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• 68k.news — Headlines From the Future
• Linux Action News 182 — GNOME 40 is out and we chat with the project’s Executive Director about the technical and visual improvements in the new release. Plus the facts around RMS’s return to the FSF board, and our analysis of the situation.
• Episode 118 — Stallman is back and ruffling feathers, PHP moves to GitHub, AMP might be on its way out, Audacity’s latest update gives us pause, Fairphone delivers an unlikely update, online events, and more.
• AlmaLinux OS Stable Release is live! — We are very happy to announce that today we are releasing the first AlmaLinux OS stable version. That's right, you can go right ahead and download the stable version and use it everywhere you need a stable, reliable, Linux distribution.
• Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week — Ubuntu and its flavors will be participating in another ‘Ubuntu Testing Week’ from April 1st to April 7th.
• Shells — Personal Workspaces Powered by Cloud Computers.
• An Interview With Zlatan Todoric, Open-Source Developer & Former Purism CTO
• Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer
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• Lutris — Open Gaming Platform
• [Mathieu's Blog] Not on the same page — The disconnect I feel between what I want to deliver in what I build and what the users asks for is now too big to ignore. In some way, I already knew it would be the case before I even started Lutris. I knew that what I was trying to achieve wasn’t in line with how Linux users usually behave…
• Feedback: Cockpit
• Feedback: Covid Appointment Script

Plus our reaction to RMS's return to the FSF, some big project updates, picks, and more!

Special Guests: Dalton Durst and Danielle Foré.

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• Microsoft Said to Discuss Discord Bid for Over $10 Billion — “Microsoft possibly acquiring Discord makes a lot of sense as it continues to reshape its gaming business more toward software and services”.
• [Video] Richard Stallman is Back
• edw · elementary Developer Weekend — This conference is our way of reaching out to app developers, sharing the knowledge we’ve all collected over the years, and providing a space to ask questions and provide feedback.
• Ubuntu Touch OTA-16 Release — Today we are happy to announce the release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-16, our sixteenth stable update to the system!
• Linux Action News 181
• Forthcoming OpenSSL release — OpenSSL 1.1.1k is a security-fix release. The highest severity issue fixed in this release is HIGH.
• Initial Support For The Rust Language Lands In Linux-Next — While no fully-baked Rust kernel driver is ready yet, the initial merge to Linux-Next does include an example kernel module written in Rust.
• Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux — Torvalds thinks "Rust's primary first target seems to be drivers, simply because that's where you find just a lot of different possible targets, and you have these individual parts of the kernel that are fairly small and independent. That may not be a very interesting target to some people, but it's the obvious one."
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• Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer | Linode
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• ngrok — Secure introspectable tunnels to localhost.
• Gist: Assign public ipv6 to wireguard clients
• WireGuard Routing and Port Forwarding
• Gist: Forward all traffic to server over WireGuard VPN
• Expose server behind NAT with WireGuard and a VPS
• How To Forward Ports through a Linux Gateway with Iptables
• FORWARD and NAT Rules
• Pick: dsnet — Simple command to manage a centralised wireguard VPN. Think wg-quick but quicker: key generation + address allocation.
• How to set up a wireguard VPN in minutes with dsnet
• Feedback: Raspberry Pi POCKIT
• Project POCKIT — PocKit is a computer made for the real, physical world. On top of its powerful, versatile Core, you can attach BLOCKS - any number of any kind - to suit your application.
• Video: A small, plug-and-play Linux computer — Project POCKIT
• GNOME 40’s Best New Features
• FreeBSD kernel-mode WireGuard moves forward out-of-tree

Also what makes Manjaro unique? We chat with one of the founders and find out why it's much more than a desktop environment.

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• Richard Stallman Resigns — On September 16, 2019, Richard M. Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation, resigned as president and from its board of directors.
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• balena releases first fully functional 64-bit OS for the Raspberry Pi 4 — Today, we are excited to announce the release of 64-bit balenaOS for the Raspberry Pi 4, providing support for the full 4GB of memory and allowing the simultaneous, side-by-side running of 32-bit and 64-bit Docker containers - a first for the Raspberry Pi 4!
• Nextcloud 17 scales up and improves data protection with Remote Wipe, collaborative text editor, 2FA updates, IBM Spectrum Scale support and Global Scale improvements – Nextcloud — Fresh from the Nextcloud conference stage, we are proud to announce a major release of Nextcloud, the easiest solution for secure, on-premises collaboration on documents, calendars and communication! Nextcloud 17 will introduce a series of secure collaboration features including a collaborative text editor, remote wipe, updated secure view, improved two-factor-authentication and easier access than ever with deeper integration of large-scale storage like S3 and IBM Spectrum Scale.
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• Self-Hosted 1: The First One — You've been wanting to host a Nextcloud instance (or anything else) for your family for a while now. Where on Earth do you start? We share some hard learned lessons about self-hosting, discuss the most important things to consider when building a home server, and Chris gives Alex a hard time about Arch as a Server OS.
• Unofficial Hacker Family Dinner & Unbirthday Party | Meetup — Join Chris, Wes, Chz and Ell for a meet and greet with fellow Texas Cyber Summit attendees and a belated celebration of Ell and Allie's Birthdays! There will be good food, good friends, and we hope some good conversation.
• Manjaro - enjoy the simplicity — Manjaro is a professionally made Linux based operating system that is a suitable replacement for Windows or MacOS. Multiple Desktop Environments are available through our Official and Community editions. We also work with manufacturers to design dedicated hardware. Visit the shop for more information.
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• Linux 5.4 Cycle To Begin With exFAT Driver, EPYC Improvements & New GPU Support — Finally there will be mainline exFAT support for that Microsoft file-system with it finally being blessed to be supported under Linux/open-source. The exFAT driver still has a lot of improvements to go (the current code quality has been called horrible) but is already making progress within staging.