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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.
• Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox’s Wayland Backend Soon — So as we near the end of 2023 or going into early 2024, it's looking like we're nearing the point of finally having native Wayland support with the upstream Firefox builds.
• LinuxFest Northwest Meetups
• Ubuntu 23.10 Released — This is the release where the team aims to land as many major changes as possible to ensure that the community has the chance to take them for a spin and provide feedback for further refinement ahead of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
• Brave New Trusted Boot World — This document looks at the boot process of general purpose Linux distributions. It covers the status quo and how we envision Linux boot to work in the future with a focus on robustness and simplicity.
• Fitting Everything Together — Let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, and uniformity.
• Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur): Best New Features — Key highlights of Linux Kernel 6.5 include WiFi 7 support, and MIDI 2.0 compatibility.
• Ubuntu 23.10 is Available to Download, This is What’s New
• Intel Arc Graphics See Faster Performance On Ubuntu 23.10 — Overall though Ubuntu 23.10 is a nice upgrade for those making use of Intel Arc Graphics and sticking to the kernel/Mesa default versions as shipped by Ubuntu. If you are more advantageous, upgrading to Linux 6.6 and Mesa 23.3-devel can mean some very nice performance wins across various OpenGL and Vulkan workloads.
• Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations — We have identified hate speech from a malicious contributor in some of our translations submitted as part of a third party tool outside of the Ubuntu Archive. The Ubuntu 23.10 image has been taken down and a new version will be available once the correct translations have been restored.
• Why You Can’t Currently Download Ubuntu 23.10
• Bug: chrome-gnome-shell extension fails to detect native host connector
• Tiling Assistant GNOME Extension — An extension which adds a Windows-like snap assist to GNOME. It also expands GNOME's 2 column tiling layout.
• Wyse Terminal Picture
• WiFi232 — An Internet Hayes Modem for your Retro Computer
• Pick: tags — A simple text tagger.
• Tags on Flathub — Create tags with color schemes and give color to your logs or text files

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• The Steam Linux Beta Begins…
• Steam Linux Use Tips Up In October Thanks To The Steam Deck — The growth of Steam Deck adoption also now bumps AMD's CPU marketshare among Steam on Linux gamers to 56% against Intel, an increase in October alone of +4.37%.
• GitHub Issue: Geocatching details on site
• ODROID-H3+ – ODROID — Great compatibility, a brand new x86 64-bit single board computer with large memory capacity and advanced IO ports.
• ODROID-H3 Case Type 2 – ODROID
• ODROID-H3 Case Type 3 – ODROID
• plex - LinuxServer.io
• Jellyfin intro-skipper Plugin
• Tuxies Board Room
• Ubuntu Summit 2022 — An opportunity for the broader Ubuntu community to learn and speak about the amazing work and success stories happening in the ecosystem.
• How to Revert the Last Git Commit | Linode
• Snapcraft.io
• What happened to signal-desktop? - snapcraft.io — This is due to a DMCA takedown request coming from people representing Signal. Canonical is currently working with Signal to resolve this issue.
• “signal-desktop” not found · Issue #70 · snapcrafters/signal-desktop
• Install signal-desktop on Linux | Snap Store
• Godot Engine — Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine.
• Godot’s Graduation: Godot moves to a new Foundation — Software Freedom Conservancy and the Godot leadership are excited to share their decision that the Godot project has reached a level of success for which it makes sense for Godot to have its own independent foundation.
• Announcing Godot’s Graduation from SFC!
• I will try my best to explain why the upcoming @godotengine foundation can’t offer Console ports.
• Open source game development advances with Godot Engine 3.5 out now
• The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta
• Godot: Exporting for Linux
• Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them
• With Twitter in chaos, Mastodon is on fire | CNN Business
• How to securely store secrets in BitWarden CLI and load them into your ZSH shell when needed | by Zack Proser | Oct, 2022 | Gruntwork
• Intel ME-Enabled System Needed For Updating Arc Graphics GSC Firmware — Update: Intel reached out to say firmware updating will work on AMD platforms, but awaiting to hear futher details.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps

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• KDE neon on Twitter: "KDE neon Rebased on Jammy…
• Ubuntu 22.10 - Kinetic Kudu — Ubuntu Desktop 22.10 users will benefit from the refinements in GNOME 43, including GTK4 theming for improved performance and consistency. Quick Settings now provide faster access to commonly used options such as wifi, bluetooth, dark mode and power settings.
• ODROID-H3+ — Intel® Quad-Core Jasper Lake N6005, Up to 64GB Dual-channel Memory DDR4, PCIe 3.0 x 4 lanes, 2 x 2.5Gbit Ethernet ports, 2 x SATA 3.0 ports, and more!
• AI is taking over the iconic voice of Darth Vader, with the blessing of James Earl Jones | TechCrunch
• Why the Future of Open Source AI is So Much Bigger Than Stable Diffusion 1.5 and Why It Matters to You — In the absence of news from us, rumors started swirling about why we didn't release the next version yet. Some folks in the community worry that Stability AI has gone closed source and that we'll never release a model again. It's simply not true. We are committed to open source at our very core.
• Would you pay $10 to create AI chatbot of dead loved one?
• Setup for stable-diffusion-webui-docker
• AUTOMATIC1111's Stable Diffusion Webui — A browser interface based on Gradio library for Stable Diffusion.
• Stable Diffusion CPU
• Get Started with Linode GPU
• Guides - Installing the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit
• CUDA Toolkit 11.8 Downloads
• NVIDIA Container Toolkit — The NVIDIA Container Toolkit allows users to build and run GPU accelerated containers. The toolkit includes a container runtime library and utilities to automatically configure containers to leverage NVIDIA GPUs.
• LURE (Linux User REpository) — LURE is intended to bring the AUR to all distros. It is currently in an alpha state and may not be stable. It can download a repository, build packages in it using a bash script similar to PKGBUILD, and then install them using your system package manager.

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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.
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• Intel Arc GPUs NOT supporting Linux any time soon
• Please Buy Intel GPUs. - LTT
• Intel Arc Graphics Running On Fully Open-Source Linux Driver - Phoronix — A common misconception or confusion I've heard many times over the past number of months has been questioning whether Intel's discrete GPU driver support on Linux is open-source or is closed-source, etc. Well, it's fully open-source aside from the usual firmware caveat and running on Linux.
• The new Thelio — We believed that we could make an open hardware desktop that’s powerful, compact, quiet, beautiful, upgradable, backed by lifetime support, and manufactured in the United States—so we did. Customize your components, your software, even your aesthetic with swappable accents made for any mindset.
• System76 Thelio AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 24, X250-kernel, Devone-kernel Benchmark Comparison
• System76 Thelio vs Dev One - Workstation Benchmark
• Thelio, Devone, X250 - Workstation Benchmark Comparison
• System76 Thelio AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 24 - Time Linux Kernel Benchmark
• Unigene Superposition
• UNIGINE Superposition Video - 8K 60 FPS - YouTube
• Why do people love NixOS so much?
• Nix team creation - Announcements - NixOS Discourse