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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.
• Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox’s Wayland Backend Soon — So as we near the end of 2023 or going into early 2024, it's looking like we're nearing the point of finally having native Wayland support with the upstream Firefox builds.
• LinuxFest Northwest Meetups
• Ubuntu 23.10 Released — This is the release where the team aims to land as many major changes as possible to ensure that the community has the chance to take them for a spin and provide feedback for further refinement ahead of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
• Brave New Trusted Boot World — This document looks at the boot process of general purpose Linux distributions. It covers the status quo and how we envision Linux boot to work in the future with a focus on robustness and simplicity.
• Fitting Everything Together — Let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, and uniformity.
• Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur): Best New Features — Key highlights of Linux Kernel 6.5 include WiFi 7 support, and MIDI 2.0 compatibility.
• Ubuntu 23.10 is Available to Download, This is What’s New
• Intel Arc Graphics See Faster Performance On Ubuntu 23.10 — Overall though Ubuntu 23.10 is a nice upgrade for those making use of Intel Arc Graphics and sticking to the kernel/Mesa default versions as shipped by Ubuntu. If you are more advantageous, upgrading to Linux 6.6 and Mesa 23.3-devel can mean some very nice performance wins across various OpenGL and Vulkan workloads.
• Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations — We have identified hate speech from a malicious contributor in some of our translations submitted as part of a third party tool outside of the Ubuntu Archive. The Ubuntu 23.10 image has been taken down and a new version will be available once the correct translations have been restored.
• Why You Can’t Currently Download Ubuntu 23.10
• Bug: chrome-gnome-shell extension fails to detect native host connector
• Tiling Assistant GNOME Extension — An extension which adds a Windows-like snap assist to GNOME. It also expands GNOME's 2 column tiling layout.
• Wyse Terminal Picture
• WiFi232 — An Internet Hayes Modem for your Retro Computer
• Pick: tags — A simple text tagger.
• Tags on Flathub — Create tags with color schemes and give color to your logs or text files

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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• Office Hours — Join ChrisLAS for an update on all things Jupiter Broadcasting.
• What’s New in Fedora 36 — In a blog post introducing the Fedora 36 beta in late March, Red Hat said Fedora 36 continues the project’s “emphasis on delivering leading-edge open source technologies.”
• Fedora 36 ChangeSet
• Fedora 36 Release Date and New Features
• LXQt 1.1 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New
• Podman 4.0 — Podman 4.0 is one of our most significant releases ever, featuring over 60 new features. Headlining this release is a complete rewrite of the network stack for improved functionality and performance.
• The Best New Features in GNOME 42 — GNOME 42 features a plethora of GTK4/libawaita app ports, intros a retooled screenshot experience, and makes several notable performance upticks.
• Relocate RPM database to /usr
• Wayland By Default with NVIDIA proprietary Driver
• Cockpit File Sharing
• Stratis 3.0.0
• Fedora 37 Planning To Use RPM 4.18 For Better Security
• Fedora Planning To Introduce Major Package Management Changes Next Year
• Fedora Plans to Drop Support for Legacy BIOS Systems
• Fedora 37 Considering Removal Of Legacy X.Org Drivers
• Canonical Experiences Record Channel Business Growth and Momentum
• Upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04? Look Out for These Features in 22.04 — Wayland is the default display server in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS — but don’t panic: it’s 2022 and Wayland is pretty solid these days. Plus, thanks to technologies like Pipewire, even previously tricky areas like screen sharing work out of the box, and without fuss under Wayland. Heck, in Ubuntu 22.04 Wayland is so robust it even ships as default for computers for those with select NVIDIA graphics cards.
• Ubuntu Upgrade warning
• Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop Will be Able to Run on 2GB Raspberry Pi 4
• Linux_5.15 - Linux Kernel Newbies
• Ubuntu’s Zsys For OpenZFS Linux Installs Sees First Update In A Year
• ‘Ubuntu Pro’ Settings Pulled from Ubuntu 22.04
• How to Upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish
• RSSHub: 🍰 Everything is RSSible — RSSHub is an open source, easy to use, and extensible RSS feed generator. It's capable of generating RSS feeds from pretty much everything.
• RSSHub Introduction

Plus our thoughts on the recent Btrfs FUD, a bunch of feedback, and a handy pick.

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• [ANNOUNCE] nano-5.5 is released
• Ubuntu 21.04 Will Finally Stop Making New Home Directories World-Readable — Ubuntu 21.04 will do away with the existing practice on Ubuntu Linux systems of making new user home directories world-readable.
• Linux 5.10.8 Kernel Released - Finally Fixes That Btrfs Performance Regression — Linux 5.10.8 is out today as the latest stable release for the Linux 5.10 LTS series. Making this point release notable is that it finally addresses the 5.10 Btrfs performance regression.
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Ventoy — An open-source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
• Ventoy on GitHub
• Feedback: openSUSE and FOSS Adventures
• Feedback: Neon Success Story
• Feedback: Next Tuesday
• Feedback: ThinkPad X12 Detachable
• ThinkPad X12 Detachable | Windows Tablet | Lenovo US
• Feedback: Google forms?!
• Feedback: System76 Prediction
• Pick: PGHoard — pghoard is a PostgreSQL backup daemon and restore tooling that stores backup data in cloud object stores.