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• 2022 Tuxies — GO VOTE!
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• GrapheneOS Update
• Nextcloud Notes
• Three Tumbleweed Temptations | LINUX Unplugged 432
• wipegpt
• wipefs
• OpenSUSE Build Service
• opi: openSUSE Package Installer (CLI) — Search and install almost all packages available for openSUSE and SLE
• tumbleweed-cli — Command line interface for interacting with Tumbleweed snapshots.
• twups — Tumbleweed Update Scrutinizer
• Tumbleweed Snapshots
• GPSLogger for Android
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps

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• Markuss Broks 🦆 on Twitter: "iPad Air 2 running Linux 5.18"
• Konrad Dybcio on Twitter: "It’s spreading quickly 😎"
• #46 Going Mobile · This Week in GNOME
• JB’s London Meetup
• Jupiter Tube
• WWDC 2022 Live - JupiterTube
• NixOS 22.05 released — NixOS is already known as the most up to date distribution and is the distribution with the most packages. This release saw 9345 new packages and 10666 updated packages. Removal of unmaintained packages is also important to keep the package set working and secure. This release removed 5874 packages that were available in 21.11.
• Install and Configure NixOS on a Linode
• NixOS On Linode.md — This tutorial is written for people who want to run NixOS on a Linode instance. The installation is pretty straightforward, but it involves some bootstrapping using Linode's tools.
• Declarative Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform
• LINUX Unplugged 432 - Three Tumbleweed Temptations
• openSUSE Community Annual Survey Results
• Premium Special To Celebrate Phoronix’s 18th Birthday — This Sunday, 5 June, marks the 18th birthday for Phoronix.com since I started this website to focus on Linux hardware reviews and performance testing. To mark the occasion, there will be a Phoronix Premium special if you wish to go ad-free on the site and enjoy multi-page articles on a single page while helping to hopefully ensure a successful 19th year for Phoronix.
• Pick: stegosaurust — Steganography tool, written in rust.

Special Guests: Martin Wimpress and Neal Gompa.

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• Do You Put Linux/Distro Stickers On Your Machine?
• ChrisLAS Birthday Party Hang and Chow
• Jupiter Extras — Why Linux Will Win in 20 Years
• Denver Road Trip Memories — During our summer road trip to Denver we had the microphone's recording and captured some great moments.
• Denver Road Trip Tech — Our road trip machine is loaded up from solar to networking, the tech that made working, living, and recording from the road possible for 44 days and over 2,200 miles.
• Dev corrupts NPM libs ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ breaking thousands of apps
• Crypto Theses for 2022
• Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
• ZFS has a history of not handling 15+ drive vdevs well.
• bismuth — KDE Plasma extension, that lets you tile your windows automatically and manage them via keyboard, just like in classical tiling window managers (i3, dwm or XMonad).
• Ideas on growing the Flathub Community in 2022

Special Guests: Carl George and Martin Wimpress.

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• Jupiter Extras: Cryptocurrency Chat with Chris
• Introducing CentOS Stream 9 — CentOS Stream is a continuous-delivery distribution providing each point-release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• EPEL 9 is now available! — This is the culmination of five months of work between the EPEL Steering Committee, the Fedora Infrastructure and Release Engineering team, and other contributors.
• Linux Action News 218
• Linux Action News 064
• LINUX Unplugged 387: Tumbling Into the New Year!
• Changes/Switch RPMs to zstd compression - Fedora Project Wiki
• Search through all the show notes of all the shows!
• Pick: audapolis — An editor for spoken-word audio with automatic transcription.

We try three different builds and prepare ourselves for our journey into SUSE land. Our setups, what we liked, and what we still need to figure out.

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• 2021 Tuxie Nominations are Open!
• SteamOS 3.0 will have an immutable filesystem - a first for arch? — During the Steam Deck Development live steam, Valve finally gave us some good news and said that SteamOS 3.0 will be generally available for everyone to install on their computers. They also revealed that SteamOS 3.0 will have an immutable root file system to prevent unauthorized access and use PipeWire for audio.
• Greg’s Company Buys Ads openSUSE Search Results — "Hey, @openSUSE have you been seeing a drop in downloads recently? I might know why..."
• They did this to AlmaLinux at the end of July.
• AlmaLinux AMA
• Setting up a containerized environment - openSUSE User Documentation Project
• Using the Linode Graphical Shell (Glish)
• How to switch from OpenSUSE Leap to Tumbleweed?
• Transactional Updates | Administration Guide | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
• The Transactional Update Guide
• Manpage for transactional-update — Transactional-update updates the system in a transactional way; this means updates are atomic, so either the patches are fully applied or nothing is changed. The update does not influence the running system and it can be rolled back. To activate the changes, the system needs to be rebooted. To achieve this transactional-update is using Btrfs' snapshot mechanism, combined with the default distribution tools
• YaST Online Update
• OpenSUSE System Updates
• Snapper rollback with btrfs
• openSUSE/transactional-update — Do transactional updates on openSUSE/SUSE Linux Enterprise products with btrfs, snapshots and rollback.
• Open Build Service
• OpenSUSE Conference 2017
• Post that explains some of the drawbacks of transaction updates
• Zypper cheat sheet VERY handy and recommend it
• JupiterGarage.com
• Pick: mp4grep — Command-line tool that searches audio/video files.
• JB All Shows Feed

Plus Microsoft's path to dominating the Linux desktop becomes clear.

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• bucklespring — This project emulates the sound of my old faithful IBM Model-M space saver bucklespring keyboard.
• Valve’s Steam Data For December Points To A Huge Dip For Linux Gaming Marketshare
• Valve Revises Steam’s December 2020 Linux Marketshare To 0.74% — Valve has updated their numbers and point to Linux still regressing percentage-wise but not as bad as originally reported.
• Linus Torvalds On The Importance Of ECC RAM, Calls Out Intel’s “Bad Policies” Over ECC — "The arguments against ECC were always complete and utter garbage... Now even the memory manufacturers are starting to do ECC internally because they finally owned up to the fact that they absolutely have to."
• Microsoft is building a new Outlook app for Windows and Mac powered by the web — Project Monarch is the end-goal for Microsoft's "One Outlook" vision, which aims to build a single Outlook client that works across PC, Mac, and the Web.
• Bug: Mailspring is an abandoned project. · Issue #2231 · Foundry376/Mailspring · GitHub
• Taking FOSDEM online via Matrix — FOSDEM will have its own dedicated Matrix server at fosdem.org.
• KDE Plasma 5.20.5 Released as the Last in the Series, Update Now — The Plasma-NetworkManager applet received a fix for an issue with the password entry jumping to different networks when searching for Wi-Fi networks.
• KDE Plasma 5.21 Desktop Environment to Ship with a New System Monitor App — The Plasma System Monitor app promises not only a fancier and modern user interface, but also a simpler way for monitoring system resources on your KDE Plasma-based GNU/Linux distribution.
• Get openSUSE
• SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE Wiki
• New Core Contributor Promo Code: 2021
• Planner — Task manager with Todoist support designed for GNU/Linux 🚀.
• AUR (en) - elementary-planner
• Tuxies Feedback
• Tuxies Voting Suggestion
• Feedback: Gnome 40 Changes

Plus the best tool for getting things done on Linux, we take a look at openSUSE Leap 15.2, and breathe new life into an old Pebble.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Jeff Fortin Tam, and Neal Gompa.

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• Show & Tell: A steampunk desktop background radiation monitor
• Getting Things GNOME 0.4 released!
• Getting Things GNOME - GNOME Wiki
• Getting Things GNOME on Flathub
• Stirring things up for Fedora 33
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• openSUSE Leap 15.2 Release Notes
• Leap 15.2 - openSUSE Wiki
• openSUSE Leap 15.2 Released With Focus on Containers and AI
• Rebble.io: Bring life back to your Pebble
• Zettlr: A Markdown Editor for the 21st century.
• Roam Research: A note-taking tool for networked thought.
• Athens Research: An open source take on Roam
• Org-roam: a Roam replica built on top of the all-powerful Org-mode.
• Doom Emacs: Doom is a configuration framework for GNU Emacs
• Spacemacs: A community-driven Emacs distribution

Plus we fall down the openSUSE rabbit hole when Ell updates us on her desktop challenge.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Danielle Foré, Ell Marquez, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa.

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• KDE Plasma 5.15: Lightweight, Usable and Productive — Discover, Plasma's software and add-on installer, has received tonnes of improvements to help you stay up-to-date and find the tools you need to get your tasks done.
• CVE-2019-5736: runc container breakout (all versions) — However, it *is* blocked through correct use of user namespaces (where the host root is not mapped into the container's user namespace).
• Container Bug Allows Attackers to Gain Root Access on Host Machine — The container bug, CVE-2019-5736, affects runc, the underlying container runtime for Docker, containerd, Kubernetes, cri-o and other container software, which means that nearly everyone running containers is affected.
• Doomsday Docker security hole uncovered | ZDNet
• Linux Coin Miner Removes All Other Malware and Miners
• Fedora logo redesign — The current Fedora Logo has been used by Fedora and the Fedora Community since 2005. However, over the past few months, Máirín Duffy and the Fedora Design team, along with the wider Fedora community have been working on redesigning the Fedora logo.
• Fedora's FESCo Approves Of A "Sane" Approach For Counting Fedora Users Via DNF — Baked over the past month was a new privacy-minded plan for counting users via DNF that relies upon a "countme" bit that will be incremented weekly or so and not have any UUID as originally envisioned
• Fedora 30 Will Get Bash 5.0 But Yum's Death Sentence Postponed To F31
• Draft Fedora 31 schedule available – Fedora Community Blog — After some discussion before the end of the year, we decided not to go with an extended development cycle for Fedora 31.
• SCALE Saturday Dinner JB Meetup — Let's eat and be merry at P.F. Changes Saturday night of SCALE17x!
• Containers: What you need to know; so you know what you need to know - Ell Marquez at S
• Elementary Staging COPR Repo — This repository contains packages of official elementaryOS projects which are not (yet) ready for inclusion in fedora as official packages.
• Ellopunk/OSchallenge - openSUSE — Ell's openSUSE journey notes.
• Pantheon Desktop on Fedora — The Pantheon desktop environment is the DE that powers elementaryOS. It builds on GNOME technologies, but utilizes components that were written from scratch in vala, using the GTK+3 toolkit.
• UberWriter — It's a simple markdown editor that offers a lot of features.
• solVItaire — An implementation of the classic solitaire games Klondike and Spider which has some nice to use vi(1) like keybindings, but can also be played with standard cursor keys, the number pad/row or even the mouse.
• VIM Adventures — Learn VIM while playing a game!
• Solvitaire As a SNAP
• FireQOS Reference
• FireQOS New User Tutorial