662: The GitHub Diet

Is it time to replace GitHub in our workflow? We git into it. Plus, our favorite features in the new Linux 7.0 release.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026 — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonLFNW2026 ScheduleLinux 7.0: Btrfs — A translation layer of logical block addresses that allows changes without moving or rewriting blocks for relocationLinux 7.0: XFS — Autonomous self-healing; delivers live filesystem health events to userspace for automatic repairsLinux 7.0: EXT4 — Improves write performance for concurrent direct I/O writesLinux 7.0: IO-uring — Adds support for BPF filtering to IO_uring for high performance async I/OLinux 7.0: Scheduler — Scheduler updates land with time slice extension, performance and scalability work for high core count systemsLinux 7.0: Rust — Formally concluding the 'Rust experiment'; Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stayLinux 7.1: i486 — Begins phasing out Intel 486 CPU support; no known Linux distributions still ship with i486 supportGive 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 environmentNixOS Wiki: Forgejo — Lightweight software forge; completely free software and a fork of GiteaForgejo Actions — Reusable pieces of code for CI workflows; compatible with GitHub ActionsNixOS Forgejo Actions Runner — NixOS configuration for turnkey deployment of Forgejo Actions runnersForgejo Federation (PR #10453) — Work-in-progress for federated repositories; enabling decentralized software developmentForgejo Snippets (Issue #1069) — Create a shareable piece of text, be it code or plain text, publicly or privatelyGit Novice Guide — Free interactive tutorial; learn version control with Git from scratchPick: sshroute — Network-aware SSH router - routes connections to different IPs/ports/keys/jump hosts based on active VPN or networkPick: rendercv — Resume builder for academics and engineersPick: ESPHome Starter Kit — DIY sensor kit for Home Assistant with ESPHome; build your own smart home devices