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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• SCALE 2025 Meetup — El Cholo Cafe Pasadena - Saturday, Mar 8, 2025, 7:00 PM
• Planet Nix — March 6th-7th, 2025 @ Pasadena, CA at the Southern California Linux Expo.
• Flox - Your dev environment, everywhere — Flox help teams focus on building fast by providing reproducible environments that span the entire software lifecycle. With Flox, developers can create environments that contain all of the tools and frameworks they need, binding them with the software they ship into the world.
• Kelsey Hightower on X
• kelseyhightower on GitHub
• Kelsey Hightower on LinkedIn
• Robert Hernandez SCaLE Profile
• Fireside Chat: An Outsider’s Look at Nix - Ron Efroni, Kelsey Hightower
• Learn Nix the Fun Way - Farid Zakaria
• Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production -
• Planet Nix FAQ
• nix.conf - Adding GitHub Access Tokens — Access tokens used to access protected GitHub, GitLab, or other locations requiring token-based authentication.
• Olympia Mike's nixbook
• peterfajdiga/karousel: Scrollable tiling Kwin script
• YaLTeR/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
• paperwm/PaperWM: Tiled scrollable window management for GNOME Shell
• Libro.fm — Your Independent Bookstore for Digital Audiobooks
• Pick: OpenAudible-To-AudibleBookShelf — This script automates the process of moving audiobook files from OpenAudible or Libation to an organized folder structure and updates AudioBookShelf accordingly. It handles file organization, metadata mapping, and interaction with the AudioBookShelf API.

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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• Amiga Fast File System Return to the Linux Kernel – CubicleNate’s Techpad
• Future of Ubuntu Community - Community Council - Ubuntu Community Hub
• Mark Shuttleworth Now Plans To Restore Ubuntu’s Community Council - Phoronix — Mark Shuttleworth announced now that in cooperation with Ubuntu member (and former Community Council member) Walter Lapchynski, they are working to restore the Community Council.
• 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

Plus a new Debian leader, the end of Scientific Linux, and behind the scenes of Librem 5 apps.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Ell Marquez.

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Links:

• Pepsi drops plans to use orbital billboard — “This was a one-time event; we have no further plans to test or commercially use this technology at this time.”
• Ataris VCS Delayed, But Does Anyone Even Care? — There’s no prototype (yet). There’s no Ubuntu-based OS (yet). There’s not even a convincing demo of any of the games which will run on it (yet).
• Announcing my Contract with Purism for an Adaptive Fractal UI — Overall, I’m very excited that Purism accepted my proposal and that I get to work on this. I have been looking forward to the day where I can run Fractal on my phone, and I’m glad to be bringing that closer.
• Scientific Linux Discontinued — Fermilab will continue to support Scientific Linux 6 and 7 through the remainder of their respective lifecycles. Thank you to all who have contributed to Scientific Linux and who continue to do so.
• Debian Project Leader Elections 2019
• DPL Platform for Sam Hartman — One of my key roles as DPL will be to make sure Debian is a community where we can be heard, and where we have the opportunity to reach understanding regardless of whether our ideas are chosen. I will do this by personally participating in such mediation and recruiting others to these mediation efforts. Eventually, I hope many of us will get better at seeking to understand and avoiding escalating discussions on our own.
• Red Hat Summit 2019
• DockerCon San Francisco 2019
• Linux Academy Sale!
• Manjaro XFCE Stable Edition — This edition is supported by the Manjaro team and comes with XFCE, a lightweight and reliable desktop with high configurability.
• Xubuntu — Xubuntu is a community developed operating system that combines elegance and ease of use.
• I Can't Believe I'm Writing This Linux Article About Loving The Xfce Desktop Environment — At this point, my Xfce desktop looks just as good or better than the Gnome DE I'm accustomed to.
• Ulauncher - The Linux Desktop Application Launcher — It has a minimal design, searches fast and uses less system resources, which makes it one of the best desktop launcher for Linux.
• OpenAudible — An open-source cross-platform audible audiobook manager. Download, view, convert to MP3, and manage all your audible.com content with our easy-to-use desktop application.
• Subspace: A simple WireGuard VPN server GUI
• Subspace by Portal Cloud — Subspace is an open source WireGuard® VPN server that supports connecting all of your devices to help secure your internet access.
• Dunst: Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
• ARandR: Another XRandR GUI — ARandR is designed to provide a simple visual front end for XRandR. Relative monitor positions are shown graphically and can be changed in a drag-and-drop way.
• Wavebox — The best of the web, in one focused place.
• nativefier — Make any web page a desktop application
• pop-os/icon-theme — System76 Pop icon theme for Linux