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• Terminal Apps — A collection of awesome TUI apps from around the web.
• Terminal Trove — Find your next Terminal love.
• awesome-tuis — List of projects that provide terminal user interfaces.
• Superfile: Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager
• Ranger: A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
• joshuto: Ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust
• neomutt: ✉ Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
• meli: Rusty terminal mail client
• slack-term — Slack client for your terminal
• GitHub - tramhao/termusic: Music Player TUI written in Rust
• zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included
• MyNav: Go-based workspace and session management TUI — A powerful terminal-based workspace navigator and session manager built in Go. MyNav helps developers organize and manage multiple projects through an intuitive interface, seamlessly integrating with tmux sessions.
• aerc - A pretty good email client — aerc is an email client that runs in your terminal. It's highly efficient and extensible, perfect for the discerning hacker.
• aerc - A pretty good email client that runs in your terminal - GitHub
• ulyssa/iamb: A Matrix client for Vim addicts — a Matrix client for the terminal that uses Vim keybindings
• magiblot/tvterm: A terminal emulator that runs in your terminal. Powered by Turbo Vision. — tvterm is an experimental terminal emulator widget and application based on the Turbo Vision framework. It was created for the purpose of demonstrating new features in Turbo Vision such as 24-bit color support.
• sxyazi/yazi: 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O. — Yazi (means "duck") is a terminal file manager written in Rust, based on non-blocking async I/O. It aims to provide an efficient, user-friendly, and customizable file management experience.
• meli MUA — meli is a configurable and extensible e-mail client with sane defaults.
• The Mutt E-Mail Client — "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." -circa 1995
• glow: Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻
• gomuks — A Matrix client written in Go
• NCSA Mosaic - Wikipedia — Mosaic is a discontinued web browser. It was instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web and the general Internet during the 1990s by integrating multimedia such as text and graphics.
• carbonyl — Chromium running inside your terminal
• After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No More
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• bhh32's tui_player: A video player for the terminal
• How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation – Sean Heelan's Blog
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• arabcoders/ytptube: A WebUI for yt-dlp with concurrent downloads support, presets and scheduled tasks and many more. — YTPTube is a web-based GUI for yt-dlp, designed to make downloading videos from YouTube and other video platforms easier and more user-friendly. It supports downloading playlists, channels, and live streams, and includes features like scheduling downloads, sending notifications, and a built-in video player.

Plus, we debate the value that the Ubuntu community brings to Canonical, and share a pick for audiobook fans.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:48 Intro
0:54 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:25 Future of Ubuntu Community
6:51 Ubuntu Community: Popey Responds
9:31 Ubuntu Community: Stuart Langridge Responds
16:26 Ubuntu Community: Mark Shuttleworth Responds
17:30 BTRFS Workflow Developments
19:09 Linux Kernel 5.9 Performance Regression
24:48 SPONSOR: Linode
27:34 Cabin
29:48 Cabin: More Apps, Fewer Distros
33:41 Cabin: Building Small Apps
36:40 Cabin: What is a Cabin App?
44:34 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
45:20 Feedback: Fedora 33 Bug-A-Thon
47:53 Goin' Indy Update
49:40 Submit Your Linux Prepper Ideas
50:11 Feedback: Dev IDEs
54:15 Feedback: Nextcloud
58:20 Picks: Cozy
1:00:25 Outro
1:01:38 Post-Show

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Drew DeVore, and Stuart Langridge.

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• Btrfs development update | Josef Bacik’s Blog
• Deploying Btrfs at Facebook Scale - Josef Bacik, Facebook - YouTube
• The Latest On The Linux 5.9 Kernel Regression Stemming From Page Lock Fairness - Phoronix — Last week we reported on a Linux 5.9 kernel regression following benchmarks from Linux 5.0 to 5.9 and there being a sharp drop with the latest development kernel. That kernel regression was bisected to code introduced by Linus Torvalds at the start of the Linux 5.9 kernel cycle. Unfortunately it's not a trivial problem and one still being analyzed in coming up with a proper solution.
• Linux Mailing List - Re: Kernel Benchmarking
• Making apps for Linux, a proposal — I have a few thoughts on this topic, and so does Alan Pope, and so we got chatting and put together a proposal for a programming environment for making simple apps in a way that new developers could easily grasp. We were quite pleased with it as a concept, but: it didn’t get selected for further development. Oh well, never mind. But the ideas still seem good to us, so I think it’s worth publishing the proposal anyway so that someone else has the chance to be inspired by it, or decide they want it to happen.
• Direct link to Core Contributors Downloads Page
• Feedback: IDEs and Editors
• Feedback: Nextcloud (and borg too)
• GitHub - geigi/cozy — A modern audio book player for Linux using GTK+ 3.
• OpenAudible — Audio Book Manager
• Boot from USB · Issue #28 · raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom · GitHub