Plus, Zach Mitchell joins us to update us on Planet Nix.

Special Guest: Zach Mitchell.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LINUX Unplugged - 2025 FreeBSD Challenge Rules.md
• Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kit
• FreeBSD 14.0 on aarch64 Raspberry Pi 4/400 - Download, Install & Configure
• LinuxBoot: Booting FreeBSD from Linux
• EuroBSDCon booting FreeBSD using Linux
• Provisioning LinuxBoot Images for FreeBSD
• FreeBSD Handbook: Chapter 1. Bootstrapping and Kernel Initialization
• FreeBSD Handbook: Chapter 15. The FreeBSD Booting Process
• How to Manage FreeBSD Boot Process?
• LinuxBoot: let Linux do it!
• LinuxBoot Introduction
• LinuxBoot on GitHub
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• Planet Nix — March 6th-7th, 2025 in Pasadena, CA
• Zach Mitchell
• LINUX Unplugged 554: SCaLEing Nix
• LINUX Unplugged 538: Surprisingly Smooth Transition
• LFNW2025 - April 25 - 27, 2025 • Bellingham Technical College
• Pick: GarminDB — Download and parse data from Garmin Connect or a Garmin watch, FitBit CSV, and MS Health CSV files into and analyze data in Sqlite serverless databases with Jupyter notebooks.

Plus why we feel Pop might be the new Ubuntu.

Special Guest: Carl Richell.

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• Amazon Is Hiring DXVK, Mesa & Proton Linux Developers For Luna Cloud Gaming - Phoronix — As part of the work on Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service, the company has put out job openings of great match to our audience... An Amazon engineer did confirm that this indeed is for genuine Linux gaming engineers.
• New Server Christening Get Together — Lets get together, share some foods, and power up the new Jupiter Broadcasting local server. Then stick around and listen in to a live recording of LINUX Unplugged from the studio.
• System76 Blog — Pop!_OS 21.10 has landed!
• Pop!_OS 21.10 Introduces Mini Application Menu
• Jeremy Soller on Twitter — Pop switched the build system and repositories away from http://launchpad.net to our own system http://apt.pop-os.org/release for 21.10 in order to improve our control of package updates and reduce the time to build, test, and release them. It is not related to changing bases.
• Linode Security Digest December 12-19, 2021
• Pop!_OS Auto Tiling Tutorial
• Recovery Partition - System76 Support — The Recovery Partition is a full copy of the Pop!_OS installation disk. It can be used exactly the same as if a live disk copy of Pop!_OS was booted from a USB drive.
• Add Recovery To Your Pop!_OS — If you like me, fellow reader, you may be using a more custom partition setup. Unfortunately, anything other than the default clean install on Pop!_OS means you do not get the automatically generated recovery partition of goodness. Here's a small guide over how to get the setup on an already existing install.
• casper — A hook for initramfs-tools to boot live systems.
• pop-os/launcher — Modular IPC-based desktop launcher service.
• Raycast — Raycast is a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher. It lets you complete tasks, calculate, share common links, and much more.
• Pick: n.eko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.
• Ventoy — With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly.

Plus the outrageous bounty on a beloved Linux desktop app.

Special Guest: Gary Kramlich.

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• Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web’s inventor is selling its original code as an NFT — Comprising over 9.500 lines of code, the files contain the basis of the languages and protocols underpinning the internet as we know it: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Universal Document Identified (URI).
• Meetup: Salt Lake City — Saturday, August 7, 2021, 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM PDT.
• Meetup: Denver — Friday, August 20, 2021, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM PDT.
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup Page
• Pidgin: the universal chat client — Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on XMPP and sitting in an IRC channel at the same time.
• Pidgin contributors: grim — Long time contributor, author of Guifications, and a founding member of the plugin pack.
• Zerodium on Twitter — We’re looking for #0day exploits affecting Pidgin on Windows and Linux. Bounty: $100,000.
• ZERODIUM — Limited-Time Bug Bounties and Temporarily Increased Payouts
• Linux 5.14 Mainline Should Work With The Raspberry Pi 400 — No kernel driver changes were needed since it's basically very close to the Raspberry Pi 4 but the updated DTS configuration is needed for the 1.8GHz clock rate, a different WiFi chip, and power off handling via GPIO.
• XFS To Enjoy Big Scalability Boost With Linux 5.14 — The big numbers are seeing the transaction rate go up from around 700k to 1.7M commits per second and a reduction in flush operations by 2~x orders of magnitude less for metadata heavy workloads that don't enforce fsync.
• Archive of old versions of Linux — Thanks to Mediactive Network for hosting this website.
• Mandrake 10.1 Visual Tour
• Xandros 3.0 Desktop Gallery
• Red Hat 9’s Classic Look
• Ubuntu 6.06 LTS — Ubuntu 6.06 LTS introduces functionality that simplifies common Linux server deployment processes. For system administrators setting up large numbers of web, mail and related servers, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS offers the fastest and most consistent path to deployment, combined with the availability of global commercial support where needed.
• Damn Small Linux — Damn Small Linux is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution.
• BackTrack Linux — BackTrack was a Linux distribution that focused on security, based on the Knoppix Linux distribution aimed at digital forensics and penetration testing use.
• TLP — Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life
• auto-cpufreq — Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux based on active monitoring of laptop's battery state, CPU usage, CPU temperature and system load. Ultimately allowing you to improve battery life without making any compromises.
• Did you know that you can 100% legally get & run WordPerfect for free? — But there is a catch – of course: they're both very old and hard to run on a modern computer. I'm here to tell you how to get them and how to install and run them.

And we chat with the CTO of the Uno Platform, a new way to bring native apps to Linux.

Chapters:
00:00:00 Pre-show
00:01:01 Intro
00:02:23 Meet the Raspberry Pi 400
00:11:21 Manjaro Update
00:16:59 State of Linux Gaming
00:23:11 GNOME 40
00:27:36 Building Native Apps on Linux
00:48:16 Housekeeping
00:50:05 Feedback
00:58:47 Pick
01:04:23 Post-show

Special Guest: Jérôme Laban.

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• Happy birthday VIM! — 29 years ago the very first version of Vim was built and distributed.
• vim-mario: Mario on Vim
• Meet the Raspberry Pi 400, a $70 Linux PC Hiding Inside a Keyboard - OMG! Ubuntu! — At the heart of the Raspberry Pi 400 is a 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A72. This quad-core chip is similar to last year’s Raspberry Pi 4 but clocked to run slightly faster.
• The Raspberry Pi 400 - Teardown and Review | Jeff Geerling
• Collabora expect their Linux Kernel work for Windows game emulation in Kernel 5.11 | GamingOnLinux — One of the key points that Gabriel Krisman Bertazi went over is their work on system call emulation, which is now required because DRM and anti-cheat tech "are issuing system calls directly from the Windows game code and that bypasses Wine."
• GNOME 40 Desktop Environment Slated for Release on March 24th, 2021 — Only three development milestones will be published in six months, an alpha, a beta and a Release Candidate.
• Uno Platform — The first and only UI Platform for single-codebase applications for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux.
• Uno Platform 3.1 Released
• The Windows Calculator on Linux with Uno Platform | Ubuntu — The good folks in the Uno Platform community have ported the open-source Windows Calculator to Linux. The calculator is published in the snapstore and can be downloaded right away.
• Porting Windows Calculator
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• Feedback: Falling for Fedora
• Feedback: First Time Fedora User
• Feedback: Distro Debate
• Pick: NewsFlash — A modern feed reader designed for the GNOME desktop.
• Miniflux is a minimalist and opinionated feed reader.