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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
• Keeper.sh — Keeper is a simple & open-source calendar syncing tool. It allows you to pull events from remotely hosted iCal or ICS links, and push them to one or many calendars so the time slots can align across them all.
• Keeper.sh: Calendar Syncing, V2 Release
• OneCal
• PiBox Overview - KubeSail Docs
• PiBox: A Modular Raspberry Pi Storage Server by Dan Pastusek — Kickstarter
• RPi CM4 based local storage server launches on Kickstarter
• KubeSail — So Long, and Thanks for All the Pods
• ipetkov/nixos-pibox — NixOS modules for supporting the hardware present on the PiBox
• raspberrypi/usbboot — Raspberry Pi USB device provisioning tool (RPIBOOT)
• cage-kiosk/cage — A Wayland kiosk. A kiosk runs a single, maximized application.
• systemd: BirthDate Field Added to JSON User Records — "Add birthDate field to JSON user records, allowing for standardized age-related logic within the userdb framework."
• Azuay Province - Wikipedia
• Pick: fq — fq is like jq but for binary formats, allowing you to tool, language, and decode complex binary data into human-readable structures.
• Pick: file-fridge — move files that aren't accessed as often to cold storage
• Pick: sigrok — Portable, cross-platform, Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite: logic analyzers, scopes, multimeters, and more!
• Pick: PulseView — a Qt-based LA/scope/MSO GUI for sigrok

Special Guest: BeardedTek.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• SCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"
• PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
• Pasadena Linux Party, Fri, Mar 6, 2026, 6:00 PM
• KDE Linux - KDE Community Wiki
• Beta (Enthusiast & Stable editions) · KDE Linux · GitLab
• Install Software Not Available in Discover - KDE Community
• KDE Linux / Kapsule · GitLab
• suikan4github/Using-tailscale-client-on-an-Immutable-OS: Explain how to install the tailscale client on an immutable desktop OS
• xuars/kdelinux-tailscale: Tailscale install script for KDE Linux®
• Nix - KDE Community
• Fitting Everything Together — TLDR: Hermetic /usr/ is awesome; let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, uniformity – built from traditional distribution packages, but deployed via images.
• Nebula Commander
• DEMO Nebula Commander
• Nebula Commander GitHub — Nebula Commander is a self-hosted control plane for nebula overlay networks.
• Star Trek Comm Badge for Home Assistant Voice Control : 7 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables
• Pick: hcloud-upload-image — Quickly upload any raw disk images into your Hetzner Cloud projects!
• Pick: Launcher Studio — Launcher Studio is a GTK4 desktop application for creating and managing .desktop files on Linux.
• Launcher Studio on Flathub
• Pick: tinyproxy — A light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems
• Pick: socks-to-http-proxy — An executable to convert SOCKS5 proxy into HTTP proxy

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• LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Form
• Old Fart Form (markdown)
• ngrok — Go from code to global in just minutes with a developer-friendly, idiomatic solution for managing traffic to your APIs.
• Jellyswarrm — Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place.
• Sveske-Juice/declarative-jellyfin — This repository provides a Nix flake that allows for declarative configuration of Users, Libraries, Plugins, Settings, etc. Jellyfin 10.11 is NOT SUPPORTED.
• declarative-jellyfin full example
• Zigl3ur/jellyhub — JellyHub is a web app that allow you to fetch media from all of your jellyfin servers and regroup it in one place, so there is one place to search for specific media and tells you on wich server the desired media is located.
• Smiley-McSmiles/jellyman — Jellyman is a lightweight BASH CLI tool for installing and managing Jellyfin. As well as create a full backup (automatically or manually) so you can move or import all your metadata and user information to another machine.
• LSchallot/JellyRoller — JellyRoller is an open source CLI Jellyfin Controller written in Rust that works on Windows and Linux. Its primary purpose is to allow administration of a Jellyfin application from the command line.
• kjtsune/embyToLocalPlayer — etlp (embyToLocalPlayer) is a tool that lets Emby, Jellyfin, and Plex play videos using your local media players (like mpv or VLC) instead of the built-in web player, while optionally sending playback progress back to the server.
• Pick: subgen — Autogenerate subtitles using OpenAI Whisper Model via Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, Tautulli, or Bazarr.

Special Guest: Dustin Kirkland.

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• 🤠 Texas Linux Festival Trip Support (Fake Boost)
• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Texas Tracker
• Texas Linux Fest
• TXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - The Design & Implementation of the Darwin Operating System
• TXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - Getting Started with Ansible on Linux
• TXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - Lessons They Don't Teach You in School: A Year in High-Performance Computing
• TXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - I got Malware, BTW. A quick look at the rising trend of Linux Malware
• A Gift for the Open Source Community: Chainguard’s CVE-Free Raspberry Pi Images (Beta)
• Chainguard for Raspberry Pi
• Chainguard's Images
• Wes Payne - Mesh Network Sidecars for NixOS Services - Texas Linux Fest
• noblepayne/meshSidecar: Mesh network sidecars for NixOS Services
• Pick: isd — isd (interactive systemd) – a better way to work with systemd units.
• ISD 0.6 Released For Interactive Systemd Management

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• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• nebula-tower — A user-friendly server to manage your Slack Nebula mesh network.
• Texas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TX
• JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party, Sat Oct 4 - Meetup.com
• JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony Events
• Turnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TX
• Ad-Free Viewing By Showing Your Support During The Phoronix Oktoberfest / Autumn Sale — Through the end of the month (30 September), you can enjoy premium at the Oktoberfest rate. The normal Phoronix Premium rate is $45 USD per year or $250 for a lifetime subscription but for this year's Oktoberfest deal, you can go premium for just $30 per year or $150 for a lifetime subscription.
• GNOME 49 Release Notes — We code named the release “Brescia”, after a beautiful Italian city that hosted this year’s GUADEC.
• GNOME 49 Officially Released With Wayland Improvements, Showtime As Video Player
• Ubuntu 25.10 Beta Officially Released For Testing — Canonical today released the Ubuntu 25.10 Beta as they work toward the stable Ubuntu 25.10 release in mid-October.
• Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings — Ubuntu 25.10's transition to using Rust Coreutils in place of GNU Coreutils has uncovered a few performance issues so far with the Rust version being slower than the C-based GNU Coreutils.
• base64 implementation almost 8x slower than GNU for some large files
• sort does not finish for large one line file
• Fedora 43 Beta ISOs Released For Testing — Fedora 43 Beta ISOs are now available for those wanting to help in testing.
• Omarchy 3.0 — Omarchy 3.0 is here — faster installs, big MacBook support, and lots of polish.
• systemd 258 Released With systemd-factory-reset & Other New Tools — Systemd 258 brings systemd-factory-reset to request a factory reset on the next reboot, systemd-pty-forward to allocate a pseudo TTY/PTY, UEFI firmware images can now be embedded in a UKI, and many other new features.
• systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 Changes
• Kernel RFC: Introduce multikernel architecture support — This patch series introduces multikernel architecture support, enabling multiple independent kernel instances to coexist and communicate on a single physical machine. Each kernel instance can run on dedicated CPU cores while sharing the underlying hardware resources.
• The Multikernel: A new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems [PDF]
• mirdaki/computer-config — Config for server and personal deployments
• My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup — Matthew shares their ultimate self-hosting setup built on NixOS, ZFS, and Tailscale, balancing privacy, data control, and usability for family and friends.
• basecamp/once-campfire — Campfire is a web-based chat application.
• Pick: savr: Read it later. Keep it local. No server needed. — Savr is an app for saving online content to read later. It is file-centric, offline first, future proof, and favors decentralization.

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• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• nebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.
• Frigate NVR
• Coral USB Accelerator: ML Accelerator, USB 3.0 Type-C
• Arch Linux - News: Recent service outages
• Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two — For now, the Arch team is working to mitigate the attack's impact, which highlights a bootstrapping issue. Tools designed to shift traffic to mirrors in the event the main infrastructure is unavailable rely on a mirror list obtained from that same main infrastructure.
• DHH on X — "Omarchy 2.0 release might have to wait a little longer. The AUR DDoS attack has picked back up, but the upside is that we're building in all sorts of resilience for the installer to deal with the assault! And meanwhile, we'll build a complete Omarchy package mirror for all.
• DHH on X — "We're pulling AUR out of the Omarchy install hotpath. It's an incredible resource, but we actually only need a handful of packages for the initial setup, and we can just host those ourselves. AUR really needs a new mirror strategy to avoid this predicament."
• Arch Linux continues to feel the force of a DDoS attack after two brutal weeks — attackers yet to be identified as project struggles to restore full service
• Arch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfaces
• aurpublish — PKGBUILD management framework for the Arch User Repository
• salvador — salvador is a bash script that will help you maintain your AUR packages.
• archlinux/aurweb — Hosting platform for the Arch User Repository (AUR), a collection of packaging scripts created by the Arch Linux community
• TaskTrove — Self-hostable task managment that respect your privacy.
• shuthost — A neat little helper that manages the standby state of unix hosts with Wake-On-Lan configured, with Web-GUI.
• Closing the Digital Divide: Q&A with Local Computer Upcycler Mike Kelly
• mkellyxp/nixbook — Convert your old computer (even chromebook) to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.
• CachyOS — Blazingly Fast OS based on Arch Linux
• MOES Wireless Smart Scene Switch Button
• Minoston 800 Series Z-Wave Scene Controller, 4 ZWave Button
• Brent hates ricing PCs • Clip by @genebean
• add master branch nixpkgs overlay · nikolarobottesla/infra-nix-config
• Pick: WakeMyPotato — Restart a Linux server made of a potato laptop after power outages
• Pick: spectacle-ocr-screenshot — A simple utility to automatically extract text from spectacle on plasma desktops
• Pick: spectacle-ocr — Add OCR functionality to Spectacle

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• TUI Challenge
• TUI Challenge Scorecard
• Self-Hosted 150: The Last One — Before hitting the road, we test the limits of local-first file sharing, debate what self-hosting really is, and share our all-time favorite apps.
• Pick: ws4kp — A web-based WeatherStar 4000
• Pick: ytdl-sub — Lightweight tool to automate downloading and metadata generation with yt-dlp.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups
• XZ Utils Backdoor Vulnerability (CVE-2024-3094): Comprehensive Guide
• The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
• Who is ‘Jia Tan,’ the coder behind the XZ Utils Linux backdoor?
• Reflections on Distrusting xz
• The Linux kernel does not accept anonymous contributions due to legal reasons. — The Linux kernel does not accept anonymous contributions due to legal reasons.
• Kernel.org Docs on contributions — It is imperative that all code contributed to the kernel be legitimately free software.
• Elon Musk wants to ‘authenticate all real humans’ on Twitter.
• Elon Musk claims alien identity, links human brain function to AI purpose
• Elon Musk Finally Realizes That Verification Requires More Than A Credit Card, Planning To Make Users Upload Gov’t ID
• Elon Musk can show the world how to really do ID
• World ID
• Nostr: All Your Silos Are Broken
• Nostr Iceberg Meme
• NIP-01
• Mapping Nostr keys to DNS-based internet identifiers
• Navigating the social graph — In this paper, you will find a definition of the social graph, principles for thinking about it, and practical ideas for using it for DoS prevention, social discovery, anti-impersonation, accurate ratings, and more.
• Highlighter — Highlighter is like Substack & Patreon but on Nostr.
• Satlantis — Satlantis is like Trip Advisor, meets Instagram and Google Places.
• HiveTalk — Free Video Calls, Messaging and Screen Sharing
• zap.stream — Twitch alt powered by value for value and Nostr
• ostrGit — A truly censorship-resistant alternative to GitHub that has a chance of working.
• Blogstack — Write decentralized blogs over relay using nostr w/ ⚡ lightning tips.
• Ditto — Ditto is a Nostr community server. It has a built-in Nostr relay, a web UI, and it implements Mastodon's REST API.
• UseNostr
• awesome-nostr
• Decentralized publishing for the web
• Nostr Apps
• Nosta — New to Nostr? You're in the right place. Here you can easily set up your profile, discover apps, and browse other profiles.
• Amethyst
• amethyst: Nostr client for Android
• yana
• Primal App
• Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!
• SpeechNote — Speech Note let you take, read and translate notes in multiple languages. It uses Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine Translation to do so.
• rhasspy/piper: — A fast, local neural text to speech system.
• Starship — The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
• starship on GitHub
• ZSH Docs: ZDOTDIR
• distrobox-assemble — distrobox-assemble takes care of creating or destroying containers in batches, based on a manifest file.
• Pick: Gathio — Gathio is a simple, federated, privacy-first event hosting platform.

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• Announcing systemd v256 — In the weeks leading up to this release I have posted a series of serieses of posts to Mastodon about key new features in this release.
• systemd changes with v2⁸:
• systemd 256 Released With run0, systemd-vpick, importctl & Other New Features
• Lennart on systemd-vpick — Basically, you can now place multiple versions of the same resource in some dir of your choice, suffix that dir's name with .v/ and the you get some basic version management in place: delete or add new versions by just removing/adding new files, and the tools will find the newest item dropped in automatically.
• Introduction to Portable Services — “Portable services” do not provide a fully isolated environment to the payload, like containers mostly intend to. Instead, they are more like regular system services, can be controlled with the same tools, are exposed the same way in all infrastructure, and so on. The main difference is that they use a different root directory than the rest of the system.
• Trying out systemd's Portable Services — All in all, the core pieces are already in place for a very promising new technology that should make it easier for 3rd parties to provide Linux system-level software in a safe and convenient way, well done to the systemd team for a well executed concept. All it lacks is some polish around the tooling and integration.
• systemd sleep — Putting a PC to sleep is complicated business and there are different mechanisms available to achieve this on Linux.
• Lennart on SSH and AF_VSOCK — This automatic ssh-via-AF_VSOCK logic is particularly useful
• DDIs and systemd-nspawn — Or in other words: there's now unprivileged systemd-npsawn containers. Yay!
• Lennart on systemd-vmspawn
• Lennart on sd_notify
• Lennart on dlopen
• Lennart on run0 — There's a new tool in systemd, called "run0". Or actually, it's not a new tool, it's actually the long existing tool "systemd-run", but when invoked under the "run0" name (via a symlink) it behaves a lot like a sudo clone. But with one key difference: it's not in fact SUID.
• doas - dedicated openbsd application subexecutor
• Doas - NixOS Wiki
• Doas on Wikipedia
• The Tragedy of systemd — Join me on a journey through the bootstrap process, the history of init, the reasons why change can be scary, and the discovery of a part of your OS you may not even know existed.
• The Two Year Journey Funded By Arm/Qualcomm For Improving ARM Linux Laptop Support — ARM Kernel developers spent the last two years working on improving ARM Linux laptop support with a focus on the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s powered by a Qualcomm SoC.
• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS support to the Lenovo ThinkPad x13s
• Snapdragon 8cx
• Ubuntu Asahi project
• TUXEDO Working on Snapdragon X Elite Linux Laptop
• Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!
• Spokane Meetup, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PM
• Berlin with Brent: September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Fri, Sep 13, 2024 | Meetup
• A Nix Flake for Bitfocus Companion
• ChrisLAS' Beelink NixOS Config
• Bluetooth - NixOS Wiki
• nix-direnv
• xscreensaver on Android
• Rainier cherry - Wikipedia
• Pick: Iotas — Markdown notes that syncs with NextCloud Notes.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Noah Chelliah.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2024 — An annual open-source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group, the Information Technology department at BTC, Cascade STEAM, and Jupiter Broadcasting.
• Bellingham Technical College — At BTC, we're here to help you access the hands-on education that can give you an advantage in today's job market.
• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Downloads Now Available — Ubuntu 24.04 is an exciting Long Term Support (LTS) update with this new Linux distribution release being powered by the Linux 6.8 kernel, making use of Netplan for networking on the desktop, features the modernized desktop OS installer, various performance optimizations, and a ton of new features.
• x32-proxy — UDP and Web Socket proxy server for Behringer and Midas digital mixer control.
• LinuxFest Northwest YouTube
• Peyton’s GitHub
• Electromagnetic Field — A non-profit camping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things: hackers, artists, geeks, crafters, scientists, and engineers.
• completenoob's NixOS ZFS on Root Setup — Install NixOS with ZFS on root on a ThinkPad T470 with 24gb Ram and a 1TB nvme ssd.
• radio-browser.info — This is a community driven effort (like wikipedia) with the aim of collecting as many internet radio and TV stations as possible. Any help is appreciated!
• Pick: Playlifin — A tool to convert a Youtube Music playlist to a Jellyfin playlists.
• Pick: Playlifin Voyager — Playlifin Voyager is a tool to export and import playlists from and to your Jellyfin Server.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• oss-security mailing list — Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise.
• Fedora Announcement
• Debian Announcement
• Ubuntu Announcement
• Kali Linux Announcement
• Arch Linux Announcement
• Gentoo Announcement
• openSUSE Tumbleweeed Announcement
• NixOS Unstable Discussion
• Why does it take two weeks for NixOS to replace xz?
• Andres Freund on Mastodon — I was doing some micro-benchmarking at the time, needed to quiesce the system to reduce noise. Saw sshd processes were using a surprising amount of CPU, despite immediately failing because of wrong usernames etc....
• rwmj on Hacker News — Very annoying - the apparent author of the backdoor was in communication with me over several weeks trying to get xz 5.6.x added to Fedora 40 & 41 because of its "great new features"
• A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects — Make no mistake. This is the way it works. It needs to change.
• Devuan GNU/Linux on X — Devuan is not affected by the latest vulnerability caused by systemd.
• systemd PR: Dynamically load compression libraries
• Matteo Croce on X — I'm the author of such PR. While I absolutely didn't know that libxz had a backdoor, I really think that libraries should be loaded on-demand when rarely used, hence my change :)
• Ryan C. Gordon on X — This is probably how the xz thing happened, right?
• Jan Wildeboer on the Fediverse — Again the FOSS world has proven to be vigilant and proactive in finding bugs and backdoors, IMHO.
• Unplugged Core Membership
• TXLF is coming up! — April 12 - 13 in Austin, Texas.
• LFNW coming up! — April 26 - 28
• Mobile Game Ads Are Boosting Podcast Follower Counts — Wondery, iHeart and Lemonada Media are all using a non-public product from MowPod - which gives extra lives and game credits to gamers if they follow shows on Apple Podcasts from game apps.
• MowPod's podcast promotion tools: tales from the bar
• fortydeux's NixOS Configs
• Prism Launcher — An Open Source Minecraft launcher with the ability to manage multiple instances, accounts and mods.
• World Backup Day — March 31st — One small accident or failure could destroy all the important stuff you care about.
• Updating Our Fiddly Bits | LINUX Unplugged 494

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• Simula One - Standalone (Preorder) — Contains detachable compute pack with SimulaOS pre-installed. Can be optionally tethered to host PCs for gaming and other purposes.
• SimulaVR Headsets Delayed into 2024
• Fountain.fm — Podcasts powered by community
• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
• Yard House Menu
• Immersed — Empower Work With Spatial Computing
• Immersed on Meta Quest
• Immersed: Linux + Mac + PC Compatibility!
• Immersed Reddit Wiki
• Plasma Desktop in VR - JupiterTube — Quest 3 with the Immersed app running on KDE Neon.
• HDMI Dummy Plug Display Emulator
• DisplayPort Headless Ghost Display Emulator
• Immersed + Linux = Life by Alexandre E Souza
• umlaeute/v4l2loopback — This module allows you to create "virtual video devices". Normal (v4l2) applications will read these devices as if they were ordinary video devices, but the video will not be read from e.g. a capture card but instead it is generated by another application.
• Linux VR Adventures Wiki — A collection of links, useful resources and guides for the amazing world of VR on Linux.
• Monado — Open Source XR Platform
• OpenComposite GitLab repository
• Completely stutter-free VR reprojection on Linux WITHOUT SteamVR!
• nixpkgs-xr — Automated packages for XR/AR/VR tools and apps for NixOS
• Monado NixoOS Module Pull Request
• LFNW Schedule is LIVE
• bravohotel91/ipfspodcastnode — IPFS Podcast Node for IPFSPodcasting.net
• ipfspodcastnode on Docker Hub
• IPFS Podcasting
• The kernel becomes its own CNA — As many of you all know, I have talked a lot about CVEs in the past, and yes, I think the system overall is broken in many ways, but this change is a way for us to take more responsibility for this, and hopefully make the process better over time. - Greg Kroah-Hartman
• aksiksi/compose2nix — A tool to automatically generate a NixOS config from a Docker Compose project.
• arion via NixOS configuration example — Example setup running the Grocy kitchen inventory management system via linuxserver.io image and arion on NixOS.
• vt52's pebkac.lol BBS
• Nebula is Not the Fastest Mesh VPN — For this first public release of data, we’ve chosen to test the most popular mesh VPN options we’re aware of, so we will be comparing Nebula (in AES mode), Netmaker, Tailscale, and ZeroTier (note, this list is intentionally in alphabetical order, as additional confirmation of our commitment to fairness).
• DESTEK QH3 Pressure-Free Head Strap
• BOBOVR S3 Pro Super Strap Accessories, Head air conditioning and 10000
• CitraVR: Port of the leading 3DS emulator — Play 3DS homebrew and personal game backups in 3D on the go with your Quest. CitraVR is a GPL-licensed, engineless OpenXR application with all source code publicly available.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
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• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

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• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Introducing Fedora Atomic Desktops
• 45Drives/autotier — A passthrough FUSE filesystem that intelligently moves files between storage tiers based on frequency of use, file age, and tier fullness.
• Ok, what is the “actual” way to install Nextcloud completely, fully, as in all the features, and best performance?
• Help a newbie to make a choice - 🚧 Installation - Nextcloud community
• Nextcloud All-in-One
• NextcloudPi — NextcloudPi is a ready to use image for Virtual Machines, Raspberry Pi, Odroid HC1, Rock64 and other boards.
• NextcloudPi | Nextcloud Conference 2022
• Nextcloud - Official Docker Image
• nextcloud/ansible-collection-nextcloud-admin: The ansible galaxy for your nextcloud administrative needs.
• ReinerNippes/nextcloud: Ansible playbook to install nextcloud, php, nginx or apache, mariadb or postgres, redis-server, onlyoffice or collabora office
• LINUX Unplugged 307 — What’s your NextCloud?
• Top 10 Self-Hosted Apps - Perfect Media Server
• Self-Hosted - Episodes Tagged with “nextcloud”
• The Holy Grail Nextcloud setup made easy by NixOS
• NixOS Nextcloud Module Docs
• NixOS Nextcloud Service Source
• Nextcloud Apps Packaged in NixOS
• LUP’s nextcloud.nix
• NixOS Nextcloud Module Options
• Soltros’ Nextcloud-on-NixOS
• TODO: ExecStartPost to copy off backups
• First NixCon North America!
• Southern California Linux Expo 21
• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
• Yard House Menu
• Eric's Nextcloud on NixOS
• Eric's Collabora
• Nextcloud NixOS Setup Overview
• Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition
• hercules-ci/arion — Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS
• Arion documentation
• GabMus / Envision · GitLab — A VR stack for Linux, recently running directly on the NVK driver and Wayland.

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• Spokane Linux Love, Sat, Sep 16, 2023, 1:00 PM | Meetup — It's finally happening! Let's get together at Iron Goat Brewing.
• Best laptops for NixOS - Help - NixOS Discourse
• Mobile NixOS
• Devices List — Mobile NixOS
• Iron Goat Brewing
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Sponsorship Prospectus — LinuxFest Northwest 2023 will be held October 20-22, 2023 at Bellingham Technical College. The Fest is a free and open community event dedicated to provide and support educational activities related to Linux and Open Source Software.
• NixOS friendly hosters - NixOS Wiki
• Install and Configure NixOS on a Linode | Linode Docs
• Star-History — We know, you can't fully trust a project's GitHub stars alone. It is, however, a good way to determine if a tool is an adequate one and if it's likely to grow, if you use it correctly.
• disko — NixOS is a Linux distribution where everything is described as code, with one exception: during installation, the disk partitioning and formatting are manual steps. disko aims to correct this sad 🤡 omission.
• nixos-anywhere — You can then initiate an unattended installation with a single CLI command. Since nixos-anywhere can access the new machine using SSH, it's ideal for remote installations.
• Immutable infrastructure for mutable systems — I erase my systems at every boot.
• NixOS Series 4: "Stateless" Operating System — Here's the question: is it really necessary to store the contents of /etc on the disk drive? They're going to be regenerated on each reboot or config switch anyway.
• NixOS ❄: tmpfs as root — One fairly unique property of NixOS is the ability to boot with only /boot and /nix. Nothing else is actually required. This supports doing all sorts of weird things with your root file system.
• Nixos and Erasing My Darlings
• Impermanence - NixOS Wiki — Impermanence in NixOS is where your root directory gets wiped every reboot (such as by mounting a tmpfs to /). Such a setup is possible because NixOS only needs /boot and /nix in order to boot, all other system files are simply links to files in /nix. /boot and /nix still need to be stored on a hard drive or SSD.
• impermanence: Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]
• Example ZFS + tmpfs root configuration
• NixOS on Btrfs+tmpfs
• A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally — Ever since the closing of RFC 49, we've had the new CLI and Flakes marked as experimental, with no clear plan forward.
• project Stratis
• Backups - Perfect Media Server
• Podverse GitHub — Podverse has a bounty out for Android Auto.
• Jay Sam Bee in Philadelphia NixOS Bounty — Jay has a bounty for getting Wallabag on NixOS.
• Self-Hosted 102: NixOS is a bit Flakey
• completenoobs.com
• OpenStreetMap.org — OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
• OSMand.net
• OSM is an extensible editor for ​OpenStreetMap
• OSM is an extensible editor for ​OpenStreetMap
• Street­Complete — Help to improve the OpenStreetMap with StreetComplete!
• nixpkg.py

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• Spotify App Stops Working for Linux Users
• GrapheneOS version 2023051600 Released — Add initial Contact Scopes feature as an alternative to granting the Contacts permission... Add production ready Pixel 7a support.
• GrapheneOS Discussion Forum: Version 2023051600 Released
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — Our new Contact Scopes feature is now available in the Alpha channel. It provides a way to avoid granting the Contacts permission for apps requiring it. It's similar to our Storage Scopes feature replacing needing any of the media/storage permissions.
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — GmsCompatConfig (sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer configuration) version 53 released.
• Asahi Linux To Users: Please Stop Using X.Org — Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin issued a lengthy post encouraging users of this Apple Silicon focused Linux distribution to stop using X.Org as Wayland is the future.
• RHEL 9: Deprecated functionality — The X.org display server is deprecated, and will be removed in a future major RHEL release. The default desktop session is now the Wayland session in most cases.
• r/linux: The whole X11 vs. Wayland thing… — Whilst I get Wayland is the future I have a bunch of issues with it. Off the top of my head…
• Rustdesk ‘wontfix’ a naive privilege escalation on Linux
• The LUP Odroid H3+ Chassis — I recently got an Odroid H3+ and desperately needed a chassis for it so I decided to make one. Since I am a long-time listener and a big fan of the Linux Unplugged podcast I wanted to pay tribute to it.
• Live APRS Map
• Podcast Guru — The simple & free podcast player for Android & iOS
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• yt-fts: Youtube Full Text Search — Search all of a YouTube channel's subtitles from the command line

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• Redesigned Flathub Site Launches For Flatpak Apps — A redesigned version of the Flathub website has launched for this weekend's Linux App Summit. Flathub remains the centralized website for exploring and finding new Flatpak sandboxed Linux apps.
• Flathub — Welcome to Flathub, the home of hundreds of apps which can be easily installed on any Linux distribution. Browse the apps online, from your app center or the command line.
• Olympia Linux Spring Meetup
• Announcing Fedora Linux 38 — Fedora Linux 38 introduces several new Spins ­— variants that showcase different desktop environments.
• Fedora 38 Released With GNOME 44 Desktop, GCC 13, Many New Features — Fedora 38 brings many changes including the GCC 13 system compiler and other updated toolchain components like GNU Make 4.4, Glibc 2.37, Binutils 2.39, Golang 1.20, Ruby 3.2, and more.
• What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38
• How to rebase to Fedora Linux 38 on Silverblue
• Fedora Linux 38 Spins
• Fedora Workstation Download
• asahi-fedora-builder — Builds a minimal Fedora image to run on Apple M1/M2 systems
• music-player — An extensible music server written in Rust 🚀🎵✨
• Tools on Tech
• The Split Kit
• Podverse
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Reaper on Flathub

Plus, our thoughts on the slow decline of mailing lists in open-source development.

Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

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• “Old/weird laptops” sought to help test Linux kernel backlight drivers — You could help smooth out a long-needed overhaul of Linux's backlight systems.
• The GNOME Project is closing all its mailing lists — The GNOME Project is preparing to shut down its mailing lists due to problems maintaining the project's GNU Mailman instance - which relies on Python 2 - and a lack of moderators.
• [Evolution] Announcement: this mailing list will be retired
• Re: Moving final mailman lists over to discourse
• Issues · jupiterbroadcasting.com
• Office Hours 15: One PR At a Time — We recap a busy night after a studio power outage, then dig into what makes an open-source project worth contributing to. Why do some fail while others grow and prosper?
• How I make a living working on SerenityOS — This post describes in detail how I support myself while working on the SerenityOS project.
• Systemd supremo proposes tightening up Linux boot process — In brief, what he sees as the problem is that on hardware with Secure Boot enabled, while the boot process up to and including the kernel is signed, the next step, loading the initrd, is not. That's what he wants to fix.
• Brave New Trusted Boot World — This document looks at the boot process of general purpose Linux distributions. It covers the status quo and how we envision Linux boot to work in the future with a focus on robustness and simplicity.
• NixOS bootspec-secureboot — This repository is a research project that aims to improve the bootloader story in NixOS.
• Matthew's NixOS Screen shot
• Grab a new podcast app — Upgrade to a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app.
• vhs: Your CLI home video recorder 📼 — Write terminal GIFs as code for integration testing and demoing your CLI tools.
• FFmpeg.guide — A simple GUI tool to create complex FFmpeg filtergraphs quickly and correctly, without having to mess with the cumbersome filter syntax

Special Guest: Tim Canham.

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• Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft
• Brunch with Brent: Quentin Stafford-Fraser
• Brunch With Brent: Tim Canham — Brent sits down with Tim Canham, Senior Software Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We explore topics including the hardware and software powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter; JPL's switch from Solaris to Linux; the open source projects, tools, and philosophy at JPL, ...and more.
• JPL Free Public Tours
• West Coast Crew Matrix Room
• Jupiter.party - The JB Network Membership
• ptpython — A better Python REPL.
• IPython — A powerful interactive shell.
• bpython
• Jupyter Notebooks
• Nextjournal
• Joe’s minimal implementation of Git ~300 LOC
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Pick: dua-cli — View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.
• dust — A more intuitive version of du in rust.
• parallel-disk-usage — Highly parallelized, blazing fast directory tree analyzer.
• dirstat-rs — (fastest?) disk usage cli, similar to windirstat.
• dutree — a tool to analyze file system usage written in Rust.
• F’ — A Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework.
• quickemu
• Play webtorrent’s with mpv

Special Guest: Martin Wimpress.

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• Carl George on Twitter — "I’ve been playing around with matplotlib to chart this data over time. Due to the difference in scale it’s necessary to split into different ranges. The “Liberty” systems started showing up in August, with a high of 79 systems the week of 2021-09-06 to 2021-09-12."
• Microsoft transforms the Windows Subsystem for Linux into a Windows 11 app — “Our goals are to make WSL in the Microsoft Store the best way to install and use WSL, as you’ll be able to get the latest updates fastest through that route, and in the long term we’d like to move WSL users to use the store version.”
• A preview of WSL in the Microsoft Store is now available!
• Craig Loewen on Twitter — "A preview of WSL inside of the Microsoft Store is now available for Windows 11 machines!"
• Hayden Barnes on Twitter — "So many new goodies today! WSL in the Store, WSLg bundled with WSL, new WSL2 kernel version, a bunch of fixes for ARM64 👀, wsl.exe --mount, and a handful of nice refinements and fixes."
• Ubuntu 21.10 Release Date & New Features — Ubuntu 21.10 will be available to download from October 14, 2021.
• Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri - New Features and Release Date
• Ubuntu 21.10 is upon us, and it’s small changes for major improvements
• Ubuntu 19.10 To 21.10: AMD Zen 2 + Radeon Performance On Linux Over Two Years — Ubuntu 19.10 was the first release following the Zen 2 debut in the summer of 2019. The benchmarks today are looking at the Ubuntu 19.10 performance up against the Ubuntu 21.10 daily ISO in its near final form ahead of the official release on Thursday.
• MATE 1.26 released | MATE — The theme for this release has been adding new functionality to the MATE Desktop while maintaining the look and feel that we all know and love. While all the added features are surely quite exciting we also did not forget to do tons of bugfixing, modernising the code base and optimizing the performance.
• KDE Plasma desktop 5.22 Release Announcement — This time around, the big new feature is Adaptive Transparency: This means the panel and panel widgets will usually be pleasantly translucent, but will become entirely opaque if there are any maximized windows, to avoid any visual distractions when you need to focus.
• Bug #1944468 “Electron applications all crash upon launch”
• quickemu — Quickly create and run highly optimised desktop virtual machines for Linux, macOS and Windows; with just two commands. You decide what operating system you want to run and Quickemu will figure out the best way to do it for you.
• A GUI for Quickemu — Provides an interface for setting up new VMs with Quickget, starting and stopping existing VMs.
• PN50 review from Anandtech
• Phoronix Test Suite 10.6 Released With Various Improvements For Linux Benchmarking — Windows 11 support and various Windows improvements, a wide variety of Phoromatic fixes and improvements from cleaning-up/unifying the CSS to log improvements and making use of the new log viewer, and more.
• Why I have decided to step down from the AlmaLinux OS Foundation Board — "So, here we are. I am no longer on the board - and I am no longer deciding what is next for AlmaLinux OS Foundation. I will continue to be heavily involved in the day-to-day of AlmaLinux. CloudLinux and TuxCare will continue being just one of many corporate sponsors. benny Vasquez was voted to become a new chair of the board, and I am sure that the foundation and the board will flourish under her guidance."

Plus some community news, handy picks, emails, and more. It's a special edition of the Unplugged show.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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• SCO v. IBM settlement deal is done — Documents filed in the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware last week suggest a settlement payment of just $14.25 million will see the matter closed.
• ChrisLAS on Twitter — "My spot to record in Arizona today."
• Ventoy Adds a Web GUI — Ventoy now ships with a web-based graphical user interface since version 1.0.36.
• Ventoy — Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
• “Apps For GNOME” Launches To Highlight GNOME Apps — There hasn't been a comprehensive, modern, user-friendly web-site for outlining all of the GNOME apps and inviting participation until now with this Apps for GNOME.
• Apps for GNOME — Discover the best Apps for GNOME.
• nebula — A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security.
• TheOrangeOne's Blog — Nebula mesh network - an introduction.
• Jon the Nice Guy's Blog — Nebula Offline Certificate Management with a Raspberry Pi using Bash.
• Nebula-Cert-Maker — A script that allows you to create new host certificates and keys.
• Gardiner Bryant on YouTube — I wasn't prepared for how much growth System76 has experienced in the year and a half since my last visit.
• Stickers | Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
• Pick: psst — Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI.

Plus Carl from System76 stops by to surprise us with some firmware news.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
2:22 Intro
2:36 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
4:24 USB Booting the Pi 4
10:10 System76 Open Firmware Update
23:14 SPONSOR: Linode
25:28 OpenPOWER Summit 2020
29:23 EndeavourOS ARM
30:14 Housekeeping
30:53 SPONSOR: Unplugged Core Contributors
32:59 It's Really Just a Three Distro World
46:37 Feedback: systemd Skepticism
50:50 Feedback: EmacsConf2020
51:40 Picks
52:12 Pick: Cloud Hypervisor
53:51 Pick: SongRec
54:45 Pick: tmpmail
55:55 Pick: MyPaas
57:16 Outro
59:11 Post-Show

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Carl Richell, and Neal Gompa.

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• Second-hand TV wipes out broadband for entire village
• Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB | Hacker News
• Raspberry Pi USB Boot - UASP, TRIM, and performance | Jeff Geerling
• Switching Between Proprietary Firmware and System76 Open Firmware - System76 Support — System76 Open Firmware is designed to be lightweight and performant with a simple and straightforward user interface.
• OpenPOWER Summit 2020 Was This Week With Many Interesting Hardware/Software Talks - Phoronix — Roberto Innocenti provided an update on the POWER64 laptop that is still being worked on via community donations as an open hardware platform.
• Open Hardware GNU/Linux PPC64 Laptop Potential - Roberto Innocenti, Power Progress Community - YouTube
• Donation Campaign for Signal Integrity Analysis of the PCB Design - GNU/Linux Open Hardware PowerPC notebook
• Arch Linux-Based EndeavourOS ARM Launches for ARM Devices - 9to5Linux
• Deepin 20 Review — Gorgeous Distro Becomes Even More Beautiful.
• Feedback: systemd skepticism
• EmacsConf2020 — Have you heard about the recent announcement for EmacsConf 2020? It's a free two-day online Emacs conference scheduled for the weekend of November 28th and 29th, 2020.
• cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor — A rust-vmm based cloud hypervisor.
• marin-m/SongRec — An open-source Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust.
• almarklein/mypaas — Run your own PaaS using Docker, Traefik, and great analytics.
• sdushantha/tmpmail — A temporary email right from your terminal.

Plus news that'll have knock-on effects for the rest of the year, and more.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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• Bosch Gets Smartglasses Right With Tiny Eyeball Lasers
• Google opens its latest Google Glass AR headset for direct purchase - The Verge
• Ginni Rometty to Step Down as C.E.O. of IBM - The New York Times
• Who is Arvind Krishna, the new IBM CEO replacing Ginni Rometty? | Fortune
• 2013 Red Hat Summit: Arvind Krishna, IBM Keynote - YouTube
• Systemd-Homed Merged As A Fundamental Change To Linux Home Directories
• The CUPS Printing System Lead Developer Has Left Apple, Begins Developing “LPrint” - Phoronix
• How the Glorification of Busyness Impacts Our Well-Being
• Creating the Habit of Not Being Busy : zen habits
• ChrisLAS.com - Chris W. Fisher
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Still Minty Fresh | LUP 100
• Went Mint when Win10 Migration from Win7 Failed
• Dave Donates $15/mo becuz Mint gets outta his way!
• Feedback: Linux Mint and College
• Feedback: Timeshift
• Linux Mint Monthly News – January 2020
• Linux Mint 19.3 is out, GIMP is not included by default
• Linux Mint 19.3: My review - mostly great with a few issues
• Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia bugs identified; package updates to follow

Plus we review what might just be your next Linux laptop, and explain why systemd is coming for your /home.

Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

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• Ubuntu Touch on the Pinebook
• CentOS 8.1905 — Hello and welcome to the first CentOS-8 release. The CentOS Linux distribution is a stable, predictable, manageable and reproducible platform derived from the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• CentOS Stream — CentOS Stream will be a rolling-release Linux distro that exists as a midstream between the upstream development in Fedora Linux and the downstream development for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It is a cleared-path to contributing into future minor releases of RHEL while interacting with Red Hat and other open source developers. This pairs nicely with the existing contribution path in Fedora for future major releases of RHEL.
• Transforming the development experience within CentOS — The CentOS Stream project sits between the Fedora Project and RHEL in the RHEL Development process, providing a "rolling preview" of future RHEL kernels and features. This enables developers to stay one or two steps ahead of what’s coming in RHEL, which was not previously possible with traditional CentOS releases
• Reinventing Home Directories — The concept of home directories on Linux/UNIX has little changed in the last 39 years. It's time to have a closer look, and bring them up to today's standards, regarding encryption, storage, authentication, user records, and more.
• Twitch Becomes Premiere Sponsor of the OBS Project | OBS — We are excited to announce that Twitch is now officially sponsoring my work on the OBS Project! Since 2012 we've maintained a great relationship with Twitch and their engineers. They've always been good to us, and we've always helped each other whenever needed. Twitch has always been one of the biggest supporters of our project, and now it's official.
• Free Courses at Linux Academy — On September 17th Linux Torvald first released the Linux Operating System Kernel on September 17th, 1991 so we are celebrating by offering free training for you to increase your Linux Skills.
• Texas Cyber Summit — October 10th to the 12th in San Antonio Texas.
• 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.
• System76 Adder Workstation — For content creators, researchers, and gamers.
• Adder WS Quickstart Guide
• Sys76addws-memspeed Benchmarks
• Sys76AdderWS-fio Benchmarks
• Sys76AdderWS-graphics-magick Benchmarks
• Clevo PB50RC-G
• Starship Is A Minimal And Fast Shell Prompt Written In Rust - Linux Uprising Blog
• Starship — The cross-shell prompt for astronauts

Plus we announce a new show we're super proud of, and chat with Dan Lynch from OggCamp.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Dan Lynch, and Ell Marquez.

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• low-memory-monitor: new project announcement — low-memory-monitor, as its name implies, monitors the amount of free physical memory on the system and will shoot off signals to interested user-space applications, usually session managers, or sandboxing helpers, when that memory runs low, making it possible for applications to shrink their memory footprints before it's too late either to recover a usable system, or avoid taking a performance hit.
• Fedora Switching To The BFQ I/O Scheduler For Better Responsiveness & Throughput - Phoronix — Following Chromebooks switching to BFQ and other distributions weighing this I/O scheduler for better responsiveness while maintaining good throughput capabilities, beginning with Fedora 31 there will be BFQ used as well.
• Pinebook Preorders — Public #Pinebook Pro pre-orders start in the morning PDT (California, USA Time) August 25. The NEXT pre-order window will be mid-September; so don't worry if you won't get a pre-order now, it won't be a long wait for the next pre-order window.
• LINUX Unplugged - Blog - Summer Sprint 2019 — Working remotely certainly has its advantages and I love the ability to sit in the comfort of my own home doing work I’m passionate about. That being said, I think it’s equally important to spend time together in meat space. There really is nothing like looking across the table at your co-workers while you try to flush out new ideas, make important decisions, or just share a meal. Not to mention, Washington is beautiful this time of the year...
• Subscribe to Self Hosted — Discover new software and hardware to get the best out of your network, control smart devices, and secure your data on cloud services. Self Hosted is a chat show between Chris and Alex two long-time "self hosters" who share their lessons and take you on the journey of their new ones.
• Self Hosted Coming Soon — Self Hosted Teaser
• OGGCAMP 19 - OggCamp 19 — We’re at The Manchester Conference Centre in the Pendulum Hotel near Picadilly Station the weekend of October 19th and 20th 2019.
• Jupiter Extras — New ideas, great interviews, events, and other content you will love. We bring you the Extras.
• Texas Cyber Summit — October 10th-12th, 2019 at the Grand Hyatt in San Antonion
• Kyle Spearrin's GitHub
• Behind the scenes with the Bitwarden password manager | Opensource.com — I've used password management tools for years. I became frustrated by the complexity and barrier to entry many of the existing solutions offered. There was also a lack of quality, open source solutions available. I thought things could be done better and that there was great value in doing so.
• Install Bitwarden for Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft — Bitwarden is the easiest and safest way to store all of your logins and passwords while conveniently keeping them synced between all of your devices.
• bitwarden/cli: The command line vault (Windows, macOS, & Linux). — The Bitwarden CLI is a powerful, full-featured command-line interface (CLI) tool to access and manage a Bitwarden vault. The CLI is written with TypeScript and Node.js and can be run on Windows, macOS, and Linux distributions.
• bitwarden/mobile: The mobile app vault (iOS and Android). — The Bitwarden mobile application is written in C# with Xamarin Android, Xamarin iOS, and Xamarin Forms.
• Bitwarden on F-Droid
• ‎Bitwarden Password Manager on the App Store
• Bitwarden Password Manager - Apps on Google Play
• Bitwarden—Linux Apps on Flathub
• Import your data from LastPass | Bitwarden Help & Support
• Why should I trust Bitwarden with my passwords? | Bitwarden Help & Support
• What are organizations? | Bitwarden Help & Support
• dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust — This is a Bitwarden server API implementation written in Rust compatible with upstream Bitwarden clients*, perfect for self-hosted deployment where running the official resource-heavy service might not be ideal.
• Starting a Container · dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs Wiki
• Manage your passwords with Bitwarden and Podman - Fedora Magazine — You can also sync your passwords across devices if you have a cloud-based password manager like LastPass, 1Password, or Dashlane. Unfortunately, none of these products are open source. Luckily there are open source alternatives available.
• Installing and deploying | Bitwarden Help & Support
• Bitwarden Completes Third-party Security Audit - Bitwarden Blog
• Wayland Buddies | LINUX Unplugged 315 : linuxunplugged — A lot of the "Wayland is really smooth" talk really means "Mutter is really smooth", since it's gnome-shell's compositor Mutter that has to implement everything which Xorg used to do.
• aguinet/usbtop: usbtop is a top-like utility that shows an estimated instantaneous bandwidth on USB buses and devices.

Plus some great picks, community news, and more.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Ell Marquez, and Martin Wimpress.

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• Announcing the evolution of the Red Hat Certified Engineer program — In the updated program, we are shifting the focus to automation of Linux system administration tasks using Red Hat Ansible Automation and will be changing the requirements for achieving an RHCE credential.
• Linux for Chromebooks: Secure Development - Google I/O 2019 — Learn how Chrome OS gives you a secure, safe sandbox for the Web, Android, and Linux through Chrome OS design principles, Sandboxing Chrome, ARC++, and Linux (Crostini). This session will also cover ways to handle challenges to high performance and tradeoffs with safety.
• Pop!_OS featured on Linus Tech Tips Linux gaming episode as preferred Linux distribution
• The first Devuan Conference - report, videos and interviews — The submarine looking building gave home to an event gathering open source super heroes and all sorts of magical creatures because to quote the first Devuan docsprint in December 2016 from a booklet called ‘Software freedom your way’ : “We must apply thought and attention to software development and we share responsibility, as users and developers of software systems, to foster values of cooperation in the spirit of science, human cultures, and the diversity of life.”
• Ubuntu Still Working On ZFS Install Support, But Not In Time For 19.04 — For the past number of months we've seen Canonical developers working on ZFS support in the Ubuntu desktop and ZFS root partition support so that the Ubuntu desktop could (optionally) be installed to a ZFS On Linux partition.
• TechSNAP Episode 401: Everyday ZFS — Jim and Wes sit down to bust some ZFS myths and share their tips and tricks for getting the most out of the ultimate filesystem. Plus when not to use ZFS, the surprising way your disks are lying to you, and more!
• Linux Academy Limited Time Sale!
• LFNW Telegram Group
• Simplot Careers
• Our Trip to Dell | LAS 464 — Is Dell’s new hardware a sign of serious commitment to Linux or a large company’s hedge against market changes? We go inside Dell, get exclusive access to the teams & people behind many of Dell’s products that run Linux & find out. Plus we discuss Ubuntu dropping Unity for Gnome, Lightworks’ latest release & more!
• DiscoDingo ReleaseSchedule — Final release on April 18th, 2019.
• Ubuntu Releases
• Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) Beta
• PartyLoud — PartyLoud is a tool to create fake internet traffic in order to mitigate tracking on local networks.
• Wes' PartyLoud Demo
• ncspot — Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.
• iwd — iwd (iNet wireless daemon) is a wireless daemon for Linux written by Intel that aims to replace WPA supplicant.
• Xfce Blog
• ElectronPlayer — An Electron Based Web Video Services Player. Supporting Netflix, Youtube, Twitch, Floatplane And More.
• ElectronPlayer on GitHub
• spotifyd: A spotify daemon — An open source Spotify client running as a UNIX daemon.

Plus Gnome lands a long awaited feature, Firefox gets a bit more clever, and the big money being made on Open Source.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Anthony James, Brent Gervais, Danielle Foré, Dustin Krysak, and Martin Wimpress.

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• systemd-nspawn - ArchWiki — systemd-nspawn may be used to run a command or OS in a light-weight namespace container.
• Transparently running binaries from any architecture in Linux with QEMU and binfmt_misc
• QemuUserEmulation - Debian Wiki — This page describes how to setup and use QEMU user emulation in a "transparent" fashion, allowing execution of non-native target executables just like native ones.
• Firefox 67: automatically unload unused tabs to improve memory — If things go as planned, Firefox 67 will introduce a new feature to unload unused tabs to improve memory. The initial bug report dates back eight years but work on the feature began in earnest just a short while ago.
• Chrome OS 74 dev channel brings Linux app improvements (Crostini) — There’s now support for audio playback when using Linux apps. Up until now if you wanted to use Linux software to watch videos, listen to music, or do anything else that requires sound, you were out of luck.
• GNOME 3.32 Lands Long-Awaited Fractional Scaling Support — Fractional scaling allows for greater control over the UI scaling than the previous integer based scaling of 2, 3, etc, to instead support fractions like 3/2 (1.5) increase in user-interfaces. Fractional scaling is primarily to improve the user experience with modern HiDPI displays.
• Systemd-Free Debian "Devuan" Planning Their First Developer Gathering This Spring — Taking place in Amsterdam from 5 to 7 April will be the first Devuan conference for "init freedom lovers".
• Canonical adds containerd to Ubuntu Kubernetes — Enabling Kubernetes to drive containerd directly reduces the number of moving parts, reduces latency in pod startup times, and improves CPU and memory usage on every node in the cluster.
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups
• Ubuntu Podcast Listener Get Together — We're having a Get Together in Reading, UK on Saturday March 16th. We'll meet at Breddog in Reading!
• Dotfile madness — To those of you reading this: I beg you. Avoid creating files or directories of any kind in your user's $HOME directory in order to store your configuration or data. This practice is bizarre at best and it is time to end it. I am sorry to say that many (if not most) programs are guilty of doing this while there are significantly better places that can be used for storing per-user program data.
• More home directory pollution — I looked in my home directory and now see (in addition to 26 dot-files) directories named go, snap and systems.
• Steve Reaver on Twitter — There is so much junk in my home dir I had to ls it in column format. I've just about given up using ~ because of all the crap that application put in there!
• “Please move the “$HOME/snap” directory to a less o...” : Ubuntu Bug #1575053
• Why do hidden files in Unix begin with a dot? — The answer is very simple, because it's extremely easy to test if a file is hidden or not by simply testing the first character of the filename.
• Yet Another Dotfiles Manager — When you live in a command line, configurations are a deeply personal thing. They are often crafted over years of experience, battles lost, lessons learned, advice followed, and ingenuity rewarded. When you are away from your own configurations, you are an orphaned refugee in unfamiliar and hostile surroundings. You feel clumsy and out of sorts. You are filled with a sense of longing to be back in a place you know. A place you built. A place where all the short-cuts have been worn bare by your own travels. A place you proudly call… $HOME.
• Lyft to spend $300 million on Amazon Web Services by 2022 — Notably, Lyft said that if its usage of Amazon's cloud doesn't hit or exceed that $300 million threshold, it'll have to pay the difference. Lyft committed to spending at least $80 million in each of the three years of the deal, with the stipulation that it will spend $300 million in aggregate overall
• MongoDB shares plunge on concerns that Lyft is moving to AWS
• Flowblade — Flowblade is a multitrack non-linear video editor released under GPL3 license. From beginners to masters, Flowblade helps make your vision a reality of image and sound.
• Shotcut — Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux. Major features include support for a wide range of formats; no import required meaning native timeline editing; Blackmagic Design support for input and preview monitoring; and resolution support to 4k.

Plus two popular Linux desktop apps see a big upgrade, and Wes explains to Chris why he should care a lot more about cgroups.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Neal Gompa.

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• MX-18.1 Continuum Official Release — MX-18.1 is a refresh of our MX-18 release, consisting of bugfixes and application updates since our original release of MX-18.
• Bootstrap Your Snap | Snapcraft — The goal of Snapcraft Live is to bootstrap developers in building snaps and publishing them in the Snap Store
• Shoreline Firewall Maintainer Retires — Shorewall 5.2.3 will be my last Shorewall release. If you find problems with that release, I will attempt to resolve them. But, I am now departing on an extended trip to visit some of the places in the world that I have always dreamed of seeing.
• Shoreline Firewall — Shorewall is a gateway/firewall configuration tool for GNU/Linux.
• Geary 0.13.0 released! — This is a major new release, featuring a number of new features — including a new user interface for creating and managing email accounts, integration with GNOME Online Accounts (which also provides OAuth login support for some services), improvements in displaying conversations, composing new messages, interacting with other email apps, reporting problems as they occur, and number of important bug fixes, server compatibility fixes, and security fixes.
• digiKam 6.0.0 is released — Dear digiKam fans and users, following the long stage of integrating a lots of work from students during the Summer of Code, and after 2 years of intensive developement, we hare proud to announce the new digiKam 6.0.0.
• Fedora 31 Planning To Use Cgroups V2 By Default - Phoronix — Enabling Cgroups V2 by default will allow systemd and the various Linux container technologies along with libvirt and friends to make use of the new features and improvements over the original Cgroups like offering a unified hierarchy.
• CGroupsV2 Changes - Fedora Project Wiki — The world will eventually move to CGroupsV2 and Fedora should lead the way.
• Why Clear Linux OS? - YouTube — A quick introduction to why and what the Clear Linux OS is about.
• Pi MusicBox - A Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Music player for the Raspberry Pi, with remote control — Welcome to the Swiss Army Knife of streaming music using the Raspberry Pi.
• eta: Generic tool for monitoring ETA and progress of an arbitrary process. — A tool for monitoring progress and ETA of an arbitrary process.
• netdata, the open-source real-time performance and health monitoring, released v1.12 ! : linux — Introducing netdata.cloud, the free netdata service for all netdata users High performance plugins with go.d.plugin (data collection orchestrator written in Go) 7 new data collectors and 11 rewrites of existing data collectors for improved performance A new management API for all netdata servers Bind different functions of the netdata APIs to different ports Improved installation and updates

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• ProtonMail is auctioning a Lifetime Account to support WireGuard
• Mir 1.1 Released With EGLStreams Support To Work With NVIDIA's Binary Driver
• ASUS is releasing encrypted kernel sources for the ZenFone Max Pro M1, Max Pro M2 and Max M2
• Keyboardio: A Startling Discovery — On the one hand, there's a lot of money missing. We think there's a decent chance that money has vanished never to be seen again. Products that we said we sent you...simply never existed. We're genuinely sorry about that.
• User Error
• Linux Academy supports St. Jude's — For each Learning Activity that you complete between 12/16 and 12/26, Linux Academy will donate $1 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital this holiday season.
• LinuxFest Northwest — 20th Anniversary! Past, Present & Future
• LINUX Unplugged Blog - System76 Factory Tour
• Meet the New Linux Desktop Champion: System76 Thelio
• Feedback: Xrandr tip for wimpy
• Feedback: Try minidlna
• ReadyMedia - ArchWiki
• Feedback: How can we tolerate systemd?
• Microsoft/ethr: Ethr is a Network Performance Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP & HTTP.
• remove.bg: A tool to remove background from image
• Streama - Self hosted media server

Plus we check in on Ubuntu 19.04, start the search for an Emby replacement, and how to use Reddit on the commandline.

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• Fire effect for the Keyboardio Model 01 keyboard
• Keyboardio: heirloom-grade keyboards for serious typists
• chrimbus_'s self hosted streaming questions — Yo @ChrisLAS / @ubuntupodcast I'm tired of depending on our internet to play movies for the kiddo. I was trying to rip some dvds tonight using VLC and AcidRip in hopes to run them off a home server. Either the video ends up glitchy af or no audio. Any suggestions?
• Beta source code missing · Issue #3479 · MediaBrowser/Emby
• Annoucing Jellyfin - a free software fork of Emby — After the announcement of Emby transitioning to a proprietary model, a number of us decided to fork it to focus on delivering a free software media solution
• Streama: Self hosted streaming media server.
• Ubuntu 19.04 Release Date & Planned Features — The Ubuntu 19.04 release date is scheduled for April 18, 2019.
• GNOME Shell In Ubuntu 19.04 Should Be Faster
• Ubuntu Desktop 19.04 Cycle | Trello
• ​Canonical makes Kubernetes moves — Canonical wants to make it darn clear that, besides being the leading cloud Linux distributor, it's also a major Kubernetes player.
• Proposed Energy Aware Scheduling For The Linux Kernel Revised A Tenth Time — The ARM Linux developers continue working on Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) for the mainline Linux kernel to better handle systems with asymmetric CPU topologies
• Mike's systemd udev fix
• Which two names work best for the Jupiter Broadcasting Automation system?
• LinuxFest Northwest 2019
• WireGuard for iOS - TestFlight
• How to easily configure WireGuard - Stavros' Stuff
• Use Reddit In The Terminal With RTV (Reddit Terminal Viewer)
• Easily Convert Audio File Formats with SoundConverter
• sshuttle: Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN
• corkscrew: A tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies
• Test utility for cve-2018-1002105

Plus why Android in the cloud, and a bunch of community news.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Martin Wimpress, and Theodore Dubois.

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• One Raspberry Pi 3 not powerful enough? Try this five Pi cluster for computing on the edge
• Xubuntu Will Stop Producing 32-bit ISOs Beginning With Xubuntu 19.04 — The Xubuntu development team has now decided to go ahead and eliminate their 32-bit builds moving forward.
• Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser — Microsoft is throwing in the towel with Edge and is building a new web browser for Windows 10, this time powered by Chromium.
• Steam Link now in BETA on Raspberry Pi — The Steam Link app is now available in beta on the Raspberry Pi 3 and 3 B+ running Raspbian Stretch
• Sputnik turns 6: Presenting the folks behind it — Thanks to the interest and support of the community, eight months later, the project became a product. On November 29, 2012 the Dell XPS 13 developer edition was born.
• Running Android in the Cloud with Amazon EC2 A1 instances — W demonstrated a fully automated solution deployed by Juju to run Android within LXD containers in the cloud and stream out the display of a  gaming app from an Amazon EC2 A1 instance to a mobile phone over the internet
• Amazon's homegrown 2.3GHz 64-bit Graviton processor was very nearly an AMD Arm CPU
• iSH: The Linux Shell on iOS — iSH is a project to get a Linux shell environment running locally on your iOS device, using a usermode x86 emulator.
• iSH on GitHub
• Bleeping computer's review of iSH
• Bug #1759836 “systemd-udevd consumes 100% of CPU” : Bugs : systemd package : Ubuntu
• High cpu usage on kernel 4.14 and 4.15 from systemd-udevd which seems to be the synaptic touchpad driver
• Bluetooth adapter stopped working after upgrade to 4.14 kernel
• Clear Linux Homepage — Clear Linux OS is an open source, rolling release Linux distribution optimized for performance and security, from the Cloud to the Edge, designed for customization, and manageability.
• Intel's Clear Linux Ups Their Desktop Offering, Rolling Out New Installer
• How to Clear — Training documentation to teach users how to make a Clear Linux OS derivative distribution.
• Trying To Make Ubuntu 18.10 Run As Fast As Intel's Clear Linux
• clr-boot-manager — clr-boot-manager exists to enable the correct maintenance of vendor kernels and appropriate garbage collection tactics over the course of upgrades.

Plus our work-arounds for Dropbox dropping support for anything but vanilla ext4, the return of an old friend, and a ton of community news and updates.

Special Guests: Eric Hendricks and Martin Wimpress.

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• Barnard is a terminal-based client for the Mumble voice chat software
• LKML: Linus Torvalds: Linux 4.18
• Introducing the new lead for Android Open Source Project
• KDE Neon Powered By Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Now Available For Testing
• XDG Shell Stable Supported by Mir
• Introducing Blender Benchmark
• OpenBenchmarking.org
• Libre Application Summit
• The Tragedy of systemd - BSDCan2018
• MeetBSD California 2018 - www.meetbsd.com
• Dropbox Dropping Support for non-Ext4
• Sparse file
• Convert file systems with Fstransform