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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.
• Is Arch Linux suitable for server environment? — Probably the biggest issue with Arch as a server operating system is that it's not clear where and when applications may break after an upgrade. More often than not, you have to keep up with what's going on in the wiki and on the forums before doing any sort of upgrade
• Unplugged Tuxies - 2023
• ⚠️ DID WE MISS SOMETHING?
• Get your Tuxies "I Voted" sticker from TheGoldenDragon — $2 Digital Sticker
• Texas Linux Festival 2024 — Texas Linux Fest is the first state-wide annual community-run conference for Linux and open-source software users and enthusiasts from around the Lone Star State. Much like SCALE in Los Angeles, Ohio Linux Fest in Columbus, and Linux Fest Northwest – and an ever-growing list of successful regional shows.
• Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention — On February 2nd, the base-devel package group has been replaced by a meta package of the same name.
• Git migration announcement
• Git migration completed — We are proud to announce that the migration to Git packaging succeeded! 🥳
• [Arch News] Changes to default password hashing algorithm and umask settings
• Linus’s law — In software development, Linus's law is the assertion that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".
• The Linux Scheduler: a Decade of Wasted Cores — In our experiments, these performance bugs caused many-fold performance degradation for synchronization-heavy scientific applications, 13% higher latency for kernel make, and a 14-23% decrease in TPC-H throughput for a widely used commercial database.
• The Linux kernel scheduler has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for the past 15 years and nobody noticed – The HFT Guy
• The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores | Hacker News
• sched: Update normalized values on user updates via proc · torvalds/linux@acb4a84 · GitHub — This patch updates the internally used scheduler tuning values that are normalized to one cpu in case a user sets new values via sysfs.
• BackTrack Linux
• Flatseal
• Why you probably shouldn’t add a CLA to your open source project — Contributor license agreements (or CLAs for short) have gained a lot of visibility in recent years as some prominent open-source projects have opted to adopt them. If all the cool kids are doing it, should your open source project? Probably not. Here’s why
• Strike Global Now

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• Git from the inside out — The essay focuses on the graph structure that underpins Git and the way the properties of this graph dictate Git’s behavior.
• gitk — The Git repository browser
• ungit — The easiest way to use git. On any platform. Anywhere.
• Trustix — Distributed trust and reproducibility tracking for binary caches
• Kexec and Kdump on Raspberry Pi
• Install NixOS on Oracle Cloud
• Kexec and Kdump on arm64
• An update to Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye — So with this latest release, the default “pi” user is being removed, and instead you will create a user the first time you boot a newly-flashed Raspberry Pi OS image.
• Build a Raspberry Pi Linux System the Hard Way — The instructions below will explain how to build a Linux environment for a Raspberry Pi 3B from scratch, focusing on extreme minimalism. I will build most components from source code and use BusyBox as the only user application on the target.
• NixOS Wiki: NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi 4
• Installing NixOS on a Raspberry Pi
• NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi
• nixos-pi — How to install NixOS on raspberry PI
• Generating Raspberry Pi Images with NixOS
• NixOS on a Raspberry Pi: creating a custom SD image with OpenSSH out of the box
• nixos-docker-sd-image-builder — Build custom SD images of NixOS for your Raspberry Pi (or any other supported AArch64 device) in 5-20 minutes.
• NixOS + Raspi4
• Installing NixOS on the Raspberry Pi 4
• How to Setup NixOS on a Raspberry Pi
• NixOS on Raspberry Pi 4
• Kernel Support for miscellaneous Binary Formats (binfmt_misc) — The Linux Kernel documentation
• Cross-compiling the Raspberry Pi OS Linux kernel on macOS | Jeff Geerling
• NixOS on ARM
• Cross Compiling - NixOS Wiki
• ARMing Yourself - Working with ARM on x86_64
• Debian Wiki: qemu-user-static
• ARM64/QEMU - Ubuntu Wiki
• Emulating a Raspberry Pi with QEMU
• Emulating ARM on Debian/Ubuntu
• Raspberry Pi Documentation - Remote Access
• Emulating ARM with QEMU on Debian/Ubuntu
• Using QEMU to build arm64 experimental environment
• How to set up an ARM64 playground on Ubuntu 18.04
• Emulating ARM with QEMU on Debian/Ubuntu
• NixOS — tmpfs as root
• Erase your darlings — immutable infrastructure for mutable systems
• Umbrel — A personal server OS for self-hosting
• Umbrel Troubleshooting Guide
• JB London Meetup — August 5th 6pm, Jubilee Park & Garden
• Home Manager Manual — This manual will eventually describe how to install, use, and extend Home Manager.
• Tutorial: Getting started with Home Manager for Nix
• Merkle Tree
• Git Book - Git Internals
• Commits are snapshots, not diffs - The GitHub Blog — I believe that Git becomes understandable if we peel back the curtain and look at how Git stores your repository data. After we investigate this model, we’ll explore how this new perspective helps us understand commands like git cherry-pick and git rebase.
• Fear Not The SHA! - Git Internals - YouTube
• Git Internals by John Britton of GitHub - CS50 Tech Talk - YouTube
• Merkle tree in Bitcoin - BitcoinWiki
• Merkle Tree with real world examples - YouTube
• What is the merkle tree in Bitcoin? - YouTube
• OpenMPTCProuter — Internet connection bonding
• Podverse — NEW: Embed a Podverse player on your website! 🥳
• Nebula v1.6.0 — Experimental: nebula clients can be configured to act as relays for other nebula clients. Primarily useful when stubborn NATs make a direct tunnel impossible.

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• 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