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• nebula-lighthouse-service
• nebula-lighthouse-service: init at 2.0.0 by bloominstrong · Pull Request #454855 · NixOS/nixpkgs — nebula-lighthouse-service is aimed to be run a a public nebula lighthouse for those who cannot host their own, or who want extra lighthouses without the burden of maintaining another lighthouse.
• Fedora Linux 43 Cleared For Release Next Week — While Fedora 43 wasn't ready for release this week due to outstanding blocker bugs, at today's Go/No-Go meeting it was decided that Fedora 43 is now in a position for shipping next week.
• Velocity Limitless / Projects / Slitherer · GitLab
• Fedora 43 Wallpaper Wrap-Up – Fedora Community Blog
• Fedora COSMIC Spin
• Plasma 6.5 - Reaching the Inflection Point
• [Fedora KDE] Early Plasma 6.5.0 - Fedora Discussion — With Fedora 43 being a go, we will be doing an update on repos towards the middle to end of next week that will bring Qt 6.10 and Plasma 6.5.1 to F43, and Plasma 6.5.1 (Most likely, plans are not 100% final in that regard) to F42. That will bring the update to the usual architectures, such as aarch64.
• Pick: Millisecond — Optimize your Linux system for low latency audio
• Millisecond on Flathub
• noblepayne/millisecond-flake
• rtcqs — rtcqs is a Python utility to analyze your system and detect possible bottlenecks that could have a negative impact on the performance of your system when working with Linux audio
• How do I get an out-of-the-box working Linux audio workstation? - LinuxAudio.org
• Pick: lemurs 🐒 — A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust

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• nebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.
• Nebula - Apps on Google Play
• Texas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TX
• JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party, Sat Oct 4 - Meetup.com
• JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony Events
• Turnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TX
• bitchat — bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over bluetooth mesh networks.
• Texas Linux Festival Trip Support (Fake boost)
• Jupiter Broadcasting Garage - New swag available!
• KDE Linux
• KDE Linux - KDE Community Wiki
• Announcing the Alpha release of KDE Linux
• GitHub - ChrisLAS/hyprvibe: A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.
• Hyprland 0.51 dropped! — The gesture system has been reworked and is now way more flexible.
• Nixtcloud: Self-Hosted Cloud in One Command — Nextcloud with NixOS in the backend and P2P connectivity enabled
• holesail-nix: Holesail package for the Nix package manager — A comprehensive Nix package and NixOS module collection for Holesail - the peer-to-peer tunnel that lets you create instant, secure connections between devices without port forwarding or exposing ports.
• Pick: lazyssh — A terminal-based SSH manager inspired by lazydocker and k9s — but built for managing your fleet of servers directly from your terminal.
• Pick: term.everything — Run every GUI app in the terminal!

Special Guest: Tristan Ross.

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• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LINUX Unplugged TUI Challenge Rules — Help shape the challenge - what did we miss?
• TUI Challenge Rules Discussion Thread
• The Launch 🚀 21: Bigfoot As a Service — We rescued Brent's van that should've stayed retired, dodged cops and fuel leaks, and learned why outsourcing navigation to ChatGPT was a terrible idea.
• Tristan Ross
• Release Managers - NixOS Release Wiki
• NixOS 25.05 – Release schedule
• release-notes/rl-2505.section.md
• Nixos-rebuild-ng: a nixos-rebuild rewrite
• marytts/marytts: MARY TTS -- an open-source, multilingual text-to-speech synthesis system written in pure java — This is the source code repository for the multilingual open-source MARY text-to-speech platform (MaryTTS). MaryTTS is a client-server system written in pure Java, so it runs on many platforms.
• PostgREST — A standalone web server that turns your PostgreSQL database directly into a RESTful API. Available as services.postgrest.
• asciimoo/omnom: A webpage bookmarking and snapshotting service — Access & share previously visited pages without worrying about modifications or availability.
• uMurmur by umurmur — uMurmur is a minimalistic Mumble server primarily targeted to run on embedded computers, like routers, with an open OS like e.g. OpenWRT.
• Actual Budget — a local-first personal finance app.
• gokapi — Lightweight selfhosted Firefox Send alternative without public upload. AWS S3 supported
• Cursor — a vscode-based editor that uses AI to help you write code faster.
• Pinchflat — a selfhosted YouTube media manager used to track channels and download videos on release.
• Traccar — a modern GPS Tracking Platform.
• crab-hole — a cross platform Pi-hole clone written in Rust using hickory-dns/trust-dns.
• nostr-rs-relay — a nostr relay, written in Rust.
• haven — a high availability vault for events on nostr.
• immich-public-proxy — a proxy for sharing Immich albums without exposing the Immich API.
• strfry — a relay for the nostr protocol.
• TSDProxy — Very simple proxy for virtual services in Tailscale
• Pick: Switcheroo — Convert between different image filetypes and resize them easily.
• Switcheroo on Flathub
• Switcheroo is packaged in nixpkgs
• Pick: mazanoke — MAZANOKE is a simple image optimizer that runs in your browser, works offline, and keeps your images private without ever leaving your device.
• jolheiser/mazanoke-nix: Nix derivation/flake for mazanoke

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• The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is.
• GNOME 48 Release Notes
• Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin)
• The newest Ubuntu version ushers in ARM64 support for early adopters
• Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop
• Retro Game Corps on YouTube
• Pick: Ignition: Manage your startup apps and scripts on Freedesktop Linux distros — Ignition is a minimal app for editing autostart entries on Freedesktop-compliant Linux distributions.
• Ignition on Flathub
• Pick: RecordApps — A desktop application that allows you to record audio from specific applications on Linux. Built with Deno, Svelte, and WebView.
• Record Apps on Flathub

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• ODROID H4 PLUS
• ODROID H4 Mini-ITX Kit
• Plan your meetup: Colony Events
• LUP 600 Pacific Northwest Party · Colony Events
• Request for Proposals: Flathub Program Management — The GNOME Foundation, in partnership with KDE e.V., is bootstrapping Flathub LLC to become a self-sustaining entity.
• Flathub to become a self-sustaining entity and they're looking to hire someone to help
• Flathub Statistics
• Flathub Verified Apps
• Verification | Flathub Documentation
• open issues on FlatHub-Infra GitHub
• netboot.xyz — Your favorite operating systems in one place. A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.
• Booting Methods
• boot netboot.xyz from grub
• boot netboot.xyz from a USB Disk
• Windows | netboot.xyz
• Windows PE image as an ISO, instructions on how to build it can be found here
• LUP 333
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• Proxmox and Veeam backups
• home-assistant-technitiumdns — This custom integration allows you to integrate TechnetiumDNS with Home Assistant, providing sensors for various DNS statistics.
• sam h's nix config with Blocky
• Rescuezilla — Rescuezilla is an open-source easy-to-use disk imaging app that's fully compatible with Clonezilla — the industry-standard trusted by tens of millions.
• rescuezilla/rescuezilla: The Swiss Army Knife of System Recovery

Plus: Wes' top DNS server pick, and it's not one we've heard before.

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• First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released — The OpenWrt One costs $89 with a case ($68.42 for the logic board only) and is hacker-friendly, featuring robust hardware specifications such as a MediaTek MT7981B SoC, dual Ethernet ports (2.5 GbE and 1 GbE), USB-C power, and modular expansion options.
• Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros
• "KDE Linux" (codenamed "Project Banana")
• Akademy 2024 - Saturday 7th September - Room 1 - YouTube
• An Operating System of Our Own - Akademy 2024 - FTV
• Adrian Vovk
• A Desktop for All
• GNOME OS Nightly
• Fitting Everything Together
• Shell Yes! | Push the Button
• 2024 Tuxies.Party — New category based on your feedback, and we've cleared out the hall of fame, all distros and desktops up for a vote!
• Reminder that PlanetNix Call for Papers is still open!
• Technitium DNS Server
• TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer: Technitium DNS Server — Technitium DNS Server is an open source authoritative as well as recursive DNS server that can be used for self hosting a DNS server for privacy & security. It works out-of-the-box with no or minimal configuration and provides a user friendly web console accessible using any modern web browser.
• Technitium Blog: Running Technitium DNS Server on Ubuntu Linux
• DnsServer/docker-compose.yml
• technitium-dns-server - MyNixOS
• NixOS Search - Options - technitium
• technitium-dns-server.nix
• Membership Black Friday Sale 30% off
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• Errands — Todo application for those who prefer simplicity.
• Errands GitHub Page

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• Test openSUSE Tumbleweed GNOME online
• Fountain 1.1.6 is now live on iOS and Android — Our latest release contains more bug fixes than ever before - plus we have improved navigation by making the bottom nav bar persistent across all pages.
• Planet Nix — CFP Submission Deadline: December 9th, 2024
• LINUX Unplugged 432: Three Tumbleweed Temptations
• LINUX Unplugged 461: Deep in the Tumbleweeds
• nix-community/nixos-images — netboot and kexec images for NixOS
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• bees: Best-Effort Extent-Same, a btrfs dedupe agent — bees is a block-oriented userspace deduplication agent designed for large btrfs filesystems. It is an offline dedupe combined with an incremental data scan capability to minimize time data spends on disk from write to dedupe.
• markfasheh/duperemove: Tools for deduping file systems — Duperemove is a simple tool for finding duplicated extents and submitting them for deduplication. When given a list of files it will hash their contents on an extent by extent basis and compare those hashes to each other, finding and categorizing extents that match each other.
• MicroMirror CDN: Mirroring FOSS as a Managed Appliance :: SeaGL 2024
• Minisforum UM790 Pro 7940HS Mini PC
• Beelink open sources the design of the Beelink EX GPU dock
• Beelink Multi-Functional EX Docking Station
• tmate • Instant terminal sharing
• NixOS Manual - Installing From Another Distro
• Documentation for lustrating does not actually work as it is · Issue #49520 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub
• nixos-anywhere: install nixos everywhere via ssh
• ownCloud becomes part of Kiteworks
• open-webui: User-friendly AI Interface
• The Trouble With Tumbleweed - YouTube
• OCIS

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• OpenSats Grants Long-Term Support for WireGuard Creator Jason Donenfeld
• OpenSats Lightning Node
• Nextcloud Hub 9
• Introducing Nextcloud Hub 9 - the world's leading open source collaboration platform! - YouTube
• Day 1: Nextcloud Community Conference 2024 - YouTube
• Day 2: Nextcloud Community Conference 2024 - YouTube
• Nextcloud Community Conference 2024
• Mailvelope — Mailvelope is a browser add-on that you can use in Chrome, Edge and Firefox to securely encrypt your emails with PGP using webmail providers
• Nextcloud Server Releases
• nextcloud/docker: ⛴ Docker image of Nextcloud
• Bug: Unable to update background execution mode: conflict between new type (mixed) and old type (string)
• VLESS
• hacompanion: Daemon that sends local hardware information to Home Assistant.
• LNXlink: 🖥 Effortlessly manage your Linux machine using MQTT.
• Waycheck — Waycheck is a simple graphical application that connects to your Wayland compositor and displays the list of Wayland protocols that it supports, along with the list of protocols that it doesn't.
• Supersonic — A lightweight cross-platform desktop client for Subsonic and Jellyfin music servers.

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• Universal Blue — The Universal Blue project builds a diverse set of continuously delivered operating system images using Fedora Atomic Desktop's support for OCI/Docker containers.
• Universal Blue Architecture Diagram
• Aurora — Aurora is a clean and reliable desktop operating system for every type of user. Many batteries included.
• Bluefin — Bluefin is a custom image of Fedora Silverblue offering the best of both worlds: The reliability and ease of use of a Chromebook and the power of a GNOME desktop.
• Bazzite — The next generation of Linux Gaming for all of your devices - including your favorite handheld.
• uCore — An OCI base image of Fedora CoreOS with batteries included; a lightweight server image including most used services or the building blocks to host them.
• Bazzite Desktop Environment Tweaks - Bazzite - Docs - Universal Blue
• Installing and Managing AppImages on Bazzite - Bazzite - Docs - Universal Blue
• Universal Blue Contributing Guide
• Jazz up your Bluefin command line with some bling! [YouTube]
• Jorge Castro on YouTube
• Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!
• zap.store — a permissionless app store.
• Asking AI To Make A Caveman Rock Song - Me Like Rock
• winapps — Run Windows applications (including Microsoft 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud) on GNU/Linux with KDE, GNOME or XFCE, integrated seamlessly as if they were native to the OS.
• The Mooltipass Hardware Authenticator — A Simple Hardware Authenticator
• ptyxis — Ptyxis is a terminal for GNOME with first-class support for containers.
• Gearlever — Manage AppImages with ease 📦

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• Marknote - KDE Applications
• Marknote 1.3 - KDE Blogs — Marknote lets you create rich text notes and easily organise them into notebooks. You can personalise your notebooks by choosing an icon and accent color for each one, making it easy to distinguish between them and keep your notes at your fingertips. Your notes are saved as Markdown files in your Documents folder, making it easy to use your notes outside of Marknote as well as inside the app.
• Spokane Meetup - No-Li Brewhouse, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PM
• No-Li Brewhouse Menu
• 10 best beer gardens in the US where you can quench your thirst
• KDE Plasma 6.1 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here's What's New
• Plasma 6.1 - KDE Community — This release introduces explicit GPU synchronization support for NVIDIA users and triple buffering support on Wayland for smoother animations.
• KDE Plasma 6.1.1 Desktop Environment Released with Various Bug Fixes
• LUP 552 — Plasma 6 is out, and we've been giving it a go. What's new, our thoughts, and the lessons other desktops should learn.
• KDE Plasma 6.1 Performing Much Better On Older Intel Integrated Graphics
• Fixing KWin's performance on old hardware
• plasma6-desktop package versions
• plasma-desktop package versions
• KRdp on GitLab — Currently, the main client that has been used for testing and is confirmed to work is the FreeRDP client.
• Open KRdp Bugs
• appiumtests: test adaptive panel opacity (!2324) · Merge requests · Plasma / Plasma Desktop · GitLab
• Why the next GNOME Release will be one of the Best Ever
• Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!
• Gathio
• JB Events Gathio hosted by HybridSarcasm
• GitHub Issue: Can't create events — An unexpected error has occurred. Please try again later.
• Crossover: Run Microsoft Windows software on Mac and Linux | CodeWeavers
• FUTO Keyboard — Your keyboard shouldn't connect to the internet.
• FUTO Keyboard · Wiki

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• Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature for Windows 11 could already be in legal hot water
• Apple GPT — What We Know About Apple's Work on Generative AI
• Chris' BeeLink — Beelink Ryzen 7 5700U Up to 4.3GHz 8C/16T
• RV BeeLink Nix configuration.nix
• Slack - NixOS Wiki
• Chris' Win 7 Inspired Look
• musnix — Real-time audio in NixOS
• Boost Pick: nh — NH reimplements some basic nix commands. Adding functionality on top of the existing solutions, like nixos-rebuild, home-manager cli or nix itself.
• Pick: gridplayer — Simple VLC-based media player that can play multiple videos at the same time. You can play as many videos as you like, the only limit is your hardware. It supports all video formats that VLC supports (which is all of them). You can save your playlist retaining information about the position, sound volume, loops, aspect ratio, etc.

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• HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD — The HDMI Forum has rejected our proposal unfortunately. At this time an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation is not possible without running afoul of the HDMI Forum requirements.
• NVK is now ready for prime time — Today, I'm proud to announce that NVK, the open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, is now ready for prime time.
• FUSE Passthrough Support May Land For Linux 6.9 To Help Boost I/O Performance — The FUSE passthrough mode patches were recently queued up into FUSE.git's for-next branch. With the patches now in the "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.9 merge window in March, the code will hopefully be merged for this next kernel cycle barring any last minute issues.
• First NixCon North America!
• Southern California Linux Expo 21
• Jupiter Broadcasting Calendar
• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
• Yard House Menu
• Sirius 16 all Ryzen laptop from TUXEDO Computers
• KDE MegaRelease 6 — With Plasma 6, our technology stack has undergone two major upgrades: a transition to the latest version of our application framework, Qt, and a migration to the modern Linux graphics platform, Wayland.
• This Week in Bitcoin — A high-signal Bitcoin news podcast focused on analysis you'll find valuable.
• 42keebs.eu — Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded custom keyboard shop.
• NixOS Plasma 6 PR
• starcoder2 — StarCoder2 models are intended for code completion.
• PromtEngineer/localGPT — Chat with your documents on your local device using GPT models.
• Introducing: Fountain Radio — Fountain Radio is a community station for music - powered by Bitcoin.
• Pick: cpu-controller — CPU Controller for Linux is a straightforward GUI application based on PyQt6, enabling users to toggle individual CPU cores on or off in a Linux system to save battery life.
• FlyGoat/RyzenAdj: Adjust power management settings for Ryzen APUs
• Unplugged Core Membership

Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

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• ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
• Hector Martin's Controversial Question — Would you be okay with us adding some really trivial telemetry to the Asahi installer?
• Berlin with Brent — Brent will be back in Berlin for the Nextcloud Conference and can't get enough of Berlin Meetups! Friday, September 8th, 6 PM.
• Fedora Asahi Remix
• Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware — Fedora Asahi Remix will be their new flagship distribution for providing a polished Linux experience on Apple Silicon.
• Fedora Asahi Remix: bringing Fedora to Apple Silicon Macs (Flock To Fedora 2023)
• Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix — We’re still working out the kinks and making things even better, so we are not quite ready to call this a release yet. We aim to officially release the Fedora Asahi Remix by the end of August 2023. Look forward to many new features, machine support, and more!
• Hector Martin: “Okay, I’m going to be honest…” — I apologize to all Asahi Linux users. You deserve better. When I chose Arch Linux ARM as a base I didn't realize it would have so many basic QA issues.
• Coming soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs! (Fedora Discourse)
• The first conformant M1 GPU driver — Our reverse-engineered, free and open source graphics drivers are the world’s only conformant OpenGL ES 3.1 implementation for M1- and M2-family graphics hardware. That means our driver passed tens of thousands of tests to demonstrate correctness and is now recognized by the industry.
• Asahi Linux’s Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant — It's even more rewarding for the community developers in that Apple doesn't provide any conformant (OpenGL or Vulkan) graphics drivers for their Arm-based platform.
• Feature Support · AsahiLinux/docs Wiki
• Switch to the kernel-16k variant - Fedora Discussion
• NixOS: Unlocking your LUKS via SSH and Tor
• StreetComplete — Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android.
• getumbrel/llama-gpt: A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot. Powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device.
• serge-chat/serge: A web interface for chatting with Alpaca through llama.cpp. Fully dockerized, with an easy to use API.
• liltom-eth/llama2-webui: Run any Llama 2 locally with gradio UI on GPU or CPU from anywhere (Linux/Windows/Mac). Use
• llama.cpp — Port of Facebook’s LLaMA model in C/C++
• Llama2.c — Inference Llama 2 in one file of pure C
• Koboldcpp — A simple one-file way to run various GGML models with KoboldAI’s UI
• lollms-webui — Lord of Large Language Models Web User Interface
• LM Studio — Discover, download, and run local LLMs
• text-generation-webui — A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models. Supports transformers, GPTQ, llama.cpp (ggml/gguf), Llama models.
• A comprehensive guide to running Llama 2 locally — Code Llama is a state-of-the-art LLM capable of generating code, and natural language about code, from both code and natural language prompts.
• Meta Releases Code Llama, a Coding Version of Llama 2
• Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding
• Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source
• Meta launches Llama 2, a source-available AI model that allows commercial applications — A family of pretrained and fine-tuned language models in sizes from 7 to 70 billion parameters.
• Meta’s Llama 2 is not open source — Meta's newly released large language model Llama 2 is not open source.

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• Suicide Linux — It's a game. Like walking a tightrope. You have to see how long you can continue to use the operating system before losing all your data.
• Suicide-linux — now available on Docker!
• Suicide Linux bashrc
• JupiterBroadcasting.com, hugo-based and community-driven!
• Hugo — The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
• The Determinate Nix Installer. — nix-installer is an opinionated alternative to the official Nix install scripts.
• NixOS Package Search: Hugo
• Hugo in nixpkgs
• Mike Kelly on Twitter — Dammit @ChrisLAS, @wespayne, and @brentgervais, I could have won yesterday's challenge, had I only embraced Nix-Shell. Better late than never?
• Notes for Dom C’s setup using Podgrab and AudiobookShelf
• podgrab — A self-hosted podcast manager/downloader/archiver tool to download podcast episodes as soon as they become live with an integrated player.
• audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
• nala — a wrapper for the apt package manager.
• pacstall — An AUR-inspired package manager for Ubuntu
• Dendron — The personal knowledge management (PKM) tool that grows as you do!
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org

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• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• Redesigned Flathub Site Launches For Flatpak Apps — A redesigned version of the Flathub website has launched for this weekend's Linux App Summit. Flathub remains the centralized website for exploring and finding new Flatpak sandboxed Linux apps.
• Flathub — Welcome to Flathub, the home of hundreds of apps which can be easily installed on any Linux distribution. Browse the apps online, from your app center or the command line.
• Olympia Linux Spring Meetup
• Announcing Fedora Linux 38 — Fedora Linux 38 introduces several new Spins ­— variants that showcase different desktop environments.
• Fedora 38 Released With GNOME 44 Desktop, GCC 13, Many New Features — Fedora 38 brings many changes including the GCC 13 system compiler and other updated toolchain components like GNU Make 4.4, Glibc 2.37, Binutils 2.39, Golang 1.20, Ruby 3.2, and more.
• What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38
• How to rebase to Fedora Linux 38 on Silverblue
• Fedora Linux 38 Spins
• Fedora Workstation Download
• asahi-fedora-builder — Builds a minimal Fedora image to run on Apple M1/M2 systems
• music-player — An extensible music server written in Rust 🚀🎵✨
• Tools on Tech
• The Split Kit
• Podverse
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Reaper on Flathub

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• 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

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• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups — Two April Meetups: Raleigh - April 8th and Olympia - April 29th.
• LinuxFest Northwest on Twitter — Call for Speakers is open from March 5th through June 4th, so if you are interested in being a speaker please submit a proposal now!
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023: Call for Speakers
• Logseq — A privacy-first, open-source knowledge base. Logseq is the open toolbox for workflows that deal with lots of information.
• logseq-publish — Publish your Logseq graph with a GitHub Action.
• logseq-schrodinger — A plugin to export pages in Logseq to Hugo.
• logseq-searchable — A quick utility to conduct OCR parsing on images and insert the result as a property.
• SimpleX Chat — The first messenger without user IDs.
• SimpleX on Google Play
• SimpleX APK
• SimpleX on iOS
• SimpleX TestFlight preview for iOS
• SimpleX CLI
• SimpleXMQ — A reference implementation of the SimpleX Messaging Protocol for simplex queues over public networks.
• LFNW Matrix Chat
• gping — Ping, but with a graph.
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Pick: Codex.docs — Free Docs app powered by Editor.js ecosystem
• Editor.js — Free block-style editor with a universal JSON output

Plus, Brent's extended stay in Berlin has led to some developments you won't want to miss.

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• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

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• c-base interface — welcome onboard c-base
• matelight: — Show text and gifs on mate crates.
• Raleigh-Durham Pizza Party! — Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 3pm EST
• Olympia Linux Spring Meetup — Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 1:00 PM PDT
• Podverse Call for Help
• LINUX Unplugged 486: Goodbye, Google
• Immich — Self-hosted photos and videos backup solution from your mobile phone
• KDE Connect — Enabling communication between all your devices. Made for people like you.
• iodé — The Eco Friendly Smartphone Protecting Your Privacy
• Berlin Buds Matrix Room
• LibreSign — Libre digital signature app for Nextcloud.
• Develop for Nextcloud — Have you always wanted to learn how to develop apps for your Nextcloud? These tutorials should flatten your learning curve.
• Berlin with Brent | LINUX Unplugged 503
• Nextcloud Cookbook on iOS
• nextcloud/cookbook — A library for all your recipes. It uses JSON files following the schema.org recipe format.
• Nextcloud AIO — Nextcloud AIO stands for Nextcloud All In One and provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org

Special Guest: Robert McQueen.

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• 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.

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• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — October 20-22, 2023 at the Bellingham Technical College.
• Flathub in 2023 - Flathub Discourse — We’ve been busy behind the scenes, so I’d like to share what we’ve been up to at Flathub and why—and what’s coming up from us this year.
• Robotic Tendencies » Flathub in 2023
• Rule of Acquisition 57 — Good customers are as rare as latinum… treasure them.
• Fountain on Twitter — The veterans are dominating the charts as we celebrate some major milestones this week 👏
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Trayscale — An unofficial GUI wrapper around the Tailscale CLI client.
• Trayscale on Flathub
• Pick: abcde — A Better CD Encoder
• A collection of abcde.conf files

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

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• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

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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.

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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.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• VIM Homepage
• Visual Studio Cod — Code Editing. Redefined.
• Kate — Get an Edge in Editing.
• Pop!_OS by System76 — Pop!_OS is an operating system for STEM and creative professionals who use their computer as a tool to discover and create.
• NixOS — Reproducible builds and deployments.
• COSMIC by System76 — Computer Operating System Main Interface Components
• KDE Plasma — Do it all in a beautiful environment that adapts to your needs, and with the safety, privacy-protection and peace of mind that the best Free Open Source Software has to offer.
• Ubuntu Server
• Debian — The Universal Operating System
• Jellyfin — The Free Software Media System
• Nextcloud — Online collaboration platform
• Steam Deck
• HP Dev One
• Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
• mastodon — Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community.
• Asahi Linux — Asahi Linux aims to bring you a polished Linux® experience on Apple Silicon Macs.
• AbdBarho/stable-diffusion-webui-docker — Easy Docker setup for Stable Diffusion with user-friendly UI
• Umbrel — A personal server OS for self-hosting.
• immich — Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.

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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.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 2022 Tuxies — GO VOTE!
• Tasks.org — Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders
• nolooking — Joining the lightning network is daunting.
• Join the Podverse beta
• GrapheneOS Update
• Nextcloud Notes
• Three Tumbleweed Temptations | LINUX Unplugged 432
• wipegpt
• wipefs
• OpenSUSE Build Service
• opi: openSUSE Package Installer (CLI) — Search and install almost all packages available for openSUSE and SLE
• tumbleweed-cli — Command line interface for interacting with Tumbleweed snapshots.
• twups — Tumbleweed Update Scrutinizer
• Tumbleweed Snapshots
• GPSLogger for Android
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps

Plus, follow-up on Chris' GrapheneOS adventures and more.

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• 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.
• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Apple Limits iPhone AirDrop Function Used for Protests in China
• Magic Earth — Free Maps & Navigation App
• Top 10 reasons to use Debian as your Linux distro
• Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of ‘move fast and break things’, and version 11 is no different
• ProtonPlus — A simple Wine and Proton-based compatiblity tools manager for GNOME.
• ProtonUp-Qt — Install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda & more for Steam and Wine-GE & more for Lutris with this graphical user interface.
• Why openSUSE - openSUSE Wiki
• The Nobara Project — The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.
• Who Wants To Be a Millionaire — Test your knowledge to see if you can answer all questions and win $1 million. Have fun!
• Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Questions and Source Code

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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.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• Computer Chronicles - Intel 486 — In 1992, the big issue was - is it worth the money to upgrade my 386 PC to the new 486 chip? This program looks at the performance of the new Intel 486 and helps users decide.
• GrapheneOS — The private and secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility. Developed as a non-profit open source project.
• GrapheneOS: Supported Phones
• GrapheneOS: Features Overview
• Sandboxed Google Play overview for GrapheneOS
• Lockscreen bypass fixed in November’s update - discovered by GrapheneOS in June
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — We independently discovered the Android lockscreen bypass fixed in Android's November security update while working on features like a duress PIN/password.
• A week with GrapheneOS exposed my over-reliance on Google
• GrapheneOS Initial Impressions
• Banking Applications Compatibility with GrapheneOS
• HERE WeGo — Maps & Navigation
• Fountain on Twitter — More sats = higher signal⚡️📡
• Hot on Fountain
• DAVx⁵ — CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV for Android
• Bitwarden: Top 10 Burning Questions on 2FA
• n.eko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.
• Install NVIDIA Drivers on Debian 11
• deemix — deemix is a barebone deezer downloader library built from the ashes of Deezloader Remix.
• lidarr-on-steroids
• nostr — The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all.
• Pick: Upscaler — Upscale and enhance images.
• Frog by Tender Owl
• Frog on Flathub
• A Science Project — “Make the 486 Great Again!”
• Linus Torvalds bids 486 Linux adieu — It's been fun, but Linus Torvalds thinks it's time for 486 Linux to leave computers behind and go to museums.

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• 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.

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• SteamOS Has Finally Been Rebased to the Latest Version of Arch Linux!
• Fedora 37 is GO — The Fedora Linux 37 Final RC 1.7 compose is GO and will be shipped live on Tuesday, 15 November.
• Fedora 37 ChangeSet
• Announcing the release of Fedora Linux 37 Beta
• NixOS on Fedora
• Is it true that mesa-freeworld hasn't been published on RPM Fusion yet?
• Schedules/Plasma 5 - KDE Community Wiki
• Fedora 37 Plasma Login Fuzzzz
• How to Install a Mastodon Server on Ubuntu 20.04 on Linode
• Don’s use ZSYS · Issue #230 · ubuntu/zsys — Finally I just want to say I regret having to say this. ZFS and ZSYS are both great technologies. They're ideal solutions to big problems and really move the state of the art forward. Unfortunately, their implementations are both 90% ideal but 10% incomplete.
• Bug #1968150 “[FFe] Remove zsys from installer” : Bugs : ubiquity package : Ubuntu
• Chris B’s Deep Fake funny and crazy ChrisLAS images.
• NAS Board ODROID Killer N5105/N6005
• Nexcom Industrial Low Power Rigs
• Bitcoin Dad Pod Episode 50: Effective Scam-Truism
• Bitcoin General Chat on Matrix
• Bitcoin Q&A Room
• Pocket Popcorn Computer — Finally, a handheld Linux device with a high-definition 1080p display and large battery life.
• Pleroma — a lightweight fediverse server
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Coqui TTS — A deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production.

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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.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

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• OsmAnd — Carry highly detailed, fully offline maps of any region world wide on your device!
• Garmin RV 780 & Traffic
• Office Hours 12 — Don’t Clip and Drive
• JB Meetups
• West Coast Crew Matrix Room
• Möbius Sync — Bringing Syncthing to iOS. Sync files between all your devices.
• PhotoSync — Photo Transfer and Backup App. For iOS & Android
• PhotoPrism — PhotoPrism® is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web.
• Storj — Fast, secure cloud storage at a fraction of the cost.
• Storj Warrant Canary
• How Decentralized Storage Works
• Duplicati — Free backup software to store encrypted backups online.
• Backup With Duplicati | Storj Docs
• Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes.
• Stingle Photos — Stingle Photos is a convenient, easy to use Gallery/Camera application with Backup and Sync functionality for your photos and videos which seamlessly provides strong security, privacy and encryption.
• Recommended way to use Syncthing for Photos Sync
• Lomorage — Free private photo cloud solution that puts you in control of your photos and videos.
• Lomorage and Photoprism
• pigallery2 — A fast directory-first photo gallery website, with rich UI, optimized for running on low resource servers.
• Photoview — Photoview is a simple and user-friendly photo gallery that's made for photographers and aims to provide an easy and fast way to navigate directories, with thousands of high-resolution photos.
• LibrePhotos — A self-hosted open source photo management service.
• LibrePhotos Feature Comparison
• UhuruPhotos — Android client for LibrePhotos
• docker-s3fs-client
• s3fs — FUSE-based file system backed by Amazon S3.
• rclone to Glacier
• CasaOs — Community-based open source software focused on delivering simple home cloud experience around Docker ecosystem.
• Nabu Casa
• Wazuh — Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.
• CrowdSec — Open-source and participative IPS able to analyze visitor behavior & provide an adapted response to all kinds of attacks.
• LINUX Unplugged at the Podcastindex.org

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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.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• Pull Request #378 by DECbot — "JB is live!" indicator - on page load, call the script to highlight the #livebutton red if jupiter.tube is live
• NASA Selects SiFive and Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions — SiFive X280 delivers 100x increase in computational capability with leading power efficiency, fault tolerance, and compute flexibility to propel next-generation planetary and surface missions.
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup
• West Coast Crew Matrix Room
• Submit Your Baller Boost Jingles
• Fountain 0.4.8 - Referrals, Search Editorial and Other Improvements
• Fountain.fm Charts
• KDE Official Response to creation of GNOME Foundation (2000)
• Report: Default Desktop Environments for Linux and Unix
• How Much Does KDE Pay Developers?
• KDE Issue Reporting Guidelines - Have Realistic Expectations
• KDE neon
• Plasma Activities
• All bugs submitted by Brent during Kubuntu Jammy beta testing
• Firefox icon missing from panel following Kubuntu upgrade 20.04->22.04
• kdesu fails to authenticate with sudo from Jammy
• KDE Issue Reporting
• Fedora Workstation bug - Kate
• Fedora Workstation bug - Network - gnome-control-centre
• Fedora Workstation bug - Guake
• PhotoPrism — PhotoPrism is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web
• Git Large File Storage — Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server like GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• PhotoSync — Photo Transfer and Backup App
• iDrive — Cloud backup solutions for home and business.
• Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program.
• FolderSync — FolderSync enables simple sync to cloud based storage to and from local folders on the device SD cards.

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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.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

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• New Flathub Site in Beta - Big Things Coming — [...] next steps are to flesh out the donation infrastructure with the aim to allow app pages to have their own link to donation/purchase.
• Win32 Is The Only Stable ABI on Linux — I think this whole situation shows why creating native games for Linux is challenging. It’s hard to blame developers for targeting Windows and relying on Wine + friends. It’s just much more stable and much less likely to break and stay broken.
• The Offending glibc Commit
• A glibc Bug
• The ABI status of ELF hash tables — If EAC were free software, of course, chances are there would already be a patch circulating to deal with the problem. As it is, only its owner can deal with this problem directly. Meanwhile, though, there is another workaround available: distributors can easily patch the glibc build to restore the DT_HASH section and make the problem go away for now.
• Jupiter JPL Meetup Form
• JB Meetups
• West Coast Crew Matrix Room
• Endless OS — The Endless Operating System is simple and easy for anyone to use. It is fully equipped with essential apps to learn, play, work and connect.
• Different methods to run a non-NixOS executable on NixOS — What are the different methods to run a non-NixOS executable on NixOS? I'd like to see also the manual methods.
• nix-ld: Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS
• vscode with extensions nix package
• vscode FHS compatible
• toolbox-vscode — Toolbox Visual Studio Code integration
• Self-Hosted 67: The No Container Theory — Why Chris is moving away from using Containers, Alex's new project, and some great follow-up.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps — Grab a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app, and boost into the show.
• Heroic Games Launcher — Heroic is an Open Source GOG and Epic games launcher for Linux, Windows and macOS. Also available on the Steam Deck!
• Heroic Games Launcher | Flathub

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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.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• JPL Lottery — 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. - If you don't get picked, don't worry. We're having another meetup while we are in town!
• Jupiter Broadcasting - Meetup.com
• London Meetup, Fri, Aug 5, 2022 - Meetup.com
• Google’s in-house desktop Linux - Computerworld — The best-known Google operating system is Chrome OS, but inside Google itself, the company also uses its own Linux desktop distro — gLinux.
• X220 - ThinkWiki — An overview of the ThinkPad X220
• The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love — I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But I’ve come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. But I just can’t stick with it. I always end up back on macOS. And I’m starting to understand why.
• Run Chrome in Toolbox on Silverblue
• Distrobox — Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with.
• Rclone — Rclone is a command-line program to manage files on cloud storage.
• Cryptomator - Free Cloud Encryption for Dropbox & Co — Cryptomator encrypts your data quickly and easily. Afterwards you upload them protected to your favorite cloud service.
• Cryptomator— Linux Apps on Flathub
• New Podcast Apps

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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.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• Pre-show: Microsoft is selling tech pants for $150. — Wait, what are tech pants?
• London Meetup on August 5th at 6pm GMT
• Southern Oregon Meet Up, Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 6:00 PM
• Sacramento Meet Up!, Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 6:00 PM
• Southern California Meet Up, Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 6:00 PM
• Portland Meet Up, Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 6:00 PM
• Steam Deck Tech Specs
• (Video) Steam Deck Teardown — Everything Valve Said Not to Do!
• Chris' Known Good USB C Docking Station
• Boost Pick: Furtherance — Track your time without being tracked.
• Furtherance on Flathub
• Impractical Python Projects
• Understanding all of Python, through its builtins
• Larix Broadcaster
• Pick: Droidcam — DroidCam turns your phone/tablet into a webcam for your PC.
• Droidcam with Linux
• v4l2-loopback

Special Guests: Martin Wimpress and Neal Gompa.

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• 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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• Do You Put Linux/Distro Stickers On Your Machine?
• ChrisLAS Birthday Party Hang and Chow
• Jupiter Extras — Why Linux Will Win in 20 Years
• Denver Road Trip Memories — During our summer road trip to Denver we had the microphone's recording and captured some great moments.
• Denver Road Trip Tech — Our road trip machine is loaded up from solar to networking, the tech that made working, living, and recording from the road possible for 44 days and over 2,200 miles.
• Dev corrupts NPM libs ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ breaking thousands of apps
• Crypto Theses for 2022
• Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
• ZFS has a history of not handling 15+ drive vdevs well.
• bismuth — KDE Plasma extension, that lets you tile your windows automatically and manage them via keyboard, just like in classical tiling window managers (i3, dwm or XMonad).
• Ideas on growing the Flathub Community in 2022

We try three different builds and prepare ourselves for our journey into SUSE land. Our setups, what we liked, and what we still need to figure out.

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• 2021 Tuxie Nominations are Open!
• SteamOS 3.0 will have an immutable filesystem - a first for arch? — During the Steam Deck Development live steam, Valve finally gave us some good news and said that SteamOS 3.0 will be generally available for everyone to install on their computers. They also revealed that SteamOS 3.0 will have an immutable root file system to prevent unauthorized access and use PipeWire for audio.
• Greg’s Company Buys Ads openSUSE Search Results — "Hey, @openSUSE have you been seeing a drop in downloads recently? I might know why..."
• They did this to AlmaLinux at the end of July.
• AlmaLinux AMA
• Setting up a containerized environment - openSUSE User Documentation Project
• Using the Linode Graphical Shell (Glish)
• How to switch from OpenSUSE Leap to Tumbleweed?
• Transactional Updates | Administration Guide | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
• The Transactional Update Guide
• Manpage for transactional-update — Transactional-update updates the system in a transactional way; this means updates are atomic, so either the patches are fully applied or nothing is changed. The update does not influence the running system and it can be rolled back. To activate the changes, the system needs to be rebooted. To achieve this transactional-update is using Btrfs' snapshot mechanism, combined with the default distribution tools
• YaST Online Update
• OpenSUSE System Updates
• Snapper rollback with btrfs
• openSUSE/transactional-update — Do transactional updates on openSUSE/SUSE Linux Enterprise products with btrfs, snapshots and rollback.
• Open Build Service
• OpenSUSE Conference 2017
• Post that explains some of the drawbacks of transaction updates
• Zypper cheat sheet VERY handy and recommend it
• JupiterGarage.com
• Pick: mp4grep — Command-line tool that searches audio/video files.
• JB All Shows Feed

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• Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 15th Red Planet flight
• 2021 Tuxie Nominations are Open
• System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based On GNOME — Word of System76 making their "own" desktop not based on GNOME does follow some recent friction between Pop!_OS and GNOME developers over their approach to theming and customizations.
• System76 Engineer Confirms Work on New Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based on GNOME
• Carl Richell on Twitter — We celebrated 16 years of @system76 today. It was a nice surprise. This is about a third of the team. While we’ve adapted to remote work well, I miss full-company events and hope we can get back to those soon.
• It’s Been 9 Years Since Valve Rolled Out The Steam Linux Beta — Over the past nine years Valve has done an incredible job advancing gaming for Linux and allowing it to reach heights never once imagined. As we move into 2022 and ten years of Steam on Linux it will be incredibly exciting to see how Steam Deck performs in the marketplace and ultimately its impact on the Linux ecosystem.
• BattlEye Support In Good Shape With Steam Client Beta + Proton Experimental
• Kalendar is out! — Note that this is still an in-development release and that there will be bugs, features still to be added, and so on. We want your feedback — especially bug reports! These will help us improve Kalendar as much as we possible can before we can release a truly stable 1.0 version.
• Linux HATES Me – Daily Driver CHALLENGE Pt.1 - YouTube — This is part 1 in a series where Linus and Luke migrate their home workstation to Linux. In this episode, each decides which Distro they'll use, and then tries to run a game on it.
• JupiterGarage.com
• Linux Action News 214
• Self-Hosted 57
• How to fix the GSP 670 headset to make it work properly on Linux
• Akselmo’s Game
• ESOLinuxAddonManager
• Vorta for BorgBackup — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty Borg Backup with your favorite desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft.
• Vorta — Linux Apps on Flathub
• Vorta | Memory Alpha

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• SpaceCadetPinball — Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows
• Pop!_OS Raspberry Pi 4 Beta — THIS IS A BETA. Bugs are expected and re-installs are likely.
• Pop!_OS Software Engineer Job Opening (Rust)
• Valve Launches “Steam Deck Verified” Program For Games That Run Well On The Steam Deck — Valve says they are reviewing the entire Steam catalog of games and will be categorizing each game for its level of compatibility with the Steam Deck. These ratings in turn will show up within the Steam Store and for users own game libraries.
• Apple Announces The M1 Pro / M1 Max, Asahi Linux Starts Eyeing Their Bring-Up — Meanwhile the Asahi Linux crew is preparing for their eventual bring-up of the new hardware. They have pre-ordered the M1 Pro MacBook Pro model and will be procuring the M1 Max model too.
• Hector Martin on Twitter — Asahi Linux on M1 Pro bring-up stream ~next week. Thanks to all my Patreon supporters for making this kind of thing possible!
• AlmaLinux ELevate — ELevate enables migration between major versions of RHEL® derivatives. Easily go from CentOS 7.x to any 8.x of your choice.
• AlmaLinux ELevate Demo - YouTube
• Bryan lets us know some neat functionality in the kernel…
• UTM — UTM employs Apple's Hypervisor virtualization framework to run ARM64 operating systems on Apple Silicon at near native speeds.
• ytcc — Command line tool to keep track of your favorite playlists on YouTube and many other places.
• rust-motd — Beautiful, useful MOTD generation with zero runtime dependencies.
• Pick: onetun — onetun opens a TCP port on your local system, from which traffic is forwarded to a TCP port on a peer in your WireGuard network. It requires no changes to your operating system's network interfaces: you don't need to have root access, or install any WireGuard tool on your local system for it to work.

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• Sensory’s custom voice assistant debuts on a Linux-based microwave — Sensory announced that its 100 percent locally processed TrulyHandsfree technology can be used to create custom voice assistants without sacrificing privacy, as demonstrated in a new Linux-based Farberware FM11VABK microwave.
• Ask LUP Anything - AskLUP.COM
• ODROID-GO Super
• ODROID-GO Super Dim Gray
• EmulationStation — A graphical and themeable emulator front-end that allows you to access all your favorite games in one place, even without a keyboard!
• ODROID Image for ES
• SegaCD missing BIOS (linked) - ODROID
• JB Telegram
• Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
• Open Letter: DistroWatch and Nitrux — For the better part of three years, we have remained silent about your ongoing efforts to affect people’s perception of our Linux distribution continuously. We have tried our best not to engage with your evident hostility and disregard to inform your viewers and visitors about correct facts of the Linux distributions you display on your website, especially ours. However, we have decided to take a stance. It is today, the 6th of May, that we gallantly demand you to stop.
• Uri's Blog: Unpopular Opinion Penguin #3: The Empire Strikes Back — I’m here to take a look at the newest “review” that our lovely haters (let’s call them for what they are) at DistroWatch published on their website some weeks ago.
• DistroWatch.com: Nitrux
• Nitrux — Nitrux is a Linux desktop distribution directly based on Debian. It uses the Calamares installer and includes NX Desktop and NX Firewall on top of the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment and MauiKit Applications.
• Meet Nitrux: The Most Beautiful Linux Distribution Ever?
• Nitrux on Twitter
• MauiKit — A free and modular front-end framework for developing fast and compelling user experiences.
• Kirigami UI Framework — Build beautiful, convergent apps that run on phones, TVs and everything in between.
• Changelog: Nitrux 1.4.0
• NX Desktop — NX Desktop is a customization layer for Plasma 5.
• AppImageHub — Here are 1200 apps (and counting) that you can run on Linux without installation.
• Installing other DEs in Nitrux — During last month’s release of Nitrux, we made available a minimal ISO to let users install Nitrux and also install a different desktop environment and a selection of applications than the ones we include by default.
• NX Software Center — A GUI to install and manage AppImages.
• Nitrux: pnx — pnx (lowercase; originally Pacman for Nitrux) allows users to install software from Linux distributions that use the Pacman package manager on other Linux distributions that don’t use it without interfering with the distributions default package manager.
• What’s Nitrux? The future. - with Uri Herrera
• Linux Spotlight - Uri Herrera of NitruxOS
• Feedback: PrivateBin — A minimalist, open-source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES.
• PrivateBin Docker Setup
• Feedback: PIE Bin — Pre-Internet Encryption for Text.
• Feedback: CryptPad — CryptPad is the Zero-Knowledge real-time collaborative editor.
• CryptPad Installation Guide — This guide is about installing a public CryptPad instance available on the internet.
• Pick: TLP — Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life.
• Pick: TLPUI — A GTK user interface for TLP written in Python.
• Fedora — TLP 1.3.1 documentation

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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
• WaylandByDefaultForPlasma
• 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.
• jupitergarage.com

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• Virtual x86 — v86 emulates an x86-compatible CPU and hardware. Machine code is translated to WebAssembly modules at runtime in order to achieve decent performance.
• The Linux desktop is boring again — Where I was once a constant "fiddler" with my desktop, I now want the interface to work how I want it to work, but still look the way I want it to look. I'm more of a minimalist now, so GNOME suits my needs on both levels quite well. However, I find myself rather bored with the Linux desktop.
• What to look for in Fedora Workstation 34 — Christian F.K. Schaller — The big ticket item we have wanted to close off on was Wayland, because while Wayland has been production ready for most of us for a while, there was still some cases it didn’t cover as well as X.org.
• Christian Schaller on Twitter — 2020 was a year where we focused a lot on polishing what we had and getting things past the finish line and Fedora Workstation 34 is going to be the culmination of that effort in many ways.
• GNOME 40 Introducing Headless Native Backend, Virtual Monitors — As part of this headless native back-end is also the ability to create virtual monitors via command-line options for debugging and other purposes. This also allows creating virtual monitor PipeWire streams.
• What’s New in Libhandy 1.2
• Reinventing tabs — In GNOME 40, Epiphany will feature a new tab bar. This isn’t just a restyling of the old one, but a ground-up rewrite.
• My geek stuff blog: Maps and GNOME 40
• GNOME 40 & your extension – GNOME Shell & Mutter
• OBS Studio on Wayland
• Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer
• JB Telegram Group
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Pick: kmon — Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor 🐧💻
• Pick: ebpfsnitch — eBPFSnitch is a Linux Application Level Firewall based on eBPF and NFQUEUE. It is inspired by OpenSnitch and Douane but utilizing modern kernel abstractions - without a kernel module.
• Feedback: Docker Socket Security
• Feedback: How to exit big picture mode
• Telegram App Is Booming but Needs Advertisers, and $700 Million Soon

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 Microsoft's path to dominating the Linux desktop becomes clear.

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• bucklespring — This project emulates the sound of my old faithful IBM Model-M space saver bucklespring keyboard.
• Valve’s Steam Data For December Points To A Huge Dip For Linux Gaming Marketshare
• Valve Revises Steam’s December 2020 Linux Marketshare To 0.74% — Valve has updated their numbers and point to Linux still regressing percentage-wise but not as bad as originally reported.
• Linus Torvalds On The Importance Of ECC RAM, Calls Out Intel’s “Bad Policies” Over ECC — "The arguments against ECC were always complete and utter garbage... Now even the memory manufacturers are starting to do ECC internally because they finally owned up to the fact that they absolutely have to."
• Microsoft is building a new Outlook app for Windows and Mac powered by the web — Project Monarch is the end-goal for Microsoft's "One Outlook" vision, which aims to build a single Outlook client that works across PC, Mac, and the Web.
• Bug: Mailspring is an abandoned project. · Issue #2231 · Foundry376/Mailspring · GitHub
• Taking FOSDEM online via Matrix — FOSDEM will have its own dedicated Matrix server at fosdem.org.
• KDE Plasma 5.20.5 Released as the Last in the Series, Update Now — The Plasma-NetworkManager applet received a fix for an issue with the password entry jumping to different networks when searching for Wi-Fi networks.
• KDE Plasma 5.21 Desktop Environment to Ship with a New System Monitor App — The Plasma System Monitor app promises not only a fancier and modern user interface, but also a simpler way for monitoring system resources on your KDE Plasma-based GNU/Linux distribution.
• Get openSUSE
• SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE Wiki
• New Core Contributor Promo Code: 2021
• Planner — Task manager with Todoist support designed for GNU/Linux 🚀.
• AUR (en) - elementary-planner
• Tuxies Feedback
• Tuxies Voting Suggestion
• Feedback: Gnome 40 Changes

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• LINUX Unplugged 281: 2019 Predictions
• LINUX Unplugged 334: Particularly Poor Predictions
• LINUX Unplugged 335: Practically Perfect Predictions

We've tallied the audience votes for the best open source projects, desktops, distros, editors, games, and much much more.

Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Nate Graham.

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• Adventures in Linux and KDE
• DS920+ — Scalable NAS with SSD cache acceleration capability.
• find.synology.com
• Synology QuickConnect — Synology QuickConnect allows you to access your Synology NAS anytime, anywhere, from any device and browser, without having to set up port forwarding.
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows

Plus Dan and Cassidy from elementary OS join us to discuss version 6.0.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:45 Intro
2:25 KDE Neon 20.04
4:17 Mozilla Resturcturing
8:21 elementary OS 6
18:29 Housekeeping
20:00 Matrix
22:33 Silver Salvage
29:43 Matrix Server Punishment Test
33:04 Clients Galore
35:06 Secure By Default
43:56 Outro
45:08 Post-Show

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.

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• Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks
• KDE neon rebased on 20.04
• Mozilla is laying off 25% of their employees
• Large part of Mozilla’s Sec Team Laid Off
• Let’s Talk elementary OS 6 ⋅ elementary Blog
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• LUP LUG Mumble Server Info
• Fullscreen JB IRC Chat
• Chris Fisher on Twitter: "Pulled an old Mac Pro out of storage for today’s @LinuxUnplugged live test.
• 2009 Mac Pro | eBay
• apple-history.com / Mac Pro (Early 2009, Dual CPU)
• Matrix - An open network for secure, decentralized communication
• Element - encrypted group video calls end-to-end encryption team messaging
• Element Web App

Plus our thoughts on the new KWin fork, if Bleachbit is safe, and a quick Fedora update.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.

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• Logging Into Linux With A 1930s Teletype
• TUXEDO Computers Launches A Power/Thermal Control Center For Their Linux Systems
• System76 Lemur Pro
• KDE’s window manager KWin gets forked with ‘KWinFT’ to accelerate the development and better Wayland
• BleachBit 4.0.0
• Fedora 32 Final is NO-GO
• Brunch with Brent: Sri Ramkrishna
• Linux Spotlight EP44 - Drew DeVore of Jupiter Broadcasting
• Linux Spotlight EP43 - An Interview with Tyler Brown longtime JB fan
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Ubuntu 20.04 Flavours Hit Beta, But What’s New?
• Gnome 3.34 vs Gnome 3.36 Visual Comparison
• The ‘GameMode’ performance tool from Feral Interactive makes it into Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 20.04 and WSL 1 - WSL2 - Ubuntu Community Hub
• Ubuntu Server 20.04 CPU Security Mitigation Performance Impact
• Kernel 5.4: VirtIO-FS
• Grub boot menu bug
• Folder under applications menu doesn’t show text below last line of icons.
• Daniel Kerkow on Twitter: Migrating to a later LTS should be easily possible, so I would maybe stick to 18.04 for now if in doubt."
• pacat: Play back or record raw or encoded audio streams on a PulseAudio sound server
• 3mux: Imagine tmux with a smaller learning curve, i3-like keybindings, and more sane defaults.

And a bunch of community news, app picks, and much more.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, and Dusty Mabe.

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• KDE Plasma 5.18: More Convenient and with Long Term Stability - KDE.org
• What’s New in KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS? - OMG! Ubuntu!
• System76 Launches Impressive Line Of Thelio Major Linux Workstations Powered By AMD Ryzen Threadripper - Including The 3990X - Phoronix
• oreboot: oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust.
• Rust's Freedom Flaws
• FS#736 - [rust][cargo] trademark agreement affects user freedom
• AppCenter for Everyone | Indiegogo
• Work, Life, and RV Podcast
• Our Accidental Home Base — Work, Life, and RV Podcast
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• PDP-7
• FOSDEM 2020 - Events
• FOSDEM 2020 - Interview with James Bottomley - The Selfish Contributor Explained
• FOSDEM 2020 - The next generation of contributors is not on IRC
• FOSDEM 2020 - The Hidden Early History of Unix
• FOSDEM 2020 - Do Linux Distributions Still Matter with Containers?
• FOSDEM 2020 - How Containers and Kubernetes re-defined the GNU/Linux Operating System
• The Meteoric Rise Of Fwupd+LVFS For Linux Firmware Updates - Phoronix
• hollywood.computer: multiple panes of genuine technical melodrama
• shairport-sync: AirPlay audio player. Shairport Sync adds multi-room capability with Audio Synchronisation

Plus a new Plasma focused laptop, and two powerful command-line picks.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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• MarsCat is a Bionic Cat Powered by Raspberry Pi 3 (Crowdfunding)
• Kubuntu Focus Offers The Most Polished KDE Laptop Experience We’ve Seen Yet - Phoronix
• Kubuntu Focus
• Windows Terminal Preview v0.8 Release | Windows Command Line
• The happinesses and stresses of full-time FOSS work | Drew DeVault’s Blog
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Shareware on Wikipedia
• The Origin of Shareware
• Computer Chronicles: Shareware
• Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
• Play DOOM Online
• PC-SIG Library (12th Edition) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• Revolution OS: a 2001 documentary film that traces the twenty-year history of GNU, Linux, open source, and the free software movement
• Broot: Get an overview of a directory, even a big one
• Tizonia: cloud music from the linux terminal

Plus community news, first impressions of Google Stadia, listener feedback, and some great picks.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Guus Sliepen, and Ryan Huber.

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• Chris Fisher on Twitter: “Trying out @GoogleStadia before today’s @LinuxUnplugged.
• Google is Working to Bring Mainline Linux Kernel to Android
• Linux 5.5 Crypto Code Has The Changes To Usher In WireGuard - Phoronix
• System76 Superfan 3 Article
• Photo Gallery for System76 Superfan 3
• Pinebook Pro Article
• Jupiter Extras: popey on ThinkPads
• Jupiter Extras - NOW ON YouTube
• Tinc VPN
• Tinc - ArchWiki
• Install tinc VPN for Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
• Introducing Nebula, the open source global overlay network from Slack
• Slack’s open source Nebula overlay network tool can solve multi region connectivity woes - TechRepublic
• Nebula on GitHub
• Feedback: CLI Autocomplete?
• fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder
• Fish Shell
• Liam writes… Hi Chris, I have also been experiencing random lag…
• Profile-sync-daemon: Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers.
• Feedback: Forum?
• wee-slack: A WeeChat plugin for Slack.com. Supports threads and reactions, synchronizes read markers, provides typing notification, etc..
• Girens for Plex - Linux Apps on Flathub

Plus a few surpises from the System76 Super Fan event.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Lukasz Erecinski.

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• PinePhone “BraveHeart” Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone for early adopters
• MacBook Pro 2013 | eBay
• Apple MacBook Pro 2013 15.4" RETINA Laptop - ME294LL/A i7 16GB 512GB GT 750M | eBay
• KDE is looking for an experienced project manager to help guide the community’s goals to completion.
• GNOME Shell & Mutter Dev – Development blog for GNOME Shell and Mutter
• System76 Superfan event
• https://github.com/system76
• Jupiter Extras: Brunch with Brent: Emma Marshall
• Keyboard firmware updater
• Manjaro ARM Preview3 for Pinebook Pro - Manjaro ARM / Announcements - Manjaro Linux Forum
• Brunch with Brent feed link.
• Lakka - The DIY open source retrogaming emulation console

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Neal Gompa.

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• Neal’s DNF-on-Tumbleweed Hack
• New LA free course for November
• Yellow Dog Linux - Wikipedia
• APT-RPM — APT-RPM is a port of Debian's APT tools to a RPM based distribution.
• URPMI - Mageia wiki — urpmi is Mageia's command line tool for managing packages and repositories
• Linux Millionaire Question Form — Jupiter Broadcasting wants to create a fun game for Linux enthusiasts to test their knowledge on the depths of technology and Linux history. Please help by providing us your thoughtful questions and suggested answers!

Plus, exciting news for both Plasma and GNOME, coreboot laptops from System76, and too many picks.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Martin Wimpress.

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• KDE Plasma 5.17
• System76 launches two Linux with Comet Lake chips and Coreboot
• GNOME Shell & Mutter 3.34.1 Deliver On Their Prominent Fixes
• Jupiter Extras: Brunch with Brent: A Chat with Angela Fisher
• Jupiter Extras: Operation Safe Escape
• Jupiter Extras: Self-Hosted: Reverse Proxy Basics
• October Free Courses at Linux Academy
• Ermine: a stoat, especially when in its white winter coat.
• Ubuntu 19.10 Daily images
• Eoan Ermine Release Notes
• Ubuntu ZFS support in 19.10: introduction · ~DidRocks
• Ubuntu ZFS support in 19.10: ZFS on root · ~DidRocks
• Should you skip ZFS on root? Skip the installer?
• Chromium in Ubuntu; deb to snap transition | Ubuntu
• MenuLibre | Sean M. Davis
• donadigo/appeditor: Edit application menu
• Wavemon - Wireless network monitoring on the CLI
• Kismet
• 2,500 DOS games released on archive.org
• DOS game repo on archive.org
• Even bigger repo of 7,000 DOS games that work with dosbox

Plus the big little updates coming to Ubuntu MATE, some Pi pontification, and some significant changes for Wireguard.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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• openSUSE Election Commitie Set to Open Vote on Project Name
• Ubuntu MATE 19.10 Release Notes
• Fedora Workstation 31 – Whats new — Christian F.K. Schaller
• GameMode improvements for GNOME 3.34 and Fedora 31 by Christian Kellner
• WireGuard to port to existing Crypto API
• Oggcamp 19 - Panel questions needed
• October Free Courses
• Texas Cyber Summit
• Birthday Party at Two Brothers BBQ
• How old is the #Linux install on your current computer?
• What I do after a fresh install of Fedora Workstation : Fedora
• GitHub - e-minguez/laptop_install: Utils to reinstall a new laptop easily
• yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager
• Direnv - unclutter your .profile
• Ncurses Telegram Client
• GitHub - X0rg/CPU-X: CPU-X is a Free software that gathers information on CPU, motherboard and more.
• CentOS7 Raspberry Pi 4 4GB Support - CentOS
• CentOS Mirror
• Raspberry Pi 4 Ubuntu Server / Desktop 18.04.3 Image (unofficial)

Plus our honest conversation about which Linux works best for us.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Ell Marquez, Major Hayden, and Neal Gompa.

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• Unpatched KDE vulnerability disclosed on Twitter — When a user opens the KDE file viewer to access the directory where these files are stored, the malicious code contained within the .desktop or .directory files executes without user interaction.
• KDE rips out ability for KConfig to run shell code — KDE responded on Wednesday by removing the feature to have shell commands as values in the KConfig files, which was described as an intentional feature that allowed for flexibility.
• First modern coreboot server platform — This platform is the first modern upstream coreboot server platform on the market with an Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 processor also known as Kabylake-DT.
• Open-source firmware is the future - Blog | Mullvad VPN — This is the first time a modern off-the-shelf server platform gains coreboot support, and it is an integral part of realizing our vision of transparent and independently auditable VPN servers.
• Adder WS - System76
• System76 Preparing To Roll Out Their First Coreboot-Enabled Laptop - Phoronix — Ahead of this year's Open-Source Firmware Conference (OSFC) being held from 3 to 6 September at the Google and Facebook offices in Mountain View, System76 announced the Darter Pro OSFC Edition that ships with Coreboot.
• System76 Granted A Thunderbolt License To Integrate Into Their Open Firmware - Phoronix — System76 has been granted a Thunderbolt license, meaning that we can now integrate Thunderbolt compatibility into our open firmware.
• Jupiter Extras — New ideas, great interviews, events, and other content you will love. We bring you the Extras.
• Free Courses at Linux Academy — August 2019 – Linux Academy
• major.io — words of wisdom from a systems engineer
• Continuous integration testing for the Linux kernel | Opensource.com — The call for continuous integration (CI) grows for more and more projects, the Continuous Kernel Integration (CKI) team forges ahead with a single mission: prevent bugs from being merged into the kernel.
• Major's Continuous Kernel Integration Talk at Texas Linuxfe 2019
• CKI Project — Continuous Kernel Integration
• Continuous Kernel Integration project on GitHub
• CKI hackfest agenda for Plumbers
• 0-Day Continuous Integration (CI) Test Service from Intel — With so much code contributed to each release, it’s impossible to avoid potential regressions. To eliminate them, you must first find the bugs that cause them, which can be like finding a needle in the proverbial haystack. This is what makes the 0-Day Continuous Integration (CI) Test Service so important. 0-Day delivers comprehensive, automated and continuous integration testing that monitors the Linux mainline and 800+ developer trees for regressions, helping find bugs before they reach the Linux kernel so problems can be fixed before they impact users. Simply put, 0-Day helps ensure Linux kernel quality in a highly complex development environment.
• Snowpatch: continuous-integration testing for the kernel — The Linux kernel project lags many others in its use of CI testing for a number of reasons, including a fundamental mismatch with how kernel developers tend to manage their workflows. At linux.conf.au 2019, Russell Currey described a CI system called Snowpatch that, he hopes, will bridge the gap and bring better testing to the kernel development process.
• Kernel CI Dashboard — FAQ
• Linux Test Project — Linux Test Project is a joint project started by SGI, OSDL and Bull developed and maintained by IBM, Cisco, Fujitsu, SUSE, Red Hat, Oracle and others. The project goal is to deliver tests to the open source community that validate the reliability, robustness, and stability of Linux.
• patchwork — Patchwork is a web-based patch tracking system designed to facilitate the contribution and management of contributions to an open-source project.
• Kernel Patch-Evaluated Testing — KPET is a framework which will execute targeted testing based on changes introduced in the patch, e.g. a network driver or similar would trigger network related testing to be invoked, or a filesystem change would invoke filesystem testing.
• Beaker lab automation project — Beaker is open-source software for managing and automating labs of test computers.
• google/syzkaller — syzkaller is an unsupervised, coverage-guided kernel fuzzer
• openQA | Introduction to the heart of openSUSE's automated testing — OpenSUSE is way too versatile for humans to test even the most common configurations. Therefore openQA was introduced and became an indispensable part of the openSUSE development and release processes. openQA is an automated test tool for operating systems. It allows to test the whole installation process of an operating system in a wide range of software and hardware configurations by leveraging qemu. This talk gives an introduction to openQA and explains how openQA works to help understand what it's output means.
• OpenQA - Fedora Project Wiki — Fedora uses the openQA automated testing system as a significant part of the release validation testing process, and for testing updates. On this page you can find more information about openQA, how Fedora uses it, and how to install your own instance of openQA so you can try it out and contribute to test development.
• AppImage by probonopd · Pull Request #72 · JupiterBroadcasting/CasterSoundboard — This PR, when merged, will compile this application on Travis CI upon each git push, and upload an AppImage to your GitHub Releases page.
• TeleCast with popey — An experiment in lean audio delivery via Telegram. TeleCast with popey is an informal short-form audio podcast-like show
• LINUX Unplugged 202: Halls of Endless Linux — Michael Hall from Endless joins us to discuss his new role, Endless’ involvement with Gnome & the unique approach they are taking with EndlessOS.
• End of life - Fedora Project Wiki — Fedora Project maintains each release of Fedora according to the Fedora Release Life Cycle. The following releases have reached End of Life, and are no longer maintained and do not receive any updates.
• quicktile — Adds window-tiling keybindings to any X11-based desktop.

Plus some good Debian news, our tips for better battery life, and we play a little Hot SUSE Potato.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Ell Marquez.

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• Google Stadia announced, a game streaming service for Chrome, Android, and TVs — Powered by Linux, it supports the Vulkan graphics API and Google partnered with Unreal to fully support the Stadia platform.
• Chris on Instagram — We found a great spot to work for the day, great signal. Just one problem. We sorta got taken hostage for a few hours.
• Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Candidates — We're now into the campaigning period. We have 5 candidates.
• Linux Laptop Battery Optimization Tool TLP 1.2 Released — TLP 1.2 was released today after being in development for more than a year, and it brings support for NVMe, and removable drives like USB and IEEE1394 devices, support for multi queue I/O schedulers (blk-mq), and other significant enhancements.
• TLP – Configuration
• Suse is once again an independent company — Few companies have changed hands as often as Suse and yet remained strong players in their business. Suse was first acquired by Novell in 2004. Novell was then acquired by Attachmate in 2010, which Micro Focus acquired in 2014. The company then turned Suse into an independent division, only to then announce its sale to EQT in the middle of 2018.
• SUSE is now an independent company after being acquired by EQT for $2.5 billion | Packt Hub — As the company has been owned by EQT, so according to few users it’s still not independent. One of the users commented on HackerNews, “Being owned by a Private Equity fund can really not be described as being “independent”.
• MATE 1.22 released — Wanda the Fish now works properly on HiDPI displays
• Albert Vaca Cintora on Twitter — KDE Connect has been removed from @GooglePlay for violating their new policy on apps that access SMS. The policy has an explicit exception for companion apps (like KDE Connect), but it was removed anyway and *there's no way to talk to Google*
• Use of SMS or Call Log permission groups - Play Console Help
• Full-system dynamic tracing on Linux using eBPF and bpftrace — What if you want to trace what happens inside a system call or library call? What if you want to do more than just logging calls, e.g. you want to compile statistics on certain behavior? What if you want to trace multiple processes and correlate data from multiple sources? In 2019, there's finally a decent answer to that on Linux: bpftrace, based on eBPF technology.
• Learn eBPF Tracing: Tutorial and Examples — eBPF can be used for many things: network performance, firewalls, security, tracing, device drivers, and more!
• IO Visor Project — The IO Visor Project is an open source project and a community of developers to accelerate the innovation, development, and sharing of virtualized in-kernel IO services for tracing, analytics, monitoring, security and networking functions. It builds on the Linux community to bring open, flexible, distributed, secure and easy to operate technologies that enable any stack to run efficiently on any physical infrastructure.
• IO Visor Project on GitHub — Organization that hosts the repos for bpftrace, bcc, and other tools.
• BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more — BCC is a toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs, and includes several useful tools and examples.
• bpftrace: High-level tracing language for Linux eBPF
• Install bpftrace for Linux using the Snap Store
• BCC Tool Diagram — Diagram that breaks down useful tools in BCC
• eBPF Perf Tools 2019: Slides
• eBPF Perf Tools 2019: Video (resynced by Squigly)
• eBPF Perf Tools 2019: Video (original)

Plus some great news for Gnome users, OBS studio has a new funding model, and a nostalgic chat with our study buddy Kenny.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Martin Wimpress.

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• More GNOME Shell / Mutter Performance Optimizations & Latency Reductions Still Coming - Phoronix — Specifically on the Ubuntu front, Daniel has released a fix for Ubuntu 19.04 Disco and Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic to deal with 144/120Hz displays where GNOME's Mutter caps the rendering to 60 FPS. The fix for Ubuntu 18.10 is still being in the process of SRU'ed.
• OBS Studio 23.0 Released With VA-API Video Encoding, New Audio Filters - Phoronix — OBS Studio 23.0 also has several new audio filters, batch remuxing support, multi-track audio support to FFmpeg output, and a variety of other alterations.
• Open Broadcaster Software | New Ways to Support OBS Development — It’s amazing to think that the first version of OBS was publicly released over six years ago. What started out as a small side project by Hugh “Jim” Bailey to make a free and open source program to stream StarCraft 2 has grown into a powerful force in the streaming and video production industry. Hundreds of thousands of people use OBS Studio every day not just for video gaming, but also for broadcasting everything from conferences to sports competitions to school announcements. It’s a tool that can be used freely by anyone, from large studios with big budget productions to individuals who just want to engage with a community online.
• Available Now: New GeForce-Optimized OBS — We have collaborated with OBS, the industry-leading streaming application, to help them release a new version with improved support for NVIDIA GPUs. The new OBS Studio, version 23.0, reduces the FPS impact of streaming by up to 66% compared to the previous version, meaning higher FPS for your games.
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup
• What’s Free at Linux Academy — March 2019 - Linux Academy Blog — Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group, allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.
• LiNUX Courses - Linux Operating System Fundamentals — Kenny first encountered Solaris UNIX while I was in the military, and found out about Linux through the grapevine. He has worked with Linux in local government, fortune 500 companies, educational institutions, and by providing training. I have received Linux certifications from LPI, CompTIA, and Red Hat. Kenny has been working with Linux for nearly two decades and is passionate about sharing his knowledge with others about the system, and strives to learn more about the operating system every day.
• Raspberry Pi Updates Devices to Linux 4.19
• Martin Wimpress on Twitter — This week I am working on @ubuntu_mate 18.04.2 images for the @Raspberry_Pi models 2 and 3/3+ Nothing exciting to report just yet, build system is configured and the root file system is being generated. Next up is adding the kernel and boot loader.
• Python Wheels for the Raspberry Pi — piwheels is a Python package repository providing Arm platform wheels (pre-compiled binary Python packages) specifically for the Raspberry Pi, making pip installations much faster.
• StableReleaseUpdates - Ubuntu Wiki — Once an Ubuntu release has been completed and published, updates for it are only released under certain circumstances, and must follow a special procedure called a "stable release update" or SRU.
• OpenHab vs Home Assistant vs Domoticz - Best Open Source Home Automation
• Awesome Home Assistant — Awesome Home Assistant is a curated list of awesome Home Assistant resources.
• Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.
• openHAB — a vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for your home.
• Domoticz — Domoticz is a Home Automation system design to control various devices and receive input from various sensors.
• IronicBadger: Home Assistant configuration files — This repository contains all configuration used to configure my home automation setup using Home Assistant. This is a living and breathing repository and as such is subject to change.
• Linux Action Show special about Home Assistant — Our founder Paulus Schoutsen is interviewed by Chris Fisher for a Linux Action Show special about home automation, Hass.io and the new Home Assistant podcast.
• smacke/subsync: Automagically synchronize subtitles with video.
• Podcast Generator — Podcast Generator is an open source Content Management System written in PHP and specifically designed for podcast publishing. It provides the user with the tools to easily manage all of the aspects related to the publication of a podcast, from the upload of episodes to its submission to the iTunes store.

Plus we fall down the openSUSE rabbit hole when Ell updates us on her desktop challenge.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Danielle Foré, Ell Marquez, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa.

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• KDE Plasma 5.15: Lightweight, Usable and Productive — Discover, Plasma's software and add-on installer, has received tonnes of improvements to help you stay up-to-date and find the tools you need to get your tasks done.
• CVE-2019-5736: runc container breakout (all versions) — However, it *is* blocked through correct use of user namespaces (where the host root is not mapped into the container's user namespace).
• Container Bug Allows Attackers to Gain Root Access on Host Machine — The container bug, CVE-2019-5736, affects runc, the underlying container runtime for Docker, containerd, Kubernetes, cri-o and other container software, which means that nearly everyone running containers is affected.
• Doomsday Docker security hole uncovered | ZDNet
• Linux Coin Miner Removes All Other Malware and Miners
• Fedora logo redesign — The current Fedora Logo has been used by Fedora and the Fedora Community since 2005. However, over the past few months, Máirín Duffy and the Fedora Design team, along with the wider Fedora community have been working on redesigning the Fedora logo.
• Fedora's FESCo Approves Of A "Sane" Approach For Counting Fedora Users Via DNF — Baked over the past month was a new privacy-minded plan for counting users via DNF that relies upon a "countme" bit that will be incremented weekly or so and not have any UUID as originally envisioned
• Fedora 30 Will Get Bash 5.0 But Yum's Death Sentence Postponed To F31
• Draft Fedora 31 schedule available – Fedora Community Blog — After some discussion before the end of the year, we decided not to go with an extended development cycle for Fedora 31.
• SCALE Saturday Dinner JB Meetup — Let's eat and be merry at P.F. Changes Saturday night of SCALE17x!
• Containers: What you need to know; so you know what you need to know - Ell Marquez at S
• Elementary Staging COPR Repo — This repository contains packages of official elementaryOS projects which are not (yet) ready for inclusion in fedora as official packages.
• Ellopunk/OSchallenge - openSUSE — Ell's openSUSE journey notes.
• Pantheon Desktop on Fedora — The Pantheon desktop environment is the DE that powers elementaryOS. It builds on GNOME technologies, but utilizes components that were written from scratch in vala, using the GTK+3 toolkit.
• UberWriter — It's a simple markdown editor that offers a lot of features.
• solVItaire — An implementation of the classic solitaire games Klondike and Spider which has some nice to use vi(1) like keybindings, but can also be played with standard cursor keys, the number pad/row or even the mouse.
• VIM Adventures — Learn VIM while playing a game!
• Solvitaire As a SNAP
• FireQOS Reference
• FireQOS New User Tutorial

Plus Wimpy shares his open source Drobo alternative, and our final Dropbox XFS hack.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Martin Wimpress, and Matthew Miller.

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• NASA runs KDE
• Are people forgetting what open source is? — There is a responsibility for the dev to make sure they vet what is being put into, but also a larger responsibility for large company's to vet dependency themselves, such as this package event-stream
• International Space Station switches from Windows to Linux — “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable.”
• LinuxFest Northwest 2019 — LinuxFest Northwest is an annual Open Source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group and the Information Technology department at Bellingham Technical College
• SnapRAID — SnapRAID is a backup program for disk arrays. It stores parity information of your data and it recovers from up to six disk failures.
• mergerfs — A featureful union filesystem.
• Fedora 31 Will Likely Be Cancelled Or Significantly Delayed — It's about trying to re-tool the distribution and restructure the way its developed to rely more upon automated testing, improving the release processes, and related infrastructure to make it more scalable and better for the longer-term.
• Fedora Mailing-Lists: Lifecycle objective - problems, solutions, and proposal
• Fedora Wiki: Objectives/Lifecycle/Problem statements
• Current 12-18 Month Community Objectives
• Fedora Council Charter
• Dropbox Filesystem Fix — Fix the filesystem detection in the Linux Dropbox client.

Then community news, a preview of upcoming Ubuntu 18.10, and we announce our own free software project. Plus a chat with Dalton about the new Ubuntu Touch release and we find a real Photoshop replacement for Linux.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Dalton Durst, Danielle Foré, and Martin Wimpress.

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• Tiny Palm smartphone baffles gadget fans - BBC News — A tiny Android smartphone designed to be a "companion phone".
• KDE e.V. receives a sizeable donation from Handshake Foundation | KDE.news — We are excited to announce that the KDE e.V. received a donation of 300,000 USD from the Handshake Foundation.
• elementary OS 5 Juno is Here — Refinement, Productivity, & an Improved Developer Platform.
• Allen questions the Flatpak FUD - Pastebin.com
• Flatpaks, sandboxes and security — What Flatpak brings to this is understanding of the specific desktop app problem space
• Should GNOME Drop Support for GTK3 Themes? — It seems that our love of customisation is merely an illusion
• Restyling apps at scale — tl;dr: If you want to change how an app looks, you need a designer in the loop.
• DXVK 0.90 released : linux
• Pumpkin Carving Contest #JackOLinux — Submission deadline is October 24, 2018, and the top 3 winners will be announced on October 31st!
• Chrome OS Stable Channel Gets Linux Apps
• Did Microsoft Really Just “Open Source All Its Patents”?? — This means the company can use or distribute ‘Linux System’ technologies without risk that another OIN participant may assert their patents against such ‘Linux System’ technologies.
• Ubuntu 18.10 Release Date and New Features [Updated] | It's FOSS
• GPD Pocket 2 Preview — The GPD Pocket 2 is a handheld computer that looks like a laptop, but which is small enough to fold up and slide into your pocket.
• UBports — Ubuntu Touch is the touch-friendly mobile version of Ubuntu. This operating system is developed and maintained by UBports: An international community of passionate volunteers. This means Ubuntu Touch is 100% community driven and independent. Read more about the OS
• Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 — While many have already joined the community on 16.04 with OTA-4, in addition to the long-term support of upstream Ubuntu development, OTA-5 will include a more stable experience, new tweaks, and new features to show off this next stage of Ubuntu Touch development.
• Dalton Durst's GitHub
• DaltonDurst - Ubuntu Wiki
• Automation System Naming
• Jupiter Broadcasting · GitHub
• Photopea

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• Download Docker CE without logging in
• Flatpak 1.0
• Flatpack Release 1.0.0
• Kick-starting the revolution 1.0
• PulseEffects
• Akademy
• KDE.news: dot.kde.org
• OggCamp 18
• fosscon.us
• intel-microcode: Update intel-microcode to 20180807
• Imad Sousou: "This is not true."
• Um: Create and maintain your own man pages so you can remember how to do stuff