Special Guest: Drew DeVore.

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• LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for Speakers
• The Launch 🚀: Nature Chose Violence
• PewDiePie - I installed Linux (so should you)
• James Lee - How I Broke up with Adobe
• Linux surpasses 5% market share on US desktops for the first time
• It is finally the year of Linux on the Desktop: free OS reaches 5% market share
• Introducing the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant
• ADHD is Awesome: A Guide To (Mostly) Thriving With ADHD: Holderness, Penn, Holderness, Kim, Edward Hallowell: 9781400338610
• Pick: eilmeldung TUI RSS Reader — A terminal-based RSS reader built on the news-flash backend.
• Pick: Zbridge — zBridge is an online bridge club where you can learn and play bridge. It is a full bridge platform with multiple features.
• Zbridge flatpak source
• Pick: Cavalier — Visualize audio with CAVA

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• nebula-lighthouse-service
• nebula-lighthouse-service: init at 2.0.0 by bloominstrong · Pull Request #454855 · NixOS/nixpkgs — nebula-lighthouse-service is aimed to be run a a public nebula lighthouse for those who cannot host their own, or who want extra lighthouses without the burden of maintaining another lighthouse.
• Fedora Linux 43 Cleared For Release Next Week — While Fedora 43 wasn't ready for release this week due to outstanding blocker bugs, at today's Go/No-Go meeting it was decided that Fedora 43 is now in a position for shipping next week.
• Velocity Limitless / Projects / Slitherer · GitLab
• Fedora 43 Wallpaper Wrap-Up – Fedora Community Blog
• Fedora COSMIC Spin
• Plasma 6.5 - Reaching the Inflection Point
• [Fedora KDE] Early Plasma 6.5.0 - Fedora Discussion — With Fedora 43 being a go, we will be doing an update on repos towards the middle to end of next week that will bring Qt 6.10 and Plasma 6.5.1 to F43, and Plasma 6.5.1 (Most likely, plans are not 100% final in that regard) to F42. That will bring the update to the usual architectures, such as aarch64.
• Pick: Millisecond — Optimize your Linux system for low latency audio
• Millisecond on Flathub
• noblepayne/millisecond-flake
• rtcqs — rtcqs is a Python utility to analyze your system and detect possible bottlenecks that could have a negative impact on the performance of your system when working with Linux audio
• How do I get an out-of-the-box working Linux audio workstation? - LinuxAudio.org
• Pick: lemurs 🐒 — A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust

Special Guests: Carl Richell, Jeremy Soller, and Jon Seager.

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• COSMIC — Next generation Cosmic desktop environment. Use it on your favorite distro!
• System76 — Powerful Linux computers designed by nerds, engineered by experts, handcrafted by humans in the US.
• GitHub - pop-os/cosmic-epoch: Next generation Cosmic desktop environment
• GitHub - pop-os/cosmic-applets: WIP applets for cosmic-panel
• Pop!_OS 24.04 (with COSMIC Desktop) Just Hit Beta - OMG! Ubuntu
• Canonical releases Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka
• Ubuntu Engineering in 2025: A Retrospective · Jon Seager
• Ubuntu 25.10 Fix Pending For Broken Flatpak Support - Phoronix
• LINUX Unplugged 634: Config Confessions
• Hybrid Pick: ncspot
• Pick: poop (Performance Optimizer Observation Platform) — This command line tool uses Linux's perf_event_open functionality to compare the performance of multiple commands with a colorful terminal user interface.
• sharkdp/hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool

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• 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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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
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• nebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.
• Nebula - Apps on Google Play
• 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
• bitchat — bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over bluetooth mesh networks.
• Texas Linux Festival Trip Support (Fake boost)
• Jupiter Broadcasting Garage - New swag available!
• KDE Linux
• KDE Linux - KDE Community Wiki
• Announcing the Alpha release of KDE Linux
• GitHub - ChrisLAS/hyprvibe: A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.
• Hyprland 0.51 dropped! — The gesture system has been reworked and is now way more flexible.
• Nixtcloud: Self-Hosted Cloud in One Command — Nextcloud with NixOS in the backend and P2P connectivity enabled
• holesail-nix: Holesail package for the Nix package manager — A comprehensive Nix package and NixOS module collection for Holesail - the peer-to-peer tunnel that lets you create instant, secure connections between devices without port forwarding or exposing ports.
• Pick: lazyssh — A terminal-based SSH manager inspired by lazydocker and k9s — but built for managing your fleet of servers directly from your terminal.
• Pick: term.everything — Run every GUI app in the terminal!

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• The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is.
• GNOME 48 Release Notes
• Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin)
• The newest Ubuntu version ushers in ARM64 support for early adopters
• Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop
• Retro Game Corps on YouTube
• Pick: Ignition: Manage your startup apps and scripts on Freedesktop Linux distros — Ignition is a minimal app for editing autostart entries on Freedesktop-compliant Linux distributions.
• Ignition on Flathub
• Pick: RecordApps — A desktop application that allows you to record audio from specific applications on Linux. Built with Deno, Svelte, and WebView.
• Record Apps on Flathub

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• Flock 2024 Introducing Fedora Miracle, a proposed Fedora spin built on Mir - YouTube
• miracle-wm-org/miracle-wm — Miracle is a Wayland tiling window manager built on Mir
• miracle-wm
• miracle-wm wiki
• Roadmap - miracle-wm wiki
• nwg-piotr/nwg-shell — Installer & meta-package for the nwg-shell project: a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
• nwg-shell - a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
• fast fedora 41 mirror
• What’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 41 - Siosm’s blog — With Fedora 41, we are now building two new unofficial images: Kinoite Mobile and COSMIC Atomic. They join our other unofficial images: XFCE Atomic and LXQt Atomic.
• bootupd change
• bootupd GitHub
• containers/bootc — Boot and upgrade via container images
• Introduction - bootc docs
• Modifying Kernel Arguments :: Fedora Docs
• Getting Started with Bootable Containers :: Fedora Docs
• Booting local builds - bootc docs
• fedora-ostree-desktops Registry
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• asahi-audio - Fedora Packages
• AsahiLinux/asahi-audio: Userspace audio for Asahi Linux — PipeWire and WirePlumber DSP profiles and configurations tod rive the speaker arrays in Apple Silicon laptops and desktops.
• AAA gaming on Asahi Linux — We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL 3.0.
• FEX
• Wine
• DXVK
• vkd3d-proton
• muvm
• Fedora Media Writer
• FedoraQt/MediaWriter — A tool to create a live USB drive with an edition of Fedora
• Preparing Boot Media - Fedora Docs
• GDM Settings
• GDM Settings Web Site — Customize your login screen
• Web Apps
• eyekay/webapps source — Install websites as desktop apps, so that they appear in their own windows separate from any browsers installed. This is similar to the "Install as App" feature found in popular web browsers.

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• Ubuntu 24.10 - Oracular Oriole
• Ubuntu Unity
• AMD Framework 13
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• imagegenius/docker-immich — Monolithic (Single) Docker Container for Immich
• rramiachraf/dumb — Private alternative front-end for Genius.
• qdm12/gluetun: — VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in.
• SCaLE 22X Call for Papers
• SCaLE CFP Feedback Livestream
• cli-ai — A simple command-line AI assistant that translates natural language into shell commands. Supports all Windows and Unix-based systems (Linux, MacOS).

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• System76 tips Fedora Cosmic spin for 2025 release with Fedora 42 — It looks like System76's exciting new Rust-based Cosmic DE will get an official Fedora spin in the upcoming Fedora 42, potentially giving Linux users with bleeding-edge hardware an official way to try Cosmic.
• Pop!_OS Mattermost — An excellent place to engage if you want to bring COSMIC to a distro near you.
• iced — A cross-platform GUI library for Rust
• Smithay — A smithy for rusty wayland compositor
• Testing COSMIC — The easiest way to test COSMIC DE currently is by building a systemd system extension.
• Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!
• Portal:Kalpa - openSUSE Wiki — openSUSE MicroOS Desktop Gnome was renamed to openSUSE Aeon, and the Plasma Desktop version is being renamed to openSUSE Kalpa.
• pop-os/kernelstub: A simple EFI boot manager manager for Linux
• Alpaca — GTK App to Chat with local AI models
• Alpaca on FlatHub

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• Marknote - KDE Applications
• Marknote 1.3 - KDE Blogs — Marknote lets you create rich text notes and easily organise them into notebooks. You can personalise your notebooks by choosing an icon and accent color for each one, making it easy to distinguish between them and keep your notes at your fingertips. Your notes are saved as Markdown files in your Documents folder, making it easy to use your notes outside of Marknote as well as inside the app.
• Spokane Meetup - No-Li Brewhouse, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PM
• No-Li Brewhouse Menu
• 10 best beer gardens in the US where you can quench your thirst
• KDE Plasma 6.1 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here's What's New
• Plasma 6.1 - KDE Community — This release introduces explicit GPU synchronization support for NVIDIA users and triple buffering support on Wayland for smoother animations.
• KDE Plasma 6.1.1 Desktop Environment Released with Various Bug Fixes
• LUP 552 — Plasma 6 is out, and we've been giving it a go. What's new, our thoughts, and the lessons other desktops should learn.
• KDE Plasma 6.1 Performing Much Better On Older Intel Integrated Graphics
• Fixing KWin's performance on old hardware
• plasma6-desktop package versions
• plasma-desktop package versions
• KRdp on GitLab — Currently, the main client that has been used for testing and is confirmed to work is the FreeRDP client.
• Open KRdp Bugs
• appiumtests: test adaptive panel opacity (!2324) · Merge requests · Plasma / Plasma Desktop · GitLab
• Why the next GNOME Release will be one of the Best Ever
• Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!
• Gathio
• JB Events Gathio hosted by HybridSarcasm
• GitHub Issue: Can't create events — An unexpected error has occurred. Please try again later.
• Crossover: Run Microsoft Windows software on Mac and Linux | CodeWeavers
• FUTO Keyboard — Your keyboard shouldn't connect to the internet.
• FUTO Keyboard · Wiki

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• Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature for Windows 11 could already be in legal hot water
• Apple GPT — What We Know About Apple's Work on Generative AI
• Chris' BeeLink — Beelink Ryzen 7 5700U Up to 4.3GHz 8C/16T
• RV BeeLink Nix configuration.nix
• Slack - NixOS Wiki
• Chris' Win 7 Inspired Look
• musnix — Real-time audio in NixOS
• Boost Pick: nh — NH reimplements some basic nix commands. Adding functionality on top of the existing solutions, like nixos-rebuild, home-manager cli or nix itself.
• Pick: gridplayer — Simple VLC-based media player that can play multiple videos at the same time. You can play as many videos as you like, the only limit is your hardware. It supports all video formats that VLC supports (which is all of them). You can save your playlist retaining information about the position, sound volume, loops, aspect ratio, etc.

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• FlakeHub.com: FlakeHub.com is the all-in-one platform for secure, compliant, and transformative Nix development. Bring Nix to work the way you always wanted with FlakeHub.com. Register for the private beta and get a secure, compliance-friendly Nix and all the support you need.
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• Introducing GNOME 46 — GNOME 46 is code-named “Kathmandu”, in recognition of the amazing work done by the organizers of GNOME.Asia 2023.
• S.O.D.A Machine (Shell On Demand Appliance) — A fusion of hardware, software, art, and hacking, all encapsulated in a project derived from recycled materials.
• LINUX Unplugged on Fountain
• Nostr Protocol Docs — Details on how the Nostr Protocol works and why.
• Hyprland — Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
• Hyprland Wayland Compositor Celebrates Two Years With A New Release
• hyprland 0.37.1 nixpkgs PR
• Hyprland Release v0.37.1 on GitHub
• Hyprland Release v0.37.0 on GitHub
• Installing NixOS with Hyprland! - by Josiah - Tech Prose — In this guide, we will install a minimal version of NixOS with the Wayland compositor Hyprland and Waybar.
• TUXEDO Sirius 16 - Gen1 — First all-AMD Linux gaming laptop with highly efficient Ryzen 7 7840HS and fast Radeon RX 7600M XT graphics.
• All AMD: TUXEDO Sirius 16 - Gen1 on YouTube
• Background information on the new keyboard lighting control - TUXEDO Computers
• Texas Linux Festival 2024 — April 12-13, 2024 in Austin, Texas.
• Scinary Cybersecurity — Your On-Demand Cybersecurity Firm.
• nixos-mailserver — A complete and Simple Nixos Mailserver.
• List of all NixOS Services
• jus10mar10's NixOS Config
• dockur/windows — Windows in a Docker container.
• Unplugged Core Membership
• Pick: ATLauncher — A launcher for Minecraft which integrates multiple different modpacks to allow you to download and install modpacks easily and quickly.
• Pick: Dissent — Unofficial GTK4 Discord client in Go, use at your own risk!

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• HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD — The HDMI Forum has rejected our proposal unfortunately. At this time an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation is not possible without running afoul of the HDMI Forum requirements.
• NVK is now ready for prime time — Today, I'm proud to announce that NVK, the open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, is now ready for prime time.
• FUSE Passthrough Support May Land For Linux 6.9 To Help Boost I/O Performance — The FUSE passthrough mode patches were recently queued up into FUSE.git's for-next branch. With the patches now in the "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.9 merge window in March, the code will hopefully be merged for this next kernel cycle barring any last minute issues.
• First NixCon North America!
• Southern California Linux Expo 21
• Jupiter Broadcasting Calendar
• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
• Yard House Menu
• Sirius 16 all Ryzen laptop from TUXEDO Computers
• KDE MegaRelease 6 — With Plasma 6, our technology stack has undergone two major upgrades: a transition to the latest version of our application framework, Qt, and a migration to the modern Linux graphics platform, Wayland.
• This Week in Bitcoin — A high-signal Bitcoin news podcast focused on analysis you'll find valuable.
• 42keebs.eu — Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded custom keyboard shop.
• NixOS Plasma 6 PR
• starcoder2 — StarCoder2 models are intended for code completion.
• PromtEngineer/localGPT — Chat with your documents on your local device using GPT models.
• Introducing: Fountain Radio — Fountain Radio is a community station for music - powered by Bitcoin.
• Pick: cpu-controller — CPU Controller for Linux is a straightforward GUI application based on PyQt6, enabling users to toggle individual CPU cores on or off in a Linux system to save battery life.
• FlyGoat/RyzenAdj: Adjust power management settings for Ryzen APUs
• Unplugged Core Membership

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• Warp Terminal: Warp - the re-imagined terminal now available for Linux with multiple distributions available including Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Arch Linux.
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• First NixCon North America!
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• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇 — Saturday, March 16th, 2024, 1:30 PM
• Yard House Menu
• FOSDEM 2024
• Nextcloud NixOS Module
• Nextcloud NixOS Wiki Entry
• The Holy Grail Nextcloud setup made easy by NixOS · Carlos Vaz — Hosting Nextcloud has become easier over time, thanks to its docker-compose example setups and to the Snap for use mostly on Ubuntu systems. However, having a faster and more optimized setup can take some effort on these platforms. Thankfully, on NixOS it’s not hard at all, as I’ll show you.
• Mitch Downey on PodcastIndex Social — I've been working on Podverse for 10 years now (I didn't even know how to code when I started), and I absolutely love what we've accomplished, but I had always hoped we would have a thriving open source community by now...
• New Podcast Apps
• The Open Road by Dave Jones — They [Apple] chose to respect podcaster’s choices by reading the Podcasting 2.0 tag from the RSS feed also. By making this choice, they planted their flag firmly on the side of open, RSS based podcasting.
• TrueFans
• Podverse
• Fountain
• Nix Revolution : Crafting the Ultimate Dev Toolkit - Part 1
• Value 4 Value Audiobooks – oppy1984.com — For a few months now both Adam and Dave have talked about value 4 value (v4v) audiobooks [...] But after the discussion in episode #146 I decided to start writing and get my ideas out there.
• Libro.fm — Pick your local bookstore to support with your purchases.
• Bookshop.org — Bookshop.org works to connect readers with independent booksellers all over the world.
• Unplugged Core Membership

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• 32-Bit Challenge Details — Can you live and work for a week on a 32-bit system? That's the challenge. It might seem simple, but we think you'll be surprised. Let's find out if the world has moved on too far for 32-bit systems, or if they can still be saved from the landfill.
• First NixCon North America!
• Southern California Linux Expo 19
• Ubuntu’s New Installer Milestone
• Ubuntu 23.10 Restores ZFS File-System Support In Its Installer
• Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop’s New Installer Set To Ship Without OpenZFS Install Support
• HDR Beginning To Work For Linux Gaming
• The State Of HDR On The Steam Deck With Valve’s Gamescope Compositor
• KDE KWin Preparing Preliminary Support For Running HDR Games
• End of the 4.9 Kernel Series
• CVE-2023-0179: Linux kernel stack buffer overflow in nftables
• Wine 8.0 is out now with major compatibility improvements
• Wine 9.0-rc2 Released With 33 More Fixes - Including Wine Wayland Fixes
• Stadia Shuts Down Jan 28th
• Google Stadia: Leaked Documents Explain its Failure
• elementary OS 7 Available Now
• Xfce Going Wayland
• FOSDEM 2023: Fedora Asahi
• Fedora Asahi Aims To Provide The Fedora Workstation Experience For Apple Silicon Systems
• SIGs/Asahi - Fedora Project Wiki
• Ubuntu Gets Real
• Canonical Promotes Ubuntu’s Real-Time “RT” Kernel To General Availability
• Plasma 5.27
• KDE Plasma 5.27 Released
• Final Version of KDE Plasma 5 Released – This is What’s New
• FFmpeg 6.0 Released
• FFmpeg on X: “FFmpeg CLI multithreading is now merged!” / X
• Flathub in 2023
• Flathub in 2023 - Flathub Discourse
• Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know
• Docker: We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan
• GNOME 44 Released
• GNOME 44 Released With Many Desktop Enhancements
• GNOME 44 Getting New Background Apps UI
• Ubuntu Cinnamon Flavor Status Announcement
• Plasma 6 Early Builds
• Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions
• Btrfs Improvments in 6.4
• Announcing Fedora Linux 38
• What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38
• Red Hat Cutting “Hundreds Of Jobs”
• Message to Red Hat associates today
• Linux Kernel 6.3 Officially Released
• The new Flathub Website
• Flathub Website Gets a Brand New Look
• Ubuntu 23.04 Released
• Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)
• Ubuntu 23.04 with GNOME 44 and a stable Steam Snap
• HDR hackfest wrap-up
• CVE-2023-28410: i915 graphics driver improperly restricts operations within the bounds of a memory buffer
• New NetFilter flaw gives attackers root privileges
• bcachefs out for review
• Fedora Program Manager Laid Off
• Fedora Program Manager Laid Off As Part Of Red Hat Cuts
• Podman Desktop 1.0 Annouced
• Introducing Azure Linux
• CodeWeavers An Employee Ownership Trust
• CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership Trust
• XFS Metadata Corruption On Linux 6.3 Tracked Down To One Missing One-Line Patch
• Linux 6.3.5 Released With XFS Metadata Corruption Fix
• Plasma 6 is Wayland only - No X11 for Plasma 6
• Xorg server is deprecated since RHEL 9.0
• Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base
• Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement
• LibreOffice to be cut out of RHEL installs
• Debian 12 “bookworm” released
• Linux 6.4 Released
• Linux 6.4 Released, focus on 6.5
• Btrfs In Linux 6.5 May Bring A Cumulative Performance Improvement
• Linux Kernel 6.4 Released with Interesting Mix of Changes
• Bcachefs File-System Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.5
• Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes
• Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream
• A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model
• Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code
• The future of AlmaLinux | Hacker News
• Rocky Linux: Keeping Open Source Open
• LXD Moves to Canonical
• LXD has been re-licensed and is now under a CLA
• Fedora Asahi Remix
• Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware
• Fedora Asahi Remix: bringing Fedora to Apple Silicon Macs (Flock To Fedora 2023)
• Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix
• The first conformant M1 GPU driver
• Asahi Linux’s Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant
• Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA’s Proprietary Driver
• Ubuntu Desktop: Charting a course for the future
• Ubuntu Desktop “Charting A Course For The Future” With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year
• Leap Replacement Discussion
• Linux’s Marketshare on Steam Still Higher Than Apple macOS
• Hub 6: Healthy meeting culture and the first local AI Assistant [YouTube]
• “Nextcloud Hub 6” launched🚀
• Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5!
• Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks
• Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics Continue With Open-Source Driver & Crazy Fast Compared To RPi 4
• Raspberry Pi 5 Review: A New Standard for Makers
• Raspberry Pi Approved Reseller – Raspberry Pi
• CPU decoding acording to Eben Upton in an interview
• Intel is killing off its NUC mini PCs
• Ubuntu 23.10 Released
• Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations
• Linux Mint Starts working on Wayland Support
• Linux 6.6 Features Include The EEVDF Scheduler, Shadow Stack, Intel IVSC, AMD DBC & More
• Btrfs For Linux 6.6 Brings Fixes, Partially Recovers From Scrub Performance Regression
• XFS File-System Maintainer Stepping Down
• XFS Begins Landing Online Repair, New Release Manager Takes Over
• Element Going AGPL
• Synapse goes AGPL Discussion on Hacker News
• Fedora Linux 39 Released As A Wonderful Upgrade For Leading Workstations & Servers
• Fedora Change: Retire Modularity
• Fedora Web Installer Delayed
• What’s new in Fedora Workstation 39
• GNOME 45 Release Notes
• Amazon Making its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android
• 🎉 PipeWire 1.0 🎉
• PipeWire 1.0.0 (El Presidente)
• Quick OwnTracks-Recorder-in-Docker dummies guide
• Pick: trippy — Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the analysis of networking issues.

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• Unplugged Tuxies 2023 — Vote in the 2023 Tuxies!
• ⚠️ Did we miss something in the 2023 Tuxies?
• How to get started with Tailscale in under 10 minutes
• First NixCon North America! — We envisage NixCon North America as a complement to the core NixCon in Europe, enriching the global Nix community through more localized events. This event is not just a conference; it’s a celebration of our growth, diversity, and the shared passion for Nix.
• Southern California Linux Expo 19
• Purchase a SCALE Pass
• One time Fiat donation for JB @ SCaLE 21x
• 🎉 PipeWire 1.0 🎉 — PipeWire 1.0 retains API/ABI compatibility with the long-lived PipeWire 0.3.xx series. PipeWire 1.0 delivers improved time reporting for less jitter in ALSA when using IRQ mode, various module fixes, Bluetooth LC3 codec and compatibility improvements, improved transport and time handling for JACK, optimized buffer re-use with JACK, and a variety of other improvements.
• PipeWire 1.0.0 (El Presidente)
• LINUX Unplugged 370 — PipeWire Progress
• SpiralLinux — SpiralLinux is a selection of Linux spins built from Debian GNU/Linux, with a focus on simplicity and out-of-the-box usability across all the major desktop environments.
• grub-btrfs — Include btrfs snapshots in the Grub menu.
• timeshift — System restore tool for Linux.
• timeshift-autosnap-apt — Timeshift auto-snapshot script for Ubuntu and Debian
• Ubuntu Desktop with btrfs-luks, auto-apt snapshots with Timeshift
• jordan-bravo's Nix config
• ladder — Selfhosted alternative to 12ft.io. and 1ft.io bypass paywalls with a proxy ladder and remove CORS headers from any URL.
• Pick: whisper 🎤 → 🎧️ — Listen to your mic - with PipeWire. This app does more or less the same thing as Helvum does, but with a simple UI.
• Whisper on Flathub
• Helvum on Flathub — Helvum is a graphical patchbay for PipeWire.

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

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• Amazon Making its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android — Amazon’s new operating system is also based on a flavor of Linux, and is using a more web-forward application model. App developers are being told to use React Native as an application framework, which allows them to build native apps with Javascript-powered interfaces,
• webOS Open Source Edition — The open-source software platform built for smart and connected devices of tomorrow.
• Unplugged Tuxies 2023 — Vote in the 2023 Tuxies
• ⚠️ DID WE MISS SOMETHING IN THE 2023 TUXIES?
• 2023 Tuxies Sticker by TheGoldenDragon
• GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure — The GNOME Foundation is thrilled to announce the GNOME project is receiving €1M from the Sovereign Tech Fund to modernize the platform, improve tooling and accessibility, and support features that are in the public interest.
• GNOME Receives €1M Investment from Sovereign Tech Fund
• Sovereign Tech Fund — The Sovereign Tech Fund supports the development, improvement and maintenance of open digital infrastructure. Our goal is to sustainably strengthen the open source ecosystem. We focus on security, resilience, technological diversity, and the people behind the code.
• Recession-hit Germany is facing a flurry of global headwinds: Goldman Sachs
• KDE’s 6th Megarelease - Alpha — It has been nearly 10 years since the last big release of our flagship Plasma desktop environment, and the time has come again. KDE is making available today the Alpha version of all the software we will include in a megarelease scheduled for the end of February 2024.
• KDE Timeline of major releases - Wikipedia
• Schedules/Plasma 6 - KDE Community Wiki
• Plasma 5.27.80 complete changelog
• This week in KDE: Wayland by default, de-framed Breeze, HDR games, rectangle screen recording – Adventures in Linux and KDE — Yep you read that right, we’ve decided to throw the lever and go Wayland by default! The three remaining showstoppers are in the process of being fixed and we expect them to be done soon–certainly before the final release of Plasma 6.
• KDE neon Plasma 6 ISOs
• KDE neon Unstable downloads
• KDE Plasma 6.0 Alpha Released, Plus KDE Frameworks & KDE Gear
• nix-bitcoin — nix-bitcoin is a collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easily installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an emphasis on security.
• Jonas Nick — Jonas Nick has been a Bitcoin developer with Blockstream since 2015. He is also a contributor to free and open source projects like Bitcoin Core, libsecp, rust-bitcoin and many others.
• Jonas Nick talk on nix-bitcoin - YouTube
• nevoyu's Nix Config
• International Space Station Abandons Windows In Favour Of Debian — “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable – one that would give us in-house control. So if we needed to patch, adjust or adapt, we could,” explained Keith Chuvala of United Space Alliance, a NASA contractor involved in ISS operations.
• Ground command to major tom, please do a push up - YouTube
• KDE Activities: How To - Nicco/YouTube

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• Unplugged Tuxies - 2023 — It's time to vote on the 2023 Unplugged Tuxies!
• ⚠️ Tuxies 2023: Did we miss something? Let us know!
• Fedora 39 Delayed To At Least 7 November — While Fedora 39 was aiming for an ideal "early final" release on 18 October, that didn't happen, it was delayed, and then delayed again. Now the earliest Fedora 39 will possibly shift is 7 November.
• Bug: F39 RC1.2 images have sometimes “RC” in their name
• Bug: Failed media check immediately disappears on bare metal, shows a black screen instead
• F39 Final Go/No-Go meeting
• Linux Mint Starts working on Wayland Support — The work started on Wayland. As mentioned earlier this year, this was identified as one of the major challenges our project had to tackle in the mid to long term.
• Cinnamon Wayland Trello
• Linux Mint Starts Working On Wayland For Cinnamon, Likely Not Fully Ready Until 2026
• Six Great Features With The Upcoming Linux 6.6 Kernel — While there were many last minute fixes this week, the changes don't appear to be too scary or invasive. In any event the Linux 6.6 kernel is bringing some exciting features.
• Linux 6.6 Features Include The EEVDF Scheduler, Shadow Stack, Intel IVSC, AMD DBC & More
• Btrfs For Linux 6.6 Brings Fixes, Partially Recovers From Scrub Performance Regression — David Sterba of SUSE sent out the Btrfs updates on Monday for the Linux 6.6 kernel merge window. There are no explicit new features this cycle but a variety of bug fixes, including work to address the Btrfs scrub performance following a rework back in Linux 6.4. The scrub performance isn't entirely restored but at least it's inching ahead in the right direction with Linux 6.6.
• EXT4 Lands A Nice Performance Improvement For Appending To Delalloc Files — I conducted tests in my 32-core environment by launching 32 concurrent threads to append write to the same file. Each write operation had a length of 1024 bytes and was repeated 100000 times. Without using this patch, the test was completed in 7705 ms. However, with this patch, the test was completed in 5066 ms, resulting in a performance improvement of 34%.
• XFS File-System Maintainer Stepping Down — My final act as maintainer is to write down every thing that I've been doing as maintainer for the past six years. There are too many demands placed on the maintainer, and the only way to fix this is to delegate the responsibilities. I also wrote down my impressions of the unwritten rules about how to contribute to XFS.
• XFS Begins Landing Online Repair, New Release Manager Takes Over — We now have in-memory pageable memory for staging btrees, a bunch of pending fixes, and we've started the process of refactoring the scrub support code to support more of repair.
• SELinux In Linux 6.6 Removes References To Its Origins At The US NSA — We've come a long way from the original NSA submission and I would consider SELinux a true community project at this point so removing the NSA branding just makes sense.
• Linux 6.6 To Bring Another Rust Toolchain Upgrade — Some of the other Rust changes for this imminent merge window include supporting the rust-analyzer for out-of-tree kernel modules, the Rust availability detection script has been improved, a new "paste!" proc macro, new pinned-init APIs, and a variety of other additions to continue to make Rust programming possibilities for the Linux kernel more robust.
• [SOLVED] - LXC Nvidia Passthrough | Proxmox Support Forum
• Contribute to Podverse
• Soltros' Nix Config
• SilverBullet — SilverBullet is an extensible open-source, personal knowledge management system. Indeed, that’s fancy talk for “a note-taking app with links.” However, SilverBullet goes a bit beyond just that.
• Nixpkgs supply chain security project — The focus of this project is on reducing our reliance on foreign binaries to compile Nixpkgs from scratch, ensuring we are are indeed running the code we compiled by leveraging existing security components in NixOS, and putting in place mechanisms that allow us to deliver the most up-to-date, secure software whenever it is available in a way that can be sustained given our maintainer capacities.
• Pick: kmon — Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor 🐧💻
• kmon in nixpkgs
• LinuxFest Northwest Youtube
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Minifest: What’s New in Nextcloud?
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Minifest Videos
• docker-wyze-bridge — WebRTC/RTSP/RTMP/LL-HLS bridge for Wyze cams in a docker container.
• wz_mini_hacks — Run whatever firmware you want on your camera and have root access to the device.
• Bitcoin Beach — The project Bitcoin Beach is creating a sustainable Bitcoin Economic ecosystem on the coast of El Salvador, where the majority of people do not have access to bank accounts and the local businesses could never qualify for merchant accounts needed to accept credit cards.

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• Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox’s Wayland Backend Soon — So as we near the end of 2023 or going into early 2024, it's looking like we're nearing the point of finally having native Wayland support with the upstream Firefox builds.
• LinuxFest Northwest Meetups
• Ubuntu 23.10 Released — This is the release where the team aims to land as many major changes as possible to ensure that the community has the chance to take them for a spin and provide feedback for further refinement ahead of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
• 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.
• Fitting Everything Together — Let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, and uniformity.
• Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur): Best New Features — Key highlights of Linux Kernel 6.5 include WiFi 7 support, and MIDI 2.0 compatibility.
• Ubuntu 23.10 is Available to Download, This is What’s New
• Intel Arc Graphics See Faster Performance On Ubuntu 23.10 — Overall though Ubuntu 23.10 is a nice upgrade for those making use of Intel Arc Graphics and sticking to the kernel/Mesa default versions as shipped by Ubuntu. If you are more advantageous, upgrading to Linux 6.6 and Mesa 23.3-devel can mean some very nice performance wins across various OpenGL and Vulkan workloads.
• Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations — We have identified hate speech from a malicious contributor in some of our translations submitted as part of a third party tool outside of the Ubuntu Archive. The Ubuntu 23.10 image has been taken down and a new version will be available once the correct translations have been restored.
• Why You Can’t Currently Download Ubuntu 23.10
• Bug: chrome-gnome-shell extension fails to detect native host connector
• Tiling Assistant GNOME Extension — An extension which adds a Windows-like snap assist to GNOME. It also expands GNOME's 2 column tiling layout.
• Wyse Terminal Picture
• WiFi232 — An Internet Hayes Modem for your Retro Computer
• Pick: tags — A simple text tagger.
• Tags on Flathub — Create tags with color schemes and give color to your logs or text files

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• ESP32 board equipped with Ethernet and MicroSD card slot
• Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! — Today, we’re delighted to announce the launch of Raspberry Pi 5, coming at the end of October. Priced at $60 for the 4GB variant, and $80 for its 8GB sibling.
• Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks — Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O.
• Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics Continue With Open-Source Driver & Crazy Fast Compared To RPi 4
• Raspberry Pi 5 Review: A New Standard for Makers — The Raspberry Pi 5 is significantly faster than its predecessor while costing almost the same price. Its only drawback, which is likely temporary, is that some older HATs and add-ons may not have have software support right away.
• Raspberry Pi Approved Reseller – Raspberry Pi
• CPU decoding acording to Eben Upton in an interview
• Intel is killing off its NUC mini PCs
• HP ProDesk 600 G1 Desktop Mini PC
• HP ProDesk 600 G1 DM - Geekbench
• HP ProDesk 600 G1 Desktop Mini PC for sale | eBay
• Beelink U59 Mini PC 11th Gen 4-Cores N5105
• Beelink SER5 MAX with 8-Core AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, 32GB DDR4, 500GB NVMe
• Beelink Gaming Mini PC SER7 AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS pre-in W11 Pro,32GB DDR5,1TB SSD
• Beelink SER7 7840HS Mini-PC Review | TechPowerUp
• ODROID-H3 / H3+ — ameriDroid
• LinuxFest Northwest | Meetup
• Adopting Bitcoin OSS Track
• RealDudePerson/beakon — Beakon is designed to be a self-host location sharing webserver. Beakon aims to leak as little data as possible and uses mostly self-contained libraries and local database files.
• Meet the DEC VT Family
• RetroDECK — RetroDECK is a polished and beginner-friendly environment for playing your retro games on Steam Deck, available with just one click from the Discover app.
• Pick: Waycheck — Waycheck is a simple graphical application that connects to your Wayland compositor and displays the list of Wayland protocols that it supports, along with the list of protocols that it doesn't.
• Pick: Wayland or X11 GNOME Shell Extension
• How To Identify XWayland Applications on Wayland | DeviceTests

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• CCCamp23 — Chaos Communication Camp 2023
• Framework — The time has come for consumer electronics products that are designed to last: products that give you back the power to upgrade, customize, and repair them. We’re excited for the opportunity to fix the consumer electronics industry together.
• Framework 13 — Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition (13th Gen Intel® Core™)
• Nextcloud Conference 2023
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Fundraising Merch is Live — Your fest is back! Support its return with a shirt and/or donation.
• I use NixOS for the same reason. Cleanliness is empowering.
• zap
• The Blog Index — TheGoldenDragon and I have hashed out some basic ideas about what Boost 4 Blogs should be and in a moment of glory I decided to mimic The Podcast Index by registering blogindex.org!
• Linus Torvalds Comments On Bcachefs Prospects For Linux 6.6 — That very much means *NOT* continuing this "I'll just do it my way". You need to show that you can work with others, that you can work within the framework of upstream, and that not every single thread you get into becomes an argument.
• Box64 — Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64 Linux devices.
• Podcasting 2.0 Top 100 (Music) — This chart is a ranking of the music tracks played on podcasts that have been boosted the most over the last 7 days. It is recalculated hourly. Thank you to Nathan Gathright for the page design. ❤
• Neo-Store — An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.
• Obtainium — Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source.

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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, we try the Intel Arc GPU. Could this new hardware make Linux bulletproof?

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• LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup — Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PM
• Linux 6.2 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Promoted — Linux 6.2 overall has been in good shape from my continued testing and especially for Skylake/Skylake-derived cores is looking better if opting for Call Depth Tracking and it's great to have stable Arc Graphics A380/A750/A770 working out-of-the-box in the labs.
• Performance is looking better with later Arcs
• mesa 23.0.0 Released
• intel-extension-for-pytorch at xpu-master
• Install intel-extension-for-pytorch
• Intel® Extension for PyTorch — PyTorch Tutorials
• rahulunair/stable_diffusion_arc — Stable Diffusion inference on Intel Arc dGPUs
• bes-dev/stable_diffusion.openvino — Implementation of Text-To-Image generation using Stable Diffusion on Intel CPU or GPU.
• ShuffleBox: Quick Benchmark for Whisper by OpenAI
• Flatpak will no longer be available “out-of-the-box” in any of Ubuntu’s official flavors. — Do keep in mind that “not installed by default” is not the same as “not available to install at all”.
• Wimpy on Fosstodon — "@bluesabre Did we agree? I think we complied with the requested change. You and I both played our part in ensuring this was clearly and openly communicated."
• Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults - Community - Ubuntu Community Hub — As part of our combined efforts, the Ubuntu flavors have made a joint decision to adjust some of the default packages on Ubuntu: Going forward, the Flatpak package as well as the packages to integrate Flatpak into the respective software center will no longer be installed by default in the next release due in April 2023, Lunar Lobster.
• KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop — Promote diversity and sustainability in the Linux desktop community by adding payments, donations and subscriptions to the Flathub app store.
• ZFS send/receive over ssh on linux without allowing root login
• ZFS on Object Storage by George Wilson, Matt Ahrens, Paul Dagnelie, Manoj Joseph - YouTube
• JB Geocache Kit Request
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• GPU-Viewer — This project aims to capture all the important details of glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo in a GUI.

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• LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup, Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PM — Come celebrate episode 500 with some brews the night before!
• BorgBase — Hosting for Borg and Restic Repositories
• Vorta for BorgBackup — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops.
• BorgBackup — Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption
• Why should I switch from Restic to Borg? - r/BorgBackup
• Moonlight Game Streaming — Play Your PC Games Remotely
• LizardByte/Sunshine — Sunshine is a Gamestream host for Moonlight.
• Sunshine documentation
• KRDC — KRDC is a client application that allows you to view or even control the desktop session on another machine that is running a compatible server. VNC and RDP is supported.
• Krfb — Krfb Desktop Sharing is a server application that allows you to share your current session with a user on another machine, who can use a VNC client to view or even control the desktop.
• Hook up keyevents on Wayland (!44) Krfb · GitLab
• wayvnc — A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors
• Waypipe — waypipe is a proxy for Wayland clients. It forwards Wayland messages and serializes changes to shared memory buffers over a single socket. This makes application forwarding similar to ssh -X feasible.
• TeamViewer Support on Wayland - Experimental State
• Add a InputCapture portal by whot · Pull Request #714 · flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal
• PiKVM — Open and inexpensive DIY IP-KVM on Raspberry Pi
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• weihanglo/sfz — A simple static file serving command-line tool written in Rust.
• sfz is packaged in nix

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• This week in KDE: The best Plasma 5 version ever — Plasma 5 has officially branched for the beta version of its 5.27 release. Go check out the announcement and test out the beta!
• BorgWarehouse — BorgBackup Web UI for your central repository server.
• Vorta — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty BorgBackup with your desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft.
• BorgBase — Simple and Secure Offsite Backups
• borgmatic — Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations.
• Emborg — Front-End to Borg Backup
• emborg on GitHub
• Office Hours 21: Boiling the Frog — If you've noticed something a little off about your favorite podcasts, we might know why.
• aj-snapshot — Tool for storing/restoring JACK and/or ALSA connections to/from a file.
• jack-matchmaker — Auto-connect new JACK ports matching the patterns given on the command line.
• qpwgraph — qpwgraph is a graph manager dedicated to PipeWire, using the Qt C++ framework, based and pretty much like the same of QjackCtl.
• qpwgraph on Flathub
• streamdeck-ui — A Linux compatible UI for the Elgato Stream Deck.
• obsws-python — A Python SDK for OBS Studio WebSocket v5.0
• kirino — A lightweight media server that adapts to you
• BackupPC — Open Source Backup to disk
• Fedora 38 Change: Modernize Live Media
• rsync.net — We give you an empty UNIX filesystem to access with any SSH tool. Built on ZFS for data security and fault tolerance.
• ZnapZend — Open source ZFS backup with mbuffer and ssh support.
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Pick: Jellyfin Server Flatpak
• Jellyfin Release 10.8.9

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• Linux teams up with partners to overthrow Google Maps’s dominance
• Tailnet lock white paper — Tailscale implements a novel mechanism, tailnet lock, to prevent a malicious control plane from inserting itself into a network. Tailnet lock requires the verification of a cryptographic signature on all WireGuard® node keys distributed by Tailscale’s control plane.
• Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History — In "Hardcore History" journalist and broadcaster Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", unorthodox way of thinking and applies it to the past.
• Knaves Out – Darknet Diaries — This is the story about how someone hacked into JP Morgan Chase, one of the biggest financial institutions in the world.
• Dana Carvey’s The Weird Place — The Weird Place is an episodic sci-fi comedy adventure that will blow your mind. From manipulative aliens to time-traveling pirates to a power-hungry mad man with a magic globe.
• Linux Out Loud — Linux Out Loud is a community powered podcast. We take conversations from the DLN Community from places like the DLN Discourse Forums, Telegram group, Discord server and more.
• Picture of Dennis V’s Keyboard
• Announcement: Direct Alby wallet top up with MoonPay
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Generate Let’s Encrypt Certificate with DNS Challenge and Namecheap
• Tailscale breaks DNS-over-TLS on Android · Issue #915 · tailscale/tailscale
• Moving entire Linux installation to another drive - Ask Ubuntu
• Migrate installation to new hardware - ArchWiki
• Disk cloning - ArchWiki
• NixOS Root on ZFS
• NixOS getting started - no mention of mkswap
• ZFS - NixOS Wiki
• NixOS install with ZFS — Dan’s Cheat Sheets 1 documentation
• Installing NixOS with multiple encrypted ZFS pools, decrypted with one password
• How I installed Encrypted ZFS root on NixOS
• Install NixOS on ZFS With Opt-In State
• NixOS on encrypted ZFS | The DevOps Blog
• How do you say SUSE?
• Packman
• SmartTubeNext — Ad free app for watching tube videos on Android TV boxes.
• Nobara Linux — The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.
• thoughtbot/rcm — rc file (dotfile) management
• GoToSocial — Fast, fun, ActivityPub server, powered by Go.
• JB FOSDEM 2023 Matrix Room

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• Pull Request #378 by DECbot — "JB is live!" indicator - on page load, call the script to highlight the #livebutton red if jupiter.tube is live
• NASA Selects SiFive and Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions — SiFive X280 delivers 100x increase in computational capability with leading power efficiency, fault tolerance, and compute flexibility to propel next-generation planetary and surface missions.
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup
• West Coast Crew Matrix Room
• Submit Your Baller Boost Jingles
• Fountain 0.4.8 - Referrals, Search Editorial and Other Improvements
• Fountain.fm Charts
• KDE Official Response to creation of GNOME Foundation (2000)
• Report: Default Desktop Environments for Linux and Unix
• How Much Does KDE Pay Developers?
• KDE Issue Reporting Guidelines - Have Realistic Expectations
• KDE neon
• Plasma Activities
• All bugs submitted by Brent during Kubuntu Jammy beta testing
• Firefox icon missing from panel following Kubuntu upgrade 20.04->22.04
• kdesu fails to authenticate with sudo from Jammy
• KDE Issue Reporting
• Fedora Workstation bug - Kate
• Fedora Workstation bug - Network - gnome-control-centre
• Fedora Workstation bug - Guake
• PhotoPrism — PhotoPrism is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web
• Git Large File Storage — Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server like GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• PhotoSync — Photo Transfer and Backup App
• iDrive — Cloud backup solutions for home and business.
• Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program.
• FolderSync — FolderSync enables simple sync to cloud based storage to and from local folders on the device SD cards.

The one where we don't talk about Ubuntu 22.04 at all.

Open a channel to our Lightning Node: 037d284d2d7e6cec7623adbe600450a73b42fb90800989f05a862464b05408df39

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Martin Wimpress.

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• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Dark Style Changes — Now in GNOME 42, it is officially supported, expanding on a concept from elementary OS 6 7. A toggle switch in the new Appearance panel in the core Settings app enables and disables the feature. A lot of work was done in GNOME apps to fix visual dark style bugs. A new transition effect was added (also inspired by elementary) to more elegantly crossfade when the style is switched.
• Dark Style Preference · Wiki · GNOME / Initiatives · GitLab
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Eyes More Industrial Usage By Offering Up Real-Time Kernel Beta — Currently in beta with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the linux-realtime kernel
• unsnap: Quickly migrate from using snap packages to flatpaks
• deb-get — apt-get functionality for .debs published in 3rd party repositories or via direct download
• Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS Release Notes — Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS is the culmination of 2 years of continual improvement 😅 to Ubuntu and MATE Desktop. As is tradition, the LTS development cycle has a keen focus on eliminating paper 🧻 cuts 🔪
• Linux Downtime – Episode 45 — Joe and Adam are joined by Martin Wimpress to talk about what goes into running a distro like Ubuntu Mate.
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Disables 3D Acceleration For Guest VMs With GNOME Boxes / Virt-Manager — In addition to Ubuntu 22.04 switching back NVIDIA to using X11 by default rather than Wayland as a launch-day change, separately, there was another rather notable last minute change affecting 3D support for virtual machines...
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Changes Default For NVIDIA Driver Back To Using X.Org Rather Than Wayland - Phoronix
• docker snap unconditionally uses xtables — Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is defaulting to using the GNOME X.Org session rather than Wayland when running the proprietary NVIDIA driver.
• https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/
• GNU’s advanced distro and transactional package manager
• 10 years of stories behind Guix
• clj-nix: Nix helpers for Clojure projects
• poetry2nix: Convert poetry projects to nix automagically
• home-manager: Manage a user environment using Nix
• Home Manager - NixOS Wiki
• Tutorial: Getting started with Home Manager for Nix
• hercules-ci/arion: Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS
• NixOS Wiki - Raspberry Pi 4
• NixOS aarm64 SD image
• nixery.dev
• NixOS Challenge - Jupiter Broadcasting GitHub
• Should we use NixOS as our Cloud and Local Server OS? | StrawPoll.com
• nixpkgs/make-snap.nix at master
• Picture of Welder
• GitHub - quickemu-project/quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.
• Miniflux - Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Reader
• wallabag
• Breez wallet - Lightning Fast Bitcoin Payments
• breez/breezmobile: Lightning Network mobile client
• 037d284d2d7e6cec7623 - Amboss Space
• pimox7: Proxmox V7 for Raspberry Pi — Pimox is a port of Proxmox to the Raspberry Pi allowing you to build a Proxmox cluster of Rapberry Pi's or even a hybrid cluster of Pis and x86 hardware.
• Wimpy’s World

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• Office Hours — Join ChrisLAS for an update on all things Jupiter Broadcasting.
• What’s New in Fedora 36 — In a blog post introducing the Fedora 36 beta in late March, Red Hat said Fedora 36 continues the project’s “emphasis on delivering leading-edge open source technologies.”
• Fedora 36 ChangeSet
• Fedora 36 Release Date and New Features
• LXQt 1.1 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New
• Podman 4.0 — Podman 4.0 is one of our most significant releases ever, featuring over 60 new features. Headlining this release is a complete rewrite of the network stack for improved functionality and performance.
• The Best New Features in GNOME 42 — GNOME 42 features a plethora of GTK4/libawaita app ports, intros a retooled screenshot experience, and makes several notable performance upticks.
• Relocate RPM database to /usr
• Wayland By Default with NVIDIA proprietary Driver
• Cockpit File Sharing
• Stratis 3.0.0
• Fedora 37 Planning To Use RPM 4.18 For Better Security
• Fedora Planning To Introduce Major Package Management Changes Next Year
• Fedora Plans to Drop Support for Legacy BIOS Systems
• Fedora 37 Considering Removal Of Legacy X.Org Drivers
• Canonical Experiences Record Channel Business Growth and Momentum
• Upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04? Look Out for These Features in 22.04 — Wayland is the default display server in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS — but don’t panic: it’s 2022 and Wayland is pretty solid these days. Plus, thanks to technologies like Pipewire, even previously tricky areas like screen sharing work out of the box, and without fuss under Wayland. Heck, in Ubuntu 22.04 Wayland is so robust it even ships as default for computers for those with select NVIDIA graphics cards.
• Ubuntu Upgrade warning
• Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop Will be Able to Run on 2GB Raspberry Pi 4
• Linux_5.15 - Linux Kernel Newbies
• Ubuntu’s Zsys For OpenZFS Linux Installs Sees First Update In A Year
• ‘Ubuntu Pro’ Settings Pulled from Ubuntu 22.04
• How to Upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish
• RSSHub: 🍰 Everything is RSSible — RSSHub is an open source, easy to use, and extensible RSS feed generator. It's capable of generating RSS feeds from pretty much everything.
• RSSHub Introduction

What's new, what's changed, and what's broken. It's a Fedora special.

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• Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust — I've been working on a new operating system kernel Kerla, written from scratch in Rust which aims to be Linux-compatible at the ABI level. In other words, support running unmodified Linux binaries!
• Roving With Perseverance - NASA Mars — Displays including full-scale models of Perseverance and the Ingenuity Mars helicopter will be on exhibit in museums across the country
• The Museum of Flight – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program — NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter models will be on display, October 30, 2021 - April 3, 2022
• Remote desktop and screen casting in Wayland - GNOME Wiki! — Remote desktop functionality is not implemented in mutter but in GNOME Remote Desktop. GNOME Remote Desktop currently supports "screen share", also known as "remote assistance" mode through VNC or RDP. VNC support is provided via LibVNCServer and RDP support is provided via FreeRDP.
• GNOME remote desktop RDP setup guide — The RDP server in gnome-remote-desktop currently doesn't have the UI to setup yet. To be able to use the RDP server, the server certificate, private keyfile and credentials therefore need to be created manually.
• Zoom Supports Continued Access for Basic Users with Advertising Program
• Worth the wait: Fedora Linux 35 is here! — We switched the default audio system to PipeWire in Fedora Linux 34, and now we’re improving this by adding the new WirePlumber session manager. WirePlumber allows for more customization of the policy and rules for audio and video. It provides a richer development experience and adds bindings for most languages.
• WirePlumber 0.4.4 documentation — WirePlumber is a modular session / policy manager for PipeWire and a GObject-based high-level library that wraps PipeWire’s API, providing convenience for writing the daemon’s modules as well as external tools for managing PipeWire.
• Tom Wagner / Helvum — Helvum is a GTK-based patchbay for pipewire, inspired by the JACK tool catia.
• Common F35 bugs - Fedora Project Wiki
• DNF System Upgrade :: Fedora Docs
• Fedora Spins Prereleases
• Fedora Docs
• Changes/Restart User Service after Upgrade - Fedora Project Wiki
• Fedora Flathub Filter List
• Plasma Discover rpm-ostree_backend
• Ryujinx - Nintendo Switch Emulator — Ryujinx is an open-source Nintendo Switch emulator created by gdkchan and written in C#.
• Ryujinx on GitHub
• Ryujinx Setup & Configuration Guide

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Christian F.K. Schaller, Jack Aboutboul, and Martin Wimpress.

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• It Seems Pop OS Linux Will Soon be Available on Raspberry Pi and Other ARM Devices — System76’s Principal Engineer and maintainer of Pop!_OS, Jeremy Soller shared a teaser photo on Twitter recently.
• PipeWire and fixing the Linux Video Capture stack — With PipeWire having stabilized a lot for audio now we feel the time has come to go back to the video side of PipeWire and work to improve the state-of-art for video capture handling under Linux.
• PipeWire
• Linux Action News 209 — Why Linus believes keeping Linux fun is critical, the massive investment Fedora is about to make in video, and why we suspect Cloudflare's R2 service will make Amazon squirm.
• AlmaLinux OS Foundation Membership Opens to the Public — An individual can qualify for membership as anyone who uses AlmaLinux OS, contributes to AlmaLinux OS, provides services to the AlmaLinux OS community or otherwise supports the AlmaLinux OS. All past and present contributors or mirror maintainers would qualify as Contributor members.
• What AlmaLinux Foundation Membership Means for You - AlmaLinux OS Blog — We all own AlmaLinux now and no one can change that. Forever. Not CloudLinux, not any other corporation or anyone else. Our fate and future are in the hands of every member and is ours alone to control. We're no longer bound by one person, group or entity. It can not be bought nor sold, nor transferred or fought about.
• Unofficial user repositories/Repo-ck - ArchWiki
• tubearchivist has a docker-compose.yml
• Which “server” distro should we go with next? | StrawPoll.com
• Pick: Helvum — Helvum is a GTK-based patchbay for pipewire, inspired by the JACK tool catia.
• Pick: tubesync — Syncs YouTube channels and playlists to a locally hosted media server.

Plus, the reunion road trip hits a bump, some community news, feedback, picks, and more.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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• The Light Phone — The Light Phone II is a premium, minimal phone. It will never have social media, clickbait news, email, an internet browser, or any other anxiety-inducing infinite feed.
• Ingenuity Is So Good, NASA’s Mars Helicopter Mission Just Got an Exciting Update — Given its stunning and unexpected success, NASA has extended Ingenuity's mission indefinitely.
• KDE’s Plasma Wayland Session Is “Finally Reaching Stability” Following Many Fixes — "Gazillions of bugfixes...Including many for the Plasma Wayland session! It’s finally reaching stability. I know it’s taken a while, but I think we’re very nearly there!"
• This week in KDE: gazillions of bugfixes
• Nftables reaches 1.0 — The release of nftables 1.0.0 can be seen as a signal that it is time for the laggards to get more serious about making the switch. While it is hard to imagine iptables support being removed anytime soon, it's rather easier to foresee that enthusiasm for maintaining it will continue to wane. It only took 13 years, but this transition finally appears to be heading into its final stage.
• nftables wiki
• Garuda Linux — Garuda Linux is a rolling release distro based on Arch Linux, which ensures always getting the latest software updates.
• Garuda Whoogle
• Garuda Startpage
• Stickers | Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
• Pick: yt-dlp — A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.
• Pick: ytmdl — A simple app to get songs from YouTube in mp3 format with artist name, album name etc from sources like iTunes, Spotify, LastFM, Deezer, Gaana etc.

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• Live Starlink Satellite Map
• Salt Lake City Meetup
• Denver Meetup Meetup
• Framework Laptop review: pick your ports — In other words, upgradability is the reason to buy the Framework laptop.
• Latest Framework Laptop DIY Edition/Linux topics — Setup guides, advice, troubleshooting, and more, for those of us who use Linux-based Operating Systems on our Framework Laptops.
• Which Linux distribution do you want to use on your Framework Laptop?
• [Video] A COMPLETELY Upgradeable Laptop?
• Framework: The Touchpad and Fingerprint Reader — If you’re a Linux user, we’ve got you covered too! Our firmware lead Kieran submitted a patch to libfprint, and support is making its way into various distributions to be able to work automatically.
• FreeBSD Working On A New Installer, Updates To Their Linux Compatibility Layer — A variety of improvements to FreeBSD's Linux compatibility layer for running Linux binaries on FreeBSD.
• Gaming sessions on Steam Deck are run via gamescope, a Wayland compositor — This also suggests that SteamOS 3.0 requires Vulkan, and specifically support for async compute.
• Element raises $30M to boost Matrix — Element, the startup founded by the team who created Matrix, just raised $30M of Series B funding in order to further accelerate Matrix development and improve Element, the flagship Matrix app.
• Webtop — Alpine and Ubuntu based containers containing full desktop environments in officially supported flavors accessible via any modern web browser.
• LinuxServer.io: Meet Webtops A Linux Desktop Environment In Your Browser — A lot of different Docker GUI solutions exist today, but what we always found is they were just missing some common sense stuff.
• Webtop - Running Linux Desktop inside a Container in the Browser
• JingOS — Future Mobile OS based on Linux
• Chris Fisher on Twitter — I joined the @latenightlinux boys to cover my @syncthing setup that just hit the two-year mark, and we chat a little @teamsilverblue, the problem of OSS grifting, and more.
• JB Telegram
• PIck: docker-wine — Docker image that includes Wine and Winetricks for running Windows applications on Linux and macOS

Plus, our thoughts on how Valve might successfully ship Arch to consumers, a batch of feedback, and more.

Special Guest: Ethan Lee.

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• CBL-Mariner Stories
• microsoft/CBL-Mariner — Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
• Linux Action News 186
• Ethan Lee on Twitter — "If you have released a Linux version of your game on Steam and are directly approached by Valve about using Proton instead, please get in touch (DMs open). They’ve already done this a few times, but I would like to see how aggressive they’re planning to be going forward."
• Ethan “flibitijibibo” Lee May Retire from Programming Due to Valve’s Proton
• Destination Linux 235 — Valve’s Steam Deck & Right To Repair Goes Mainstream
• Rocky and Gred Spin BS to avoid coming on LUP
• I agree with Johnny Hughes - CentOS Project dev and Board Member - if Stream does not do the job - Alma seems like the way to go
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup(s)
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• Denver Meetup
• JB Telegram
• Pick: Hotwire — Hotwire allows you to study network traffic of a few popular protocols in a simple way
• Hotwire Screenshot
• Pick: RustScan — 🤖 The Modern Port Scanner 🤖
• RustScan Screenshot
• “Head of Strategy” of Muse Group (Muse Score, Audacity, Ultimate Guitar) continues to threaten developer in public

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• Christian Schaller on Twitter — We been working closely with NVidia over the last year to prepare the ground for full NVidia driver Wayland support, including XWayland. Today NVidia released the first beta driver of that work.
• Xwayland support in Fedora with the NVIDIA 470 series driver — Please help us test this support for hardware acceleration with the NVIDIA proprietary driver in Xwayland, and report issues for Xwayland in Fedora bugzilla.
• NVIDIA DRIVERS Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver BETA
• Fedora Cloud Btrfs By Default - Fedora Project Wiki — For cloud installs of Fedora, we want to provide advanced file system features to users in a transparent fashion. Thus, we are changing the file system for the Cloud Edition to Btrfs so we can leverage its features and capabilities to improve the quality of experience for Cloud users.
• Pagure Commit: Use Btrfs for Fedora Cloud Edition
• Pacstall — The AUR for Ubuntu
• pacstall on GitHub
• pacstall-programs
• Henryws on GitHub
• makedeb — Create Debian archives from PKGBUILDs.
• mpm — makedeb package manager
• junest — The lightweight Arch Linux based distro that runs upon any Linux distros without root access.
• x11docker — Run GUI applications and desktops in docker. Focus on security.
• How to Run GUI Applications in a Docker Container
• jessfraz/dockerfiles — Various Dockerfiles I use on the desktop and on servers.
• Nix, the purely functional package manager
• NixOS
• pacapt — An ArchLinux’s pacman-like wrapper for many package managers.
• Can I make use of other containers like debian or arch - Desktop / Silverblue - Fedora Discussion
• Martin Pitt's Blog — Public lightweight sway developer desktop with OSTree and podman/toolbox.
• Fedora 34 Toolbox Containerfile
• Running Wine in Archlinux-based podman container

We just have one last job to complete.

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• elementary Builds
• Get Involved with elementary OS — Everything that we make is 100% open source and developed collaboratively by people from all over the world. Even if you're not a programmer, you can get involved and make a difference.
• Audacity & MuseScore Announcement! — Audacity has just joined Muse Group, a collection of brands that includes another popular open source music app called MuseScore.
• (Video) I’m now in charge of Audacity. Seriously.
• Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
• RainLoop docker-compose YAML
• roundcubemail-docker — Resources to build Docker images for Roundcube Webmail
• Documentation / Configuration / RainLoop Webmail
• (Video) PipeWire: The New Multimedia Service, Now Ready for Automotive
• (Video) LUP 272 OG PipeWire Interview Oct 23, 2018 — The lead developer of PipeWire Wim Taymans joins us to discuss Linux’s multimedia past, and its exciting future.
• Pick: Rentry.co — Rentry.co is a markdown pastebin service with preview, custom urls and editing. Fast, simple and free.
• Pick: procs — A modern replacement for ps written in Rust

Plus the questions we think the University of Minnesota kernel ban raises, and more.

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• Thoughts on The University of Minnesota Kernel Ban
• Some 5.12 development statistics — By the time the 5.12 kernel was finally released, some 13,015 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline repository for this development cycle. That makes 5.12 the slowest development cycle since 5.6, which was released at the end of March 2020. Still, there was plenty of work done for 5.12.
• Linux 5.12 Release Announcement
• As Linux 5.12 released, Linus Torvalds warns next version will probably be rather large — "'Despite the extra week, this was actually a fairly small release overall. Judging by Linux-next, 5.13 will be making up for it."
• Flatpak 1.11.1 Brings Changes For Steam, Better Support For Command Line Programs — One of the changes with Flatpak 1.11.1 worth mentioning is allowing sub-sandboxes to have a different /usr and/or /app.
• steam-runtime-tools: pressure-vessel — pressure-vessel is a bit like a simplified version of Flatpak for Steam games.
• While we worry about WSLg Amazon is Positioned to Kill Server Linux
• Humble Bundle is removing their pay sliders and replacing them with two preset pay splits.
• Looking forward to Fedora 34 — In 2021, complaints about PulseAudio are scarce indeed; the quirks have long since been ironed out and, for most people, sound just works. Obviously, it must be time to rip out the audio infrastructure and start over. That is what Fedora has done in the 34 release; PulseAudio is gone, replaced by PipeWire.
• How to Upgrade to Fedora 34 from Fedora 33 Workstation
• Common Fedora 34 Bugs
• Fedora Linux 34 is officially here!
• Fedora 34 Changes
• Gnome40
• DefaultPipeWire
• XwaylandStandalone
• Some nice stuff not yet in stable that Fedora wanted
• WaylandByDefaultForPlasma
• AArch64 KDE Plasma Desktop image
• Fedora Media Writer — Write Fedora Images to Portable Media
• BtrfsTransparentCompression
• btrfs Wiki: Compression
• Fedora Workstation 34 feature focus: Btrfs transparent compression - Fedora Magazine — This article is going to go a little further under the hood and talk about data compression and transparent compression in btrfs. A term like that may sound scary at first, but less technical users need not be wary. This change is simple to grasp, and will help many Workstation users in several key areas.
• EnableSystemdOomd
• LINUX Unplugged 351: Lenovo Loves Linux
• Remove Support For SELinux Runtime Disable
• UnifyGrubConfig
• Unplugged Core Contributors
• Feedback: Running his own email for six years
• Feedback: Uses a Neat Trick with his Self Hosted Email
• Feedback PIck: Modoboa, Open Source email server
• PIck: zellij — A Rust and WebAssembly powered terminal workspace with batteries included.
• jupitergarage.com

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• Hirsute Hippo Release Notes — These release notes for Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) provide an overview of the release and document the known issues with Ubuntu and its flavours.
• Ubuntu 21.04 Release Date & New Features - OMG! Ubuntu!
• Announcing the Ubuntu Desktop Team Indaba (AMA) - April 23, 2021 @ 3PM UTC — This will be a live stream featuring members of the Ubuntu Desktop Team and members of the community. We will include special guests from the community as well as take questions from via live chat.
• LINUX Unplugged 396: How Linux Got to Mars — Tim Canham, the Mars Helicopter Operations Lead, shares Linux’s origins at JPL and how it ended up running on multiple boxes on Mars.
• Nasa successfully flies small helicopter on Mars — The drone, called Ingenuity, was airborne for less than a minute, but Nasa is celebrating what represents the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.
• NASA Helicopter Hovers Over Mars In 1st Powered Flight On Another Planet
• Humans have just flown a rotorcraft on an alien planet for the first time in history.
• Linux Action News 185 — The major shift in the Linux landscape this week that was hardly noticed, and our thoughts on COSMIC from System76.
• Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
• Jupiter Broadcasting Telegram
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• docker-mailserver — A fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) using Docker.
• Docker Mailserver Docs
• DMARC Guide | Global Cyber Alliance | Email Authentication Made Easy
• GitHub - calendso/calendso: The open-source Calendly alternative.
• System76 Blog — COSMIC to Arrive in June Release of Pop!_OS 21.04 — What is COSMIC? It’s a refined solution that makes the desktop easier to use, yet more powerful and efficient for our users through customization.

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• Virtual x86 — v86 emulates an x86-compatible CPU and hardware. Machine code is translated to WebAssembly modules at runtime in order to achieve decent performance.
• The Linux desktop is boring again — Where I was once a constant "fiddler" with my desktop, I now want the interface to work how I want it to work, but still look the way I want it to look. I'm more of a minimalist now, so GNOME suits my needs on both levels quite well. However, I find myself rather bored with the Linux desktop.
• What to look for in Fedora Workstation 34 — Christian F.K. Schaller — The big ticket item we have wanted to close off on was Wayland, because while Wayland has been production ready for most of us for a while, there was still some cases it didn’t cover as well as X.org.
• Christian Schaller on Twitter — 2020 was a year where we focused a lot on polishing what we had and getting things past the finish line and Fedora Workstation 34 is going to be the culmination of that effort in many ways.
• GNOME 40 Introducing Headless Native Backend, Virtual Monitors — As part of this headless native back-end is also the ability to create virtual monitors via command-line options for debugging and other purposes. This also allows creating virtual monitor PipeWire streams.
• What’s New in Libhandy 1.2
• Reinventing tabs — In GNOME 40, Epiphany will feature a new tab bar. This isn’t just a restyling of the old one, but a ground-up rewrite.
• My geek stuff blog: Maps and GNOME 40
• GNOME 40 & your extension – GNOME Shell & Mutter
• OBS Studio on Wayland
• Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer
• JB Telegram Group
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Pick: kmon — Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor 🐧💻
• Pick: ebpfsnitch — eBPFSnitch is a Linux Application Level Firewall based on eBPF and NFQUEUE. It is inspired by OpenSnitch and Douane but utilizing modern kernel abstractions - without a kernel module.
• Feedback: Docker Socket Security
• Feedback: How to exit big picture mode
• Telegram App Is Booming but Needs Advertisers, and $700 Million Soon

Plus how Archive.org uses Linux, and more.

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

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• tsukae — Show off your most used shell commands
• GNOME Shell X11Gestures Wxtension — Enable GNOME Shell multi-touch gestures on X11 with this extension.
• TouchEgg — Touchégg is an app that runs in the background and transform the gestures you make on your touchpad or touchscreen into visible actions in your desktop.
• Apple Touch Bar Linux Driver Hopes For Upstream In 2021 — Sent out on Saturday by independent developer Ronald Tschalär was the latest reverse-engineered, open-source driver code that gets the Touch Bar and ALS support working for MacBook Pro 13,* / 14,* / 15,* models.
• Internet Archive Infrastructure — Jonah Edwards breaks down how the Internet Archive works, behind the scenes.
• jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• liamg/traitor — Automatic Linux privesc via exploitation of low-hanging fruit e.g. gtfobins.
• Don't expose the Docker socket (not even to a container) — Docker primarily works as a client that communicates with a daemon process (dockerd). Typically that socket is a UNIX domain socket called /var/run/docker.sock. That daemon is highly privileged; effectively having root access. Any process that can write to the dockerd socket also effectively has root access.
• Feedback: Minecraft Bedrock Bridge
• GeyserMC — Enable clients from Minecraft Bedrock Edition to join your Minecraft Java server.
• Feedback: Audio Hardware
• Feedback: Episode 394
• Feedback: Arch Discussion

Plus new insights into the future of CentOS, and Chris falls in love with a 14-inch screamer.

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• The unanswered question at CentOS community Q&A: How can we trust you now? — The CentOS board conducted a public Q&A just ahead of last week's FOSDEM 2021 open source conference – and there was an awkward silence when someone asked whether changing the end-of-life (EOL) date for a released project is something that might happen again.
• Events/Dojo/FOSDEM2021 - CentOS Wiki
• CentOS Dojo 2021: Board of Directors - YouTube
• Ubuntu Backports a Major App Update to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS — Ubuntu 20.04 LTS shipped with Thunderbird 68.x but this version is no longer supported upstream. This leaves Ubuntu developers will a problem: backport individual security fixes to Thunderbird 68, or port the newer (and still-supported) Thunderbird 78 to LTS users?
• Subscribe to Coder Radio
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• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• EndeavourOS Issues First 2021 Release For Easy-To-Use Arch-Based Linux Distro — For those that have been meaning to try out an Arch Linux based distribution that is easy-to-use and not time consuming with sensible defaults, EndeavourOS is out with its first new spin since 2021 -- and in fact their first fresh ISO release since September.
• Our first release of 2021 has arrived – EndeavourOS
• ASUS - ROG Zephyrus G14 14" Ultra-Slim Gaming Laptop
• Linux on Laptops: ASUS Zephyrus G14 with Ryzen 9 4900HS | Ars Technica
• AUR: snap-pac-grub — Pacman hook to update GRUB entries for grub-btrfs after snap-pac made snapshots.
• Feedback: Browser Sync
• xBrowserSync — Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!
• Feedback: Gaming on Wayland
• A free, open-source future for Mailspring - Information - Mailspring Community — Today, I am excited to announce that I am open-sourcing mailsync - the C++11 core of Mailspring that performs email sync - under the same GPLv3 license used by the rest of the app, making Mailspring entirely free software.
• Pick: ht — Yet another HTTPie clone, written in Rust.
• PIck: fddf — Fast data dupe finder, written in Rust.
• Pick: bottom — Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor, written in Rust.

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• Security Disclosure 2: vulnerabilities in custom integrations HACS, Font Awesome and others - Home Assistant — Multiple custom integrations were found that allowed an attacker to steal any file without logging in. Previously implemented fixes were not sufficient.
• FEDORA-2021-48866282e5 — security update for chromium — Fedora Updates System — I gave a lot of thought to whether I wanted to continue to maintain the Chromium package in Fedora, given that many (most?) users will be confused/annoyed when API functionality like sync and geolocation stops working for no good reason. Ultimately, I decided to continue for now, because there were at least some users who didn't mind, and if I stopped, someone else would start over and run blindly into this problem.
• Introduction to Elasticsearch - YouTube
• Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | AWS Open Source Blog — In order to ensure open source versions of both packages remain available and well supported, including in our own offerings, we are announcing today that AWS will step up to create and maintain a ALv2-licensed fork of open source Elasticsearch and Kibana.
• AWS, as predicted, is forking Elasticsearch | ZDNet
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• Jellyfin 10.7.0 Release Changelog — SyncPlay for TV shows and Music, significantly improved web performance, an upgrade to .NET SDK 5.0 for improved performance in the backend, and more!
• Jellyfin 10.7.0 RC3
• LWN.net - Wikipedia
• Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
• Jonathan Corbet - Faces of Open Source
• Pick: polybar — A fast and easy-to-use status bar
• Pick: dust — A more intuitive version of du in rust
• Pick: Waybar — Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.

Plus our thoughts on the new Plasma release, a super handy pick, and more.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:44 Intro
0:50 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:39 Plasma 5.20
7:50 Kernel 5.9
8:05 VMware Flirts with Arm
15:28 SPONSOR: Linode
18:54 Big News for Nebula
22:10 Code-Shaming the Kernel
27:40 Housekeeping
29:31 Pop!_OS Exit Interview
31:44 Pop!_OS Full-Time Staff
34:49 Pop!_OS: The Last Ten Percent
37:46 Pop!_OS: A Very Unique Distribution
43:13 Pop!_OS: Driving Hardware Sales
47:40 Pop!_OS: Strengthening the System76 Brand
49:51 Manjaro Arm 20.10 Released
50:48 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
51:48 Feedback: TLP Magic
53:23 Feedback: Chromebooks and Education
56:16 Pick: Autotier
59:09 Pick: Antennapod 2.0.1
1:00:30 SPONSOR: Core Contributors
1:01:10 Outro
1:03:18 Post-Show

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• Linux_5.9 - Linux Kernel Newbies
• Plasma 5.20 — One absolutely massive release!
• ESXi on Arm Fling is LIVE! — The ESXi-Arm Fling supports a number of different Arm platforms ranging from a traditional Datacenter form-factor to both Near and Far Edge systems including the highly requested Raspberry Pi.
• ESXi Arm Edition | VMware Flings
• Great News for Nebula
• Nebula for iOS and Android is now available | Defined Networking — In February of this year, Nate and I left Slack to start a company together, Defined Networking, Inc., to focus on Nebula full-time.
• Mobile Nebula on the App Store
• LUP 329: Flat Network Truthers
• The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel — With Linux 5.9, it comes in at 2.16 million lines of code plus another 247k lines of code comments and another 109k blank lines.
• AMD Graphics Driver Hacker News Thread
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Pop!_OS by System76
• Unplugged Core Contributors
• Manjaro ARM 20.10 released!
• Feedback: TLP Magic
• Feedback: Chromebooks and Education
• PIck: autotier — A passthrough FUSE filesystem that intelligently moves files between storage tiers based on the frequency of use, file age, and tier fullness.
• AntennaPod 2.0.1 Changelog

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:29 Intro
0:46 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:31 LVFS Hits 20 Million Downloads
4:10 Dell Precision 5750 Review Unit Coming Soon
6:27 LVFS Continued
7:29 Xen Hypervisor is Porting to Raspberry Pi 4
12:09 New Dell XPS 13 Developer Editions
14:56 Lenovo Expands its Linux-Loaded Selection
16:48 SPONSOR: Linode
19:31 WSL to Support GUI Apps
24:09 Will Microsoft Switch to Linux?
33:18 Fedora 33 Beta is Live
35:13 Housekeeping
36:13 Exploring Send and Receive
38:06 Send and Receive: Backups
39:37 Send and Receive: Setting Up the Volumes
41:00 Send and Receive: Rsync Comparison
43:40 Send and Receive: Data Retention Tests
48:10 Send and Receive: Comparing Performance
50:09 Send and Receive: Right Tool for the Job
55:29 Send and Receive: Rivaling NTFS and APFS
57:39 Feedback: Todo Apps
1:01:33 SPONSOR: Unplugged Core Contributors
1:02:30 Outro
1:04:17 Post-Show

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• 20 Million Downloads from the LVFS — Technical Blog of Richard Hughes
• Xen Project officially ports its hypervisor to Raspberry Pi 4 • The Register
• Lenovo Expands Its Range of Ubuntu Laptops - OMG! Ubuntu!
• WSLG Overview
• WSLG Slide Deck
• X.Org Developers Conference 2020 (16-18 September 2020): X11 and Wayland applications in WSL
• XDC 2020 - Day 1 - September 16, 2020 - YouTube (link with timecode)
• What’s new in the Windows Subsystem for Linux - September 2020 | Windows Command Line
• Support Wayland protocol to allow GUI apps to work. · Issue #938 · microsoft/WSL
• Announcing the release of Fedora 33 Beta - Fedora Magazine
• Phoronix Fedora 33 Beta coverage
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Deploying Btrfs at Facebook Scale - Josef Bacik, Facebook
• ZFS Send and Receive
• btrfs-send(8)
• zrepl — One-stop ZFS backup & replication solution.
• sanoid — Policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools.
• btrbk — Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes.
• Fruit Images Dataset
• Feedback: MS to Ditch Windows for Linux?
• Windows to become emulation layer atop Linux kernel, predicts Eric Raymond
• Last phase of the desktop wars?
• Feedback: Todo Apps — I'd love to hear more about todo apps, is that something you've covered before on self-hosted or LUP?
• Todoist
• Todo.txt — Future-proof task tracking in a file you control
• Taskwarrior

This episode kicks off the start of a bigger conversation series.

Plus community news, very handy picks, and more.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Maria Komarova, and Michael Aaron Murphy .

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• GNOME Shell 3.36 release Looking Great
• Firefox 75 On Wayland Now To Have Full WebGL, Working VA-API Acceleration - Phoronix
• Don’t forget about DST!
• FOSS Talk Live - June 20th at The Harrison near King’s Cross in London
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Late Night Linux – Episode 84 – Late Night Linux
• How Docker Makes All Linux Distros Look Alike - Container Journal
• Docker Desktop for Mac - Docker Hub
• Docker Desktop for Windows
• Simon Ferquel on Twitter: “We just updated @docker desktop edge channel with a build supporting Windows 10 Home Insider (you need WSL2 to run it on Home). So happy to see this at last!” / Twitter
• Yong Sheng on Twitter: “running #docker on #wsl2 from a fresh reboot of #windows10 20H1: 9 sec startup, 1.1gb of ram, no hyper-v MobyVM required. passthrough support into my existing ubuntu wsl instance. been waiting for this for years! https://t.co/6ernWi4Hoz” / Twitter
• Chris Tries a Mac and it Makes him Think
• Steam Survey Updated For February 2020 With Latest Linux Figures - Phoronix
• Carl Richell on Twitter: Pop!_OS tiling is shaping up nicely. We’re hoping to have a 20.04 beta release available in about a month.
• pop-os/shell: Pop!_OS Tiling GNOME Extension
• catt - Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources to your Chromecast.
• The Silver Searcher - A code searching tool similar to ack, with a focus on speed.
• Ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern

Plus the story behind exFAT coming to Linux, and the big desktop performance improvements landing next week.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Drew DeVore, and Ell Marquez.

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• XKCD Forum Hacked — The security breach occurred two months ago, according to security researcher Troy Hunt who alerted the company of the incident, with unknown hackers stealing around 562,000 usernames, email and IP addresses, as well as hashed passwords.
• Examining exFAT — Linux kernel developers like to get support for new features — such as filesystem types — merged quickly. In the case of the exFAT filesystem, that didn't happen; exFAT was created by Microsoft in 2006 for use in larger flash-storage cards, but there has never been support in the kernel for this filesystem. Microsoft's recent announcement that it wanted to get exFAT support into the mainline kernel would appear to have removed the largest obstacle to Linux exFAT support. But, as is so often the case, it seems that some challenges remain.
• Waypipe Is Successfully Working For This Network-Transparent Wayland Apps/Games Proxy — Waypipe development was successful this summer by student developer Manuel Stoeckl who was working on the effort as part of this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Waypipe is successfully working now for running Wayland games/applications over the network using this proxy mechanism and supports features like compression, multi-threading optimizations, and hardware-accelerated VA-API for video encode/decode across the network.
• GSOC 2019 - M. Stoeckl's website — Waypipe supports many quality of life features, including a user-friendly command line wrapper for ssh, hardware accelerated video encoding, transfer compression with either LZ4 or Zstd, and a method to reconnect applications when the ssh connection breaks. With more recent kernels and versions of Mesa that support DMABUFs (GPU-side buffers), it can proxy programs that render images using OpenGL.
• What to Expect in GNOME 3.34, Out Next Week - OMG! Ubuntu! — GNOME 3.34 makes it MUCH easier to create app folders in the GNOME Shell ‘Application Overview’, i.e. the grid of app shortcuts you see when pressing the All Apps icon on the Ubuntu Dock.
• GNOME 3.34's Mutter Lands A Last-Minute Performance Fix For NVIDIA — Canonical's Daniel van Vugt who is known for his many GNOME performance optimizations over the past two years has been toying with this NVIDIA fix/optimization the past few months and merged the code this morning to Mutter. This change that landed is the removal of GLX threaded swap wait handling for the NVIDIA binary driver.
• Geometric Picking Finally Lands In GNOME/Mutter 3.34 For Lowering CPU Usage — This is about cursor movement and now avoiding OpenGL/GPU usage for the color picking operations. That logic is now being done on the CPU without OpenGL but turns out is more efficiently done this way and is able to cause a measurable drop in CPU usage when moving the mouse cursor and especially when moving around windows.
• Geometric (OpenGL-less) picking · GNOME / mutter · GitLab) — By avoiding OpenGL and the graphics driver we also reduce CPU usage. Despite reimplementing the logic on the CPU, it still takes less CPU time than going through GL did.
• GTK, Adwaita, and Vendor Styles - Platform - GNOME Discourse — After the BoF, we decided to continue the discussion and find actionable items to move things forward to improve Adwaita itself, the situation for app developers, and the experience for downstream vendors that wish to ship a distinct visual style. We decided that continuing here on Discourse is a good plan to keep the discussion persistent and centralized.
• The Need for a FreeDesktop Dark Style Preference - GUADEC 2019 - Videos — Cassidy has been observing and researching dark styles in consumer software for several months, and conducted a user study with over 1,500 participants. In this talk he shares his research, observations, prior art, and requirements for a dark style preference on FreeDesktop platforms.
• gamemode — GameMode is a daemon/lib combo for Linux that allows games to request a set of optimisations be temporarily applied to the host OS and/or a game process.
• Free Courses at Linux Academy — September 2019 – 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-12th in San Antonio, Texas.
• Unofficial Hacker Family Dinner & Unbirthday Party | Meetup — Join us 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.
• Level1Linux Channel
• Chatting With Alex and Chris From The Self Hosted Podcast! - Level1Linux
• cpufreq - GNOME Shell Extensions — This is a lightweight CPU frequency scaling monitor and powerful CPU management tool. The extension is using standard cpufreq kernel modules to collect information and manage governors. It needs root permission to able changing governors.
• i7z — A better i7 (and now i3, i5) reporting tool for Linux.
• CPUFREQ Extension
• throttled — Workaround for Intel throttling issues in Linux.
• Re: [X1C6/T480s] low cTDP and trip temperature in Linux - Page 9 - Lenovo Community — The good news: This problem is being very actively investigated and we (Lenovo) hope to have a solution soon.
• Jupiter.Gallery — Our self-hosted photo gallery powered by Lychee. Send your photos to chz at jupiterbroadcasting.com.
• Lychee — A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.
• Audio in Linux question — Is there something lacking in our ALSA/JACK/PuleAudio stack that I'm not aware of? We obviously can do pro audio production, given Ardour, REAPER and even Audacity. What's missing?
• zFRAG by LostTrainDude — Defrag your mind by manually defragging a virtual Hard Disk, sector by sector, or enable the AUTODEFRAG to sit back and watch it do it on its own.
• meshroom: 3D Reconstruction Software — Meshroom is a free, open-source 3D Reconstruction Software based on the AliceVision Photogrammetric Computer Vision framework.

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

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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...
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• 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.

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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

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• On 30th anniversary of web, Amazon shares first homepage, Google keeps doodling and more – GeekWire
• The Web Foundation on Twitter — In 1989, @timberners_lee submitted a proposal that would change the world. To celebrate #Web30, for the next 30 hours we're asking everyone to contribute to a crowdsourced timeline of web milestones.
• Introducing Firefox Send, Providing Free File Transfers while Keeping your Personal Information Private - The Mozilla Blog — Send makes it easy for your recipient, too. No hoops to jump through. They simply receive a link to click and download the file. They don’t need to have a Firefox account to access your file.
• F5 Acquires NGINX to Bridge NetOps & DevOps, Providing Customers with Consistent Application Services Across Every Environment - NGINX — F5 is committed to continued innovation and increasing investment in the NGINX open source project to empower NGINX’s widespread user communities.
• NGINX to Join F5: Proud to Finish One Chapter and Excited to Start the Next
• Announcing the release of sway 1.0 | Drew DeVault’s Blog — 1,315 days after I started the sway project, it’s finally time for sway 1.0! I had no idea at the time how much work I was in for, or how many talented people would join and support the project with me. In order to complete this project, we have had to rewrite the entire Linux desktop nearly from scratch. Nearly 300 people worked together, together writing over 9,000 commits and almost 100,000 lines of code, to bring you this release.
• xyproto/wallutils: Utilities for handling monitors, resolutions, wallpapers and timed wallpapers — Detect monitor resolutions and set the desktop wallpaper, for any window manager.
• Winding down my Debian involvement — When I joined Debian, I was still studying, i.e. I had luxurious amounts of spare time. Now, over 5 years of full time work later, my day job taught me a lot, both about what works in large software engineering projects and how I personally like my computer systems. I am very conscious of how I spend the little spare time that I have these days. The following sections each deal with what I consider a major pain point, in no particular order. Some of them influence each other—for example, if changes worked better, we could have a chance at transitioning packages to be more easily machine readable.
• A (Partial) Defense of Debian | The Changelog — I was sad to read on his blog that Michael Stapelberg is winding down his Debian involvement. In his post, he outlined some critiques of Debian. In his post, I want to acknowledge that he is on point with some of them, but also push back on others.
• Leaderless Debian - LWN.net — One of the traditional rites of the (northern hemisphere) spring is the election for the Debian project leader. Over a six-week period, interested candidates put their names forward, describe their vision for the project as a whole, answer questions from Debian developers, then wait and watch while the votes come in. But what would happen if Debian were to hold an election and no candidates stepped forward? The Debian project has just found itself in that situation and is trying to figure out what will happen next.
• Chris Fisher on Twitter — Went hands on with @Azure Spehere dev kits. I would not be surprised if @linuxacademyCOM students start asking for courses in this stuff. They keep the #Linux based OS up to date for 10 years, no subscription.
• System76 on Twitter — Jupiter Broadcasting meetup photo! It’s always a guaranteed great time with @ChrisLAS and @jupitersignal!
• Why snaps? - Popey’s talk at SCaLE 17x
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup Page
• Trying out software? - Feedback from Ken — I'm intrigued by and curious about much of the software you mention regularly. I'm tempted to try some of it, but I don't have a good sense of how easy it is to delete or clean off installed programs in a way that ensures a stable system without a lot of left over junk. Can you give some insight about how you usually handle this. I'd rather not have to nuke-and-pave the OS over and over to insure a stable system.
• Home automation tips from Paul — I have only recently started to use node-red on my ubuntu box at home. Connected it easily to Alexa and also my Broadlink IR/RF blaster. But I am hardly scraping the surface.

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• Choose Linux Episode 1: elementary OS and OpenMediaVault — The show that captures the excitement of discovering Linux.
• Firefox 65.0 — Simplified content blocking settings give users standard, strict, and custom options to control online trackers.
• What are the phone specs? – Purism
• Purism's PureOS Store To Be Based Around Flatpaks — The very first application to the PureOS Store is Lollypop.
• Kodi 18.0 — The Kodi team is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Kodi 18.0 "Leia" for all supported platforms.
• Canonical Outs Major Linux Kernel Update for Ubuntu 18.04 — These vulnerabilities could allow attackers to either execute arbitrary code or crash the system via a denial of service attack by utilizing a maliciously crafted EXT4 image that could be mounted on the vulnerable machine.
• Ubuntu Users Can Now Keep PPAs And Third Party Repositories Enabled When Upgrading To A Newer Ubuntu Version — Another recent change makes sure third party repositories support the release to which the user is trying to upgrade.
• SCALE 17x — Pasadena Convention Center March 7 - 10, 2019
• Privacy Could Be The Next Big Thing — Upcoming talk by Stuart Langridge at SCALE 17x
• Bad Voltage Live | SCALE 17x
• Ell on Twitter
• Linux Academy Study Group Survey — What course should our next study group cover?
• What’s Free At Linux Academy February 2019
• Shortwave: Internet radio in Rust
• Shortwave Hello World | Felix Häcker — I wanted to rewrite Gradio entirely from scratch using Rust and thought it’s better to start a completely new project.
• fx_cast: chromecast for firefox — Enables Chromecast support for casting web apps (like Netflix or BBC iPlayer), HTML5 video and screen/tab sharing.
• Cool-Retro-Term 1.1.1 is out! — Big performance improvements (and lowered resource consumption), new shiny (literally) frame, system fonts support, and more!

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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

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• Radio Garden
• PlayStation Classic relies on open source emulator for its 20 games - SlashGear — Kotaku got some early hands-on time with the PlayStation Classic and discovered that it uses the PCSX ReARMed emulator.
• snes9x — For those packaging the GTK+ port, note that building with GTK+ 3 is now highly recommended over GTK+ 2 and should have no regressions. Also note that Wayland compatibility is implemented, which, if enabled, also requires GTK+ to have been compiled with Wayland support.
• Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth says he has no plans to sell anytime soon — “I value my independence,” he told me during a brief chat on the outskirts of the OpenStack Summit in Berlin today. In part, that’s because he simply doesn’t personally need the money but also because he’d like to see through to the end his vision for Canonical and Ubuntu
• Open Invention Network Expands Linux Definition — The expansion includes 151 new packages, bringing the total number of protected packages to 2,873. “With this update to the Linux System definition, OIN continues with its well-established process of carefully maintaining a balance between stability and innovative core open source technology,” stated Mirko Boehm, OIN’s director for the Linux System definition. “While the majority of the new additions are widely used and found in most devices, the update includes a number of key open source innovations such as Kubernetes, Apache Cassandra and packages for Automotive Grade Linux.”
• Bitwarden Completes Third-party Security Audit — We are pleased to announce that Bitwarden has completed a thorough security audit and cryptographic analysis from the security experts at Cure53.
• Adding an optional install duration to LVFS firmware — We’ve just added an optional feature to fwupd and the LVFS that some people might find useful: The firmware update process can now tell the user how long in seconds the update is going to take.
• Help wanted - SuperTuxKart networking testers
• Supertuxkart
• PipeWire Hackfest — The event kicked off with Wim Taymans presenting on current state of PipeWire and outlining the remaining issues and current thoughts on how to resolve them. Most of the first day was spent on a roadtable discussion about what are and should be the goals of PipeWire and what potential tradeoffs there would be going forward.
• Thunderbolt 3 GPU Dock — Integrated NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card.
• Automation System Name Poll — Vote on the Automation System name.
• Junest — The lightweight Arch Linux based distro that runs upon any Linux distros without root access.
• Wimpy’s xrandr Script

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• The oldest active Linux distro, Slackware turns 25 | Opensource.com
• SSH Port | SSH.COM
• Humble Book Bundle: Linux Geek by No Starch Press (pay what you want and help charity)
• Yum Won't Be Dropped For Fedora 29 - Phoronix
• Mir 0.32.1 Released With Launcher For Internal Wayland Clients, Fixes - Phoronix
• Graphical environments in the world of IoT | Ubuntu blog
• Monitoring a Greenhouse with Ubuntu · LinuxUK
• More Mutter Performance Tuning Work Landing For GNOME 3.30 - Phoronix
• GTK+ 4.0 Likely Being Released In Spring Of 2019 - Phoronix
• Sirin Finney - a dual-screen blockchain phone endorsed by Lionel Messi - IoT Gadgets
• HTC’s blockchain-powered Exodus smartphone is a risky bet that needs to pay off - The Verge
• Atari VCS Product Q&A #1 – Atari VCS – Medium
• Librem 5 progress report #15 – Purism
• Our #tingsummer photo contest starts today: Share your summer fun with us!
• Christmas in July: Over 150 New Ways to Train - Linux Academy Blog
• Newsboat: A Snazzy Text-Based RSS Feed Reader - LinuxLinks
• Browsh is the Text-based Web Browser You've Been Dreaming Of - OMG! Ubuntu!
• Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader [LWN.net]

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• A Modular and Open Source Router is Being Crowdfunded — A company from the Czech Republic is trying to raise money to bring a modular and open source router to the public. It has a number of features that can’t be found in the current line up of routers available for purchase.
• Terminal app appears in Chrome OS Dev, hints at future Linux application support — More evidence of this feature has appeared in the Chrome OS Dev channel, as reported by several Reddit users. A new Terminal app has been added to the app drawer, and clicking it opens a dialog explaining the feature. T
• Blloc | Back to the root — Blloc is a plain and minimalistic smartphone combining a power saving operating system with efficient hardware and an easy to use messaging platform, it’s built to be the perfect communication and productivity tool that you can rely on every day.
• The state of Thunderbolt 3 in Fedora 28 — The GNOME shell bits to enable Thunderbolt 3 support were merged some time ago and made it into 3.28. This means that the GNOME shell will act as authorization agent and will automatically authorize new thunderbolt 3 devices — if the user has administrator rights, is currently logged in and the session is unlocked. I
• Re-evaluating Ubuntu's Milestones — I do not believe there have been any -1s to this proposal from any flavor, nor from the Release Team, so I think it's time to move forward with it.
• Microsoft is ready for a world beyond Windows - The Verge — The first big clue about the OS’s future is that Microsoft’s “Windows and Devices Group” is now “Experiences & Devices,” and it includes Windows, Office, and Surface. Microsoft’s Office chief, Rajesh Jha, is now in charge of this entire division, with Joe Belfiore delegated to lead the Windows experiences.
• Microsoft reorg shakes up Windows group, Windows leader Terry Myerson departs | Ars Technica — The WDG is no more. The group is being split up.
• Windows chief Terry Myerson is leaving as Microsoft reorganizes — platforms. Terry Myerson, executive vice president of the Windows and devices group, is leaving the company.
• Microsoft’s latest reorganization puts cloud over Windows | The Seattle Times — Microsoft's latest reorganization focuses on its cloud and productivity software technology.
• The End of Windows – Stratechery by Ben Thompson — And so we reach last week’s announcements: the Windows division is no more. It is an incredibly meaningful milestone, yet anticlimactic at the same time, thanks to Nadella’s careful management. It is worth noting, though, that Nadella had one critical ally in this journey: Wall Street.
• Satya Nadella email to employees: Embracing our future: Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge | Stories — Moving forward, Rajesh Jha will expand his existing responsibilities to lead a new team focused on Experiences & Devices.
• The Infamous GNOME Shell Memory Leak – Georges Stavracas — It almost feels like there’s a wall between the community and the users of what this community produces. Which is weird. We are an open community, with open development, no barriers for new contributors – and yet, there is such a distance between the community of users and the community of developers/designers/outreachers/etc.
• Progress on Plasma Wayland for 5.13 - subdiff — First of all support for screencasts had to be added to KWin and KWayland. This was done by Oleg Chernovskiy.
• KDE - KBackup - Backup Program — KBackup is an application that lets you back up any folders or files in a tar archive to a local folder, e.g. a locally mounted device like a ZIP drive, USB stick, etc. or a remote URL.
• Bionic Beaver - Kubuntu — The Plasma 5.12 LTS series is the default in this version of Kubuntu

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• Red Hat at 25 — A lot has changed since 1993
• Red Hat Summit 2018 — The Grammy Award-winning band Weezer will be performing at this year’s Red Hat Summit party. Join us for a night of food, drinks, and music, at the San Francisco Armory at 7:00 p.m.
• Google now blocks GApps on uncertified devices, but lets custom ROM users be whitelisted — arlier this week, we received an anonymous tip from a person claiming to be within the industry. This person, who said they worked for an OEM/ODM, notified us that Google has started entirely locking out newly built firmware from accessing Gapps.
• Microsoft Open-Sources WSL Sample To Let More Linux Distributions Run On Windows — The WSL-DistroLauncher is what is now open-source and is a C++ code-base offering a launcher that can be customized for particular distributions for the steps to get to a log-in shell, running commands, and setting configuration values.
• Wayfire — 3D wayland compositor
• People Are Using Old Laptop Batteries to Build Their Own Versions of Tesla's Powerwall — Consumers have constructed their own powerwalls by utilizing old, recycled batteries from laptops.
• Rant launches Eric Raymond's next project: open-source the UPS — ESR opened up the work-in-progress on GitLab: the Upside project is currently defining requirements and developing a specification for a “high quality UPS that can be built from off-the-shelf parts in any reasonably well-equipped makerspace or home electronics shop”.
• Eric S. Raymond / upside · GitLab
• Hyper™ — JS/HTML/CSS Terminal
• Upterm — A terminal emulator for the 21st century.
• MP4Tools — MP4Tools is a collection of cross-platform free tools to manipulate MP4 files.
• Slax Linux — Despite its small size, Slax provides nice graphical user interface and the only two programs everyone really needs: a Web browser and a Terminal.
• Debian-Based Slax 9.4 Linux OS Adds Easier App Install Method, More Improvements — According to the developer, Slax will now show launchers for not-installed apps, which, when clicked, they will fetch and install the respective application from the official software repositories. The first such app installer are available for the VLC Media Player and VoteCoin anonymous cryptocurrency wallet.
• Slax 9.4 Released With Updated Debian Packages, One-Click-To-Install Launchers — Besides syncing against Debian stable, Slax 9.4 adds RFKILL support for toggling WiFi/Bluetooth connections