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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
• This Week In Bitcoin 97 | Jupiter Broadcasting
• Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security
• Streamlining secure boot for 26.10 - Ubuntu Community Hub
• Mitigating BootHole – CVE-2020-10713 and related vulnerabilities | Ubuntu
• There's a Hole in the Boot - Eclypsium
• Final Release · ErsatzTV — It is time for me to announce the final release of ErsatzTV in its current form. The existing repositories will be archived following this update.
• ErsatzTV/next
• Tunarr · GitHub — Create a classic TV experience using your own media — IPTV backed by Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, or NFO.
• Threadfin
• xTeVe
• Filler - Tunarr — Filler lists are collections of content used by Flex to pad time between episodes. One reason to use filler is to simulate traditional television by playing advertisements between episode airings.
• Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr (pronounced like "dispatcher") is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams, EPG data, and VOD content with elegance and control.
• awesome-iptv — A curated list of resources related to IPTV
• Tunarr API Reference
• LINUX Unplugged 645 — We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex.
• turnstonelabs/turnstone — Experimental multi-node AI orchestration platform. Deploy tool-using AI agents across a cluster of servers, driven by message queues or interactive interfaces.
• Open-Source "GreenBoost" Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMs
• GeneBean's Cage Kiosk
• GeneBean's Pi Arm Build Setup
• Planify - Task Manager for GNU/Linux
• alainm23/planify: Task manager with Todoist, Nextcloud & CalDAV support designed for GNOME
• Pick: bore — bore is a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost
• nixos-bore-module — Self-hosted bore tunnel server for NixOS
• Pick: kdeconnect-sms-tui — Terminal UI for sending and receiving SMS/MMS via KDE Connect.
• Pick: Busybridge — Complex calendar free/busy syncing across organizations for consultants who work inside multiple orgs.

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 Red Hat’s new logo, Dell’s new Linux workstations, and meet a new member of our crew.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Neal Gompa.

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• I made a smart watch from scratch — I decided sometime last year that I wanted to make a smart watch from scratch. I am an electrical engineer and product designer by day, so this was a fun side project that had been rolling around in my head for a while now.
• smarchWatch_PUBLIC on GitHub
• We’ve launched new corporate brand and logo system - Red Hat
• New hat, same vision video — We are Red Hat. We believe that transparency, sharing, and collaboration are the best ways to create better technology..and logos. See the transformation of the Red Hat logo.
• Canonical Releases "WLCS" Wayland Conformance Suite 1.0 — As part of their Wayland interests and namely as part of developing Mir now with Wayland support, for a while they have been working on the "Wayland Conformance Suite" for testing the Wayland protocols for conformance to the specifications. This is for ensuring Wayland compositors behave correctly against the intentions of the protocols.
• Wayland Conformance Test Suite on GitHub — wlcs aspires to be a protocol-conformance-verifying test suite usable by Wayland compositor implementors.
• L4T Ubuntu - A fully featured linux on your switch — L4T Ubuntu is a version of Linux based on nvidia's linux for tegra project. It uses a different kernel compared to previous releases which allows it to use features not yet in mainline. Such as audio, docking support and vulkan.
• JoyCon Jig on Amazon
• JupiterBroadcasting/Talks: Public repository of crew talks, slides, and additional resources. — We'll be updating this with slides and additional audio files as they become available.
• Changes/FlickerFreeBoot - Fedora Project Wiki — Make Fedora Workstation boot graphically smooth, without the display briefly turning off and without any abrupt graphical transitions.
• Releases/30/ChangeSet - Fedora Project Wiki — These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 30 Release as System Wide Changes.
• Security Lab — The Fedora Security Lab provides a safe test environment to work on security auditing, forensics, system rescue and teaching security testing methodologies in universities and other organizations.
• Fedora LXQt Desktop — Fedora LXQt provides a lightweight, well-integrated LXQt desktop environment. In addition to LXQt itself it provides a small, well selected collection of applications like the QupZilla browser, which combines Chromium's rendering engine with a nice Qt experience.
• Fedora Silverblue Documentation — Fedora Silverblue is an immutable desktop operating system. Aiming at good support for container-focused workflows, this variant of Fedora Workstation targets developer communities.
• My 30 days with Fedora 29 Silverblue — Silverblue is a Fedora variant that uses OStree and Flatpak instead of dnf. So basically you've got an immutable (read-only) system image built with OStree.
• Fedora Python Classroom — The Python Classroom lab is shipped as a live operating system. It's everything you need to try out Fedora's Python Classroom - you don't have to erase anything on your current system to try it out, and it won't put your files at risk.
• Buku: Browser-independent bookmark manager — buku is a powerful bookmark manager written in Python3 and SQLite3.
• Sysctl Explorer — Sysctl Explorer is an initiative to facilitate the access of Linux' sysctl reference documentation. This is a work in progress and you may consider this increment as a Minimum viable product (MVP) version.
• termshark: A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark — If you're debugging on a remote machine with a large pcap and no desire to scp it back to your desktop, termshark can help!
• Upgrading Fedora 29 to Fedora 30