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• 💥 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

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
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• LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
• This Week In Bitcoin 97 | Jupiter Broadcasting
• Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security
• Streamlining secure boot for 26.10 - Ubuntu Community Hub
• Mitigating BootHole – CVE-2020-10713 and related vulnerabilities | Ubuntu
• There's a Hole in the Boot - Eclypsium
• Final Release · ErsatzTV — It is time for me to announce the final release of ErsatzTV in its current form. The existing repositories will be archived following this update.
• ErsatzTV/next
• Tunarr · GitHub — Create a classic TV experience using your own media — IPTV backed by Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, or NFO.
• Threadfin
• xTeVe
• Filler - Tunarr — Filler lists are collections of content used by Flex to pad time between episodes. One reason to use filler is to simulate traditional television by playing advertisements between episode airings.
• Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr (pronounced like "dispatcher") is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams, EPG data, and VOD content with elegance and control.
• awesome-iptv — A curated list of resources related to IPTV
• Tunarr API Reference
• LINUX Unplugged 645 — We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex.
• turnstonelabs/turnstone — Experimental multi-node AI orchestration platform. Deploy tool-using AI agents across a cluster of servers, driven by message queues or interactive interfaces.
• Open-Source "GreenBoost" Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMs
• GeneBean's Cage Kiosk
• GeneBean's Pi Arm Build Setup
• Planify - Task Manager for GNU/Linux
• alainm23/planify: Task manager with Todoist, Nextcloud & CalDAV support designed for GNOME
• Pick: bore — bore is a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost
• nixos-bore-module — Self-hosted bore tunnel server for NixOS
• Pick: kdeconnect-sms-tui — Terminal UI for sending and receiving SMS/MMS via KDE Connect.
• Pick: Busybridge — Complex calendar free/busy syncing across organizations for consultants who work inside multiple orgs.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
• Keeper.sh — Keeper is a simple & open-source calendar syncing tool. It allows you to pull events from remotely hosted iCal or ICS links, and push them to one or many calendars so the time slots can align across them all.
• Keeper.sh: Calendar Syncing, V2 Release
• OneCal
• PiBox Overview - KubeSail Docs
• PiBox: A Modular Raspberry Pi Storage Server by Dan Pastusek — Kickstarter
• RPi CM4 based local storage server launches on Kickstarter
• KubeSail — So Long, and Thanks for All the Pods
• ipetkov/nixos-pibox — NixOS modules for supporting the hardware present on the PiBox
• raspberrypi/usbboot — Raspberry Pi USB device provisioning tool (RPIBOOT)
• cage-kiosk/cage — A Wayland kiosk. A kiosk runs a single, maximized application.
• systemd: BirthDate Field Added to JSON User Records — "Add birthDate field to JSON user records, allowing for standardized age-related logic within the userdb framework."
• Azuay Province - Wikipedia
• Pick: fq — fq is like jq but for binary formats, allowing you to tool, language, and decode complex binary data into human-readable structures.
• Pick: file-fridge — move files that aren't accessed as often to cold storage
• Pick: sigrok — Portable, cross-platform, Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite: logic analyzers, scopes, multimeters, and more!
• Pick: PulseView — a Qt-based LA/scope/MSO GUI for sigrok

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• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
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• 💥 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

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Download DNClient Desktop from Defined Networking
• OLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and Expo
• Registration - OLF Conference
• Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS
• Steam Controller — Steam Controller shares DNA with Steam Deck, with all the inputs to play all the games on Steam, wherever Steam is.
• Steam Machine — Made for powerful, versatile PC gaming on a big screen; quiet and small enough to fit under your TV, on your desk, or anywhere else you want to game. (It's a roughly 6-inch (160mm) cube!)
• Steam Frame — Comfortable, wireless, lightweight VR designed to give you a new way to experience your entire Steam library
• “The Steam machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home.”
• Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam Machine
• FEX-Emu/FEX: A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux
• FEX 2511 Delivers More Performance Improvements For Linux x86 Binaries On ARM64
• Commits · FEX-Emu/FEX · GitHub
• PLF10 Smart Plug – Kaufman Home Automation
• Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1
• About Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 — Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 is the new name for Home Assistant SkyConnect. Despite the new name and look, they have the exact same hardware, capability, and support.
• libvirt: The virtualization API
• libvirt - ArchWiki — Libvirt is a collection of software that provides a convenient way to manage virtual machines and other virtualization functionality, such as storage and network interface management. These software pieces include a long term stable C API, a daemon (libvirtd), and a command line utility (virsh).
• Category:Virtualization - NixOS Wiki
• Virt-manager - NixOS Wiki
• Libvirt - NixOS Wiki
• Pick: easyeffects — Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
• EasyEffects 8.0 Released In Porting From GTK4 To Qt / QML / Kirigami
• Easy Effects on Flathub
• Marcel Repo Email

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
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• F43 Change Proposal: Filter Fedora Flatpaks for Atomic Desktops — With this change, we want to make the availability of a Fedora Flatpak an explicit decision for the Fedora Atomic Desktops.
• Fedora Flatpaks creates more work
• Fedora Must (Carefully) Embrace Flathub
• Strategy 2028 Update – Fedora Community Blog
• Initiatives/Fedora bootc - Fedora Project Wiki — Silverblue & Kinoite are ready to be our desktop Editions, with bootc (Jason)
• Proposal: Enable Flathub by Default - Fedora Discussion
• The Case for Fedora Flatpaks
• bazaar: New App Store for GNOME
• Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance
• EXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance"
• Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More Devices
• Linux 6.16 Merges A Fix For The Macintosh II
• Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX
• The first half of the 6.16 merge window
• The second half of the 6.16 merge window
• Enforcement (or not) for module-specific exported symbols
• Toward the unification of kselftests and KUnit
• Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel
• Supporting kernel development with large language models
• Fending off unwanted file descriptors
• Linux 6.16 - Linux Kernel Newbies
• Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs
• Zoned Loop Block Device — The Linux Kernel documentation
• DJM-V10 Creative style 6-channel professional DJ mixer (black) - Pioneer DJ
• LLM generated git-resolve.sh
• Aidan's NixOS Flake
• Using Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula
• SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus
• Pick: Toney — Toney is a fast, lightweight, terminal-based note-taking app for the modern developer.
• Pick: Etesync-Knotes — A secure note-taking application for linux, integrated with Etebase for encrypted synchronization.

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• Berlin with Brent — May Meetup, Sat, May 11, 2024, 6:30 PM CEST
• Linuxfest Northwest 2024 Videos
• Tiny File Manager — Web based File Manager in PHP, Manage your files efficiently and easily with Tiny File Manager and it is a simple, fast and small file manager with a single file.
• Tiny File Manager Password Options
• Tiny File Manager Project Demo
• noblepayne/tinyfilemanager-flake — nix run github:noblepayne/tinyfilemanager-flake
• Big list of http static server one-liners — python -m http.server 8000
• awesome-webservers: ⚙️ — Collection of one-liner static servers.
• static-web-server — A cross-platform, high-performance and asynchronous web server for static files-serving. ⚡
• The smallest Docker image to serve static websites
• Self-Hosted 122: Back to the Future — How Chris created live TV streaming from his local media collection, Alex breaks down the new Open Home Foundation and what it means for self-hosters. Brent's been trying out an open-source AirDrop replacement for all systems, and much more!
• LocalSend — An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop.
• 🌷 Spring Membership Discount 🌱 — Promo code: MAY
• SouthEast LinuxFest — June 7-9, 2024 in Charlotte, NC.
• Boost LINUX Unplugged on Fountain’s Website
• Pick: audioserve — Simple personal server to serve audiofiles files from folders. Intended primarily for audio books, but anything with decent folder structure will do.
• Neofetch is Dead! Here are 7 Alternatives for Your Linux System

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• Pick: termbin.com — Netcat-based command line pastebin.