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526: Canonical Wins by Default Sep 03, 2023

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While chaos is brewing in SUSE and Red Hat land, Canonical stays the course and doubles down on the Linux desktop. Plus, our thoughts on the kernel team GPL-blocking NVIDIA.

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AMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5 Million Lines, Entire Linux Kernel At 34.8 Million
Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules — It changes the behavior of symbol_get(), causing it to fail when asked to look up a symbol that is not marked GPL-only. This is an inversion of the usual test, which denies access to symbols that are marked GPL-only. The reasoning is that symbol_get() has always been intended for low-level cooperation deep within the kernel, where everything is expected to be GPL-only anyway.
Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA’s Proprietary Driver — Back in 2020 when the original defense was added, NVIDIA recommended avoiding the Linux 5.9 for the time being. They ended up having a supported driver several weeks later. It will be interesting to see this time how long Linux 6.6+ thwarts their kernel driver.
[Hacker News] Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules
PATCH: modules: only allow symbol_get of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL modules — Given that symbol_get was only ever inteded for tightly cooperating modules using very internal symbols it is logical to restrict it to being used on EXPORY_SYMBOL_GPL and prevent nvidia from costly DMCA circumvention of access controls law suites.
Ubuntu Desktop: Charting a course for the future — Recently, we embarked on an internal exercise to consolidate and bring structure to our values and goals for how we plan to evolve the desktop experience over the next few years. This post is designed to share the output of those discussions and give insight into the direction we’re going.
Ubuntu Desktop “Charting A Course For The Future” With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year
Leap Replacement Discussion — I've been looking at the results from the recent contributor survey to gauge the interest and feasibility of replacing openSUSE Leap with a new community-built offering.
Linux’s Marketshare on Steam Still Higher Than Apple macOS
Wavlake — We envision a new, online world where creators and listeners can freely transact with one another in an open ecosystem.
Music Side Project Studio
The Boostagram Ball
The Fairly Fun Show
DJ V4V Podcast | All music - no Talk
Before The Sch3m3s 8.21.2023 - Behind the SchƎmƎs
V4V SHOW — How To Access V4V Music
Office Hours 34 — Podcast Bounty Hunters
[YouTube] Free Secure Phone Calls. Private Network Coms Access

525: Beating Apple to the Sauce Aug 27, 2023

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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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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.

524: How Our Server Got It's Groove Back Aug 20, 2023

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Can we build an indestructible server that stands up to the test of giving out root login to the Internet?

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Spokane Linux Love, Sat, Sep 16, 2023, 1:00 PM | Meetup — It's finally happening! Let's get together at Iron Goat Brewing.
Best laptops for NixOS - Help - NixOS Discourse
Mobile NixOS
Devices List — Mobile NixOS
Iron Goat Brewing
LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Sponsorship Prospectus — LinuxFest Northwest 2023 will be held October 20-22, 2023 at Bellingham Technical College. The Fest is a free and open community event dedicated to provide and support educational activities related to Linux and Open Source Software.
NixOS friendly hosters - NixOS Wiki
Install and Configure NixOS on a Linode | Linode Docs
Star-History — We know, you can't fully trust a project's GitHub stars alone. It is, however, a good way to determine if a tool is an adequate one and if it's likely to grow, if you use it correctly.
disko — NixOS is a Linux distribution where everything is described as code, with one exception: during installation, the disk partitioning and formatting are manual steps. disko aims to correct this sad 🤡 omission.
nixos-anywhere — You can then initiate an unattended installation with a single CLI command. Since nixos-anywhere can access the new machine using SSH, it's ideal for remote installations.
Immutable infrastructure for mutable systems — I erase my systems at every boot.
NixOS Series 4: "Stateless" Operating System — Here's the question: is it really necessary to store the contents of /etc on the disk drive? They're going to be regenerated on each reboot or config switch anyway.
NixOS ❄: tmpfs as root — One fairly unique property of NixOS is the ability to boot with only /boot and /nix. Nothing else is actually required. This supports doing all sorts of weird things with your root file system.
Nixos and Erasing My Darlings
Impermanence - NixOS Wiki — Impermanence in NixOS is where your root directory gets wiped every reboot (such as by mounting a tmpfs to /). Such a setup is possible because NixOS only needs /boot and /nix in order to boot, all other system files are simply links to files in /nix. /boot and /nix still need to be stored on a hard drive or SSD.
impermanence: Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]
Example ZFS + tmpfs root configuration
NixOS on Btrfs+tmpfs
A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally — Ever since the closing of RFC 49, we've had the new CLI and Flakes marked as experimental, with no clear plan forward.
project Stratis
Backups - Perfect Media Server
Podverse GitHub — Podverse has a bounty out for Android Auto.
Jay Sam Bee in Philadelphia NixOS Bounty — Jay has a bounty for getting Wallabag on NixOS.
Self-Hosted 102: NixOS is a bit Flakey
completenoobs.com
OpenStreetMap.org — OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
OSMand.net
OSM is an extensible editor for OpenStreetMap
OSM is an extensible editor for OpenStreetMap
StreetComplete — Help to improve the OpenStreetMap with StreetComplete!
nixpkg.py

523: Ride the Rhino Aug 13, 2023

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We're trying out Rhino Linux—a unique take on rolling Ubuntu with AUR-like powers and other surprises.

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Rhino Linux — Rhino Linux re-invents the Ubuntu experience as a rolling release distribution atop a stable Desktop Environment.
Rhino Linux 2023.1, how we made the distro. — Rhino Linux has now officially moved out of Beta! We have released Rhino Linux 2023.1 on x86_64, ARM, Pine64 and Raspberry Pi devices.
Pacstall — Pacstall uses the stable base of Ubuntu but allows you to use bleeding edge software with little to no compromises, so you don't have to worry about security patches or new features.
rhino-pkg Documentation
Rhino Linux | Unicorn Desktop — Based on XFCE, this desktop experience is lightweight and fast, but 100% powerful.
Rhino Linux Quick Start Guide
Rhino Linux ISO Builder Source
Rhino Linux Bug Tracker
Rhino Linux bug report form
Nala: a front-end for libapt-pkg — We aim to solve this by not showing some redundant messages, formatting the packages better, and using color to show specifically what will happen with a package during install, removal, or an upgrade.
friedow/search — Your trusty omnibox search.
Berlin with Brent, Fri, Sep 8, 2023 — Brent will be back in Berlin for the Nextcloud Conference and can't get enough of Berlin Meetups!
Nextcloud Conference 2023 — Annually bringing the global Nextcloud Contributor Community together for a week of coding, design, discussion, talks & fun!
SearXNG — A free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services.

522: Practical Privacy Aug 06, 2023

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Why Linux reigns for privacy; our recommendations for secure tools from chat to DNS.

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Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration — This project is aimed at being simple while allowing a ton of customisation and flexibility. To get started, you’ll need an instance of Home Assistant running with the ESPHome add-on as well as the Home Assistant companion app on your mobile phone to receive notifications when someone presses the doorbell button.
Alex in Chicago, Aug 10, 2023 | Meetup
The U.K. Government Is Dangerously Close to Eroding Encryption and Normalizing Mass Surveillance — "The U.K. government wants to grant itself the right to scan every message online for content related to child abuse or terrorism—and says it will still, somehow, magically, protect peoples’ privacy. That’s simply impossible. U.K. civil society groups have condemned the bill, as have technical experts and human rights groups around the world."
U.K. civil society groups
human rights groups around the world
WhatsApp, Signal, and the UK-based Element
Now Apple takes a bite out of encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law — "End-to-end encryption is a critical capability that protects the privacy of journalists, human rights activists, and diplomats," Apple argued in a statement to the media.
Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Snowflake ❄️ — Snowflake is a system that allows people from all over the world to access censored websites and applications. Similar to how VPNs assist users in getting around Internet censorship, Snowflake helps you avoid being noticed by Internet censors by making your Internet activity appear as though you're using the Internet for a regular video or voice call.
Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking — Instead of browser plugins or other software on each computer, install Pi-hole in one place and your entire network is protected.
AdGuard Home
NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
UnifiedPush — UnifiedPush is a set of specifications and tools that lets the user choose how push notifications* are delivered. All in a free and open source way.
NextPush - Server App — UnifiedPush provider for Nextcloud - server application
UnifiedPush: a decentralized, open-source push notification protocol
Proton Drive — Proton Drive is an end-to-end encrypted Swiss vault for your files that protects your data.
SimpleLogin — Open source anonymous email service
Simple NixOS Mailserver
Proton Calendar
EteSync - Secure Data Sync — Secure, end-to-end encrypted, and privacy respecting sync for your contacts, calendars, tasks and notes.
Nextcloud + DAVx5 — DAVx⁵ has been successfully tested with Nextcloud.
Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it’s transmitted over the internet.
Nextcloud - Online collaboration platform — Regain control over your data
Send — Send lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires. So you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn’t stay online forever.
nitter: Alternative Twitter front-end — A free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. Inspired by the Invidious project.
FreeTube — The Private YouTube Client
NewPipe - a free YouTube client — NewPipe has been created with the purpose of getting the original YouTube experience on your smartphone without annoying ads and questionable permissions.
yattee — Privacy-oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS
libredirect — A browser extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.
Aegis Authenticator - Secure 2FA app for Android — Aegis Authenticator is a free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens for your online services.
SimpleX Chat: private and secure messenger without any user IDs (not even random) — Other apps have user IDs: Signal, Matrix, Session, Briar, Jami, Cwtch, etc. SimpleX does not, not even random numbers. This radically improves your privacy.
Element — A secure communications platform built around you.
PrivacyGuides.org
PrivacyTools.io
Surveillance Self-Defense - EFF
Funding Developers With Lightning
Tailscale on GL.iNet Routers — Tailscale feature available since V4.2.
Nix-on-Droid — Nix-on-Droid brings Nix package manager of NixOS fame to your mobile device.
InvidTUI — InvidTUI is an invidious client, which fetches data from invidious instances and displays a user interface in the terminal, and allows for selecting and playing Youtube audio and video.

521: Rethinking GNOME Jul 30, 2023

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Two important news stories, plus our thoughts on GNOME’s new windowing proposal and the Framework 16.

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The Framework Laptop 16 DIY AMD 7040
Nextcloud Conference 2023 — Annually bringing the global Nextcloud Contributor Community together for a week of coding, design, discussion, talks & fun!
Berlin with Brent, Fri Sep 8, 2023 | Meetup.com — Brent will be back in Berlin for the Nextcloud Conference and can't get enough of Berlin Meetups!
Alex will be in Chicago August 10th!
PayPal Shut Down GrapheneOS Foundation’s Account Used For Donations
GrapheneOS on Twitter — Unfortunately, PayPal permanently locked our GrapheneOS Foundation account today. No reason has been provided for the account being locked. All we've done is accept donations. We added our bank account information yesterday in order to begin withdrawing money and it was locked.
GrapheneOS on Twitter — PayPal has restored our non-profit GrapheneOS Foundation account. We should be able to withdraw all donations made through it in the past few weeks. We received no info on why our account was permanently banned with funds held for 180 days or why they now restored our account.
GrapheneOS on Twitter — We use Bitcoin as the main way we transfer funds internally, including using it to pay most of our project members. It doesn't replace having bank accounts to pay other expenses or accepting donations in other ways.
Ansible Creator Wants to Build a New Automation Platform in Rust — Ansible's creator Michael DeHaan thinks there is still plenty of room to make more tools that would add to the existing automation ecosystem. Especially, when infrastructure automation solutions like Chef and Puppet were acquired.
A New IT Automation Project? — Moving Beyond Ansible And Keeping The Spirit
Welcome to JetPorch — Jet's goal is to be an community-driven enterprise automation and orchestration platform for the modern era.
jetporch/example_content: example content for learning, exploration, and testing
Jetporch: Next generation IT orchestration — Jetporch is a next-generation IT orchestration platform aiming to handle modern enterprise workloads at a planetary scale.
Rethinking Window Management — We’ve wanted more powerful tiling for years, but there has not been much progress due to the huge amount of work involved on the technical side and the lack of a clear design direction we were happy with. We now finally feel like the design is at a stage where we can take concrete next steps towards making it happen, which is very exciting!
Open Podcast API — The Open Podcast API is an initiative aiming to provide a feature-complete synchronisation API specification for podcast (web) apps and user-focussed servers.
OpenPodcastAPI Meeting Notes
HamWAN — HamWAN is a non-profit organization (501c3) developing best practices for high speed amateur radio data networks. HamWAN also runs the Puget Sound Data Ring, which is a real-world network implementation of the proposed designs.
SUSE Liberty Linux — SUSE Liberty Linux is a technology and support solution that will secure your Linux future without fear of vendor lock-in. With SUSE Liberty Linux, you get trusted support and optional proven management tools that are optimized for mixed Linux environments, including Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux ®, CentOS, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
anytype.io — the everything app for those who celebrate trust & autonomy
bfs 3.0: the fastest find yet! — bfs is a tool I wrote to do breadth-first search through a filesystem. It started out simply enough, but over the years it's grown to include almost every feature from every other find implementation I could find, plus many of its own innovations.

520: To Infinity and Berlin Jul 23, 2023

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Do they build them better in Germany? We try out the next-generation InfinityBook Pro 14 and dig into TUXEDO OS.

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Office Hours 33: Just Burn it all Down — Why independent media is getting just as bad as mainstream media, and Brent's escape from a wildfire. Plus, an update on our new bounty release format!
TUXEDO Computers — TUXEDO Computers are customizable Linux notebooks and Desktop PCs optimized in the first place to run with Ubuntu-based Linux operating systems.
TUXEDO OS Download
TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen8 Linux Ultrabook Is Now Available for Pre-Order
TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen8 — 17 mm thin, 1.3 kg light, a chassis footprint of only 31 x 21.5 cm, paired with a top-notch 16:10 3K Omnia display, a max-sized 99 Wh battery and a 14-core Intel Core i7-13700H high-performance processor.
ddev — Docker-based local PHP+Node.js web development environments.
[nixpkgs PR] ddev: init at 1.21.4 by jgonyea
Flipper Zero — Portable Multi-tool Device for Geeks
GNU Wget — GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS, the most widely used Internet protocols.
GNU Guix — transactional package manager and distribution
Cheogram — Extensible Messaging and Presence for the Telephone Network
no-more-secrets — This project provides a command line tool called nms that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen on screen in the 1992 hacker movie Sneakers.
Bard-Shell — Bard-Shell is a utility that allows you to use Google's Bard AI in the Linux terminal.

519: The Clone Grift Wars Jul 16, 2023

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Have Oracle and SUSE lost their minds? Plus, we dig into Fedora's proposal to add telemetry collection to Workstation.

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Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To — Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden.
Berlin with Brent, Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Berlin Buds on Matrix
Dissociated Press: Clone Wars
SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment — SUSE is committed to working with the open source community to develop a long-term, enduring compatible alternative for RHEL and CentOS users. SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.
Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux — SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen today argues that SUSE is wading into this because of its belief that “becoming more proprietary should not be the basis for competition between open source companies."
The future of AlmaLinux | Hacker News
Rocky Linux: Keeping Open Source Open — While we continuously explore other options, the aforementioned approaches are subject to change. However, our unwavering dedication and commitment to open source and the Enterprise Linux community remain steadfast.
AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System — After much discussion, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board today has decided to drop the aim to be 1:1 with RHEL. AlmaLinux OS will instead aim to be Application Binary Interface (ABI) compatible.
Fedora Workstation 40 Considering To Implement Privacy-Preserving Telemetry — Red Hat's desktop developers are interested in "limited data collection of anonymous Fedora Workstation usage metrics." They are not wanting to collect individual user data but are interested in aggregate usage metrics.
Changes/Telemetry - Fedora Project Wiki
What data will be collected, exactly? — A breakout topic for the F40 Change Request on Privacy-preserving telemetry for Fedora Workstation.
Endless OS’s privacy-preserving metrics system — Let’s stare directly at the elephant in the room: usage metrics – telemetry, analytics, or whatever other terms one might like to use – is something that free software community members are often opposed to, with some good justification.
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends — The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth
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Office Hours 32: Things are Changing
Our Fastest, Most Beautiful Release Ever: Thunderbird 115 “Supernova” Is Here! — We did our best to strike a comfortable balance between new features and interface changes to appeal to new users, while maintaining the current layout and interface that millions of our users know and love.
rustdesk 1.2 — Rewritten with Flutter, Wayland support, Headless Linux, Resolution adjustment, Dark theme.

518: Race To Immutability Jul 09, 2023

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Can Ubuntu make a great immutable desktop? We're trying the brand-new "Everything is a Snap" Ubuntu Core Desktop.

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Berlin with Brent Meetup — Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:00 PM
Berlin Buds on Matrix
Things are Changing | Office Hours 32 — We've got a radically new format idea for Office Hours and want to tell you all about it.
Linux Action News 299 — Recent advances in embedded Linux, Canonical takes full control of LXD, ZFS gets a handy Btrfs feature, and updates on the show's production.
Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base — Behind the scenes, the Canonical team has been actively exploring the benefits of Ubuntu Core beyond the realm of IoT, most notably in the context of developers and daily users.
ubuntu-core-desktop on GitHub — This directory contains an image of Ubuntu Core 22 with the GDM display manager loaded into the boot file system.
Actions · canonical/ubuntu-core-desktop - GitHub
canonical/workshops on GitHub — Workshops provides a user friendly interface to create and manage LXD containers as well as provides a full featured terminal.
Workshops on the Snap Store
Snikket Dev's take on XMPP and Embrace Extend Extinguish
snikket-server: Image builder for Snikket server
Snikket Chat — Simple, secure and private messaging.
OLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and Expo — OLF is returning on September 8-9, 2023!
Magnolia Mayhem’s CaterCloud
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kz6fittycent/BobRossQuotes: A bunch of quotes from Bob Ross
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517: Caught Red-Hatted Jul 02, 2023

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Just about every take on the Red Hat news seems to have missed the mark.

Special Guest: Carl George.

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Berlin with Brent Meetup — Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:00 PM
Berlin Buds Matrix Room
Our Essential Apps | Self-Hosted 100 — We cover our must-have self-hosted apps, reflect on the state of Self-Hosting now, and discuss what's new in Proxmox 8.
Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes — There was a time, not too long ago, that Red Hat found value in the work done by rebuilders like CentOS. We pushed our SRPMs out to git.centos.org in a neat package that made them easy to rebuild; we even de-branded it for them. More recently, we have determined that there isn’t value in having a downstream rebuilder.
Linux Action News 298 — Why everyone is excited about the next Linux kernel, Valve's big hire, and Red Hat's clone war.
Ask Noah 343 Interview w/Mike McGrath — Mike McGrath joins the Ask Noah Show to discuss the changes Red Hat is making in how they make their source code available.
A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model — We fear that be it through incompetence or malice, many RHEL salespeople and business development professionals may regularly violate GPL and no one knows about it. That said, the business model as described by IBM's Red Hat may well comply with the GPL — it's just so murky that any tweak to the model in any direction seems to definitely violate, in our experience.
Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code — One option is through the usage of UBI container images which are based on RHEL and available from multiple online sources (including Docker Hub). Another method that we will leverage is pay-per-use public cloud instances. With this, anyone can spin up RHEL images in the cloud and thus obtain the source code for all packages and errata.
Springdale Linux Discussions — While RedHat's action itself is not particularly surprising given somewhat-recent developments with regards to the likes of CentOS Stream, the timing has taken many in the RHEL-compatible-clone world by surprise.
Red Hat & Fedora – largely stepping out of this ecosystem - Fedora Mailing-Lists — What Red Hat has done recently is depressing, but not a huge surprise to me. Red Hat struggled repeatedly with how to deal with "the clones".The core idea I always came back to in those discussions was that the value isn't in the bits, but in the stability, services and ecosystem Red Hat enables around the bits.
How Red Hat killed its core product—and became a billion-dollar business — To move from small player to big-time enterprise software competitor, Cormier argued that Red Hat had to ditch the freely downloadable Red Hat Linux. Instead, it should replace Red Hat Linux with a more robust enterprise software package that maintained the principles of free (as in freedom) software without actually being free (as in price) to customers.
Carl George on Fosstodon — “You should have already been using #CentOS Stream. There, I said it.”
NASA secures contract with Rocky Enterprise Linux — NASA/NSSC has a requirement for FY23 CIQ Rocky Enterprise Linux Purchase. Item: CIQ Rocky Enterprise Linux Per Person Advanced - Annual Subscription. Quantity: 3
NASA secures contract with Rocky Enterprise Linux (HN Discussion)
catercloud.me — Originally, the project consisted of a web framework that glued together several other, more mature open-source projoects, but as scope creep and my own tendency toward re-inventing the wheel rose to the surface, the project’s development became more and more complex, slowly incorporating a lot of components that go way beyond a simple word cloud and into things like natural language processing.

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