Special Guests: Carl Richell, Jeremy Soller, and Jon Seager.

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• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
• Jupiter Signal Network Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• COSMIC — Next generation Cosmic desktop environment. Use it on your favorite distro!
• System76 — Powerful Linux computers designed by nerds, engineered by experts, handcrafted by humans in the US.
• GitHub - pop-os/cosmic-epoch: Next generation Cosmic desktop environment
• GitHub - pop-os/cosmic-applets: WIP applets for cosmic-panel
• Pop!_OS 24.04 (with COSMIC Desktop) Just Hit Beta - OMG! Ubuntu
• Canonical releases Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka
• Ubuntu Engineering in 2025: A Retrospective · Jon Seager
• Ubuntu 25.10 Fix Pending For Broken Flatpak Support - Phoronix
• LINUX Unplugged 634: Config Confessions
• Hybrid Pick: ncspot
• Pick: poop (Performance Optimizer Observation Platform) — This command line tool uses Linux's perf_event_open functionality to compare the performance of multiple commands with a colorful terminal user interface.
• sharkdp/hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool

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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!
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Jupiter Signal Network Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• Flock 2024 Introducing Fedora Miracle, a proposed Fedora spin built on Mir - YouTube
• miracle-wm-org/miracle-wm — Miracle is a Wayland tiling window manager built on Mir
• miracle-wm
• miracle-wm wiki
• Roadmap - miracle-wm wiki
• nwg-piotr/nwg-shell — Installer & meta-package for the nwg-shell project: a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
• nwg-shell - a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
• fast fedora 41 mirror
• What’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 41 - Siosm’s blog — With Fedora 41, we are now building two new unofficial images: Kinoite Mobile and COSMIC Atomic. They join our other unofficial images: XFCE Atomic and LXQt Atomic.
• bootupd change
• bootupd GitHub
• containers/bootc — Boot and upgrade via container images
• Introduction - bootc docs
• Modifying Kernel Arguments :: Fedora Docs
• Getting Started with Bootable Containers :: Fedora Docs
• Booting local builds - bootc docs
• fedora-ostree-desktops Registry
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• asahi-audio - Fedora Packages
• AsahiLinux/asahi-audio: Userspace audio for Asahi Linux — PipeWire and WirePlumber DSP profiles and configurations tod rive the speaker arrays in Apple Silicon laptops and desktops.
• AAA gaming on Asahi Linux — We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL 3.0.
• FEX
• Wine
• DXVK
• vkd3d-proton
• muvm
• Fedora Media Writer
• FedoraQt/MediaWriter — A tool to create a live USB drive with an edition of Fedora
• Preparing Boot Media - Fedora Docs
• GDM Settings
• GDM Settings Web Site — Customize your login screen
• Web Apps
• eyekay/webapps source — Install websites as desktop apps, so that they appear in their own windows separate from any browsers installed. This is similar to the "Install as App" feature found in popular web browsers.

Special Guest: Graham Christensen.

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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!
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Jupiter Signal Network Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• dracut-loopback
• Reboot Linux faster using kexec
• Linux.com :: Reboot like a racecar with kexec
• Linux 3.14 To Support EFI Kexec Capability
• Defeating Secure Boot With Linux Kexec
• Google Engineers Get Windows Booting When Kexec'ed Under Linux
• The Future is Nix — Today, we still find ourselves sitting on the most powerful technology of our lifetimes and we can’t even decide on small steps in the direction of making it easier for folks to adopt it.
• Announcing Determinate Nix
• Determinate Nix documentation — With Determinate Nix, our goal is to transform Nix from what it is today—a tool with great potential but with too many hard edges to be ready for prime time
• Introducing Determinate - YouTube
• Nix at work: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes — Today, we’re delighted to announce a new chapter for FlakeHub with the general availability of two new features: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes.
• Graham Christensen on X — Yesterday at work we launched a binary cache that goes beyond bytes in a bucket. This launch means you can deploy to brand new cloud environments with two lines of userdata:
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• lobe-chat — an open-source, modern-design AI chat framework. Supports Multi AI Providers
• Dnote: A Simple Command Line Notebook
• plastic — NES emulator in rust with egui and TUI
• cool-retro-term: A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...
• plastic-flake

Special Guest: Producer Jeff.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Jupiter Signal Network Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Meshtastic — An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices
• Bitcoin Vets: Establish communications via meshtastic & ham radio network
• Meshtastic in the air — Avery Airfield in Spruce Pine which is running air delivery of critical supplies to HLZs in the AO is now equipping flights with Meshtastic airborne nodes which significantly increases coverage of vital communications.
• Heltec V3
• 27100 Cell holder
• MPPT Solar Charge controller for 1S cells
• 25 Watt Solar Panels
• Project Box
• Pole Mounts
• Programmable GPS
• Preferred 27100 Cells
• 2nd choice 21700 Cells
• Tdeck
• GPS
• Battery
• 3D printed case files
• Screw inserts for case
• m2 screw kit, nice to have for these kind of projects (threaded for inserts above)
• 5 dbi antenna
• 2 dbi antenna
• 5.8 dbi antenna
• SMA - RPSMA adapters if needed
• 12' SMA cable
• Wiseblock RAK
• Hundreds Weigh in on FCC NextNav Petition for 900 MHz Band Change — At issue is a NextNav petition filed in April to the FCC to expand the power level, bandwidth and priority of its licenses in the 902 to 907 and 918 to 928 MHz bands in the United States—a band currently in use by UHF RFID, Z-Wave, Zigbee, LoRa and numerous other wireless technologies. Additionally, NextNav proposes to use 5G connectivity over the relatively low bandwidth.
• Consumer Choice Center submits FCC comments to protect radio frequency for open-source projects and amateur radio
• meshbbs — This is a BBS project to run on a meshtastic node. The system allows for message handling, bulletin boards, mail systems, and a channel directory.
• nostrastic — Bridge to publish Nostr posts and send/receive DMs over LoRa using Meshtastic.
• Home Assistant and Meshtastic — On this page, we'll guide you through the process of creating Meshtastic MQTT sensor entities within Home Assistant. Whether you want to keep an eye on battery levels, environmental conditions, or even receive notifications from your mesh network, these integrations provide you with the tools to make it happen.
• T-Watch S3
• awesome-meshtastic — A curated list of amazingly awesome Meshtastic resources
• MeshMap - Meshtastic Node Map
• Meshtastic Routing Issues & Deployment Scenarios - YouTube
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• Nix-ld: A clean solution for issues with pre-compiled executables on NixOS
• nix-ld on GitHub
• DIYmall 2 Sets 915MHZ ESP32 Lora V3 WiFi+BLE Development Board — WiFi LoRa 32 is a classic IoT dev-board. The newly launched V3 version retains Wi-Fi, BLE, LoRa, OLED display, and other functions
• LILYGO T-Echo Meshtastic LoRa SX1262 — NRF52840 module, SX1262 wireless transceiver BME280 temperature pressure sensor, GPS RTC, NFC, LoRa

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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!
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Jupiter Signal Network Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• bda in the Nix Nerds Matrix Chat with Python Woes
• Install a couple of Python packages : r/NixOS
• Anyone using python UV on NixOS? : r/NixOS
• devenv — Fast, Declarative, Reproducible and Composable Developer Environments using Nix
• devenn's direnv integration
• POLL: Do you use any tools to "move between machines"?
• Immich Release v1.117.0
• NixOS Immich Module
• Immich Nix Package
• immich-machine-learning.nix
• LINUX Unplugged 476: Canary in the Photo Mine
• LINUX Unplugged 409: Launch Your Memories Into the Future
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• Meshtastic Matrix Chatroom — Chatastic for Meshtastic.
• nixy — Nixy is a Hyprland NixOS configuration with home-manager, secrets and custom theming all in one place. It's a simple way to manage your system configuration and dotfiles.
• I'm not sure if Jeff can be called a Producer
• Seattle GNU/Linux Conference
• DistroStu's Computer Keyboards! Talk on YouTube
• Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition — This guide is a beginner's guide to Nix and related tooling, focusing on the newer nix command, and flake.nix compared to older tools like nix-env and default.nix. It does not require any prior Nix knowledge, and instead builds up the Flake based world from first principles, so that it can serve as an introduction to Nix itself, as well as the concept and uses of Flakes.
• NixOS & Flakes Book — Want to know NixOS & Flakes in detail? Looking for a beginner-friendly tutorial? Then you've come to the right place!
• EtchDroid — An application to write OS images to USB drives, on Android, no root required. Use it to make a bootable operating system USB drive when your laptop is dead.
• EtchDroid on Github

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS — A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace existing printers’ (or install new ones) IPP urls with a malicious one, resulting in arbitrary command execution (on the computer) when a print job is started (from that computer).
• Marcus Hutchins Scan finds 107,287 servers responding to the UDP port 631 — Instead of relying on Shodan data, I performed my own internet-wide scan using a distributed network of servers. This resulted in discovering drastically more exposed cups-browsed instances, causing my total count to rise from 13,289 to 107,287.
• Shodan on X: 75,000 exposed CUPS daemons on the Internet
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• nodeboard — Your Ultimate Digital Inventory Manager
• Lightning Pay
• activate-linux — The "Activate Windows" watermark ported to Linux
• Install Frog on Linux | Flathub — Extract text from images, websites, videos, and QR codes by taking a picture of the source.
• Clapgrep — Ever had a folder full of PDF files, where you knew, somewhere in there, is what you're looking for. But you did not know in which file. So you had to search each of them at a time...

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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!
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Jupiter Signal Network Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Meshtastic Linux-Native Application
• MeshMap — Meshtastic Node Map
• LINUX Unplugged 269 — What if desktop computing went a very different direction in the late 90s? Deeply multithreaded from the start, fast, intuitive, and extremely stable. This is the world of Haiku, and we go for a visit.
• The Dawn of Haiku OS — Haiku, unlike its more established competitors, is exceedingly good at tackling one of the toughest challenges of modern computing: multicore microprocessors. Let's take a look at why that is, how Haiku came to be, and whether the operating system running on your computer really performs as well as it should.
• Haiku Project History
• Haiku R1/beta5 Release Notes — The fifth beta for Haiku R1 over a year and a half of hard work to improve Haiku’s hardware support and its overall stability, and to make lots more software ports available for use.
• docker-qemu-haiku — A Docker image for the Haiku operating system.
• golang-haiku/go — The Haiku port of the Go programming language for upstream support. Changes are made in 'golang-1.11-haiku' or 'golang-haiku-master'.
• Using the remote app server | Haiku Project
• JB Haiku Server
• Lighttpd
• DHH Talks Apple, Linux, and Running Servers
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• dadjoke-cli
• colmena
• spectorus' NixOS Config
• Pick: rustpad — Efficient and minimal collaborative code editor, self-hosted, no database required
• Is the Nostr moment officially here?

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• Core Contributor Membership: Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! Promo Code: summer
• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Toronto Meetup — Thursday, Aug 29, 2024
• Berlin with Brent — September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Saturday, Sep 14, 2024
• Check out Alex's "Building a Colo Server" video — Building a colo server for Jupiter Broadcasting using the 45Homelab HL15 server.
• Firewall - NixOS Wiki
• nftables wiki
• The netfilter.org "nftables" project
• Gentoo Nftables Examples
• networking/nftables: add .tables property and disable ruleset flushing by default by mkg20001
• Example nftables config
• Olympia Mike on "verified only Flatpaks" — I'm curious your take on a recent update that happened in Linux Mint, and the possible knock on effect of it.
• Incus is a next generation system container and virtual machine manager.
• Moving from Proxmox to Incus
• Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!
• Referral Code eXchange
• auto-tab-discard
• tab-session-manager
• OneTab extension for Google Chrome and Firefox
• Tubular — A fork of NewPipe that implements SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike.