server.
• Pick: subgen — Autogenerate subtitles using OpenAI Whisper Model via Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, Tautulli, or Bazarr.

Sponsored By:

• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.
• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.
• ODROID-H4 – ODROID — A powerful and versatile board that supports Intel's latest Alder Lake processors with AVX2 extensions. It features DDR5 memory, 4 SATA ports, dual BIOS, and up to 3 display outputs.
• Home Assistant Yellow
• UGREEN NASync DXP2800 2-Bay Desktop NAS
• MINISFORUM S100 Mini PC Stick
• GEEKOM Air12 Mini PC
• Nebula Quick Start
• Debugging with Nebula SSH commands
• Using Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula
• Upgrading a Nebula network to IPv6 overlay addresses
• Using Dedicated Relays for Total Connectivity
• nebula NixOS Module
• norohind.nebula: — Ansible role to manage nebula vpn hosts
• dracut-nebula — dracut-nebula integrates the Nebula overlay networking tool (VPN, tunnel) into the initramfs
• nebula-gen: — Simple script to initialize a CA and quickly sign host keys and certificates for the Nebula VPN
• AndrewPaglusch/Nebula-Ansible-Role — Nebula VPN Overlay Network Installer With Ansible
• nebula-lighthouse-service — This server is a public Nebula VPN Lighthouse Service. You can use it in case you don’t have a publicly accessible server to run your own Nebula Lighthouse.
• nebula-vpn-helm — Helm chart for managing Nebula VPN
• vpn-dashboard-react-nebula — This project demonstrates a secure, lightweight, peer-to-peer VPN architecture using the Nebula overlay network integrated with a React-based front-end dashboard.
• ChrisLAS/bluenix — Build your own custom Universal Blue Image!
• Linkwarden — ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters, all in one place.
• Announcing Linkwarden 2.11
• Linkwarden Browser Extension
• neko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.
• Soltros-OS — My personal RPM-OStree based OS.
• Miniflux — Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Reader
• miniflux/v2 — Minimalist and opinionated feed reader
• [Bug]: "External link" should point to the audio file
• feat(rss): fallback to enclosure URL when entry URL is missing
• 5 Best Reference Management Tools for Linux in 2024
• Zotero — Your personal research assistant
• Aeon — The Linux Desktop for people who want to "get stuff done"
• winapps — Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• ConfigCat Feature Flags: ConfigCat is a cross-platform LaunchDarkly alternative that's easy to learn and quick to set up. Manage feature flags without redeploying code. Promo Code: UNPLUGGED25

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Tailscale Community Meetup Seattle — Calling all Tailscale users, homelabbers, and networking enthusiasts! We’re bringing the community together for a casual, community focused meetup in Seattle.
• POLL: Would you tune into a Saturday LFNW Live Stream?
• Celebrating Git's 20th anniversary with creator Linus Torvalds — Discover the origins of the open-source version control system, why he handed over the reins a few months in, and what he thinks about adding new programming languages to Git.
• Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds - YouTube
• uemacs - Linus Editor — Random version of microemacs with my private modificatons
• Yes Linus' uemacs is pacakged in Nix
• Debian APT 3.0 Stable Released With New Package Solver & Refined Text UI — This new version introduces a significantly refined command-line interface and a completely new package solver.
• I Want a Better Mac, so I’m Cheering for a Better Linux — "Apple needs a real competitor, one alternatives such as GNOME on Linux could actually be, if only the hardware rose to the occasion."
• outdoorgeek's laptop sleep optimized NixOS config
• Rust is easy? Go is… hard?
• Pick: chat-gipitty: Terminal client for getting answers from LLMs — Chat Gipitty (Chat Get Information, Print Information TTY) is a command line client for ChatGPT. It allows you to chat with your chosen model of ChatGPT in a terminal and even pipe output into it.
• moreutils' sponge — soak up standard input and write to a file.
• GitHub - pgdr/moreutils — a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young.
• Pick: ALttP VT Randomizer — Each playthrough shuffles the location of all the important items in the game. Will you find the Bow atop Death Mountain, the Fire Rod resting silently in the library, or even the Master Sword itself waiting in a chicken coop?
• spannerisms/ALttPNG

Sponsored By:

• 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.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Why I left Rust
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Call for Speakers
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — GrapheneOS will be undergoing restructuring of the organization and development team. Daniel Micay has stepped down as lead developer and will be stepping down as a non-profit director. Features and security patches will continue to be delivered to users as rapidly as before.
• Daniel Micay on Twitter — It appears the wording above was unclear. I'm stepping down as a GrapheneOS Foundation director and as lead developer. I won't have any leadership role in the GrapheneOS project. It will take time/work to transfer my responsibilities to others, especially non-development roles.
• Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora
• Adopting Bitcoin 2023
• LUP on in the top 10 charts TWICE.
• Bitcoin Dad Pod
• Polaris — Polaris is a music streaming application, designed to let you enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device.
• Polaris Demo
• docker-polaris: Small docker of Polaris based on Alpine Linux
• Polaris on Google Play
• Polaris Android on F-Droid
• Polarios on App Store
• Lapce — Lapce is written in pure Rust with a UI in Druid (which is also written in Rust). It is designed with Rope Science from the Xi-Editor which makes for lightning-fast computation, and leverages OpenGL for rendering.
• Lapce on Flathub
• Lapce packaged in Nix
• Lapce Plugins
• flosse/text-editors-written-in-rust
• xi-editor: A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
• awesome-alternatives-in-rust: A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust
• awesome-rust: A curated list of Rust code and resources.
• BitFocus Companion — Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck to be a professional shotbox surface for a huge amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Pick: Please Run That — A Python socket app for letting a friend execute a command on your system without using a ssh server all, with a simple GUI It has active development and works OOTB.
• Pick: turtle — Turtle is a gtk4 + libadwaita frontend for pygit2 with nautilus plugin support. The project is currently in a very early development stage.
• Chris Interviewed on Mere Mortals — In Conversation #90, Chris and I discuss: what it's been like to have 25+ podcasts, the current nosedive in advertising, how value for value is creating a richer experience for podcasters, his mindset in analyzing technological ideas, the coming pain from the messed up financial system, why Bitcoin/AI won't be as impactful as the internet and traveling across the US in an RV.

Sponsored By:

• 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.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Fleek — Install and manage all the tools you need to be productive. Use a simple command line tool or edit one YAML file and you're off to the races.
• ublue-os/fleek: Own your $HOME
• Fleek First Steps — You have two choices with Fleek. You can use Fleek with a simple CLI tool and YAML file to manage your installed packages, aliases and path, or you can use Fleek as a one-time generator to create a lightly-opinionated Nix Home Manager flake for you.
• nix-community/home-manager — Manage a user environment using Nix.
• Home Manager - NixOS Wiki
• DeterminateSystems/nix-installer — nix-installer is an opinionated alternative to the official Nix install scripts.
• Sharing Fleek Configurations — You can use Fleek to share your configurations across multiple computers. This is useful if you use multiple computers and want to keep your configurations in sync.
• Containers and Kubernetes Explained | Linode, now Akamai
• Olympia Linux Spring Meetup — Let's have a local PNW get-together. Saturday, April 29, 2023.
• Boston Harbor Marina
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023: Call for Speakers
• Start your NOSTR-Market with LNbits
• Nostr, a Basic tour
• Awesome-nostr
• Nostr Apps
• Bitwarden on Twitter — Is your Bitwarden vault jam-packed with entries? Here are a few tips for organizing your vault to better suit your everyday needs.
• linuxserver.io — Building and maintaining community images
• Raspberry Pi SD card image for NixOS on BTRFS root
• Pick: difftastic — A structural diff that understands syntax.
• difftastic is packaged in Nix
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

Sponsored By:

• 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.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 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.
• Upcoming Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups
• 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.
• New $160: Beelink MiniS Mini Pc with 11th Gen Processor N5095,8GB DDR4 128GB SSD Mini Desktop Computers
• Acer Switch One SW1-011 Intel Atom x5-Z8300 @ 1.44 GHz 2GB Ram 32GB Storage
• Lenovo IdeaPad 3 14IML05 14" 128GB SSD, Intel Pentium Gold, 2.40GHz, 4GB
• Acer Mini PC Atom x5-Z8300 2Gb RAM 16Gb EMMC WiFi Bluetooth Linux CloudProfessor
• 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
• ManageIQ
• Usermode FTP Server on Flathub
• gh4a — Github client for Android
• OctoDroid on F-Droid
• OctoDroid for GitHub
• JB Colony Matrix Meetup Rooms

Brent's Node : 03cf7e9b79a3230749db642ad690889065ec35b9ded184266d4fce424ab75470fc

Sponsored By:

• 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.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Git from the inside out — The essay focuses on the graph structure that underpins Git and the way the properties of this graph dictate Git’s behavior.
• gitk — The Git repository browser
• ungit — The easiest way to use git. On any platform. Anywhere.
• Trustix — Distributed trust and reproducibility tracking for binary caches
• Kexec and Kdump on Raspberry Pi
• Install NixOS on Oracle Cloud
• Kexec and Kdump on arm64
• An update to Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye — So with this latest release, the default “pi” user is being removed, and instead you will create a user the first time you boot a newly-flashed Raspberry Pi OS image.
• Build a Raspberry Pi Linux System the Hard Way — The instructions below will explain how to build a Linux environment for a Raspberry Pi 3B from scratch, focusing on extreme minimalism. I will build most components from source code and use BusyBox as the only user application on the target.
• NixOS Wiki: NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi 4
• Installing NixOS on a Raspberry Pi
• NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi
• nixos-pi — How to install NixOS on raspberry PI
• Generating Raspberry Pi Images with NixOS
• NixOS on a Raspberry Pi: creating a custom SD image with OpenSSH out of the box
• nixos-docker-sd-image-builder — Build custom SD images of NixOS for your Raspberry Pi (or any other supported AArch64 device) in 5-20 minutes.
• NixOS + Raspi4
• Installing NixOS on the Raspberry Pi 4
• How to Setup NixOS on a Raspberry Pi
• NixOS on Raspberry Pi 4
• Kernel Support for miscellaneous Binary Formats (binfmt_misc) — The Linux Kernel documentation
• Cross-compiling the Raspberry Pi OS Linux kernel on macOS | Jeff Geerling
• NixOS on ARM
• Cross Compiling - NixOS Wiki
• ARMing Yourself - Working with ARM on x86_64
• Debian Wiki: qemu-user-static
• ARM64/QEMU - Ubuntu Wiki
• Emulating a Raspberry Pi with QEMU
• Emulating ARM on Debian/Ubuntu
• Raspberry Pi Documentation - Remote Access
• Emulating ARM with QEMU on Debian/Ubuntu
• Using QEMU to build arm64 experimental environment
• How to set up an ARM64 playground on Ubuntu 18.04
• Emulating ARM with QEMU on Debian/Ubuntu
• NixOS — tmpfs as root
• Erase your darlings — immutable infrastructure for mutable systems
• Umbrel — A personal server OS for self-hosting
• Umbrel Troubleshooting Guide
• JB London Meetup — August 5th 6pm, Jubilee Park & Garden
• Home Manager Manual — This manual will eventually describe how to install, use, and extend Home Manager.
• Tutorial: Getting started with Home Manager for Nix
• Merkle Tree
• Git Book - Git Internals
• Commits are snapshots, not diffs - The GitHub Blog — I believe that Git becomes understandable if we peel back the curtain and look at how Git stores your repository data. After we investigate this model, we’ll explore how this new perspective helps us understand commands like git cherry-pick and git rebase.
• Fear Not The SHA! - Git Internals - YouTube
• Git Internals by John Britton of GitHub - CS50 Tech Talk - YouTube
• Merkle tree in Bitcoin - BitcoinWiki
• Merkle Tree with real world examples - YouTube
• What is the merkle tree in Bitcoin? - YouTube
• OpenMPTCProuter — Internet connection bonding
• Podverse — NEW: Embed a Podverse player on your website! 🥳
• Nebula v1.6.0 — Experimental: nebula clients can be configured to act as relays for other nebula clients. Primarily useful when stubborn NATs make a direct tunnel impossible.

Sponsored By:

• 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.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• WSL 2 distros are now supported on Windows Server
• Ten SpaceX Starlink Updates
• Dish calls out Elon Musk for tweets about Starlink and RVs, planes
• Dish begs FCC to deactivate Starlink setups used in moving vehicles
• SpaceX: Starlink Risks Becoming ‘Unusable’ If Dish Gets 12GHz Spectrum
• JB London Meetup - Aug 5 “6pm London time”
• London Colony Meetup - Matrix chat room
• Linode Guides — Migrate a PostgreSQL Database to a Managed Database
• Tech Talk: 2007 Linus Torvalds on git
• Oh My Git! — An open source game about learning Git!
• Getting started with Git: Terminology 101
• Tech With Tim - Git And GitHub in ~30 Minutes
• JB GitHub - Website Rebuild Ideas & Explorations · Discussion #8
• Git Tutorial for Beginners - Git & GitHub Fundamentals In Depth
• Cleanup by Brent · Pull Request #29
• GitKraken
• awesome-git — A curated list of amazingly awesome Git tools, resources and shiny things.
• ungit — The easiest way to use git. On any platform. Anywhere.
• Hugo: The world’s fastest framework for building websites
• Celebrating 15 years of Git — An interview with Git maintainer Junio Hamano
• Brunch with Brent: Quentin Stafford-Fraser — Brent sits down with Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser, computer scientist, serial-entrepreneur, inventor (perhaps) of the webcam, Augmented Reality Ph.D. who ran the very first web server at the University of Cambridge, among much more.
• Office Hours 6: Peer to Peer Future — Interview with Mitch Downey, co-founder of Podverse.
• Fountain 0.4.0 — Listen to Earn, Promotions & Paid Likes
• gpodder.net — gpodder.net is a libre web service that allows you to manage your podcast subscriptions and discover new content. If you use multiple devices, you can synchronize subscriptions and your listening progress.
• Source for gpodder.net
• GPodder Sync in the Nextcloud App Store
• Podverse: Podcasting 2.0 certified player for Android, F-Droid, iOS, and the web.
• [Album] The New Deal
• TinyPilotKVM: Control any computer remotely.

Plus why Linus Torvalds has become the master of saying no.

Special Guest: Drew DeVore.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Linus Torvalds Says He’s No Longer a Programmer: My Job Is to Say No
• Keynote: Linus Torvalds in conversation with Dirk Hohndel
• List of Linux kernel names - Wikipedia
• Implementing S3 Compatible Primary Storage for NextCloud
• Alone (TV series) - Wikipedia
• Feedback: LVFS fwupdmgr updates on Thinkpads
• Feedback: Chas wonders if we would change anything about our Thinkpad configuration
• DPL elections 2020, congratulations Jonathan Carter! - Bits from Debian
• Debian Mailing Lists -- Complete Index
• Free Software Activities for 2020-05 – Jonathan Carter
• DebConf20 Moves Online
• Chris Tries i3 for the First Time... LIVE

Plus what we're playing recently, community news, a handy self-hosted music pick, and more.

Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?
• AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Amassing Improvements For Linux 5.8
• NVIDIA released the 440.82 stable ‘Long Lived’ Linux driver - helps DOOM Eternal on Steam Play Proton
• Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition
• Risk of Rain 2
• Raft
• Raft on Steam
• GitHub is now free for teams - The GitHub Blog
• Nat’s comment on HN
• Road to 20.04
• ZFS/Zsys Code Seeing Important Performance Fix Ahead Of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• The Resilience of the Voyagers
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• RockPro64
• 4GB SBC ROCKPro64
• 12V 5A Power Adapter AC
• WD Blue SN550 250GB NVMe
• NVME PCIe Adapter M.2
• Manjaro ARM on the ROCKPro64
• Additional images available for the RockPro64 - Debian, Armbian, Slackware, CentOS, etc
• Benchmarking Example
• telnet.linuxunplugged.com
• RockPro64 Wiki
• RockPro64 Forum
• RockPro64 IRC
• Beets - the media library management system for obsessive music geeks.

Plus we throw a studio party for our new look, and the text editor that’s taking the crew by storm.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Ell Marquez, and Martin Wimpress.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Cross-Technology Communications for Heterogeneous IoT Devices Through Artificial Doppler Shifts
• Happy 14th anniversary: What do you love about Git?
• Proton: One Graph To Sum It All — Don’t we all feel that the world of Linux gaming is in a better spot right now than let’s say, 7-8 months ago? Thanks to Valve, Codeweavers, DXVK and all the gang we can now enjoy a lot more games coming from the Windows world than ever before. I decided to take some time to show what kind of progress we are talking about
• Lutris Release v0.5.2
• Lutris 0.5.2 Released With Various Improvements For Linux Gaming — Lutris 0.5.2 adds the Vulkan ICD (installable client driver) loaders to the system options, adds a sample count option to Wine for enabling MSAA anti-aliasing in older games, a warning is now displayed if Vulkan is not properly setup, and various other bug fixes and enhancements.
• Visual Studio Code is now available as a snap on Ubuntu — Launched in 2015 by Microsoft, Visual Studio Code has imposed itself as one of the preferred code editors in the developer community.
• Install Visual Studio Code for Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
• What do WLinux and Benedict Cumberbatch have in common? They're both fond of Pengwin — Hayden Barnes, of Whitewater Foundry, told El Reg that WLinux was only ever supposed to be a codename, and the new name "reflects our distribution's connection to both Linux and Windows".
• WLinux is now Pengwin, Fedora Remix for WSL updated, and WSL at Build : bashonubuntuonwindows
• Coder Radio Episode 352: Self Driving Disaster — Mike’s away so Chris joins Wes to discuss running your workstation from RAM, the disappointing realities of self driving cars, and handling the ups and downs of critical feedback.
• Opportunities for Women of Color and Women from Untapped Pathways - Grace Hopper Celebration — This year, AnitaB.org is thrilled to be offering two additional opportunities for women of color from underrepresented groups and women from untapped pathways to attend the 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC 19)
• Linux Academy - Full Stack Ruby on Rails Developer (Remote) — Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by you or your co-workers, matching a design given to you, into an Angular 6 application, using NGRX.
• The Linux desktop is in trouble | ZDNet — Why? Because we don't have a standardized Linux desktop. 
• A Half-Year Since Valve Released Steam Play For Linux, Its Marketshare Is Still Sub-1% - Phoronix — But for February 2019, they had been reporting a 0.77% Linux market-share, which would have been a 0.05% increase.
• Ubuntu MATE 19.04 and 18.04.2 Are Now Available for GPD Pocket & GDP Pocket 2
• Reasons to Abandon Windows For Linux - SlashGear
• wkhtmltopdf — wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage are open source (LGPLv3) command line tools to render HTML into PDF and various image formats using the Qt WebKit rendering engine. These run entirely "headless" and do not require a display or display service.
• ArchiveBox | 🗃 The open source self-hosted web archive. Takes browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more… — ArchiveBox takes a list of website URLs you want to archive, and creates a local, static, browsable HTML clone of the content from those websites (it saves HTML, JS, media files, PDFs, images and more).