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546: What You’re Missing about NixOS Jan 21, 2024

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Trying NixOS can be fraught with complexity, half-completed guides, and boring videos. Even if you never plan to switch to NixOS, we invite you to come along for a hype-free ride that digs into one of the most rapidly developing areas of Linux.

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First NixCon North America!
Southern California Linux Expo 21x — SCaLE is the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America. It is held annually in the greater Los Angeles area.
SCALE 21x Registration
FOSDEM 2024 - Feb 3-4 — FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don't need to register. Just turn up and join in!
Getting started with NixOS by Mike Kelly — I previously wrote Why do people love NixOS so much? to try and explain the advantages of using Nix. So now let’s dive in and actually do an install!
Zero to Nix — Your guide to learning Nix and flakes.
Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition
distrobox — Use any linux distribution inside your terminal.
distrobox in nixpkgs
Building SnowflakeOS ISO
Icicle Installer
Jake Hamilton on Mastodon — I'm happy to announce that #SnowflakeOS and its related projects from @vlinkz is joining #SnowfallOrg!
Snowfall — Making nix better one project at a time.
Snowfall on GitHub
Snowfall Flake — Simplify Nix Flakes on the command line.
Unplugged Core Membership
Boltz.Exchange — Easily move between on-chain, Lightning, and Liquid
t2linux — Linux support for Apple devices with the T2 security chip.
Mac-on-Linux
pick: Spotube — Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron!
Pick: Cider — A new cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind.

545: 3,062 Days Later Jan 14, 2024

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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.

Special Guest: Kent Overstreet.

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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`

544: Half the Bits, Double the Pain Jan 07, 2024

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This challenge gets ugly as we slowly realize we've just become zombie slayers.

We load Linux on three barely alive systems, and it takes a turn we didn't expect.

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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.
📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
Linux 6.7 Set For Release With Bcachefs File-System, Intel Meteor Lake Graphics In Good Shape - Phoronix
32-Bit Challenge Details
HP Mini 110-4100CA Netbook
Intel Atom Processor N2600 Specifications
Crunchbangplusplus — Debian Based Minimal Linux Distro
CBPP/cbpp: #!++ - GitHub
FreeBSD Handbook | Chapter 5. The X Window System
Guide to FreeBSD Desktop Distributions – FreeBSD Foundation
MidnightBSD — MidnightBSD is a BSD-derived operating system developed with desktop users in mind. It includes all the software you'd expect for your daily tasks — email, web browsing, word processing, gaming, and much more.
MidnightBSD - Linux® Binary Compatibility
GhostBSD | A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System
Intel T2300
Announcing - First NixCon North America! — Date: March 14th and 15th
Southern California Linux Expo 19
LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Call for Speakers @ Sessionize.com — We invite you to submit your proposal to speak at LFNW2024!
LMDE — LMDE is a Linux Mint project which stands for "Linux Mint Debian Edition". Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint can continue to deliver the same user experience if Ubuntu was ever to disappear. It allows us to assess how much we depend on Ubuntu and how much work would be involved in such an event. LMDE is also one of our development targets, as such it guarantees the software we develop is compatible outside of Ubuntu.
nohang: A sophisticated low memory handler for Linux — nohang is earlyoom on steroids and has many useful features
zram — Pages written to these disks are compressed and stored in memory itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression provides good amounts of memory savings.
PSI — This helps users understand the resource pressure their workloads are under, which allows them to rootcause and fix throughput and latency problems caused by overcommitting, underprovisioning, suboptimal job placement in a grid, as well as anticipate major disruptions like OOM.
pressure stall information
nohang-desktop.conf
nheko: Desktop client for Matrix using Qt and C++20. — The motivation behind the project is to provide a native desktop app for Matrix that feels more like a mainstream chat app (Element, Telegram etc) and less like an IRC client.
PROMO 2024 - $3 off a month forever
Is a 32 bit machine still usable in 2024? — Luckily, someone had JUST donated this perfectly working Dell Latitude D820, running Windows XP. They were in college actually trying to use this for their school work, but couldn’t even access many of the websites they needed because it was so out of date. I gave her a much newer 64 bit machine in trade.
How I Automated All the Things - Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Fritzing - Everlanders Automate the World!
PICK: Linux Terminal Tools - Terminal Trove — Terminal Trove curates and showcases all things in the terminal such as command line interface tools (CLI), text mode interface tools (TUI), developer tools and more no matter what platform or medium.
SliTaz GNU/Linux (en) — SliTaz is a secure and high performance operating system using the Linux Kernel and GNU software.
tulir/gomuks — A terminal based Matrix client written in Go.
The Mutt E-Mail Client
Links home page — Links is text WWW browser with tables and frames. It runs on Linux, Unix, OS/2 and Windows.

543: Profoundly Prophetic Prognostications Dec 31, 2023

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We make our big Linux predictions for 2024, but first, we score how we did for 2023.

Special Guest: Michael Tunnell.

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⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.
🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
TuxDigital — TuxDigital creates podcasts and videos to help people improve their lives through technology. Our content covers everything from computer hardware and apps to fitness tips to help people live their best life through educational and entertaining media.
First NixCon North America!
Southern California Linux Expo 19
System76 Virgo laptop PCB design open sourced ahead of release — The company began sharing hints about the upcoming System76 Virgo laptop earlier this year. Now System76 has released the PCB design files, giving us a few more clues about what to expect.
System76 Virgo Laptop Project on Github
Bcachefs Merged Into The Linux 6.7 Kernel — Less than twenty-four hours after Bcachefs was submitted for Linux 6.7, this new open-source file-system has been successfully merged for this next kernel version.
Bcachefs Lands More Fixes Ahead Of Linux 6.7 Stable Debut — Linux 6.7 stable will likely debut on New Year's Eve unless the cycle is extended by an extra week due to the holidays.
CVE-2023-39191: 8.2 HIGH — An improper input validation flaw was found in the eBPF subsystem in the Linux kernel. The issue occurs due to a lack of proper validation of dynamic pointers within user-supplied eBPF programs prior to executing them. This may allow an attacker with CAP_BPF privileges to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of the kernel.
holoiso — This project attempts to bring the Steam Deck's SteamOS Holo redistribution into a generic, installable format, and provide a close-to-official SteamOS experience.
butterfish — A shell with AI superpowers.
New MakuluLinux Release Brings AI to the Max — Max is a new distro for MakuluLinux developer Jacque Montague Raymer. It is the first AI-integrated operating system designed with Debian compatibility running on the Gnome backend framework.
Download Ubuntu Desktop
Ubuntu Flavors
Pick: BoxBuddy — BoxBuddy is a graphical user interface for Distrobox.

542: 2023 Tuxies Dec 24, 2023

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It’s the fourth annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, and desktops of 2023.

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⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.
🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
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.
Texas LinuxFest CFP Extended — The CFP deadline for #TXLF has been extended until December 30, 2023, 05:00 UTC (December 29, 2023, 23:00 CST)!
Texas Linux Fest Matrix Chat
⚠️ Did we miss something in the 2023 Tuxies?

541: Out with a Bang Dec 17, 2023

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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.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:🎉 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.💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM32-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 19Ubuntu’s New Installer MilestoneUbuntu 23.10 Restores ZFS File-System Support In Its InstallerUbuntu 23.04 Desktop’s New Installer Set To Ship Without OpenZFS Install SupportHDR Beginning To Work For Linux GamingThe State Of HDR On The Steam Deck With Valve’s Gamescope CompositorKDE KWin Preparing Preliminary Support For Running HDR GamesEnd of the 4.9 Kernel SeriesCVE-2023-0179: Linux kernel stack buffer overflow in nftablesWine 8.0 is out now with major compatibility improvementsWine 9.0-rc2 Released With 33 More Fixes - Including Wine Wayland FixesStadia Shuts Down Jan 28thGoogle Stadia: Leaked Documents Explain its Failureelementary OS 7 Available NowXfce Going WaylandFOSDEM 2023: Fedora AsahiFedora Asahi Aims To Provide The Fedora Workstation Experience For Apple Silicon SystemsSIGs/Asahi - Fedora Project WikiUbuntu Gets RealCanonical Promotes Ubuntu’s Real-Time “RT” Kernel To General AvailabilityPlasma 5.27KDE Plasma 5.27 ReleasedFinal Version of KDE Plasma 5 Released – This is What’s NewFFmpeg 6.0 ReleasedFFmpeg on X: “FFmpeg CLI multithreading is now merged!” / XFlathub in 2023Flathub in 2023 - Flathub DiscourseDocker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to knowDocker: We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team planGNOME 44 ReleasedGNOME 44 Released With Many Desktop EnhancementsGNOME 44 Getting New Background Apps UIUbuntu Cinnamon Flavor Status AnnouncementPlasma 6 Early BuildsLinux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 AdditionsBtrfs Improvments in 6.4Announcing Fedora Linux 38What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38Red Hat Cutting “Hundreds Of Jobs”Message to Red Hat associates todayLinux Kernel 6.3 Officially ReleasedThe new Flathub WebsiteFlathub Website Gets a Brand New LookUbuntu 23.04 ReleasedUbuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)Ubuntu 23.04 with GNOME 44 and a stable Steam SnapHDR hackfest wrap-upCVE-2023-28410: i915 graphics driver improperly restricts operations within the bounds of a memory bufferNew NetFilter flaw gives attackers root privilegesbcachefs out for reviewFedora Program Manager Laid OffFedora Program Manager Laid Off As Part Of Red Hat CutsPodman Desktop 1.0 AnnoucedIntroducing Azure LinuxCodeWeavers An Employee Ownership TrustCodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership TrustXFS Metadata Corruption On Linux 6.3 Tracked Down To One Missing One-Line PatchLinux 6.3.5 Released With XFS Metadata Corruption FixPlasma 6 is Wayland only - No X11 for Plasma 6Xorg server is deprecated since RHEL 9.0Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop baseRed Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO InvolvementLibreOffice to be cut out of RHEL installsDebian 12 “bookworm” releasedLinux 6.4 ReleasedLinux 6.4 Released, focus on 6.5Btrfs In Linux 6.5 May Bring A Cumulative Performance ImprovementLinux Kernel 6.4 Released with Interesting Mix of ChangesBcachefs File-System Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.5Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changesFurthering the evolution of CentOS StreamA Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business ModelRocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source CodeThe future of AlmaLinux | Hacker NewsRocky Linux: Keeping Open Source OpenLXD Moves to CanonicalLXD has been re-licensed and is now under a CLAFedora Asahi RemixFedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon HardwareFedora Asahi Remix: bringing Fedora to Apple Silicon Macs (Flock To Fedora 2023)Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi RemixThe first conformant M1 GPU driverAsahi Linux’s Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 ConformantLinux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA’s Proprietary DriverUbuntu Desktop: Charting a course for the futureUbuntu Desktop “Charting A Course For The Future” With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next YearLeap Replacement DiscussionLinux’s Marketshare on Steam Still Higher Than Apple macOSHub 6: Healthy meeting culture and the first local AI Assistant [YouTube]“Nextcloud Hub 6” launched🚀Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5!Raspberry Pi 5 BenchmarksRaspberry Pi 5 Graphics Continue With Open-Source Driver & Crazy Fast Compared To RPi 4Raspberry Pi 5 Review: A New Standard for MakersRaspberry Pi Approved Reseller – Raspberry PiCPU decoding acording to Eben Upton in an interviewIntel is killing off its NUC mini PCsUbuntu 23.10 ReleasedUbuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User TranslationsLinux Mint Starts working on Wayland SupportLinux 6.6 Features Include The EEVDF Scheduler, Shadow Stack, Intel IVSC, AMD DBC & MoreBtrfs For Linux 6.6 Brings Fixes, Partially Recovers From Scrub Performance RegressionXFS File-System Maintainer Stepping DownXFS Begins Landing Online Repair, New Release Manager Takes OverElement Going AGPLSynapse goes AGPL Discussion on Hacker NewsFedora Linux 39 Released As A Wonderful Upgrade For Leading Workstations & ServersFedora Change: Retire ModularityFedora Web Installer DelayedWhat’s new in Fedora Workstation 39GNOME 45 Release NotesAmazon Making its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android🎉 PipeWire 1.0 🎉PipeWire 1.0.0 (El Presidente)Quick OwnTracks-Recorder-in-Docker dummies guidePick: trippy — Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the analysis of networking issues.

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540: Uncensored AI on Linux Dec 10, 2023

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We test two popular methods to run local language models on your Linux box. Then, we push the limits to see which language models will toe the line and which won't.

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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.
Brent in Berlin Meetup — Brent is back in Berlin and we're having a LOW KEY meetup at the NixOS night at cbase.
One Time Fiat Fun for SCaLE 2024
Southern California Linux Expo 19
Purchase a SCALE Pass 63
First NixCon North America!
NixCon North America | SCALE 21x
NixCon North America Call for Proposals
Texas Linux Fest 2024
LFNW 2024: Ready or not
LFNW 2024: Call for Sessions
Jupiter Broadcasting Live Calendar
2023 Unplugged Tuxies
Ollama — Get up and running with Llama 2 and other large language models locally.
OllamaHub — Explore and Download Custom Ollama Modelfiles.
ollama library
Ollama Manual Install
Ollama Docker Image
ollama-webui
LlamaGPT
llama-gpt — A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot. Powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device. New: Code Llama support!
Continue.dev — An open-source autopilot in your IDE
Refact.ai — Refact is an open-source AI coding assistant with blazing-fast code completion, powerful code improvement tools, and chat.
32-Bit Challenge Chat room
Speech Note — Speech Note let you take, read and translate notes in multiple languages. It uses Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine Translation to do so. Text and voice processing take place entirely offline, locally on your computer, without using a network connection. Your privacy is always respected. No data is sent to the Internet.
Speech Note on GitHub
LFNW: Call for Sponsors
Framework 13 (Intel) NixOS Module
GeneBean's hyprland nix config
Razer Core X - Thunderbolt™ 3 eGPU
CompleteNoobs: Ubuntu KVM to Windows 10 - Thinkpad T470 - Razer Core X - GTX 970 -
LINUX Unplugged 308: The One About GPU Passthrough — Our crew walks you through their PCI Passthrough setups that let them run Windows, macOS, and distro-hop all from one Linux machine.
Pick: Marker — Convert PDF to markdown quickly with high accuracy

539: Rollback Required Dec 03, 2023

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This week, our embarrassment is your entertainment. Then, we check the age and health of all our disks with one app.

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LFNW 2024: Ready or not — Quick on the heels of our wildly successful MiniFest this Fall, LinuxFest Northwest is proud to announce a full event: LinuxFest Northwest 2024 - April 26-28 2024!
LFNW 2024: Call for Sessions
LFNW: Call for Sponsors
My $500M Mars Rover Mistake — A Failure Story by Chris Lewicki
Unplugged Tuxies 2023 — Vote in the 2023 Tuxies before it's too late!
⚠️ Did we miss something in the 2023 Tuxies?
Get your Tuxies “I Voted” sticker from TheGoldenDragon — $2 Digital Sticker
Scrutiny — Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T Monitoring, Historical Trends & Real World Failure Thresholds.
Soltros's configbuilder — This Nix Configuration Manager is a Go-based tool designed to facilitate the management of NixOS configurations.
Cookie AutoDelete Firefox Add-on
Self-Hosted 110: Google Photos Replacement
Brent in Berlin Meetup — Brent is back in Berlin and we're having a LOW KEY meetup at the NixOS night at cbase - join us!
chezmoi — Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.
AnalogJ on GitHub — I'm a Devops/Automation guy, focused on building tools that help you automate & manage your servers.
lexicon — Manipulate DNS records on various DNS providers in a standardized way.
Fasten Health — Fasten is an open-source, self-hosted, personal/family electronic medical record aggregator.
LUP 307: What's your Nextcloud?
GNU Stow — GNU Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct packages of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem, and makes them appear to be installed in the same place.

538: Surprisingly Smooth Transition Nov 26, 2023

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PipeWire hits 1.0, and Wim Taymans joins us to reflect on the smooth success of PipeWire. Plus the details on the first NixCon North America, and more.

Special Guests: Wim Taymans and Zach Mitchell.

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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.

537: This Makes Us Unemployable Nov 19, 2023

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Can we save an old Arch install? We'll attempt a live rescue, then get into our tips for keeping your old Linux install running great.

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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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