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• Some users experienced data loss on 21.10
• Ubuntu Makes Firefox Snap Default in 21.10
• How to Remove Firefox Snap from Ubuntu (21.10 +) And Alternatives
• Element One — Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place.
• Space Exploration Technologies on GitHub
• U-Boot Changes by SpaceX
• Linux Kernel Changes by SpaceX
• SpaceX openWRT Pull Requests
• PTP Changes by SpaceX
• Notes from a talk given by then head of Software at SpaceX, Jinnah Hosein — On 1-Aug-2017, Jinnah Hosein, who was the head of Software at SpaceX at the time, spoke to my company, Orbital Insight, in Mountain View California, and I took some notes.
• Summary of SpaceX Software AMA
• Stack Overflow Blog — Network protocols in orbit: Building a space-based ISP
• starlink-grpc-tools — This repository has a handful of tools for interacting with the gRPC service implemented on the Starlink user terminal (AKA "the dish").
• Set a Static Route for the App to talk to the Dish
• Live Starlink Satellite and Coverage Map
• Starlink Coverage Tracker
• Croc — A tool that allows any two computers to simply and securely transfer files and folders.
• crocgui — A nice simple GUI for croc, designed for mobile use.
• kdeconnect-ios — Native iOS port of KDE Connect.

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

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• Logging Into Linux With A 1930s Teletype
• TUXEDO Computers Launches A Power/Thermal Control Center For Their Linux Systems
• System76 Lemur Pro
• KDE’s window manager KWin gets forked with ‘KWinFT’ to accelerate the development and better Wayland
• BleachBit 4.0.0
• Fedora 32 Final is NO-GO
• Brunch with Brent: Sri Ramkrishna
• Linux Spotlight EP44 - Drew DeVore of Jupiter Broadcasting
• Linux Spotlight EP43 - An Interview with Tyler Brown longtime JB fan
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• Ubuntu 20.04 Flavours Hit Beta, But What’s New?
• Gnome 3.34 vs Gnome 3.36 Visual Comparison
• The ‘GameMode’ performance tool from Feral Interactive makes it into Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 20.04 and WSL 1 - WSL2 - Ubuntu Community Hub
• Ubuntu Server 20.04 CPU Security Mitigation Performance Impact
• Kernel 5.4: VirtIO-FS
• Grub boot menu bug
• Folder under applications menu doesn’t show text below last line of icons.
• Daniel Kerkow on Twitter: Migrating to a later LTS should be easily possible, so I would maybe stick to 18.04 for now if in doubt."
• pacat: Play back or record raw or encoded audio streams on a PulseAudio sound server
• 3mux: Imagine tmux with a smaller learning curve, i3-like keybindings, and more sane defaults.

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• PinePhone started shipping January 17th
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• Doing Things That Scale – Space and Meaning
• We Ditched Mac Pro for THIS…
• New Ubuntu Theme in Development for 20.04
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Use your Terminal like a Desktop now on YouTube
• Terminal like a desktop LUP article
• Home Assistant Podcast with Alex
• Brent sits down with Jim Salter of TechSNAP in the latest episode of Brunch with Brent
• Dell XPS 13 7390 Review: The Best Laptop For Desktop Linux Users - Linux.com
• Phoronix Test Suite Results
• Kernel panic when booting with EFISTUB - Arch Linux Forums
• Kakashiiiiy/EFISTUB: passes kernel-commandline to the kernel if the UEFI does not support it
• Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 Launches With Linux Support In Tow - Phoronix
• Linux* Support for Intel® Wireless Adapters
• glow: Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz!

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