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

Special Guest: 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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• 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
• ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
• 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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• 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.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

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• 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
• ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
• Spokane Linux Love, Sat, Sep 16, 2023, 1:00 PM | Meetup — It's finally happening! Let's get together at Iron Goat Brewing.
• Best laptops for NixOS - Help - NixOS Discourse
• Mobile NixOS
• Devices List — Mobile NixOS
• Iron Goat Brewing
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Sponsorship Prospectus — LinuxFest Northwest 2023 will be held October 20-22, 2023 at Bellingham Technical College. The Fest is a free and open community event dedicated to provide and support educational activities related to Linux and Open Source Software.
• NixOS friendly hosters - NixOS Wiki
• Install and Configure NixOS on a Linode | Linode Docs
• Star-History — We know, you can't fully trust a project's GitHub stars alone. It is, however, a good way to determine if a tool is an adequate one and if it's likely to grow, if you use it correctly.
• disko — NixOS is a Linux distribution where everything is described as code, with one exception: during installation, the disk partitioning and formatting are manual steps. disko aims to correct this sad 🤡 omission.
• nixos-anywhere — You can then initiate an unattended installation with a single CLI command. Since nixos-anywhere can access the new machine using SSH, it's ideal for remote installations.
• Immutable infrastructure for mutable systems — I erase my systems at every boot.
• NixOS Series 4: "Stateless" Operating System — Here's the question: is it really necessary to store the contents of /etc on the disk drive? They're going to be regenerated on each reboot or config switch anyway.
• NixOS ❄: tmpfs as root — One fairly unique property of NixOS is the ability to boot with only /boot and /nix. Nothing else is actually required. This supports doing all sorts of weird things with your root file system.
• Nixos and Erasing My Darlings
• Impermanence - NixOS Wiki — Impermanence in NixOS is where your root directory gets wiped every reboot (such as by mounting a tmpfs to /). Such a setup is possible because NixOS only needs /boot and /nix in order to boot, all other system files are simply links to files in /nix. /boot and /nix still need to be stored on a hard drive or SSD.
• impermanence: Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]
• Example ZFS + tmpfs root configuration
• NixOS on Btrfs+tmpfs
• A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally — Ever since the closing of RFC 49, we've had the new CLI and Flakes marked as experimental, with no clear plan forward.
• project Stratis
• Backups - Perfect Media Server
• Podverse GitHub — Podverse has a bounty out for Android Auto.
• Jay Sam Bee in Philadelphia NixOS Bounty — Jay has a bounty for getting Wallabag on NixOS.
• Self-Hosted 102: NixOS is a bit Flakey
• completenoobs.com
• OpenStreetMap.org — OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
• OSMand.net
• OSM is an extensible editor for ​OpenStreetMap
• OSM is an extensible editor for ​OpenStreetMap
• Street­Complete — Help to improve the OpenStreetMap with StreetComplete!
• nixpkg.py

Plus, we try out the new Ubuntu release on the ODROID H3+.

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

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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
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• Intel Arc GPUs NOT supporting Linux any time soon
• Please Buy Intel GPUs. - LTT
• Intel Arc Graphics Running On Fully Open-Source Linux Driver - Phoronix — A common misconception or confusion I've heard many times over the past number of months has been questioning whether Intel's discrete GPU driver support on Linux is open-source or is closed-source, etc. Well, it's fully open-source aside from the usual firmware caveat and running on Linux.
• The new Thelio — We believed that we could make an open hardware desktop that’s powerful, compact, quiet, beautiful, upgradable, backed by lifetime support, and manufactured in the United States—so we did. Customize your components, your software, even your aesthetic with swappable accents made for any mindset.
• System76 Thelio AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 24, X250-kernel, Devone-kernel Benchmark Comparison
• System76 Thelio vs Dev One - Workstation Benchmark
• Thelio, Devone, X250 - Workstation Benchmark Comparison
• System76 Thelio AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 24 - Time Linux Kernel Benchmark
• Unigene Superposition
• UNIGINE Superposition Video - 8K 60 FPS - YouTube
• Why do people love NixOS so much?
• Nix team creation - Announcements - NixOS Discourse

Today's Btrfs is not yesterday's hot mess, but a modern battle-tested filesystem, and we'll prove it.

Plus our thoughts on GitHub dropping the term "master", and the changes Linux should make NOW to compete with commercial desktops.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.

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• SpaceX: We’ve launched 32,000 Linux computers into space for Starlink internet
• Issue #54: Default disk partitioning layout for Workstation - fedora-workstation - Pagure.io
• 16 Jun, MEETING AGENDA - desktop - Fedora Mailing-Lists
• [Discussion] What do we think about Github’s decision to start using main instead of master as a branch name?
• ZFS co-creator boots ‘slave’ out of OpenZFS codebase, says ‘casual use’ of term is ‘unnecessary reference to a painful experience’
• OpenZFS: Remove unnecessary references to slavery
• GitHub will no longer use the term ‘master’ as default branch because of negative association - r/programming
• Community Central: Welcoming Nomenclature - YouTube
• PinePhone: postmarketOS community edition
• PineTab sold out in 72 hours.
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions

Plus a really cool new feature in Linux 5.7, and we get some answers to the recent GNOME patent settlement from the source.

Special Guests: Dan Johansen and Drew DeVore.

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• snakeware: A free Linux distro with a fully Python userspace
• GNOME gets big open-source patent win
• GNOME Patent Suite Update
• GNOME Foundation post about patent suit resolution
• Thermal Pressure in the task scheduler
• A New Kernel Patch Is Being Discussed That’s Needed For Newer Windows Games On Wine
• PINE64 on Twitter: “Everyone receiving their #PinebookPro laptops. Appears that the factory has left the WiFi privacy switches turned ON. To enable WiFi you’ll need to disengage the privacy switch"
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions
• Introducing the 2020 XPS 13 Developer Edition — (this one goes to 32!)
• XPS 13 in the Dell Store
• Wes' XPS 13 Image Gallery
• Performance comparison to Lemur Pro
• Jim’s take on the new XPS 13
• Howdy: Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
• Feedback: Why not LVM/XFS?