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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
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• Introducing Fedora Atomic Desktops
• 45Drives/autotier — A passthrough FUSE filesystem that intelligently moves files between storage tiers based on frequency of use, file age, and tier fullness.
• Ok, what is the “actual” way to install Nextcloud completely, fully, as in all the features, and best performance?
• Help a newbie to make a choice - 🚧 Installation - Nextcloud community
• Nextcloud All-in-One
• NextcloudPi — NextcloudPi is a ready to use image for Virtual Machines, Raspberry Pi, Odroid HC1, Rock64 and other boards.
• NextcloudPi | Nextcloud Conference 2022
• Nextcloud - Official Docker Image
• nextcloud/ansible-collection-nextcloud-admin: The ansible galaxy for your nextcloud administrative needs.
• ReinerNippes/nextcloud: Ansible playbook to install nextcloud, php, nginx or apache, mariadb or postgres, redis-server, onlyoffice or collabora office
• LINUX Unplugged 307 — What’s your NextCloud?
• Top 10 Self-Hosted Apps - Perfect Media Server
• Self-Hosted - Episodes Tagged with “nextcloud”
• The Holy Grail Nextcloud setup made easy by NixOS
• NixOS Nextcloud Module Docs
• NixOS Nextcloud Service Source
• Nextcloud Apps Packaged in NixOS
• LUP’s nextcloud.nix
• NixOS Nextcloud Module Options
• Soltros’ Nextcloud-on-NixOS
• TODO: ExecStartPost to copy off backups
• First NixCon North America!
• Southern California Linux Expo 21
• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
• Yard House Menu
• Eric's Nextcloud on NixOS
• Eric's Collabora
• Nextcloud NixOS Setup Overview
• Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition
• hercules-ci/arion — Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS
• Arion documentation
• GabMus / Envision · GitLab — A VR stack for Linux, recently running directly on the NVK driver and Wayland.

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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!
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• 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.
• Unplugged Tuxies - 2023 — It's time to vote on the 2023 Unplugged Tuxies!
• ⚠️ Tuxies 2023: Did we miss something? Let us know!
• Fedora 39 Delayed To At Least 7 November — While Fedora 39 was aiming for an ideal "early final" release on 18 October, that didn't happen, it was delayed, and then delayed again. Now the earliest Fedora 39 will possibly shift is 7 November.
• Bug: F39 RC1.2 images have sometimes “RC” in their name
• Bug: Failed media check immediately disappears on bare metal, shows a black screen instead
• F39 Final Go/No-Go meeting
• Linux Mint Starts working on Wayland Support — The work started on Wayland. As mentioned earlier this year, this was identified as one of the major challenges our project had to tackle in the mid to long term.
• Cinnamon Wayland Trello
• Linux Mint Starts Working On Wayland For Cinnamon, Likely Not Fully Ready Until 2026
• Six Great Features With The Upcoming Linux 6.6 Kernel — While there were many last minute fixes this week, the changes don't appear to be too scary or invasive. In any event the Linux 6.6 kernel is bringing some exciting features.
• Linux 6.6 Features Include The EEVDF Scheduler, Shadow Stack, Intel IVSC, AMD DBC & More
• Btrfs For Linux 6.6 Brings Fixes, Partially Recovers From Scrub Performance Regression — David Sterba of SUSE sent out the Btrfs updates on Monday for the Linux 6.6 kernel merge window. There are no explicit new features this cycle but a variety of bug fixes, including work to address the Btrfs scrub performance following a rework back in Linux 6.4. The scrub performance isn't entirely restored but at least it's inching ahead in the right direction with Linux 6.6.
• EXT4 Lands A Nice Performance Improvement For Appending To Delalloc Files — I conducted tests in my 32-core environment by launching 32 concurrent threads to append write to the same file. Each write operation had a length of 1024 bytes and was repeated 100000 times. Without using this patch, the test was completed in 7705 ms. However, with this patch, the test was completed in 5066 ms, resulting in a performance improvement of 34%.
• XFS File-System Maintainer Stepping Down — My final act as maintainer is to write down every thing that I've been doing as maintainer for the past six years. There are too many demands placed on the maintainer, and the only way to fix this is to delegate the responsibilities. I also wrote down my impressions of the unwritten rules about how to contribute to XFS.
• XFS Begins Landing Online Repair, New Release Manager Takes Over — We now have in-memory pageable memory for staging btrees, a bunch of pending fixes, and we've started the process of refactoring the scrub support code to support more of repair.
• SELinux In Linux 6.6 Removes References To Its Origins At The US NSA — We've come a long way from the original NSA submission and I would consider SELinux a true community project at this point so removing the NSA branding just makes sense.
• Linux 6.6 To Bring Another Rust Toolchain Upgrade — Some of the other Rust changes for this imminent merge window include supporting the rust-analyzer for out-of-tree kernel modules, the Rust availability detection script has been improved, a new "paste!" proc macro, new pinned-init APIs, and a variety of other additions to continue to make Rust programming possibilities for the Linux kernel more robust.
• [SOLVED] - LXC Nvidia Passthrough | Proxmox Support Forum
• Contribute to Podverse
• Soltros' Nix Config
• SilverBullet — SilverBullet is an extensible open-source, personal knowledge management system. Indeed, that’s fancy talk for “a note-taking app with links.” However, SilverBullet goes a bit beyond just that.
• Nixpkgs supply chain security project — The focus of this project is on reducing our reliance on foreign binaries to compile Nixpkgs from scratch, ensuring we are are indeed running the code we compiled by leveraging existing security components in NixOS, and putting in place mechanisms that allow us to deliver the most up-to-date, secure software whenever it is available in a way that can be sustained given our maintainer capacities.
• Pick: kmon — Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor 🐧💻
• kmon in nixpkgs
• LinuxFest Northwest Youtube
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Minifest: What’s New in Nextcloud?
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Minifest Videos
• docker-wyze-bridge — WebRTC/RTSP/RTMP/LL-HLS bridge for Wyze cams in a docker container.
• wz_mini_hacks — Run whatever firmware you want on your camera and have root access to the device.
• Bitcoin Beach — The project Bitcoin Beach is creating a sustainable Bitcoin Economic ecosystem on the coast of El Salvador, where the majority of people do not have access to bank accounts and the local businesses could never qualify for merchant accounts needed to accept credit cards.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

Sponsored By:

• 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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• Berlin Meet Up — Join Brent for an impromptu, short-notice, Nextcloud-esque meetup in Berlin!
• Berlin Buds on Matrix
• Docker is deleting Open Source organisations — Yesterday, Docker sent an email to any Docker Hub user who had created an "organisation", telling them their account will be deleted including all images, if they do not upgrade to a paid team plan. The email contained a link to a tersely written PDF (since, silently edited) which was missing many important details which caused significant anxiety and additional work for open source maintainers.
• Coder Radio 66: Docker All The Things
• We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams — We apologize for how we communicated and executed sunsetting Docker “Free Team” subscriptions, which alarmed the open source community.
• Deploy a Docker registry server
• Introducing lscr.io — We are partnering with Scarf to create our own pseudo-registry, lscr.io. This isn't a true docker registry, we're not hosting the images ourselves, it's more of a load-balancer/stats platform/vanity URL.
• Dodge the next Dockerpocalypse: how to own your own Docker Registry address — What if you could use your own fixed registry URL, on your own domain & entirely under your control, but without having to self-host forever, or even commit to any particular registry, or handle all the bandwidth & storage costs?
• Reddit Discussion: DockerHub replacement stratagy and options on ipfs
• Podman — Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System.
• nerdctl — Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...
• whats-up-docker at noted — What's up Docker ( aka WUD ) gets you notified when a new version of your Docker Container is available.
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — October 20-22, 2023 at Bellingham Technical College
• Office Hours 9 — We Hate Crypto Too
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• The future of Linux Containers — At PyCon Solomon Hykes shows docker to the public for the first time.
• Docker Open-sourced — dotCloud, a PaaS provider, has open sourced Docker, a key component of their platform.
• First commit for Kubernetes
• Microsoft tried and failed to buy docker for $4b
• New Red Hat project looks a lot like a Docker fork
• Introducing Moby Project
• Solomon Hykes leaves Docker, the company he founded
• Rate limiting starts on Docker Hub
• [Alex's YouTube] Secret Management with Ansible Vault and docker-compose — This video shows how I use Ansible and Ansible Vault in conjunction with docker-compose to keep my secrets safe and encrypted whilst still being able to push my repos to Github publicly.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

Sponsored By:

• 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 NASA Black Hole Sonifications with a Remix — In some ways, this sonification is unlike any other done before because it revisits the actual sound waves discovered in data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The popular misconception that there is no sound in space originates with the fact that most of space is essentially a vacuum, providing no medium for sound waves to propagate through. A galaxy cluster, on the other hand, has copious amounts of gas that envelop the hundreds or even thousands of galaxies within it, providing a medium for the sound waves to travel.
• LXD vs Docker — System containers (as run by LXD) are similar to virtual or physical machines. They run a full operating system inside them, you can run any type of workload, and you manage them exactly as you would a virtual or a physical machine.
• LXD 5.0 LTS is now available
• LXD 5.1 has been released
• pylxd — Python module for LXD
• Manage LXD instances — Ansible Documentation
• Try Infrastructure as Code eBook from Linode
• Learning Ansible Basics - Red Hat — Ansible is an open source IT automation engine that automates provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, orchestration, and many other IT processes.
• Installing Ansible on Ubuntu
• Ansible 101 - Ansible for Beginners
• Ansible 101 - Standards — This blog provides a list of the common standards or best practices to live by when writing Ansible code. This is an unofficial list of standards based on my personal experience with hundreds of customers and my own development practices I have used over the years.
• Tips and tricks — Ansible Documentation
• Jeff Gerrling - Ansible 101 Youtube Series — Ansible 101 is a live YouTube streaming video series that I started in March, 2020, to help people level-up their automation skills by learning Ansible during the global coronavirus pandemic. While everyone is isolated at home, this series brought people together to learn a valuable new skill.
• Should we use NixOS as our Cloud and Local Server OS? | Poll Results
• Pick: lyrebird — 🦜 Simple and powerful voice changer for Linux, written in GTK 3.
• nix-autobahn — This simple shell script collection allows you to download ELF binaries and use them right away!
• Mic92/nix-ld — Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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• Introducing netboot.xyz Docker Network Boot Server Image (PXE)
• Tails - Celebrating 10 years of Tails!
• Ten Years Past GNOME’s 10x10 Goal, The Linux Desktop Is Still Far From Having A 10% Marketshare - Phoronix
• Linux Headlines
• Jupiter Extras - NOW ON YouTube
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram!
• Container History in an Image
• Shuttleworth’s grand vision for Ubuntu on phones, tablets, TV’s and smart screens everywhere in October 2011
• Ubuntu Touch 1.0 in October 2013
• BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition in April 2015
• Ubuntu phone killed in April 2017
• UBports released first stable OTA in June 2017
• Librem 5 crowdfunder in August 2017
• Librem 5 starts shipping in December 2019
• PinePhone announced at FOSDEM 2019
• PinePhone Braveheart edition opens for pre-orders November 2019
• Xdg-app becomes Flatpak in May 2016
• Launched in December 2014
• Skype snapped in February 2018
• Chrome OS announced in July 2009
• First widely available Chromebooks arrive June 2011
• Chromebook Pixel in February 2013
• Android apps arrive in September 2014
• Network file share support arrives in September 2018
• Linux apps beta arrives in stable channel in October 2018
• In May 2019 it was announced that all new Chromebooks would support Linux apps
• In Q4 of 2018, Chromebooks made up 21% of all notebooks sold in the US
• Feedback: Aaarghhhhh!! (Chris’ Pronunciation)

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