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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
• Texas Linux Festival 2026 - November 6-7, 2026 Austin, TX
• Texas Linux Fest 2026 - Call for Papers deadline July 1, 2026
• Dirty Frag, a new Copy.Fail like vulnerability — The Dirty Frag vulnerability class, first discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim, can obtain root privileges on major Linux distributions by chaining the xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43284) and the RxRPC Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43500) vulnerabilities.
• How to mitigate the "Dirty Frag" CVE-2026-43284 in OpenShift 4 - Red Hat Customer Portal
• Dirty Frag Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability mitigations - Ubuntu
• Dirty Frag Explained: Linux Root Exploit, Mitigation & Patching Guide
• LINUX Unplugged 666 - The BSD Challenge Rules
• Magnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge Report — It’s still got that old cowboy feel to it.
• Magnolia's Sinchflat - GitLab — Anyway, Pinchflat now has a FreeBSD-first competitor.
• FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements Project — The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements project aims to deliver a package of improved or new FreeBSD functionality that, together, will ensure that it runs well “out of the box” on a broad range of personal computing devices.
• nixbsd: An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel
• Brent's nixbsd config
• NomadBSD — Persistent live USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data recovery, for educational purposes, or to test FreeBSD's hardware compatibility.
• GhostBSD — A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System
• gershwin-desktop — Desktop Environment based on GNUstep welcoming to switchers
• gershwin-on-freebsd live iso
• gershwin-on-debian live iso
• gershwin-on-arch live iso
• Maintaining the World’s Fastest Content Delivery Network at Netflix on FreeBSD - FreeBSD Foundation
• Pick: kiji-proxy — An intelligent privacy layer for AI APIs. Kiji automatically detects and masks personally identifiable information (PII) in requests to AI services, ensuring your sensitive data never leaves your control.
• Pick: Portbook — Local Rust web dashboard that auto-discovers and labels HTTP dev services running on localhost ports — with live SSE updates, project-root detection, and live/error/dead classification.
• Pick: Sylve — Sylve is a lightweight, open-source management platform for FreeBSD. It combines Bhyve virtual machines, FreeBSD Jails, and ZFS storage into a modern web interface designed to deliver a streamlined, Proxmox-like experience tailored for FreeBSD environments.
• AlchemillaHQ/Sylve — Lightweight GUI for managing Bhyve, Jails, ZFS, networking, and more on FreeBSD
• FreshPorts: sysutils/sylve

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Marknote - KDE Applications
• Marknote 1.3 - KDE Blogs — Marknote lets you create rich text notes and easily organise them into notebooks. You can personalise your notebooks by choosing an icon and accent color for each one, making it easy to distinguish between them and keep your notes at your fingertips. Your notes are saved as Markdown files in your Documents folder, making it easy to use your notes outside of Marknote as well as inside the app.
• Spokane Meetup - No-Li Brewhouse, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PM
• No-Li Brewhouse Menu
• 10 best beer gardens in the US where you can quench your thirst
• KDE Plasma 6.1 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here's What's New
• Plasma 6.1 - KDE Community — This release introduces explicit GPU synchronization support for NVIDIA users and triple buffering support on Wayland for smoother animations.
• KDE Plasma 6.1.1 Desktop Environment Released with Various Bug Fixes
• LUP 552 — Plasma 6 is out, and we've been giving it a go. What's new, our thoughts, and the lessons other desktops should learn.
• KDE Plasma 6.1 Performing Much Better On Older Intel Integrated Graphics
• Fixing KWin's performance on old hardware
• plasma6-desktop package versions
• plasma-desktop package versions
• KRdp on GitLab — Currently, the main client that has been used for testing and is confirmed to work is the FreeRDP client.
• Open KRdp Bugs
• appiumtests: test adaptive panel opacity (!2324) · Merge requests · Plasma / Plasma Desktop · GitLab
• Why the next GNOME Release will be one of the Best Ever
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• Gathio
• JB Events Gathio hosted by HybridSarcasm
• GitHub Issue: Can't create events — An unexpected error has occurred. Please try again later.
• Crossover: Run Microsoft Windows software on Mac and Linux | CodeWeavers
• FUTO Keyboard — Your keyboard shouldn't connect to the internet.
• FUTO Keyboard · Wiki

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• WireGuard patchset for OpenBSD
• Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source
• Craig Loewen on Twitter: "@satyanadella has just announced that WSL will include GPU compute support, and GUI application support! Get ready for more WSL announces and details today
• Craig Loewen on Twitter: “@Kiview @thezigpc @cinnamon_msft @satyanadella Our initial prototypes use Wayland”
• Hayden Barnes on Twitter: “WSL2 is getting GUI support, pass-through GPU support, and a new way to easily install.”
• Hayden Barnes on Twitter: "More glimpses of GUI support for WSL 2 from @shanselman and @cinnamon_msft
• DirectX ❤ Linux | DirectX Developer Blog
• Windows Terminal 1.0
• Windows 10 Is Getting Its Own Built-In Package Manager
• PineTab pre-orders open in late May
• PineTab running UBPorts with 5.6 kernel and Lima graphics drivers
• ManjaroBook AMD Ryzen
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• Join us on Telegram
• Pi-hole v5.0 is here!
• Inside the Brotherhood of Pi-hole Ad Blockers
• Linux Mint Success from Zachary
• Pi Boot question from Kamil
• Raspberry Pi 4 USB Boot Config Guide for SSD / Flash Drives
• XPS Feedback Request
• Pick: multi-boot ISO USB
• Ventoy: just copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it!