LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Xfs”

662: The GitHub Diet

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:45:00 -0700

Is it time to replace GitHub in our workflow? We git into it. Plus, our favorite features in the new Linux 7.0 release.

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LinuxFest Northwest 2026 — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
LFNW2026 Schedule
Linux 7.0: Btrfs — A translation layer of logical block addresses that allows changes without moving or rewriting blocks for relocation
Linux 7.0: XFS — Autonomous self-healing; delivers live filesystem health events to userspace for automatic repairs
Linux 7.0: EXT4 — Improves write performance for concurrent direct I/O writes
Linux 7.0: IO-uring — Adds support for BPF filtering to IO_uring for high performance async I/O
Linux 7.0: Scheduler — Scheduler updates land with time slice extension, performance and scalability work for high core count systems
Linux 7.0: Rust — Formally concluding the 'Rust experiment'; Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay
Linux 7.1: i486 — Begins phasing out Intel 486 CPU support; no known Linux distributions still ship with i486 support
Give Up GitHub — We realize this is not an easy task; GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their effective marketing, GitHub has convinced FOSS developers that GitHub is the best (and even the only) place for FOSS development.
opengist — Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, open-source alternative to Github Gist.
Forgejo on Codeberg — Beyond coding. We forge.
Forgejo — Self-hosted alternative to GitHub; liberate your software from proprietary shackles with a familiar environment
NixOS Wiki: Forgejo — Lightweight software forge; completely free software and a fork of Gitea
Forgejo Actions — Reusable pieces of code for CI workflows; compatible with GitHub Actions
NixOS Forgejo Actions Runner — NixOS configuration for turnkey deployment of Forgejo Actions runners
Forgejo Federation (PR #10453) — Work-in-progress for federated repositories; enabling decentralized software development
Forgejo Snippets (Issue #1069) — Create a shareable piece of text, be it code or plain text, publicly or privately
Git Novice Guide — Free interactive tutorial; learn version control with Git from scratch
Pick: sshroute — Network-aware SSH router - routes connections to different IPs/ports/keys/jump hosts based on active VPN or network
Pick: rendercv — Resume builder for academics and engineers
Pick: ESPHome Starter Kit — DIY sensor kit for Home Assistant with ESPHome; build your own smart home devices

654: Creating Discord in the Matrix

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:15:00 -0800

We were minutes away from shutting down our Matrix server when the Discord news hit. Now we’re not just keeping it, we’re doubling down. Can open source seize this moment?

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PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
Pasadena Linux Party Meetup
Discord to roll out age verification next month
Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos
Discord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter Thiel
NULLFS and OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE Features Merged For Linux 7.0
OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE To Provide A Security and Performance Win For Dealing With Containers
All about initramfs
pivot_root implementation and constraints
TrueNAS Scale
ZimaOS — A Simplified, Focused and Open NAS OS Supports all X86-64 hardware.
Github: ZimaOS
Clan — opinionated NixOS peer-to-peer computer management framework
What is Clan? - Documentation
clan-lol/clan-core: Build your own clan
ConnecTen internet
Case Study: Fortress Outdoor Router
Pick: booklog — B{ook}log is a self-hosted, multi-user book tracking platform for avid readers. Each user maintains a personal library and wishlist, with per-user readings, stats, and timeline.
Pick: whosthere — Local Area Network discovery tool with an interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there? 🚪
Pick: Weylus — Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.

625: They're Doing it Wrong!

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 15:45:00 -0700

A radical rethink of what a Linux distro should do, and what it should stop doing. Plus, we dig into what's great about Linux 6.16.

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F43 Change Proposal: Filter Fedora Flatpaks for Atomic Desktops — With this change, we want to make the availability of a Fedora Flatpak an explicit decision for the Fedora Atomic Desktops.
Fedora Flatpaks creates more work
Fedora Must (Carefully) Embrace Flathub
Strategy 2028 Update – Fedora Community Blog
Initiatives/Fedora bootc - Fedora Project Wiki — Silverblue & Kinoite are ready to be our desktop Editions, with bootc (Jason)
Proposal: Enable Flathub by Default - Fedora Discussion
The Case for Fedora Flatpaks
bazaar: New App Store for GNOME
Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance
EXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance"
Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More Devices
Linux 6.16 Merges A Fix For The Macintosh II
Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX
The first half of the 6.16 merge window
The second half of the 6.16 merge window
Enforcement (or not) for module-specific exported symbols
Toward the unification of kselftests and KUnit
Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel
Supporting kernel development with large language models
Fending off unwanted file descriptors
Linux 6.16 - Linux Kernel Newbies
Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs
Zoned Loop Block Device — The Linux Kernel documentation
DJM-V10 Creative style 6-channel professional DJ mixer (black) - Pioneer DJ
LLM generated git-resolve.sh
Aidan's NixOS Flake
Using Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula
SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus
Pick: Toney — Toney is a fast, lightweight, terminal-based note-taking app for the modern developer.
Pick: Etesync-Knotes — A secure note-taking application for linux, integrated with Etebase for encrypted synchronization.

545: 3,062 Days Later

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 18:45:00 -0800

Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.

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Boltz — Privacy First, Non-Custodial Bitcoin Exchange.
bcachefs — bcachefs is an advanced new filesystem for Linux, with an emphasis on reliability and robustness and the complete set of features one would expect from a modern filesystem.
bcachefs Erasure coding — Bcachefs takes advantage of the fact that it is already a copy-on-write filesystem. If we're designing our filesystem to avoid update-in-place, why would we do update-in-place in our RAID implementation?
bcachefs Caching — bcachefs can be configured for writethrough, writeback, and writearound caching, as well as other more specialized setups.
bachefs Compression — Unlike other filesystems that typically do compression at the block level, bcachefs does compression at the extent level - variable size chunks, up to (by default) 128k.
bcachefs Encryption — bcachefs uses AEAD style encryption (ChaCha20/Poly1305), where each encrypted block is authenticated with a MAC, with a chain of trust up to root (the superblock), and every encrypted block has a unique nonce.
bcachefs Snapshots — bcachefs provides Btrfs style writeable snapshots, at subvolume granularity.
(2015) [ANNOUNCE] bcachefs - a general purpose COW filesystem — It's taken a long time to get to this point - longer than I would have guessed if you'd asked me back when we first started talking about it - but I'm pretty damn proud of where it's at now.
Kent Overstreet's Patreon
Unplugged Core Membership
Jupiter Signal PROMO 2024 — $3 off a month forever.
Webamp — Winamp 2 re-implemented for the browser.
Webamp on GitHub — Winamp 2 reimplemented for the browse.
The Official JB BBS! — vt52 hosts our new official JB BBS! `telnet http://pebkac.lol`

541: Out with a Bang

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 14:30:00 -0800

The stories that kept us talking all year, and are only getting hotter!

Plus the big flops we're still sore about.

Special Guest: Kenji Berthold.

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534: We Nixed Proxmox

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 19:00:00 -0700

We did Proxmox dirty last week, so we try to explain our thinking. But first, a few things have gone down that you should know about.

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🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
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.

525: Beating Apple to the Sauce

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 19:45:00 -0700

We daily drive Asahi Linux on a MacBook, chat about how the team beat Apple to a major GPU milestone, and an easy way to self-host open-source ChatGPT alternatives.

Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

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⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
Hector Martin's Controversial Question — Would you be okay with us adding some really trivial telemetry to the Asahi installer?
Berlin with Brent — Brent will be back in Berlin for the Nextcloud Conference and can't get enough of Berlin Meetups! Friday, September 8th, 6 PM.
Fedora Asahi Remix
Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware — Fedora Asahi Remix will be their new flagship distribution for providing a polished Linux experience on Apple Silicon.
Fedora Asahi Remix: bringing Fedora to Apple Silicon Macs (Flock To Fedora 2023)
Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix — We’re still working out the kinks and making things even better, so we are not quite ready to call this a release yet. We aim to officially release the Fedora Asahi Remix by the end of August 2023. Look forward to many new features, machine support, and more!
Hector Martin: “Okay, I’m going to be honest…” — I apologize to all Asahi Linux users. You deserve better. When I chose Arch Linux ARM as a base I didn't realize it would have so many basic QA issues.
Coming soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs! (Fedora Discourse)
The first conformant M1 GPU driver — Our reverse-engineered, free and open source graphics drivers are the world’s only conformant OpenGL ES 3.1 implementation for M1- and M2-family graphics hardware. That means our driver passed tens of thousands of tests to demonstrate correctness and is now recognized by the industry.
Asahi Linux’s Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant — It's even more rewarding for the community developers in that Apple doesn't provide any conformant (OpenGL or Vulkan) graphics drivers for their Arm-based platform.
Feature Support · AsahiLinux/docs Wiki
Switch to the kernel-16k variant - Fedora Discussion
NixOS: Unlocking your LUKS via SSH and Tor
StreetComplete — Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android.
getumbrel/llama-gpt: A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot. Powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device.
serge-chat/serge: A web interface for chatting with Alpaca through llama.cpp. Fully dockerized, with an easy to use API.
liltom-eth/llama2-webui: Run any Llama 2 locally with gradio UI on GPU or CPU from anywhere (Linux/Windows/Mac). Use
llama.cpp — Port of Facebook’s LLaMA model in C/C++
Llama2.c — Inference Llama 2 in one file of pure C
Koboldcpp — A simple one-file way to run various GGML models with KoboldAI’s UI
lollms-webui — Lord of Large Language Models Web User Interface
LM Studio — Discover, download, and run local LLMs
text-generation-webui — A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models. Supports transformers, GPTQ, llama.cpp (ggml/gguf), Llama models.
A comprehensive guide to running Llama 2 locally — Code Llama is a state-of-the-art LLM capable of generating code, and natural language about code, from both code and natural language prompts.
Meta Releases Code Llama, a Coding Version of Llama 2
Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding
Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source
Meta launches Llama 2, a source-available AI model that allows commercial applications — A family of pretrained and fine-tuned language models in sizes from 7 to 70 billion parameters.
Meta’s Llama 2 is not open source — Meta's newly released large language model Llama 2 is not open source.

489: Brent's Secret Emails

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 20:00:00 -0800

Brent's been hiding your emails; we confront him and expose what he's been keeping from the show.

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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

420: Real People Are Out There

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 18:45:00 -0700

We share some stories from our Denver meetup, the strange reason we found ourselves at a golf course, and some news you should know.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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Stickers | Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
JB Telegram
Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse
jonhat on Twitter — Need local admin and have physical access? Plug a Razer mouse (or the dongle), windows Update will download and execute RazerInstaller as SYSTEM, then abuse elevated Explorer to open Powershell with Shift+Right click.
Join us for dinner 4:30 local time at TheViewHouse in Colorado Springs
Btrfs Set To Land Support For IDMAPPED Mounts In Linux 5.15 — Back when IDMAPPED mounts functionality was added to the Linux kernel, the initial implementation came for FAT and EXT4. XFS support has also been in the works while now for Linux 5.15 the Btrfs support appears ready.
IDMAPPED Mounts Aim For Linux 5.12 - Many New Use-Cases From Containers To Systemd-Homed — Idmapped mounts make it possible to easily share files between multiple users or multiple machines especially in complex scenarios. For example, idmapped mounts will be used in the implementation of portable home directories in systemd-homed.service(8) where they allow users to move their home directory to an external storage device and use it on multiple computers where they are assigned different uids and gids.
FOSDEM 2021 - Idmapped Mounts
brauner/mount-idmapped — Helper utility to use IDMAPPED mounts until upstream support exists.
Ubuntu 21.10 Systemd To Finally Ship With Cgroup v2 By Default — Ubuntu has been sticking to the legacy cgroup v1 hierarchy because their prized Snap support hasn't supported Cgroup v2. Upstream Snap still doesn't have the support yet but there are patches pending that are still expected to be merged this cycle.
Fedora 35 To Support Restarting User Services On Package Upgrades — What this ultimately means is that user services like PipeWire can seamlessly restart when upgrading them via Fedora RPM updates rather than needing to manually do so or restarting the system for the upgrade to take effect.

412: Going Deepin on Fuchsia

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 19:45:00 -0700

Is Fuchsia a risk to Linux? We try out a cutting-edge Fuchsia desktop and determine if it is a long-term threat to Linux.

Plus, have we all been missing the best new Linux distribution? We give this fresh distro a spin and report.

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Linux 5.13 Released With Apple M1 Bringup, Landlock, FreeSync HDMI + Much More — There are also new Linux 5.13 security features like the Landlock LSM, Clang CFI support, and optionally randomizing the kernel stack offset at each system call.
The 5.13 kernel has been released
PipeWire 0.3.31 Released — JACK has seen massive stability improvements. Locking and correctness wrt to callbacks and has been reworked. Also thread priorities have improved.
PipeWire Project on Twitter — Important change in PipeWire 0.3.31 is that we now have a database of weird Bluetooth hardware. This allows us to apply device specific tweaks to work around issues. This database is from Android and should let us support more devices seamlessly.
Real-time audio streaming with ROC
Deepin Linux 20.2.2 Introduces a Brand-New App Store, Secure Boot Support — With this release, fans of Deepin Linux can enjoy a brand-new App Store that supports installation of Android apps, offers a better app management with support for batch installation of applications, and has a fresh new design with simplified interaction.
deepin 20.2.2 – Deepin Technology Community
Deepin Screenshots Album
Salt Lake City Meetup
Denver Meetup Meetup
Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup(s)
JB Telegram
JB Mumble
dahliaOS — dahliaOS is a modern, secure, lightweight and responsive operating system, combining the best of GNU/Linux and Fuchsia OS.
dahliaOS Screenshots Album
Google is releasing Fuchsia OS, starting w/ 1st-gen Nest Hub
Here’s an easier way to try Fuchsia OS on your computer
Reddit: A Question About Zircon And Its Capabilities
A new version of Mixxx is out — Mixxx 2.3.0 comes with a new default skin: "LateNight" underwent a massive redesign and replaces "Deere" as default skin.
elementary EDW videos on YouTube

410: Ye Olde Linux Distro

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 18:30:00 -0700

We revisit the seminal distros that shaped Linux’s past. Find out if these classics still hold up.

Plus the outrageous bounty on a beloved Linux desktop app.

Special Guest: Gary Kramlich.

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Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web’s inventor is selling its original code as an NFT — Comprising over 9.500 lines of code, the files contain the basis of the languages and protocols underpinning the internet as we know it: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Universal Document Identified (URI).
Meetup: Salt Lake City — Saturday, August 7, 2021, 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM PDT.
Meetup: Denver — Friday, August 20, 2021, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM PDT.
Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup Page
Pidgin: the universal chat client — Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on XMPP and sitting in an IRC channel at the same time.
Pidgin contributors: grim — Long time contributor, author of Guifications, and a founding member of the plugin pack.
Zerodium on Twitter — We’re looking for #0day exploits affecting Pidgin on Windows and Linux. Bounty: $100,000.
ZERODIUM — Limited-Time Bug Bounties and Temporarily Increased Payouts
Linux 5.14 Mainline Should Work With The Raspberry Pi 400 — No kernel driver changes were needed since it's basically very close to the Raspberry Pi 4 but the updated DTS configuration is needed for the 1.8GHz clock rate, a different WiFi chip, and power off handling via GPIO.
XFS To Enjoy Big Scalability Boost With Linux 5.14 — The big numbers are seeing the transaction rate go up from around 700k to 1.7M commits per second and a reduction in flush operations by 2~x orders of magnitude less for metadata heavy workloads that don't enforce fsync.
Archive of old versions of Linux — Thanks to Mediactive Network for hosting this website.
Mandrake 10.1 Visual Tour
Xandros 3.0 Desktop Gallery
Red Hat 9’s Classic Look
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS — Ubuntu 6.06 LTS introduces functionality that simplifies common Linux server deployment processes. For system administrators setting up large numbers of web, mail and related servers, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS offers the fastest and most consistent path to deployment, combined with the availability of global commercial support where needed.
Damn Small Linux — Damn Small Linux is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution.
BackTrack Linux — BackTrack was a Linux distribution that focused on security, based on the Knoppix Linux distribution aimed at digital forensics and penetration testing use.
TLP — Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life
auto-cpufreq — Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux based on active monitoring of laptop's battery state, CPU usage, CPU temperature and system load. Ultimately allowing you to improve battery life without making any compromises.
Did you know that you can 100% legally get & run WordPerfect for free? — But there is a catch – of course: they're both very old and hard to run on a modern computer. I'm here to tell you how to get them and how to install and run them.

371: Cabin Fever

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:00:00 -0700

Friends join us to discuss Cabin, a proposal that encourages more Linux apps and fewer distros.

Plus, we debate the value that the Ubuntu community brings to Canonical, and share a pick for audiobook fans.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:48 Intro
0:54 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:25 Future of Ubuntu Community
6:51 Ubuntu Community: Popey Responds
9:31 Ubuntu Community: Stuart Langridge Responds
16:26 Ubuntu Community: Mark Shuttleworth Responds
17:30 BTRFS Workflow Developments
19:09 Linux Kernel 5.9 Performance Regression
24:48 SPONSOR: Linode
27:34 Cabin
29:48 Cabin: More Apps, Fewer Distros
33:41 Cabin: Building Small Apps
36:40 Cabin: What is a Cabin App?
44:34 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
45:20 Feedback: Fedora 33 Bug-A-Thon
47:53 Goin' Indy Update
49:40 Submit Your Linux Prepper Ideas
50:11 Feedback: Dev IDEs
54:15 Feedback: Nextcloud
58:20 Picks: Cozy
1:00:25 Outro
1:01:38 Post-Show

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Drew DeVore, and Stuart Langridge.

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Amiga Fast File System Return to the Linux Kernel – CubicleNate’s Techpad
Future of Ubuntu Community - Community Council - Ubuntu Community Hub
Mark Shuttleworth Now Plans To Restore Ubuntu’s Community Council - Phoronix — Mark Shuttleworth announced now that in cooperation with Ubuntu member (and former Community Council member) Walter Lapchynski, they are working to restore the Community Council.
Btrfs development update | Josef Bacik’s Blog
Deploying Btrfs at Facebook Scale - Josef Bacik, Facebook - YouTube
The Latest On The Linux 5.9 Kernel Regression Stemming From Page Lock Fairness - Phoronix — Last week we reported on a Linux 5.9 kernel regression following benchmarks from Linux 5.0 to 5.9 and there being a sharp drop with the latest development kernel. That kernel regression was bisected to code introduced by Linus Torvalds at the start of the Linux 5.9 kernel cycle. Unfortunately it's not a trivial problem and one still being analyzed in coming up with a proper solution.
Linux Mailing List - Re: Kernel Benchmarking
Making apps for Linux, a proposal — I have a few thoughts on this topic, and so does Alan Pope, and so we got chatting and put together a proposal for a programming environment for making simple apps in a way that new developers could easily grasp. We were quite pleased with it as a concept, but: it didn’t get selected for further development. Oh well, never mind. But the ideas still seem good to us, so I think it’s worth publishing the proposal anyway so that someone else has the chance to be inspired by it, or decide they want it to happen.
Direct link to Core Contributors Downloads Page
Feedback: IDEs and Editors
Feedback: Nextcloud (and borg too)
GitHub - geigi/cozy — A modern audio book player for Linux using GTK+ 3.
OpenAudible — Audio Book Manager
Boot from USB · Issue #28 · raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom · GitHub

358: Our Fragmented Favorite

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 21:45:00 -0700

It's time to challenge some long-held assumptions.

Today's Btrfs is not yesterday's hot mess, but a modern battle-tested filesystem, and we'll prove it.

Plus our thoughts on GitHub dropping the term "master", and the changes Linux should make NOW to compete with commercial desktops.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.

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356: Linux Hardware Love

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 21:00:00 -0700

From the low-end to the high-end we try out both ends of the Linux hardware spectrum. Wes reviews the latest XPS 13, and Chris shares his thoughts on the Pinebook Pro.

Plus a really cool new feature in Linux 5.7, and we get some answers to the recent GNOME patent settlement from the source.

Special Guests: Dan Johansen and Drew DeVore.

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350: Focal Focus

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 22:00:00 -0700

The latest Ubuntu LTS is here, but does it live up to the hype? And how practical are the new ZFS features? We dig into the performance, security, and stability of Focal Fossa.

Plus our thoughts on the new KWin fork, if Bleachbit is safe, and a quick Fedora update.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.

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347: Arm is Here

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:30:00 -0700

We discover a few simple Raspberry Pi tricks that unlock incredible performance and make us re-think the capabilities of Arm systems.

Plus we celebrate Wireguard finally landing in Linux, catch up on feedback, and check out the new Manjaro laptop.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Philip Muller.

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336: Linus' Filesystem Fluster

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 19:30:00 -0800

Linus Torvalds says don't use ZFS, but we think he got a few of the facts wrong. Jim Salter joins us to help us explain what Linus got right, and what he got wrong.

Plus some really handy Linux picks, some community news, and a live broadcast from Seattle's Snowpocalypse!

Special Guest: Jim Salter.

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Episode 277: Skipping Fedora 31

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 19:00:00 -0800

Fedora might take a year off, to focus on it self. Project Lead and Council Chair Matthew Miller joins us to explain this major proposal.

Plus Wimpy shares his open source Drobo alternative, and our final Dropbox XFS hack.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Martin Wimpress, and Matthew Miller.

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NASA runs KDE
Are people forgetting what open source is? — There is a responsibility for the dev to make sure they vet what is being put into, but also a larger responsibility for large company's to vet dependency themselves, such as this package event-stream
International Space Station switches from Windows to Linux — “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable.”
LinuxFest Northwest 2019 — LinuxFest Northwest is an annual Open Source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group and the Information Technology department at Bellingham Technical College
SnapRAID — SnapRAID is a backup program for disk arrays. It stores parity information of your data and it recovers from up to six disk failures.
mergerfs — A featureful union filesystem.
Fedora 31 Will Likely Be Cancelled Or Significantly Delayed — It's about trying to re-tool the distribution and restructure the way its developed to rely more upon automated testing, improving the release processes, and related infrastructure to make it more scalable and better for the longer-term.
Fedora Mailing-Lists: Lifecycle objective - problems, solutions, and proposal
Fedora Wiki: Objectives/Lifecycle/Problem statements
Current 12-18 Month Community Objectives
Fedora Council Charter
Dropbox Filesystem Fix — Fix the filesystem detection in the Linux Dropbox client.

Episode 270: Stratis Pulls it All Together

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 19:15:00 -0700

Red Hat developer Andy Grover joins us to discuss Stratis Storage, an alternative to ZFS on Linux and its recent milestone.

Also Google subtracts Plus, some KDE and GNOME news, and a bit of forgotten Linux history.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Andy Grover, and Martin Wimpress.

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IRL Glasses
Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public — Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social network and then opted not to disclose the issue this past spring, in part because of fears that doing so would draw regulatory scrutiny and cause reputational damage, according to people briefed on the incident and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Project Strobe — The consumer version of Google+ currently has low usage and engagement: 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds.
Google Has 'No Plans' to Enable Chrome Hardware Acceleration on Linux
KDE Plasma 5.14 — A lot of work has gone into improving Discover, Plasma's software manager, and, among other things, we have added a Firmware Update feature and many subtle user interface improvements to give it a smoother feel.
Farewell, application menus! — These menus have been with us since the beginning of the GNOME 3.0 series, but we’re planning on retiring them for the next GNOME release (version 3.32).
Creative Selection (Audiobook) by Ken Kocienda
Eazel - Wikipedia — Eazel was founded by Andy Hertzfeld in August 1999 in Mountain View, California. It had 22 initial employees and raised $12 million from a number of venture capital investment companies
Eazel launches Nautilus software then lays off 40 workers — After releasing the first version of its new Nautilus open-source desktop software with much fanfare Monday, Eazel Inc. bit the bullet just a day later and laid off more than half of its 70-member staff
Jobs at Linux Academy
Andy Grover (@iamagrover) — Hacks on @StratisStorage at Red Hat, and has other creative dreams too. Bass. Rustlang. Mostly cat and political retweets these days.
Stratis Storage (@StratisStorage) — Easy to use local storage for Linux.
Stratis Storage Project Page
Stratis: Easy local storage management for Linux [LWN.net] — Stratis is a new local storage-management solution for Linux. It can be compared to ZFS, Btrfs, or LVM. Its focus is on simplicity of concepts and ease of use, while giving users access to advanced storage features. Internally, Stratis's implementation favors tight integration of existing components instead of the fully-integrated, in-kernel approach that ZFS and Btrfs use.
XFS vs EXT4 – Comparing MongoDB Performance on AWS EC2 — In performance terms, XFS is indeed a force multiplier when paired with high speed disks that it can take real advantage from. For low to mid-end systems, it doesn’t seem to be able to do much to improve your performance.
Todoist for Linux, an electron wrapper for the official Todoist web app. — Todoist for Linux, an electron wrapper for the official Todoist web app.

Episode 262: Tribes of Init

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 19:15:00 -0700

The FreeBSD community shares the hard lessons learned from systemd, we play some great clips from a recent event.

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

Special Guests: Eric Hendricks and Martin Wimpress.

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