Plus, we try the Intel Arc GPU. Could this new hardware make Linux bulletproof?

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• LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup — Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PM
• Linux 6.2 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Promoted — Linux 6.2 overall has been in good shape from my continued testing and especially for Skylake/Skylake-derived cores is looking better if opting for Call Depth Tracking and it's great to have stable Arc Graphics A380/A750/A770 working out-of-the-box in the labs.
• Performance is looking better with later Arcs
• mesa 23.0.0 Released
• intel-extension-for-pytorch at xpu-master
• Install intel-extension-for-pytorch
• Intel® Extension for PyTorch — PyTorch Tutorials
• rahulunair/stable_diffusion_arc — Stable Diffusion inference on Intel Arc dGPUs
• bes-dev/stable_diffusion.openvino — Implementation of Text-To-Image generation using Stable Diffusion on Intel CPU or GPU.
• ShuffleBox: Quick Benchmark for Whisper by OpenAI
• Flatpak will no longer be available “out-of-the-box” in any of Ubuntu’s official flavors. — Do keep in mind that “not installed by default” is not the same as “not available to install at all”.
• Wimpy on Fosstodon — "@bluesabre Did we agree? I think we complied with the requested change. You and I both played our part in ensuring this was clearly and openly communicated."
• Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults - Community - Ubuntu Community Hub — As part of our combined efforts, the Ubuntu flavors have made a joint decision to adjust some of the default packages on Ubuntu: Going forward, the Flatpak package as well as the packages to integrate Flatpak into the respective software center will no longer be installed by default in the next release due in April 2023, Lunar Lobster.
• KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop — Promote diversity and sustainability in the Linux desktop community by adding payments, donations and subscriptions to the Flathub app store.
• ZFS send/receive over ssh on linux without allowing root login
• ZFS on Object Storage by George Wilson, Matt Ahrens, Paul Dagnelie, Manoj Joseph - YouTube
• JB Geocache Kit Request
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• GPU-Viewer — This project aims to capture all the important details of glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo in a GUI.

Plus why we're excited about PeerTube again, some feedback, and more.

Special Guest: Wendell Wilson.

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• Linux Action News 171 — We explain the recent Qt upset, and then go hands-on with the new PeerTube release. Plus Wendell from Level1Techs joins us to discuss his thoughts on porting Linux to the Apple M1.
• Our new PeerTube instance
• Coder Radio 395 — Their lives change forever when they meet a handsome, tormented, laptop.
• Level1Linux: We’re ready for One GPU – Two OSs. Intel Xe, SR-IOV and thoughts on VMs
• Intel Xe MAX Needs Two Linux Kernels For Now - Meaning You Need To Use A GPU-Accelerated VM — The good news is the Xe MAX graphics can be used for a GPU-accelerated Linux virtual machine. The bad news is the Xe MAX support doesn't yet allow for dGPU usage by the host outside of a virtual machine context as it needs "two different [Linux] kernels" for operation in conjunction with the integrated graphics.
• Intel GVT-g - ArchWiki — Intel GVT-g is a technology that provides mediated device passthrough for Intel GPUs (Broadwell and newer). It can be used to virtualize the GPU for multiple guest virtual machines, effectively providing near-native graphics performance in the virtual machine and still letting your host use the virtualized GPU normally.
• Dell XPS 13 Laptop | Dell USA
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• openSUSE Feedback — I'd like to make an argument about Yast. OpenSuse definitely should be clearer in who it is intended for. But here is my humble opinion. It is not for folks who have been using Linux for years.
• openSUSE/opi: OBS Package Installer (CLI) — Search and install almost all packages available for openSUSE and SLE.
• openSUSE Docs Telegram Channel
• Richard Brown on Twitter
• Feedback: Try Alpine! — Overall, Alpine is a small, simple distro with a lot of tricks up its sleeves. It's definitely worth a look!
• Pick: GPU-Viewer for Linux — This project aims to capture all the important details of glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo in a GUI. The project is being developed using python 3 pygobject with GTK3.
• New Core Contributor Promo Code — 2021

Plus some highlights from Arch Conf, and our reaction to Mint finally fixing their Chromium problem.

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• media.ccc.de - Arch Linux: Past, Present and Future
• Project X - Pure Open-Source Coreboot Support On AMD Zen - Phoronix — Project X is about "eXcising binary blobs from the x86 part of Zen CPUs."
• OSFC 2020 - Open Source Firmware Conference
• Linux Mint pre-loads Chromium and Brings New IPTV Player — The package is available Linux Mint repository as “chromium” which you can install using standard “apt-get” or via the package manager. This is pure native Chromium and not a snap version.
• Monthly News – October 2020 – The Linux Mint Blog
• LINUX Unplugged 360: The Hard Work of Hardware
• Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US
• SpaceX Starlink users provide first impressions and unboxing pictures | Ars Technica — New speed-test data collected by Ookla and published by PCMag last week found average Starlink download speeds of 79.5Mbps and average upload speeds of 13.8Mbps in October
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• profile-sync-daemon — Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers.
• GPU-Viewer — A front-end to glxinfo, vulkaninfo, clinfo and es2_info.
• Ivan Molodetskikh: Video Trimmer — Video Trimmer cuts out a fragment of a video given the start and end timestamps. The video is never re-encoded, so the process is very fast and does not reduce the video quality.
• junegunn/fzf — A command-line fuzzy finder
• Fish shell — fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family.
• cxreg/smartcd — Alter your bash (or zsh) environment as you cd.
• wting/autojump — A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.
• gsamokovarov/jump — Jump helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.
• muammar/mkchromecast — Cast macOS and Linux Audio/Video to your Google Cast and Sonos Devices
• xat/castnow — commandline chromecast player
• xat/dlnacast — Cast local media to your TV through UPnP/DLNA
• skorokithakis/catt — Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources to your Chromecast.
• tridactyl — A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl
• philc/vimium — The hacker's browser.
• Use your ~/.local folder!
• Liquorix kernel for Debian users — Liquorix is a distro kernel replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads.
• PipeWire nightly for Fedora users — PipeWire nightly builds from the projects git master. Use at your own risk.
• Firefox Adwaita Theme — This is a bunch of CSS code to make Firefox look closer to GNOME's native apps.
• Feedback: Thoughts after youtube-dl
• Feedback: FreeIPA
• Feedback: Zentyal as an AD Server