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

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

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• Destination Linux 235 — Valve’s Steam Deck & Right To Repair Goes Mainstream
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Plus the questions we think the University of Minnesota kernel ban raises, and more.

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• 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!
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• 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
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• Feedback: Running his own email for six years
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• Feedback PIck: Modoboa, Open Source email server
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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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• 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
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• 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?
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