LINUX Unplugged

We dig into the Copy Fail vulnerability and test a proof-of-concept against our own box. Plus, Jon Seager, VP of Engineering at Canonical joins us, and we kick off the BSD Challenge!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.FMCopy Fail — CVE-2026-31431 — "An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux system, and use that to gain root." — TheoriCopy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root - Xint — "A single 732-byte Python script can edit a setuid binary and obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017." — XintLinux Kernel Bug Explained - Jorijn — "CopyFail is more portable. One script, every distro, no offsets. Dirty Pipe needed kernel ≥ 5.8; Copy Fail covers 2017–2026." — Jorijn"Kubernetes Pod Security Standards (Restricted) and default seccomp do NOT block the syscall used." — JorijnArs: Most Severe Linux Threat in Years — "The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed." — Ars TechnicaSysdig: CVE-2026-31431 Analysis — "The flaw was introduced in 2017 via commit 72548b093ee3, which switched AEAD operations to in-place processing." — SysdigCERT-EU AdvisoryUbuntu Security TrackerThe Register: Crypto FlawKernel Patch (reverts 2017 optimization) — "This mostly reverts commit 72548b093ee3 except for the copying of the associated data." — Kernel CommitBuggy Commit: 72548b093ee3 (2017)DeepWiki: AF_ALG Internalsoss-security DisclosurePSA + GRUB Mitigation - Jan WildeboerUbuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Released — "Ubuntu 26.04 LTS sets the example for providing best-in-class resilience while simultaneously embracing innovation and the advancement of open source." — Jon Seager, VP Ubuntu EngineeringThe Future of AI in Ubuntu - Jon Seager — "Throughout 2026 we'll be working on enabling access to frontier AI for Ubuntu users in a way that is deliberate, secure, and aligned with our open source values." — Jon SeagerUbuntu 26.04 Release NotesUbuntu AI Features Throughout 2026 - Phoronix — "Canonical's approach to AI is refreshingly thoughtful — Microsoft should take note." — ZDNetCanonical DDoS Attack Update — "Canonical's web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border attack and we are working to address it." — arcticp, CanonicalUbuntu Weekly Newsletter #942Canonical AI Approach - ZDNet9to5Linux: Opt-In LLM Toolsuutils/coreutils: Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutilsLINUX Unplugged 636: Engineering the FutureLiveCD fails to start X session on QEMU · Issue #354 · ghostbsd/issuesMonty's “rescue” drive NixOS configMagnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge ReportPick: NASty — NASty is a NAS operating system built on NixOS and bcachefs. It turns commodity hardware into a storage appliance serving NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF — managed from a single web UI, updated atomically, and rolled back when things go sideways.Pick: Defuse — Defuse is a GTK4 application for removing image backgrounds locally.Defuse on Flathub

After 26 years, we return to our roots and reflect on why LinuxFest Northwest is still a special event.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.FMLINUX Unplugged 666 BSD Challenge - Rules and RegretsLFNW2026 - Back to RootLinuxFest Northwest 2026 Playlist - YouTubeLinuxFest Northwest - YouTubeThe New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is A Local LLM On Framework Desktop + AMD Ryzen AI MaxBitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply ChainBear454's Fundraiser: Support for James Mason's FamilyPick: Updo — Updo is a command-line tool for monitoring website uptime and performance. It provides real-time metrics on website status, response time, SSL certificate expiry, and more, with alert notifications.Pick: Pake — 🤱🏻 Turn any webpage into a desktop app with one command.

We all have data to rescue, you just don't realize it yet. This week we build our own custom live rescue distros, recover real data, and show you how to make your own.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 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington6 ultimate boot CDs (system rescue) for troubleshooting Windows PCsSystemRescue — A Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.Finnix — Debian-based, CLI-focused with a comprehensive set of repair tools. Recent updates improved modern hardware support, boot speed, zram compression, and SSH remote access.Changes/ModernizeLiveMedia - Fedora Project Wiki — Modernize the live media by switching to the "new" live environment setup scripts provided by livesys-scripts and leverage new functionality in dracut to enable support for automatically enabling persistent overlays when flashed to USB sticks.Fedora 41: Modernize the live media Overlay Features?aegis-boot — A signed UEFI Secure Boot rescue environment that lets operators pick any ISO from a USB stick's data partition and kexec into it — without leaving the chain of trust.netboot.xyz — A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.Greg's nixos-configSelf-Hosted 129: Forged Alliance — The battle for code forges is heating up. We chat about HexOS' big promises and get excited about Meshtastic.pocket-id — A simple OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.What Is Claude Mythos—And Why Anthropic Won’t Let Anyone Use Itv4call — v4call is a decentralised video, voice and text platform built on the Hive blockchain. Users set their own rates for receiving calls and messages.Pick: Metadata Cleaner — View and clean metadata in filesMetadata Cleaner on FlatHubPick: mat2 — mat2 is a metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats, written in python3Pick: Little Snitch for Linux — Every time an application on your computer opens a network connection, it does so quietly, without asking. Little Snitch for Linux makes that activity visible and gives you the option to do something about it.littlesnitch-linux-flake — A Nix Flake for Little Snitch for LinuxPick: PCAPdroid — No-root network monitor, firewall and PCAP dumper for Android

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

The expensive, challenging, and humbling journey with open source agents.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 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonPreferring Local OSS LLMsQwen3.5 27B vs Gemma4 31BOpen Models have crossed a thresholdGemma 4 — Google DeepMindWelcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on deviceGemma-4-31B-JANG\_4M-CRACK · Hugging Facemesh-llm — Mesh LLM lets you pool spare GPU capacity across machines and expose the result as one OpenAI-compatible API.hermes-agent: The agent that grows with you — The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.goose — An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions; install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM.Lobehub — The ultimate space for work and life. To find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you. We are taking agent harness to the next level; enabling multi-agent collaboration, effortless agent team design, and introducing agents as the unit of work interaction.LibreFang — LibreFang is an open-source agent operating system written in Rust.OpenHarness — OpenHarness is an open-source Python implementation designed for researchers, builders, and the community.Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents — Microsoft proclaims their new open-source project is the first toolkit that addresses all ten agentic AI risks identified last year by the OWASPTop 10 Risks and Mitigations for Agentic AI Security - OWASP Gen AI Security Projectgoogleworkspace/cli: Google Workspace CLI — One command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills.Tunarr API ReferenceEuro-Office launches as Europe's open-source Office rivalPick: single-file-cli — CLI tool for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file (based on SingleFile)Pick: html-to-markdown — Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.Pick: skim — Turns any HTML page into clean markdown.

Ubuntu wants a leaner, stricter GRUB, and your favorite setup may not survive the cut. We break down what’s really changing, and the practical ways to adapt. Plus, Chris moves on from one of his favorite open source apps.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 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonThis Week In Bitcoin 97 | Jupiter BroadcastingUbuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better SecurityStreamlining secure boot for 26.10 - Ubuntu Community HubMitigating BootHole – CVE-2020-10713 and related vulnerabilities | UbuntuThere's a Hole in the Boot - EclypsiumFinal Release · ErsatzTV — It is time for me to announce the final release of ErsatzTV in its current form. The existing repositories will be archived following this update.ErsatzTV/nextTunarr · GitHub — Create a classic TV experience using your own media — IPTV backed by Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, or NFO.ThreadfinxTeVeFiller - Tunarr — Filler lists are collections of content used by Flex to pad time between episodes. One reason to use filler is to simulate traditional television by playing advertisements between episode airings.Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr (pronounced like "dispatcher") is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams, EPG data, and VOD content with elegance and control.awesome-iptv — A curated list of resources related to IPTVTunarr API ReferenceLINUX Unplugged 645 — We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex.turnstonelabs/turnstone — Experimental multi-node AI orchestration platform. Deploy tool-using AI agents across a cluster of servers, driven by message queues or interactive interfaces.Open-Source "GreenBoost" Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMsGeneBean's Cage KioskGeneBean's Pi Arm Build SetupPlanify - Task Manager for GNU/Linuxalainm23/planify: Task manager with Todoist, Nextcloud & CalDAV support designed for GNOMEPick: bore — bore is a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhostnixos-bore-module — Self-hosted bore tunnel server for NixOSPick: kdeconnect-sms-tui — Terminal UI for sending and receiving SMS/MMS via KDE Connect.Pick: Busybridge — Complex calendar free/busy syncing across organizations for consultants who work inside multiple orgs.

The self-hosted app that turned Chris into a family Time Lord, then we iterate on a long-desired hardware hack.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 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonKeeper.sh — Keeper is a simple & open-source calendar syncing tool. It allows you to pull events from remotely hosted iCal or ICS links, and push them to one or many calendars so the time slots can align across them all.Keeper.sh: Calendar Syncing, V2 ReleaseOneCalPiBox Overview - KubeSail DocsPiBox: A Modular Raspberry Pi Storage Server by Dan Pastusek — KickstarterRPi CM4 based local storage server launches on KickstarterKubeSail — So Long, and Thanks for All the Podsipetkov/nixos-pibox — NixOS modules for supporting the hardware present on the PiBoxraspberrypi/usbboot — Raspberry Pi USB device provisioning tool (RPIBOOT)cage-kiosk/cage — A Wayland kiosk. A kiosk runs a single, maximized application.systemd: BirthDate Field Added to JSON User Records — "Add birthDate field to JSON user records, allowing for standardized age-related logic within the userdb framework."Azuay Province - WikipediaPick: fq — fq is like jq but for binary formats, allowing you to tool, language, and decode complex binary data into human-readable structures.Pick: file-fridge — move files that aren't accessed as often to cold storagePick: sigrok — Portable, cross-platform, Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite: logic analyzers, scopes, multimeters, and more!Pick: PulseView — a Qt-based LA/scope/MSO GUI for sigrok

We each spent the week on our own projects, breaking then fixing things. Now we're back to compare progress, and a few lessons learned.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 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonPabloVitasso/esphome-chinbasto — A custom ESPHome component for controlling Chinese Webasto heaters using ESP32.Hacking the Chinese Diesel Heater Communications Protocol.pdf - Ray Jones - GitLabtimmchugh11/Chinese-Diesel-Heater---ESPHomeOpenCode | The open source AI coding agentanomalyco/opencode: The open source coding agent.Hunter Alpha - API Pricing & Providers | OpenRouterESPHome - Smart Home Made SimpleHome AssistantESP32 Wi-Fi & Bluetooth SoC | Espressif Systemsnodemcu/nodemcu-firmware: Lua based interactive firmware for ESP8266, ESP8285 and ESP32NodeMCU-32S Development Board Details, Pinout, SpecsAmazon.com: ESP-32S USB-C Development Board + ESP32 Terminal Boardagent-browser-protocol — Deterministic browser automation.camofox-browser — Headless browser automation server for AI agents.chrome-devtools-mcp — Chrome DevTools for coding agentsfirefox-devtools-mcp — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox DevToolsLittleFOX-MCP — Model Context Protocol server for FirefoxChrome DevTools MCP Debug — Let your Coding Agent debug your browser sessionLFNW2026 - Back to RootBrunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 1 | Jupiter EXTRAS 40Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2 | Jupiter EXTRAS 41Pick: LosslessCut — Simple and ultra fast cross platform tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video and audio files.LosslessCut on GitHubLosslessCut on FlathubPick: CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?Pick: llmfit — Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware.

After experiencing Planet Nix and SCaLE, we come back convinced the next phase of Linux is already taking shape.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.FMPlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherSCaLE 23x — SCALE is North America's largest community-run open source conference.Jupiter Broadcasting's SCaLE Matrix roomSCaLE 23x - YouTube — SCaLE 23x live streams, talks, and more.LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonFlox.devFlox: Developer environments you can take with you - GitHub — Flox is a virtual environment and package manager all in one. With Flox you create environments that layer and replace dependencies just where it matters, making them portable across the full software lifecycle.Keynote: Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALECindy Cohn | SCALEnoblepayne/nix-anywhere-else-talk — A Slidev presentation about the "dark arts" of ELF surgery and Nix, built entirely with Nix. This talk explores how patchelf and a deep understanding of the Executable and Linkable Format can make binaries portable in both directions: bringing foreign tools into NixOS, and taking Nix-built artifacts out to the rest of the world.DeepComputing — Advancing the adoption and implementation of RISC-VRoxane Fischer - Anyshift.ioDeterminate is the future of Nix today: Wasm, provenance, and flake schemasEFF Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALECindy Cohn - SCaLE — Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which works to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice and innovation for all the people of the world.Electronic Frontier Foundation - Defending your rights in the digital worldllama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++mangowm - Mango Wayland Compositor — Practical and powerful wayland compositor (dwm but wayland)The Open Source AI Definition 1.0 - Open Source InitiativePick: sone — Native TIDAL desktop client for Linux. Modern UI, custom themes, and bit-perfect lossless audio up to 24-bit/192kHz via exclusive ALSA. License: GPL-3Pick: qmd — mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local. License: MITPick: mtr — Combines the functionality of 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single network diagnostic tool. License: GPL-2MTR - Welcome Home Brent

We take KDE Linux for a spin and push it a little too far. Plus, a friend of the show stops by with a fresh tool: Nebula Commander.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.FMSCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherPasadena Linux Party, Fri, Mar 6, 2026, 6:00 PMKDE Linux - KDE Community WikiBeta (Enthusiast & Stable editions) · KDE Linux · GitLabInstall Software Not Available in Discover - KDE CommunityKDE Linux / Kapsule · GitLabsuikan4github/Using-tailscale-client-on-an-Immutable-OSxuars/kdelinux-tailscaleNix - KDE CommunityFitting Everything Together — TLDR: Hermetic /usr/ is awesome; let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, uniformity – built from traditional distribution packages, but deployed via images.Nebula CommanderDEMO Nebula CommanderNebula Commander GitHub — Nebula Commander is a self-hosted control plane for nebula overlay networks.Star Trek Comm Badge for Home Assistant Voice ControlPick: hcloud-upload-image — Quickly upload any raw disk images into your Hetzner Cloud projects!Pick: Launcher Studio — Launcher Studio is a GTK4 desktop application for creating and managing .desktop files on Linux.Launcher Studio on FlathubPick: tinyproxy — A light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systemsPick: socks-to-http-proxy — An executable to convert SOCKS5 proxy into HTTP proxy

Planet Nix and SCaLE are just days away, and we're getting a head start with two guests, the tech, and the trends shaping open source. Our trip starts here!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.FMSCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherPasadena Linux Party Meetupstahnma (Michael Stahnke)Flox, Nix, and Reproducible Software Systems with Michael Stahnke - Software Engineering DailyPro OpenSSH (Expert's Voice in Open Source): Stahnke, MichaelNix and AI, are we there yet? | SCALEstahnma/mandatoryFunPost by @kelseyhightower.com — Bluesky — I don't care about LLMs or AI. I care about people. AI is just a tool to me. Tools enable people to help or harm at a scale beyond their natural abilities. I care about how people treat each other using these tools.distrostru's gatus configStatus Page On Demand | GatusMimiClaw — MimiClaw turns a tiny ESP32-S3 board into a personal AI assistant.hrwtech/openclaw-esp32: OpenClaw on your Arduino ESP32 devicesPick: WebsocketCAM — Access Android camera via WebSocket client API and run AI / computer vision tasks with ease on live camera streamPick: ChrisLAS/openclaw-mcp-bridge — OpenClaw plugin that bridges any MCP HTTP server as native tools. The missing piece between OpenClaw + Ollama and the MCP ecosystem.Pick: ChrisLAS/freshrss-mcp — A simple MCP server to stand in front of your FreshRSS ServerPick: wechsel — A Cli Utility to replace home folders with symlinks to project folderswechsel-extension: A Gnome Extension for Project Switching

We were minutes away from shutting down our Matrix server when the Discord news hit. Now we're not just keeping it, we're doubling down. Can open source seize this moment?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.FMSCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherPasadena Linux Party MeetupDiscord to roll out age verification next monthHack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photosDiscord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter ThielNULLFS and OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE Features Merged For Linux 7.0OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE To Provide A Security and Performance Win For Dealing With ContainersAll about initramfspivot_root implementation and constraintsTrueNAS ScaleZimaOS — A Simplified, Focused and Open NAS OS Supports all X86-64 hardware.Github: ZimaOSClan — opinionated NixOS peer-to-peer computer management frameworkWhat is Clan? - Documentationclan-lol/clan-core: Build your own clanConnecTen internetCase Study: Fortress Outdoor RouterPick: booklog — B{ook}log is a self-hosted, multi-user book tracking platform for avid readers. Each user maintains a personal library and wishlist, with per-user readings, stats, and timeline.Pick: whosthere — Local Area Network discovery tool with an interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there? 🚪Pick: Weylus — Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.

The news this week highlights shifts in Linux from multiple angles. What's evolving, why it matters, and that moment where the future actually works.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.FMSCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherPasadena Linux Party MeetupValve explains why it hasn’t announced release dates for its new hardware, now plans for “first half of the year” — Valve now says all three products will ship “in the first half of the year.”Latest VirtualBox Code Begins Supporting KVM Backend — Support for KVM or other native OS hypervisors in conjunction with VirtualBox has long been sought and it's finally becoming a reality.bcachefs-tools v1.36.1 — Interactive TUI for monitoring various filesystem internals, slowpaths and device performance, with duration and frequency tracking for various events. Helpful for diagnosing performance issues.bcachefs v1.36.1 is out - next release will be erasure coding : r/bcachefsbcachefs PSA: if you're on 1.33-1.35, upgrade asap — Several people have been hit by this, so - please upgrade asap.Mattermost — Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.Debian's CI Data No Longer Publicly Browseable Due To LLM Scrapers / Bot TrafficVenice AI - Private AI for Unlimited Creative FreedomThinkBox V2 - A Custom 4-Bay SATA/SAS HDD NAS for Your Lenovo M720QCode for Climate 2026 — The Mad Botter Earth Day Open Source Challenge — We're doing our Earth Day open-source competition again The Mad Botter INC. Once again featuring System76 hardware and this time with dual tracks for college and non-college students.Michael Dominick on X - Earth Day Open Source ChallengeRed5d/podcast_mcp — MCP server for accessing Podcasting 2.0 RSS feed episode data. "I've really only tested it with JB feeds!"Pick: Plexus — Remove the fear of Android app compatibility on de-Googled devices.Plexus-app: GitHubPick: ReinschriftTodo — Reinschrift combines a native GNOME interface with the simplicity of plain text. Your tasks remain a normal Markdown file – easy to back up, versionable via Git, and editable on any device with your favorite editor.Reinschrift on Flathub

We stress tested open source AI agents this week. What actually held up, and where it falls apart. Plus Brent's $20 Wi-Fi upgrade.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.FMPlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherAgenda - PlanetNix 2026SCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"Pasadena Linux Party MeetupLINUX Unplugged 650: This Old Network — We rebuild a small office network around Linux, with an Unplugged twist and real-world constraints. Things don't go quite as expected...OpenWrt Wiki - Ad blockingAdBlock-fast — AdBlock-Fast is a high-performance ad-blocking service for OpenWrt that integrates with Dnsmasq, SmartDNS, and Unbound.OpenWrt Wiki - Supported Hardware TableAbe's volition — This is a public, sanitized version of my Abiverse repository for people to use and run their own AbesOpenClaw — Clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights. All from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use.Introducing OpenClawopenclaw on GitHub 🦞openclaw security IssuesPractical changes could reduce AI energy demand by up to 90% – University College Londonmoltbook — the front page of the agent internetSeloraBox - NixOS Edition — SeloraBox is a self-configuring home automation appliance based on NixOS, featuring automated installation, device claiming via QR code, and self-updating configuration management.nixtcloud: Nextcloud with NixOS in the backend and P2P connectivity enabled — Nixtcloud turns a Raspberry Pi or NanoPi NEO3 into a privacy-first, zero-config personal cloud — powered by NixOS, Nextcloud, and peer-to-peer remote access via Holesail. Built for the self-hosting crowd who want full control without constant babysitting.Holesail.io - Open Source P2P Reverse ProxyPick: ml-sharp-pinokio — One-click 3D Gaussian Splatting generation from a single image.Pick: Gradia — Gradia helps you get your screenshots ready for sharing, whether quickly with friends or colleagues, or professionally with the entire world.

When your self-hosted services become infrastructure, breakage matters. We tackle monitoring that actually helps, alerts you won't ignore, and DNS for local, and multi-mesh network setups.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.FMUsing Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula | Nebula DocsPlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherSCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"Pasadena Linux Party MeetupNACME: ACME for Nebula PKI — ACME for Nebula PKIuptime-kuma — A fancy self-hosted monitoring tooltelegraf-bcachefs-inputbcachefs collector by ananthbntfy.sh — Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POSTmeshSidecar — Mesh network sidecars for NixOS ServicesBecome a Core Contributor MemberJupiter.Party Network MembershipNixOS Clinic ConfigNixRTR/nixos-router — NixOS Router ConfigurationNext Steps for Funding Contributors - Actual BudgetWiFiman - WiFi AnalyserRichARCH Install GuideRichARCH Hyprvibe ScreenshotPick: Switchyard — Modern rules-based URL launcher ready to replace your default browser.switchyard on GitHubSwitchyard on Flathub

We rebuild a small office network around Linux, with an Unplugged twist and real-world constraints. Things don't go quite as expected...Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMPlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherSCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"GEEKOM IT13 Mini PC 2026OpenWrt OneSonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus-EHome Assistant Connect ZBT-2 — An updated Zigbee and Thread chip gives it the highest performance available, while providing a rock-solid, stable network.SYMFONISK Sonos WiFi bookshelf speaker — The speaker is a collaboration between IKEA and Sonos, so it easily integrates with other products from Sonos.IKEA SYMFONISK - Home Assistant — Support for devices by IKEA SYMFONISK in Home Assistant is provided by the Sonos integration.OpenCode — The open-source AI coding agent.OpenCode on [email protected] — A local-first personal finance app.Pocket ID — A simple and easy-to-use OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.Pick: Pocket TTS — A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice.Pocket TTS on GitHubPick: WebView Kiosk — Turn your Android device into a locked-down web page in fullscreen mode.webview-kiosk on GitHub

The storage apocalypse has arrived. An old friend drops by to talk survival strategies as prices explode, and we pitch our own unapologetically 90s approach to stretching storage.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMPlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherPlanet Nix 2026: Call for ProposalsSCaLE 23x | RegistrationLinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for SpeakersMichael Tunnell - YouTubeTuxDigitalLINUX Unplugged 596: Perilously Pontificated PredictionsPhison CEO: SSD "Pricing Apocalypse" to Continue Through 2027HDD Prices Spike as AI Infrastructure and China’s PC Push Collide2025 Cloud Pricing Trends: Big Three Shake Up Storage CostsStorage Apocalypse: Why SSDs and HDDs Are Becoming Impossibly ExpensiveJensen Huang Flagged Data Storage as the Next AI BottleneckManufacturer Recertified Drives - ServerPartDeals.comHard Disk Prices (US)Storage Price TrackerRackRat - eBay Rackmount Server Deal Finderr/HomelabSales$£€ - RedditSmart Buy 10 Pack Bd-r Dl 50gb 6X Blu-ray Double Layer Recordable DiscBlueVault — A top-quality TUI app to manage Blu-ray cold storage archives on Linux.Pick: Kopia — Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.Kopia Repository ServerPick: PowerISO — Create, Burn, Mount, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual DrivePowerISO on FlathubPick: CDEmu — CDemu is a software suite designed to emulate an optical drive and disc on the Linux operating system.Tellico — Collection management software, free and simple.

We unleash a networking monitoring tool to spot new devices, track changes in real time, and fire alerts straight into Home Assistant, MQTT, and your phone.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMPlanet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals @ Sessionize.comSCaLE 23x | RegistrationNetAlert X — Network intruder and presence detector. Scans for devices connected to your network and alerts you if new and unknown devices are found.NetAlertX DocsNetAlertX GitHubNetAlertX docker-compose.ymlNixOS OCI Config for NetAlertXHome Assistant - NetAlertX Docs — NetAlertX comes with MQTT support, allowing you to show all detected devices as devices in Home Assistant. It also supplies a collection of stats, such as number of online devices.home assistant mqtt documentationntfy.sh — Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POSTMosquitto - An open source MQTT brokerPi-hole – Network-wide Ad BlockingESPresensemkellyxp/nixbook: LICENSE? - Issue #55Choosing a License - Find the Perfect Open Source License for Your ProjectLicense Selector - OpenLicrLicenseHub - Open Source License Tools PlatformOpen Source Licenses Explained: A ComparisonGitHub - ErikMcClure/bad-licenses — A compendium of absurd "open-source" licenses.Podverse AlphaPodcasting 2.0 Episode 246: Crap Trap — Adam & Dave are joined by Mitch and Archie of Podverse famePick: MQTT — Your All-in-one MQTT Client ToolboxMQTTX GitHubMQTT X on FlathubPick: mqtt5-explorer — MQTT5 Explorer is a simple yet feature-rich client to visualize data of any MQTT broker.MQTT5 Explorer on FlathubPick: Unify — Unify is a web app aggregator built with Qt 6, Qt WebEngine, and KirigamiUnify on FlathubPick: web-app-hub — A Web App Manager, written in rust with GTK and beautiful Adwaita.Web App Hub on FlathubPick: Home-manager Webapps — Home-manager configuration file to get webapps in the system menu on a NixOS system

We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for SpeakersThe Launch 🚀: Nature Chose ViolencePewDiePie - I installed Linux (so should you)James Lee - How I Broke up with AdobeLinux surpasses 5% market share on US desktops for the first timeIt is finally the year of Linux on the Desktop: free OS reaches 5% market shareIntroducing the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistantADHD is Awesome: A Guide To (Mostly) Thriving With ADHD: Holderness, Penn, Holderness, Kim, Edward Hallowell: 9781400338610Pick: eilmeldung TUI RSS Reader — A terminal-based RSS reader built on the news-flash backend.Pick: Zbridge — zBridge is an online bridge club where you can learn and play bridge. It is a full bridge platform with multiple features.Zbridge flatpak sourcePick: Cavalier — Visualize audio with CAVA

The Great Holiday Homelab Special! Where our community brought their absolute best, from budget busters to beautiful disasters. Plus, a boosties celebration! Grab an eggnog and join us as we attempt to choose this year's winners.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM

We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex. Then, we talk COSMIC stable with System76's CEO.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMPop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released — This year, System76 turned twenty. For twenty years we have shipped Linux computers. For seven years we’ve built the Pop!_OS Linux distribution. Three years ago it became clear we had reached the limit of our current potential and had to create something new. Today, we break through that limit with the release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with the COSMIC Desktop Environment.Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams and EPG data with elegance and control.IPTV Link Search — Public IPTV live channels, m3u8 links are updated daily.Streamtest.inptv-org/iptv — Collection of publicly available IPTV channels from all over the worldiptv/PLAYLISTS.mdbepg — Utilities for downloading the EPG (Electronic Program Guide) for thousands of TV channels from hundreds of sources.iptv-epg.orgTiviMate IPTV Player — Easy to use for beginners and deeply customizable for power users, TiviMate blends speed, clarity, and control into a seamless viewing experience.M3U IPTV — Stream your IPTV channels on the go or on Android TV.DangoPlayer — A fast video player and IPTV client for Android and TViPlayTV - IPTV/M3U Player App — IPTV/M3U player for Apple TV. The one Chris has used the longestChillio IPTV Smart Player App — New app, paid if you want quad boxOpen TV — IPTV player with many features.html-iptv-player — HTML IPTV Player with EPG viewer for M3U8 playlisthypnotix — An M3U IPTV PlayerIPTVnatorVidGrid — watch multiple news channels in your browserM3U Magic • Free Private IPTV PlayerErsatzTV — Your Personal IPTV Serverkptv-fast — A high-performance streaming service aggregator that combines multiple free streaming platforms into a single M3U playlist and EPG. Perfect for use with Channels DVR, Plex, or any IPTV client.Pick: Jellify-Music — A cross-platform, free and open source music player for Jellyfin, powered by React NativePick: DockerComposeMaker — DockerComposeMaker (DCM) is a self-hostable website to help you pick and create a docker-compose.yml file for your home server. Discover new containers, discover and share a config in a couple of clicks!Demo Docker Compose GeneratorPick: Leantime — Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.

Kent Overstreet joins us for a full update on bcachefs. What's new, what's next, and the surprising upside of getting kicked out of the kernel.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLUP's Great Holiday Homelab FormLUP's Great Holiday Homelab Old Fart Form (markdown)bcachefs 1.33.0Bcachefs Ready With Its Reconcile Feature As Biggest Change In Two Years — "Biggest new feature in the past ~2 years, I believe. The user facing stuff may be short and sweet - but so much going on under the hood to make all this smooth and polished."Kent Overstreet - Patreonbcachefs — A copy-on-write (COW) file system for Linux first announced by Kent Overstreet in 2015. It is intended to compete with the modern features of ZFS or Btrfs.LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later — 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.Git or not a Git man page?proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOSPick: Dotfiles Installer — Install dotfiles easy, fast and secure. Or provide an installation application for your dotfiles.ML4W Dotfiles Installer Wikidotfiles-installer: GitHubPick: SSH-Studio — Easy, GUI SSH config editor and validator built with Python, GTK 4 and libadwaita.LubeLogger, Vehicle Maintenance and Fuel Mileage Tracker, slips into December with some banging new features

We pull on a few loose threads from recent episodes, and some of them unravel into way more than we expected.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLUP's Great Holiday Homelab FormLUP's Great Holiday Homelab Old Fart Form (markdown)Jellyswarrm — Bring all your Jellyfin servers togetherLiveTV support · Issue #9 · LLukas22/Jellyswarrmpangolin — Identity-Aware Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Dashboard UI.Pangolin | Secure Access PlatformNixOS Search - Options - PangolinYoutarr — Self-hosted web app that automates downloading, organizing, and scheduling YouTube channel content with support for Plex, Kodi, Emby and JellyfinAdd ability to set subfolder for manual downloads · Issue #287 · DialmasterOrg/YoutarrDawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)dawarich CHANGELOG.mdCVE-2025-40090 | Ubuntu — Since commit 305853cce3794 ksmbd_session_rpc_method() attempts to lock sess->rpc_lock. This causes hung connections / tasks when a client attempts to open a named pipe.SMB3 & KSMBD See Performance Improvements With Linux 6.18 — KSMBD also now adds a max IP connections parameter to optionally limit the maximum number of connections permitted per IP address.ksmbd vulnerability research · Doyensec's Blogksmbd - Fuzzing Improvements and Vulnerability Discovery (2/3)ksmbd - Exploiting CVE-2025-37947 (3/3)doyensec's KSMBD-CVE-2025-37947 PoCGrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stanceGrapheneOS exits France — what it means for encryptionFrance's Encryption War Escalates: GrapheneOS Exodus Signals Dangerous Precedent for Open Source Privacy TechSeems like the GrapheneOS phone collab may be with Motorolla.Rust For Linux Kernel Co-Maintainer Formally Steps DownBcachefs Ousted from Mainline Kernel: The Move to DKMS and What It MeansRed Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” StrategiesRichard Hipp - Git: Just Say No - YouTube2011 SouthEast LinuxFest - Richard Hipp - Fossilize Your Code - YouTubePick: Gopher64 — Highly compatible N64 emulator.Gopher64 — simple64's official and spiritual successor - Libretro — It’s made by the same developer(s). Unlike simple64 however, it’s not based entirely on Mupen64Plus. And it’s aiming for a more LowSpec hardware overhang.Install Gopher64 on Linux | Flathub

Chris cooked up a wild remote-access trick for Jellyfin that skips VPNs entirely. One tiny toggle spins up a secure tunnel on demand. Simple, absurd, and shockingly effective.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLUP's Great Holiday Homelab FormOld Fart Form (markdown)ngrok — Go from code to global in just minutes with a developer-friendly, idiomatic solution for managing traffic to your APIs.Jellyswarrm — Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place.Sveske-Juice/declarative-jellyfin — This repository provides a Nix flake that allows for declarative configuration of Users, Libraries, Plugins, Settings, etc. Jellyfin 10.11 is NOT SUPPORTED.declarative-jellyfin full exampleZigl3ur/jellyhub — JellyHub is a web app that allow you to fetch media from all of your jellyfin servers and regroup it in one place, so there is one place to search for specific media and tells you on wich server the desired media is located.Smiley-McSmiles/jellyman — Jellyman is a lightweight BASH CLI tool for installing and managing Jellyfin. As well as create a full backup (automatically or manually) so you can move or import all your metadata and user information to another machine.LSchallot/JellyRoller — JellyRoller is an open source CLI Jellyfin Controller written in Rust that works on Windows and Linux. Its primary purpose is to allow administration of a Jellyfin application from the command line.kjtsune/embyToLocalPlayer — etlp (embyToLocalPlayer) is a tool that lets Emby, Jellyfin, and Plex play videos using your local media players (like mpv or VLC) instead of the built-in web player, while optionally sending playback progress back to the server.Pick: subgen — Autogenerate subtitles using OpenAI Whisper Model via Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, Tautulli, or Bazarr.

We dig into the biggest Linux hardware news of the year, then fire up our new-to-us 1L PC server.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMDownload DNClient Desktop from Defined NetworkingOLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and ExpoRegistration - OLF ConferenceValve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOSSteam Controller — Steam Controller shares DNA with Steam Deck, with all the inputs to play all the games on Steam, wherever Steam is.Steam Machine — Made for powerful, versatile PC gaming on a big screen; quiet and small enough to fit under your TV, on your desk, or anywhere else you want to game. (It's a roughly 6-inch (160mm) cube!)Steam Frame — Comfortable, wireless, lightweight VR designed to give you a new way to experience your entire Steam library“The Steam machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home.”Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam MachineFEX-Emu/FEX: A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 LinuxFEX 2511 Delivers More Performance Improvements For Linux x86 Binaries On ARM64Commits · FEX-Emu/FEX · GitHubPLF10 Smart Plug – Kaufman Home AutomationHome Assistant Connect ZBT-1About Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 — Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 is the new name for Home Assistant SkyConnect. Despite the new name and look, they have the exact same hardware, capability, and support.libvirt: The virtualization APIlibvirt - ArchWiki — Libvirt is a collection of software that provides a convenient way to manage virtual machines and other virtualization functionality, such as storage and network interface management. These software pieces include a long term stable C API, a daemon (libvirtd), and a command line utility (virsh).Category:Virtualization - NixOS WikiVirt-manager - NixOS WikiLibvirt - NixOS WikiPick: easyeffects — Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applicationsEasyEffects 8.0 Released In Porting From GTK4 To Qt / QML / KirigamiEasy Effects on FlathubMarcel Repo Email

We dive into your configs, the genius moves, the glorious blunders, and everything in between.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLINUX Unplugged 634: Config Confessionsyechielw/dots — Nixos and home-manager configShayne's budget FlakeShayne's Budget PackagesShayne's Budget Configuration.nixChris' Budget Flake FixMillak/guix-config: mirror of my guix configsMillak/my-guix: local guix packagesefraim-home: Add mpv-sponsorblock-minimal-conf.dDistrostu's configsDistrostu's M Series ConfigOly Mike's NixbookwriteShellApplication - Nix function referencewriteShellApplication - Nixpkgs Manual — writeShellApplication is similar to writeShellScriptBin and writeScriptBin but supports runtime dependencies with runtimeInputs.rwiankowski/homeserver-nixos — My Home Server Setup using a single NixOS nodeBrandon's HomelabBrandon's MacBrandon's brew defined by NixBrandon's Mac Apps installed via NixBeardedTek/nixos-router: NixOS Router Configuration — A declarative NixOS configuration that transforms a standard PC into a full-featured network router with integrated secrets management.blocky: DNS proxy and ad-blockerDeidrael/nix-config: My NixOS ConfigFuzzyMistborn/infra — 100% chance of id10t errors....and a slight chance of a credential leakwilliam/nix-config: All my nix stuff, in a single flakePick: SoltrOS — Immutable Linux designed for gaming & developmentPick: Parabolic — A powerful yt-dlp frontend.Pick: Youtarr — Youtarr is a self-hosted YouTube DVR that lets you subscribe to channels, browse their videos in a web UI, and automatically download and archive the ones you care about to your own storage.

After all the AI hype is over, one change for Linux will be sticking around; we put it to the test.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMSeaGL 2025 — November 7-8, 2025 in Seattle, WALinuxFest NorthwestLinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for SpeakersSCALE 23x - Southern California Linux Expo — North America's largest community-run open source conference. Pasadena, CA - March 5-8, 2026SCALE - Call for PresentationsPlanet Nix '26 — March 5th-6th, 2026 @ Pasadena, CAPlanet Nix 2026: Call for ProposalsLINUX Unplugged 481: Just a Prompt Away — The Internet is going crazy with AI-generated media. What's the open-source story, and is Linux being left out?Red Hat eyes developer workflow efficiency, app modernization gains with new AI tools — An AI assistant specifically designed for application migration and modernization looks to reduce developer toilSUSE Linux Enterprise 16 Announced: "Enterprise Linux That Integrates Agentic AI" — SUSE's announcement today for SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 proclaims SLES 16 to be "the industry's first enterprise Linux that integrates agenetic AI" and "reduces operational costs and complexity through AI readiness."openSUSE on Hugging FaceChrisLAS/hyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.Pull requests - ChrisLAS/hyprvibefeat: add comprehensive sops-nix integration by shift · PR #15 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibeAdd options for username, group, home directory by samh · PR #8 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibeCreate variables for user and home dir by F-bit818 · PR #5 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibeLM Studio - Local AI on your computerZed — The editor for what's nextCursor: The best way to code with AINixbook — Convert your old computer to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.nixbook/base.nix — Roast my Nix: Not-a-flake edition!Jupiter Broadcasting's Colony EventsPick: duf — Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative.Pick: cheat.sh — the only cheat sheet you need.

Fedora 43 arrives with polish, new spins, and a smarter installer; and one decision the rest of the Linux world should pay attention to.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. CrowdHealth: This open enrollment, take your power back. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using code UNPLUGGED.Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMnebula-lighthouse-servicenebula-lighthouse-service: init at 2.0.0 by bloominstrong · Pull Request #454855 · NixOS/nixpkgs — nebula-lighthouse-service is aimed to be run a a public nebula lighthouse for those who cannot host their own, or who want extra lighthouses without the burden of maintaining another lighthouse.Fedora Linux 43 Cleared For Release Next Week — While Fedora 43 wasn't ready for release this week due to outstanding blocker bugs, at today's Go/No-Go meeting it was decided that Fedora 43 is now in a position for shipping next week.Velocity Limitless / Projects / Slitherer · GitLabFedora 43 Wallpaper Wrap-Up – Fedora Community BlogFedora COSMIC SpinPlasma 6.5 - Reaching the Inflection Point[Fedora KDE] Early Plasma 6.5.0 - Fedora Discussion — With Fedora 43 being a go, we will be doing an update on repos towards the middle to end of next week that will bring Qt 6.10 and Plasma 6.5.1 to F43, and Plasma 6.5.1 (Most likely, plans are not 100% final in that regard) to F42. That will bring the update to the usual architectures, such as aarch64.Pick: Millisecond — Optimize your Linux system for low latency audioMillisecond on Flathubnoblepayne/millisecond-flakertcqs — rtcqs is a Python utility to analyze your system and detect possible bottlenecks that could have a negative impact on the performance of your system when working with Linux audioHow do I get an out-of-the-box working Linux audio workstation? - LinuxAudio.orgPick: lemurs 🐒 — A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust

The biggest failure in seven years, right before a trip. What broke, how Chris pulled it back together, and how Wes would fix it right.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. CrowdHealth: This open enrollment, take your power back. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using code UNPLUGGED. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMHome Assistant Community Add-on: SSH & Web TerminalHomeAssistent Yellow: EmberZNet Zigbee: failed to flash firmware · Issue #146293HA Yellow/Zigbee Issue - Home Assistant CommunityHome Assistant Yellow Radio firmware - Home Assistant CommunityHome Assistant on X: "⚠️ WE'RE ENDING PRODUCTION OF THE HOME ASSISTANT YELLOW ⚠️Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q 10T7 Tiny DesktopDell OptiPlex 3070 Desktop ComputerBeelink Mini S13 Pro Mini PC,13 Generation Intel N150Minisforum MS-01 Work StationHome Assistant Connect ZWA-2Home Assistant - NixOS Wikihome-assistant/component-packages.nix at nixos-25.05Pick: Hexecute 🪄 — Launch apps by casting spells!Pick: LenspectLenspect on Flathub — A lightweight security threat scanner intended to make malware detection more accessible and efficient.

We're back from Texas just in time to chat with Jon Seager, Canonical's VP of Engineering, and their new era with Ubuntu 25.10. On the way, we visit System76 in Denver where the COSMIC team has surprises waiting for us.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMCOSMIC — Next generation Cosmic desktop environment. Use it on your favorite distro!System76 — Powerful Linux computers designed by nerds, engineered by experts, handcrafted by humans in the US.GitHub - pop-os/cosmic-epoch: Next generation Cosmic desktop environmentGitHub - pop-os/cosmic-applets: WIP applets for cosmic-panelPop!_OS 24.04 (with COSMIC Desktop) Just Hit Beta - OMG! UbuntuCanonical releases Ubuntu 25.10 Questing QuokkaUbuntu Engineering in 2025: A Retrospective · Jon SeagerUbuntu 25.10 Fix Pending For Broken Flatpak Support - PhoronixLINUX Unplugged 634: Config ConfessionsHybrid Pick: ncspotPick: poop (Performance Optimizer Observation Platform) — This command line tool uses Linux's perf_event_open functionality to compare the performance of multiple commands with a colorful terminal user interface.sharkdp/hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool

Our cross-continent race to Texas Linux Fest culminates into fantastic meat, meetups, and more.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:🤠 Texas Linux Festival Trip Support (Fake Boost)💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMTexas TrackerTexas Linux FestTXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - The Design & Implementation of the Darwin Operating SystemTXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - Getting Started with Ansible on LinuxTXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - Lessons They Don't Teach You in School: A Year in High-Performance ComputingTXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - I got Malware, BTW. A quick look at the rising trend of Linux MalwareA Gift for the Open Source Community: Chainguard’s CVE-Free Raspberry Pi Images (Beta)Chainguard for Raspberry PiChainguard's ImagesWes Payne - Mesh Network Sidecars for NixOS Services - Texas Linux Festnoblepayne/meshSidecar: Mesh network sidecars for NixOS ServicesPick: isd — isd (interactive systemd) – a better way to work with systemd units.ISD 0.6 Released For Interactive Systemd Management

From finely tuned to total config carnage. We review listener homelabs to share what works, and what really doesn't.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMTexas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TXTexas Linux Festival Trip Support (Fake boost)JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Meetup.com — Saturday, Oct 4 - 12:00 AM to 01:30 PM CDTJB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony EventsTurnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TXDawarich — Automatically track your daily life with Dawarich. Never forget where you went or what you did. Relive your memories with precise location data.LINUX Unplugged 614: Self-Hosted Location TrackingDawarich API DocsAlbinLind/dawarich-api — A python wrapper for DawarichTexas Tracker — Real-time distance tracking and movement visualizationJupiterBroadcasting/texastracker: — A static website that tracks our trip to Texas Linux Festival 2025.bitchatA Guide To bitchat version 1.2-1.3 : r/bitchatGeohash Converter - Find and visualize your GeohashOverland GPS Tracker on the App Storegpslogger: :satellite: Lightweight GPS Logging Application For Android.Zakk's (2kOS) nix configNotAShelf/nvf: Modular, extensible and distro-agnostic Neovim configuration framework for Nix/NixOSsuderman's nixos — system configurations & dotfilesNixOS impermanence — Lets you choose what files and directories you want to keep between reboots - the rest are thrown away.numtide/blueprint: Standard folder structure for Nix projects — blueprint is an opinionated library that maps a standard folder structure to flake outputs, allowing you to divide up your flake into individual files across these folders. This allows you to modularize and isolate these files so that they can be maintained individually and even shared across multiple projects.gmodena/nix-flatpak — Install flatpaks declarativelyAdam's (A Manzer) nix-configProwlarrnzbhydra2: Usenet meta searchKieran dotsFortyduex's nix configFortydeux's FirewireBrad's nix configBrad's SMBMonty's AnsibleMonty's NixMonty's NXCChrisLAS/hyprvibe: A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.Namespace nixosModules options under "hyprvibe" to avoid potential collisions - hyprvibe Issue #10Pick: vtunnel — vTunnel is a tool that proxies IP traffic between guest and host networks by using the VSOCK protocol.Pick: Tab-Session-Manager — WebExtensions for restoring and saving window / tab states

Can't get enough Linux? How about multiple kernels running simultaneously, side by side, not in a VM, all on the same hardware; this week it's finally looking real.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMnebula-tower — A user-friendly server to manage your Slack Nebula mesh network.Texas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TXJB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party, Sat Oct 4 - Meetup.comJB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony EventsTurnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TXbitchatAd-Free Viewing By Showing Your Support During The Phoronix Oktoberfest / Autumn Sale — Through the end of the month (30 September), you can enjoy premium at the Oktoberfest rate. The normal Phoronix Premium rate is $45 USD per year or $250 for a lifetime subscription but for this year's Oktoberfest deal, you can go premium for just $30 per year or $150 for a lifetime subscription.GNOME 49 Release Notes — We code named the release “Brescia”, after a beautiful Italian city that hosted this year’s GUADEC.GNOME 49 Officially Released With Wayland Improvements, Showtime As Video PlayerUbuntu 25.10 Beta Officially Released For Testing — Canonical today released the Ubuntu 25.10 Beta as they work toward the stable Ubuntu 25.10 release in mid-October.Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings — Ubuntu 25.10's transition to using Rust Coreutils in place of GNU Coreutils has uncovered a few performance issues so far with the Rust version being slower than the C-based GNU Coreutils.base64 implementation almost 8x slower than GNU for some large filessort does not finish for large one line fileFedora 43 Beta ISOs Released For Testing — Fedora 43 Beta ISOs are now available for those wanting to help in testing.Omarchy 3.0 — Omarchy 3.0 is here — faster installs, big MacBook support, and lots of polish.systemd 258 Released With systemd-factory-reset & Other New Tools — Systemd 258 brings systemd-factory-reset to request a factory reset on the next reboot, systemd-pty-forward to allocate a pseudo TTY/PTY, UEFI firmware images can now be embedded in a UKI, and many other new features.systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 ChangesKernel RFC: Introduce multikernel architecture support — This patch series introduces multikernel architecture support, enabling multiple independent kernel instances to coexist and communicate on a single physical machine. Each kernel instance can run on dedicated CPU cores while sharing the underlying hardware resources.The Multikernel: A new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems [PDF]mirdaki/computer-config — Config for server and personal deploymentsMy Ultimate Self-hosting Setup — Matthew shares their ultimate self-hosting setup built on NixOS, ZFS, and Tailscale, balancing privacy, data control, and usability for family and friends.basecamp/once-campfire — Campfire is a web-based chat application.Pick: savr: Read it later. Keep it local. No server needed. — Savr is an app for saving online content to read later. It is file-centric, offline first, future proof, and favors decentralization.

Our first look at KDE Linux, then Chris shares the latest on Hyprvibe, while Wes braves his first install.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMnebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.Nebula - Apps on Google PlayTexas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TXJB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party, Sat Oct 4 - Meetup.comJB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony EventsTurnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TXbitchat — bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over bluetooth mesh networks.Texas Linux Festival Trip Support (Fake boost)Jupiter Broadcasting Garage - New swag available!KDE LinuxKDE Linux - KDE Community WikiAnnouncing the Alpha release of KDE LinuxGitHub - ChrisLAS/hyprvibe: A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.Hyprland 0.51 dropped! — The gesture system has been reworked and is now way more flexible.Nixtcloud: Self-Hosted Cloud in One Command — Nextcloud with NixOS in the backend and P2P connectivity enabledholesail-nix: Holesail package for the Nix package manager — A comprehensive Nix package and NixOS module collection for Holesail - the peer-to-peer tunnel that lets you create instant, secure connections between devices without port forwarding or exposing ports.Pick: lazyssh — A terminal-based SSH manager inspired by lazydocker and k9s — but built for managing your fleet of servers directly from your terminal.Pick: term.everything — Run every GUI app in the terminal!

Chris managed to turn low bandwidth into a lifestyle, and curated a batch of self-hosted apps that make near-offline living possible.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMTexas Linux Festival 2025Support our Texas Linux Fest Trip with PayPal, Venmo, On-Chain, or LightningPinchflat — Your next YouTube media managerErsatzTV — ErsatzTV lets you transform your media library into a personalized, live TV experience—complete with EPG, channel scheduling, and seamless streaming to all your devices.Wes' ErsatzTV Flake — A Nix package and NixOS module for ErsatzTVKarakeep — Quickly save links, notes, and images and karakeep will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval. Built for the data hoarders out there!lup-0631 NixOS ConfigHome Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.Immich — Self-hosted photo and video management solutionJellyfin — The Free Software Media Systemaudiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast serverPaperless-ngx — Paperless-ngx is a community-supported open-source document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper.PaperlessPaperless-ngBrother ADS-1800WGenius ScanQuickScan iOS scanner with OCRswift-paperlesspaperless-ai — An automated document analyzer for Paperless-ngx using OpenAI API, Ollama, Deepseek-r1, Azure and all OpenAI API compatible Services to automatically analyze and tag your documents.iPod parts from Elite Obsolete ElectronicsPick: Rustnet — A high-performance, cross-platform network monitoring tool built with Rust. RustNet provides real-time visibility into network connections with enhanced state display, intelligent connection lifecycle management, deep packet inspection capabilities, and a responsive terminal user interface.

Google's sideloading lockdown has us pushing Wes' Pixel further than Google ever dreamed.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMDECbot/nebula-cert-maker: Simple yaml and python script to create certificates for your Nebula Mesh VPN — The Nebula Cert Maker will create a new Nebula CA certificates and then generate and sign certificates for all hosts in the host list.Texas Linux Festival 2025JB TXLF Matrix RoomJupiter Broadcasting GarageLinus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs As Now "Externally Maintained" — Linus Torvalds updated the maintainers file for Bcachefs and now reflects its upstream state as "externally maintained" rather than "supported".Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year — Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it's a certified device.Android Developers Blog: A new layer of security for certified Android devicesAndroid developer verificationnixos-avf: NixOS for Android Terminal — This profile contains the necesarry services and kernel configs to get it running under the Terminal appnixos-avf-image-app releasesNixOS VM on my phone lol (Android Virtualization Framework) - NixOS DiscourseSetup SSH and Tailscale on Android 15 Linux Terminal Appdroid-nixos — NixOS VM on the Android "Terminal" appttyd: Share your terminal over the webIntroduction - Book of crosvmcrosvm: The Chrome OS Virtual Machine MonitorAndroid 16 New Feature Terminal (Debian 12) Actual Test: Network Configuration and Software Installation💻 How to Install Android 16 Linux Terminal with GUI Mode on Your Android Phone Step-by-Step GuideHands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!Android 16 Terminal Debian GUI Access Tool — This script is specifically designed for terminal environments on Android 16 systems, enabling quick configuration of graphical interface access for Debian 12. After configuration, you can access the native Debian 12 GUI environment within the Android terminal from your PC through the following stepswansview 2K Security Cameras Wireless — Outdoor-2.4G WiFi Home Security Cameras via Remote Control with Phone APP for 360º View, Color Night Vision, 24/7 SD Card Storage.Thingino — Open-source Firmware for Ingenic SoC IP Cameras.themactep/thingino-firmware: Open-source firmware for Ingenic SoC IP cameraspaperless-upload-thunderbird — Add-On for Thunderbird to upload PDF directly to paperless-ngxdistrostu's nix configFlameshot — Open source screenshot softwareHyprshot — A utility to easily take screenshots in HyprlandblendOS — Arch Linux made declarative, immutable and atomicFrigate NVR — Frigate is an open source NVR built around real-time AI object detection. All processing is performed locally on your own hardware, and your camera feeds never leave your home.Pick: Kvaesitso — A search-focused, free and open source launcher for AndroidJonas Hietala: I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS — I use the Kvaesitso launcher.

Arch is under fire, two weeks and counting. We'll break down the mess, and share a quick fix. Plus, the killer new apps we've just added to our homelabs.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMnebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.Frigate NVRCoral USB Accelerator: ML Accelerator, USB 3.0 Type-CArch Linux - News: Recent service outagesArch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two — For now, the Arch team is working to mitigate the attack's impact, which highlights a bootstrapping issue. Tools designed to shift traffic to mirrors in the event the main infrastructure is unavailable rely on a mirror list obtained from that same main infrastructure.DHH on X — "Omarchy 2.0 release might have to wait a little longer. The AUR DDoS attack has picked back up, but the upside is that we're building in all sorts of resilience for the installer to deal with the assault! And meanwhile, we'll build a complete Omarchy package mirror for all.DHH on X — "We're pulling AUR out of the Omarchy install hotpath. It's an incredible resource, but we actually only need a handful of packages for the initial setup, and we can just host those ourselves. AUR really needs a new mirror strategy to avoid this predicament."Arch Linux continues to feel the force of a DDoS attack after two brutal weeks — attackers yet to be identified as project struggles to restore full serviceArch Linux Status PageArch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfacesaurpublish — PKGBUILD management framework for the Arch User Repositorysalvador — salvador is a bash script that will help you maintain your AUR packages.archlinux/aurweb — Hosting platform for the Arch User Repository (AUR), a collection of packaging scripts created by the Arch Linux communityTaskTrove — Self-hostable task managment that respect your privacy.shuthost — A neat little helper that manages the standby state of unix hosts with Wake-On-Lan configured, with Web-GUI.Closing the Digital Divide: Q&A with Local Computer Upcycler Mike Kellymkellyxp/nixbook — Convert your old computer (even chromebook) to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.CachyOS — Blazingly Fast OS based on Arch LinuxMOES Wireless Smart Scene Switch ButtonMinoston 800 Series Z-Wave Scene Controller, 4 ZWave ButtonBrent hates ricing PCs • Clip by @genebeanadd master branch nixpkgs overlay · nikolarobottesla/infra-nix-configPick: WakeMyPotato — Restart a Linux server made of a potato laptop after power outagesPick: spectacle-ocr-screenshot — A simple utility to automatically extract text from spectacle on plasma desktopsPick: spectacle-ocr — Add OCR functionality to Spectacle

When personalities clash, the users come last. Meanwhile, Chris' hyper-tuned setup stops being a toy and starts looking like a daily driver.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMToronto Meetup - JB Colony EventsLinux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash — A large and unfortunate mistake in the kernel development management process is underway.Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs changes for 6.17 - Josef BacikUbuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept — Ubuntu is testing "Dangerous" Desktop Images, daily builds with all Snaps pulled from the edge channel.Ubuntu 25.10 Will Ship With Linux 6.17 Even If It Means An Unstable "-rc" Kernelsyncthing 2.0 Released! — This is the first release of the new 2.0 series. Expect some rough edges and keep a sense of adventure! 🙏Z-Wave is not dead - Home Assistant — TL;DR: Z-Wave is alive and well, partly due to a strong community that is building new open-source resources.Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 — The ultimate way to connect Z-Wave devices to Home Assistant.Z-Wave reborn - Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 Reveal Promo - YouTubeHyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOSKeybinds Reverting to older config? · Hyprvibe Issue #2Errors at the top of the screen · Hyprvibe Issue #3Quinn's NixOS Setup: The FormatterQuinn's NixOS Setup: The HomeQuinn's NixOS Setup: The SharedQuinn's NixOS Setup: The HostsLibreNMS — A fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support. LibreNMS is a fork of Observium.Observium — Observium is a network monitoring and management platform that provides real-time insight into network health and performance.Shift Systems / ShiftMon · GitLab — An open source monitoring and logging tool based on Ansible, Telegraf, Grafana, and a bunch of other toolssst/opencode — AI coding agent, built for the terminal.Lightning Grows Up | This Week In Bitcoin 68flatpak/xdg-native-messaging-proxyNativeMessaging portal for sandboxed browsers · flatpak Issue #655Pick: papra — The minimalistic document archiving platform.Papra - DemoPick: lue — Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-SpeechPick: wlgblock — This project replaces the usual password screen with a Gameboy emulator running a patched Pokémon game!

Wes performs a 2 a.m. rescue at DEFCON, and Chris attempts to build a Linux desktop using nothing but vibes.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMPodverse — A FOSS podcast manager for iOS, Android, F-Droid, and web.Podverse - GitHubTexas Linux Festival 2025 - CFP extended to August 18!Nix Pipe Operator by piegamesde [RFC 0148]libexpr: experimental pipe operators by rhendricNix Vegas on GitHubNixVegas/badge — Rebuild the world at DEF CON with the Nix BadgeAND!XOR 5n4ck3yANDnXOR/ANDnXOR_DC33_BadgeNixOS Search - Packages - ztoolChrisLAS/hyprvibe — Chris' vibed-only, riced-up Hyprland desktop running atop NixOS.crush — The glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal 💘Cursor - The AI Code EditorVoid: an open source Cursor alternativegerbrent/storenix — NixOS configs for a store, containing two locations and multiple hosts. Please help me!Listener Javier @hacker.bikepacker - InstagramListener Javier @hacker.bikepacker - YouTubeHomeBox — A simple home inventory management softwaresysadminsmedia/homebox — A continuation of HomeBox the inventory and organization system built for the Home UserForester NotesDesigning tools for scientific thoughtjimsalterjrs/sanoid: — policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools which use OpenZFS for underlying next-gen storage.btrbk — Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumesBreez - Bitcoin in Every AppgPodder - Music AssistantGeneBean's Linux-specific NixOS aliases — GeneBean's MacOS-specific NixOS aliasesGeneBean's MacOS-specific NixOS aliasesAlby Hub — Alby Hub is a self-custodial, open source lightning wallet that connects to appsPick: ffshare — An android app to compress image, video and audio files through ffmpeg before sharing themPick: Actual Budget — Actual Budget is a super fast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances. At its heart is the well proven and much loved Envelope Budgeting methodology.SimpleFINConnect to your bank - SimpleFIN Bridge

A Btrfs bug that bites is in the wild, and we discover whole home audio that works like a charm.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMHow to recover from BTRFS errors | Support | SUSEbtrfs-zero-log(8) — btrfs-progs — Debian Manpages — This command will clear the filesystem log tree. This may fix a specific set of problem when the filesystem mount fails due to the log replay.2018 PatchGit: Btrfs: fix warning when replaying log after fsync of a tmpfileGit: btrfs: fix fsync of files with no hard links not persisting deletionproblematic patch pulled into 6.16 on May 26thproblematic patch pulled into 6.15.3 on June 19thIncreased reports since 6.15.3 of corruption within the log tree - Peter JungNull deref during attempted replay of corrupt TREE_LOG in newer kernel - Russell HaleySystem failed to boot – Btrfs log tree error / System Administration / Arch Linux ForumsPATCH: btrfs: fix log tree replay failure due to file with 0 links and extents — When attempting to mount the fs, the log replay will fail patch on for-next branch of btrfs treegeneric: test fsync of file with 0 links and extentsMusic Assistant — Music Assistant is a music library manager for your offline and online music sources which can easily stream your favourite music to a wide range of supported players and be combined with the power of Home Assistant!Music Assistant Installation InstructionsInstallation InstructionsMusic Assistant Music ProvidersMusic Assistant Player ProvidersHome Assistant PluginHome Assistant Voice Preview Edition - Home AssistantSYMFONISK Sonos WiFi bookshelf speaker, black smart/gen 2 - IKEA USHomePod - AppleBelkin SoundForm Connect AirPlay 2 Adapter & Airplay 2 ReceiverWiiM Mini AirPlay 2 Wireless Audio StreamerGoogle Chromecast - Streaming Device with HDMI CableGoogle Chromecast Audio Media Streamer - *** 2 PACK *** | eBaydroans/mass_queue — Actions to control player queues for Music Assistantpunxaphil/maxi-media-player — Media card for Home Assistant UI with a focus on managing multiple media players, but not excluding single player setups.NinDTendo/homeassistant_gradual_volume_control — Home Assistant integration providing a service to gradually change the volume of media_players over a given timespan.Chawan: TUI web browser — A text-mode web browser and pager for Unix-like systems, with a focus on implementing modern web standards while remaining self-contained, easy to understand and extensible.SilverBullet — SilverBullet is a tool to develop, organize, and structure your personal knowledge and to make it universally accessible across all your devices.HeliumOS — An atomic desktop operating system for your devices.LINUX Unplugged 620 - Brent Loves Building Things — Off-the-shelf didn’t cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.rust-motd — Beautiful, useful, configurable MOTD generation with zero runtime dependenciesrustdress — Self hosted Lightning Address Serverrustdress: init at 0.5.2 by jordan-bravorustdress in nixpkgsPlausible Slop: Generative AI and Open Source CybersecurityPlausible Slop Timecode LinkDeath by a thousand slops | daniel.haxx.sePick: PlexRipper — A cross-platform Plex media downloader that seamlessly adds media from other Plex servers to your own!PlexRipper DocsPick: kde-control-station — A modern configuration center for KDE plasma based on the awesome kde_controlcentre by Prayag2Pick: kAirPods — Native AirPods integration for KDE Plasma 6 with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widgetAmilieCoding/gnomePods — Native AirPods integration for GNOME with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widget. Built off of kAirPods

A radical rethink of what a Linux distro should do, and what it should stop doing. Plus, we dig into what's great about Linux 6.16.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMF43 Change Proposal: Filter Fedora Flatpaks for Atomic Desktops — With this change, we want to make the availability of a Fedora Flatpak an explicit decision for the Fedora Atomic Desktops.Fedora Flatpaks creates more workFedora Must (Carefully) Embrace FlathubStrategy 2028 Update – Fedora Community BlogInitiatives/Fedora bootc - Fedora Project Wiki — Silverblue & Kinoite are ready to be our desktop Editions, with bootc (Jason)Proposal: Enable Flathub by Default - Fedora DiscussionThe Case for Fedora Flatpaksbazaar: New App Store for GNOMELinux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More PerformanceEXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance"Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More DevicesLinux 6.16 Merges A Fix For The Macintosh IILinux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APXThe first half of the 6.16 merge windowThe second half of the 6.16 merge windowEnforcement (or not) for module-specific exported symbolsToward the unification of kselftests and KUnitBcachefs may be headed out of the kernelSupporting kernel development with large language modelsFending off unwanted file descriptorsLinux 6.16 - Linux Kernel NewbiesSlowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEsZoned Loop Block Device — The Linux Kernel documentationDJM-V10 Creative style 6-channel professional DJ mixer (black) - Pioneer DJLLM generated git-resolve.shAidan's NixOS FlakeUsing Experimental Lighthouse DNS with NebulaSONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle PlusPick: Toney — Toney is a fast, lightweight, terminal-based note-taking app for the modern developer.Pick: Etesync-Knotes — A secure note-taking application for linux, integrated with Etebase for encrypted synchronization.

Everything wrong with our homelabs, and how we're finally fixing them. Plus: two self-hosted apps you didn't know you needed.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMHome Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.ODROID-H4 – ODROID — A powerful and versatile board that supports Intel's latest Alder Lake processors with AVX2 extensions. It features DDR5 memory, 4 SATA ports, dual BIOS, and up to 3 display outputs.Home Assistant YellowUGREEN NASync DXP2800 2-Bay Desktop NASMINISFORUM S100 Mini PC StickGEEKOM Air12 Mini PCNebula Quick StartDebugging with Nebula SSH commandsUsing Experimental Lighthouse DNS with NebulaUpgrading a Nebula network to IPv6 overlay addressesUsing Dedicated Relays for Total Connectivitynebula NixOS Modulenorohind.nebula: — Ansible role to manage nebula vpn hostsdracut-nebula — dracut-nebula integrates the Nebula overlay networking tool (VPN, tunnel) into the initramfsnebula-gen: — Simple script to initialize a CA and quickly sign host keys and certificates for the Nebula VPNAndrewPaglusch/Nebula-Ansible-Role — Nebula VPN Overlay Network Installer With Ansiblenebula-lighthouse-service — This server is a public Nebula VPN Lighthouse Service. You can use it in case you don’t have a publicly accessible server to run your own Nebula Lighthouse.nebula-vpn-helm — Helm chart for managing Nebula VPNvpn-dashboard-react-nebula — This project demonstrates a secure, lightweight, peer-to-peer VPN architecture using the Nebula overlay network integrated with a React-based front-end dashboard.ChrisLAS/bluenix — Build your own custom Universal Blue Image!Linkwarden — ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters, all in one place.Announcing Linkwarden 2.11Linkwarden Browser Extensionneko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.Soltros-OS — My personal RPM-OStree based OS.Miniflux — Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Readerminiflux/v2 — Minimalist and opinionated feed reader[Bug]: "External link" should point to the audio filefeat(rss): fallback to enclosure URL when entry URL is missing5 Best Reference Management Tools for Linux in 2024Zotero — Your personal research assistantAeon — The Linux Desktop for people who want to "get stuff done"winapps — Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.

Chris fled a declarative-first world for the promised land of Bluefin's atomic simplicity. Fifty days in, did he find desktop bliss or just fresh compromises?Sponsored By:1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMNix Vegas - Extended CFP, and a sneak previewNix Vegas CFPBluefin | The Next Generation Linux WorkstationFour Years of Universal Bluechad-russell/nix-blue: uBlue derivative with nix compatibilitykarypid/bluenix: Bluefin with /nixthrix/nix-toolbox: Fedora toolbox with nix.add nix using either the determine systems nix installer or the vanilla installer · Issue #2371 · ublue-os/bluefinInclude smallest pieces necessary to make installing Nix easier · Issue #765 · ublue-os/mainRecommend homebrew as the default · Issue #576 · ublue-os/bluefinfeat: homebrew on image by m2Giles · Pull Request #1293 · ublue-os/bluefinAdd support for ostree-based Linux distributions by Hofer-Julian · Pull Request #586 · DeterminateSystems/nix-installerOstree installation breaks with composefs changes in Fedora 42 · Issue #1445 · DeterminateSystems/nix-installerArbitrary top level mount points and composefs (#26) · Issue · fedora/bootc/trackercomposefs: The reliability of disk images, the flexibility of filesublue-os/bluefin: The next generation Linux workstation, designed for reliability, performance, and sustainability.ublue-os/image-template: Build your own custom Universal Blue Image!amyosveneos: Bootc images based on Fedora Atomic & Fedora CoreOSm2osbos: Customized OS images based on Universal BlueBuilding Locally | Bluefinublue-os/cayo: A bootc server image for your self-hosting needsZach: Easy Omarchy update and install.CommonArchJaKooLit's Hyprland setupsPick: bitchat — A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks. No internet required, no servers, no phone numbers. It's the side-groupchat.Bitchat: bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibesbitchat-android: bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibesbitchat privacyJack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security | TechCrunchLINUX Unplugged 459: Better than ButterBriar — Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in.Obtainium: Get Android app updates straight from the source.

Developers are abandoning their Macs for a new frontier: Arch Linux with Hyprland. We dive into Omarchy, and the broader trend fueling it.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLINUX Unplugged 566: Chef's Choice UbuntuOmarchy — Opinionated Arch/Hyprland Setup By DHHThe Omarchy ManualOmacom: Opinionated LinuxDHH on X — "Omarchy is ready! Hyprland + Arch have never been so easy. Everything comes preconfigured, preinstalled, and with six beautiful themes in the box. This is the smoothest, most pleasant operating system I've ever had under my fingers.DHH on X — "Huge kudos to @vaxryy for making Hyprland! I've been so impressed with his creation that I've committed to a €1,000/month support level for at least a year as a token of my appreciation. Consider chipping in if you end up digging it too.Good Linux Hardware · The Omarchy Manual · DHHDHH on X — "Next step for Omarchy is clearly to level up to become a full distro. Then convince @FrameworkPuter and @Beelinkofficial to offer it preloaded. Going to will The Year of Linux into existence!"thalys on X — @dhh I'm a designer using macs for work in the past 14y. no linux experience. decided to jump straight into omarchy and i'm lovin it. already made a small theme for myself, some binds using grim/slurppy/satty to emulate cleanshot, replaced dropbox with owncloud on waybar, etc.Elvinas Predkelis on X — "All right, Omarchy is quite something. It's been a while back since I've last used Linux as a daily driver. But Omarchy is a breeze - snappy, intuitive and a joy to use. Some personal tweaks here and there, adding Ghostty and it's a dream machine. Thank you @dhh 🙏DHH on X — "Mainstream Linux distros have been focused for too long on being as similar to Windows and Mac as possible to ease adoption. I've come to believe this isn't the way. Linux needs to embrace its own aesthetic, its own ethos, unapologetically. Lean into rice and TUIs!"DHH discusses Linux and Omarchy @ Typecraft - YouTubeDHH - Get in losers, we're moving to Linux!Good Linux Hardware · Omacom · DHHODROID-H4+ – ODROIDH4 Mini-ITX Kit – ODROID — a kit that adapts the form factor so that the H4 board can be mounted on a Mini-ITX case for a desktop PC or a DIY-NAS.ODROID and Chill - Self-Hosted 138 — Brent joins to share part two of his NAS build adventure, and things take a tiny turn. Plus, picking the right encrypted chat app and Chris stacks a few Jellyfin wins.Hotkeys · The Omarchy Manual · DHHThe Omarchy ManualNeovim · The Omarchy Manual · DHHTUIs · The Omarchy Manual · DHHDotfiles · The Omarchy Manual · DHHMise — lets you install and run multiple versions of a programming language on the same machine. It's like rbenv or rvm for Ruby or virtualenv for Python, but it works for a bunch of different environmentsmise-plugins/mise-nix: Mise Nix Flake PluginPewDiePie - I installed Linux (so should you) - YouTubePewDiePie - I'm DONE with Google - YouTubeYou'd Better Run - GitHubEurobot Germany 2025 Finals First Round - DDoS vs M.A.M.U.T - YouTubeGitHub - OpenTollGate/tollgate — TollGate enables WiFi routers to accept Bitcoin payments for internet access.Pick: gemini-cli — An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.Pick: sniffnet — Comfortably monitor your Internet traffic 🕵️‍♂️

We're highlighting several stories and reviews that never made it into the show. From GrapheneOS trouble, Asahi updates, Framework's desktop reveal, Starlink's Linux magic, and more.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLINUX Unplugged Membership

Off-the-shelf didn't cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMCastamaticCastamatic 11 - with live shows and Podping — With this release, you can now listen to live podcast episodes directly in the app and get instant notifications as soon as a new episode—live or recorded—is available.ESP8266 NodeMCUDHT22/AM2302 Digital Temperature and Humidity Sensor Module5V One Channel Relay Module Relay Switch with OPTO Isolation High Low Level TriggerMarine Boat 3" in-Line Bilge Air Blower DC 12V 130 CFMWolfwhoop PW-D Control Buck Converter 6-24V to 5V 1.5A Step-Down Regulator Module Power Inverter Volt StabilizerTICONN Waterproof Electrical Junction BoxBOJACK 3 Values 130 Pcs Solderless BreadboardESPHome Web - web.esphome.io — Allows you to prepare your device for first use, install new versions and check the device logs directly from your browser.PlatformIO - Your Gateway to Embedded Software Development ExcellencebuildFHSEnv - nixpkgs — Provides a way to build and run FHS-compatible lightweight sandboxes.ESPHome NixOS module: Failure to compile firmware because of DynamicUsersPick: High Tide — Third party unofficial TIDAL music client. Listen to your favorite music from your desktop or mobile Linux device at the highest quality.Pick: Junction — Junction pops up automatically when you open a file or link in another app.Junction on Flathub

We spent the week learning keybindings, installing dependencies, and cramming for bonus points. Today, we score up and see how we did in the TUI Challenge.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLINUX Unplugged TUI Challenge Rulesdarnir's TUI Reportzee — A modern text editor for the terminal written in RustHelix EditorBrowsh — fully-modern text-based browserddgr — 🦆 DuckDuckGo from the terminalRanger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console — Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy.Joshuto — Ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rusttenere — 🤖 TUI interface for LLMs written in Rustelia — A snappy, keyboard-centric terminal user interface for interacting with large language models. Chat with ChatGPT, Claude, Llama 3, Phi 3, Mistral, Gemma and more.kpxhs — Interactive Keepass database TUI viewerkeepass-mode — Emacs mode to open KeePass DBgocheat — A beautiful customizable TUI Cheatsheet for keybindings,hotkeys and more in the terminalcastero: — TUI podcast client for the terminaltextual-web — Run TUIs and terminals in your browsertodoist: Todoist CLI Client. — Todoist is a cool TODO list web application. This program will let you use the Todoist in CLI.gomuks/gomuks: A TUI Matrix client — A Matrix client written in Go using mautrix.orf/gping: Ping, but with a graphimpala — 🛜 TUI for managing wifi on Linuxcmus - C\* Music Player — cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.systemctl-tui — A fast, simple TUI for interacting with systemd services and their logs.tdf — A tui-based PDF viewerrainfrog — 🐸A database management TUIjqp — A TUI playground to experiment with jqandcli — A 2FA TUI for your shelliamb — A Matrix client for Vim addictsparllama — TUI for ollama and other LLM providers.russ — A TUI RSS reader with vim-like controls and a local-first, offline-first focusytui-music — Youtube client in terminal for music (lightweight youtube client)wiki-tui — A simple and easy to use Wikipedia Text User Interfacetuifeed — 📰 A terminal feed reader with a fancy uiyazi — 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.vault-tasks — TUI Markdown Task ManagerDon's TUI Challenge blog — #TUIChallengeShyfox's TUI Challenge resultsHimalaya — CLI to manage emails, based on email-libjellyfin-tui — Jellyfin music streaming client for the terminal.Alacritty — A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.apple/containerization — Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS. Containerization is written in Swift and uses Virtualization.framework on Apple silicon.Pick: somo — A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux.

Our terminal apps are loaded, the goals are set, but we're already hitting a few snags. The TUI Challenge begins...Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMTexas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin TX, Oct 3-4, 2025Texas Linux Festival 2025 CFPNixCon 2025 - Switzerland, September 5-7, 2025NixCon 2025 CFPSeattle GNU/Linux Conference - November 7-8, 2025SeaGL 2025 CFPPhoronix: Marking 21 Years Of Covering Linux HardwarePhoronix.comLINUX Unplugged - TUI Challenge Rules!Terminal Apps — A collection of awesome TUI apps from around the web.Terminal Trove — Find your next Terminal love.awesome-tuis — List of projects that provide terminal user interfaces.Superfile: Pretty fancy and modern terminal file managerRanger: A VIM-inspired filemanager for the consolejoshuto: Ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rustneomutt: ✉ Teaching an Old Dog New Tricksmeli: Rusty terminal mail clientslack-term — Slack client for your terminalGitHub - tramhao/termusic: Music Player TUI written in Rustzellij: A terminal workspace with batteries includedMyNav: Go-based workspace and session management TUI — A powerful terminal-based workspace navigator and session manager built in Go. MyNav helps developers organize and manage multiple projects through an intuitive interface, seamlessly integrating with tmux sessions.aerc - A pretty good email client — aerc is an email client that runs in your terminal. It's highly efficient and extensible, perfect for the discerning hacker.aerc - A pretty good email client that runs in your terminal - GitHubulyssa/iamb: A Matrix client for Vim addicts — a Matrix client for the terminal that uses Vim keybindingsmagiblot/tvterm: A terminal emulator that runs in your terminal. Powered by Turbo Vision. — tvterm is an experimental terminal emulator widget and application based on the Turbo Vision framework. It was created for the purpose of demonstrating new features in Turbo Vision such as 24-bit color support.sxyazi/yazi: 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O. — Yazi (means "duck") is a terminal file manager written in Rust, based on non-blocking async I/O. It aims to provide an efficient, user-friendly, and customizable file management experience.meli MUA — meli is a configurable and extensible e-mail client with sane defaults.The Mutt E-Mail Client — "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." -circa 1995glow: Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻gomuks — A Matrix client written in GoNCSA Mosaic - Wikipedia — Mosaic is a discontinued web browser. It was instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web and the general Internet during the 1990s by integrating multimedia such as text and graphics.carbonyl — Chromium running inside your terminalAfter 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No MorePipeWirebhh32's tui_player: A video player for the terminalHow I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation – Sean Heelan's Blogtempy — A simple, visually pleasing weather report in your terminal.arabcoders/ytptube: A WebUI for yt-dlp with concurrent downloads support, presets and scheduled tasks and many more. — YTPTube is a web-based GUI for yt-dlp, designed to make downloading videos from YouTube and other video platforms easier and more user-friendly. It supports downloading playlists, channels, and live streams, and includes features like scheduling downloads, sending notifications, and a built-in video player.

Spin up, share, nuke. We each build a throwaway server, and then rate each others' setups.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMTUI ChallengeTUI Challenge ScorecardSelf-Hosted 150: The Last One — Before hitting the road, we test the limits of local-first file sharing, debate what self-hosting really is, and share our all-time favorite apps.Pick: ws4kp — A web-based WeatherStar 4000Pick: ytdl-sub — Lightweight tool to automate downloading and metadata generation with yt-dlp.

Fresh off Red Hat Summit, Chris is eyeing an exit from NixOS. What's luring him back to the mainstream? Our highlights, and the signal from the noise from open source's biggest event of the year.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLINUX Unplugged TUI Challenge Rules — Help shape the challenge - what did we miss?TUI Challenge Rules Discussion ThreadRed Hat Summit 2025 Homepage — May 19-22 2025 in Boston, MARed Hat Summit 2025: Execs Tout Opportunities In Open Source AI, Virtualization Migration — OpenShift Virtualization has seen almost triple the number of customers, with the number of clusters deployed in production more than doubling and the number of virtual machines managed by the offer more than tripling.Agentic AI, LLMs and standards big focus of Red Hat SummitRed Hat Summit: Key Innovations for IT Channel PartnersUnlock what’s next: Microsoft at Red Hat Summit 2025 — Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is now available for use with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).Red Hat Launches the llm-d Community, Powering Distributed Gen AI Inference at Scale — Red Hat’s vision: Any model, any accelerator, any cloud.Red Hat Introduces Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 with Supercharged Intelligence and Security Across Hybrid Environments — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 delivers a paradigm shift in enterprise operating systems with image mode.10.0 Release Notes | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 10 | Red Hat DocumentationRed Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Officially Released, Here's What's New — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 highlights include Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed for integrating generative AI directly within the platform to provide users with context-aware guidance and actionable recommendations through a natural language interface.RHEL 10: Leading the future with AI, security and hybrid cloudRed Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Reaches GASiFive Collaborates with Red Hat to Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux for RISC-V — The developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 is initially available for use on the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 platform.Red Hat AI on Hugging FaceFIPS 203/204/205 — These standards specify key establishment and digital signature schemes that are designed to resist future attacks by quantum computers, which threaten the security of current standards.Virtualization success stories: Join Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization's momentum in 2025llm-d — llm-d is a Kubernetes-native high-performance distributed LLM inference frameworkWhat is vLLM? — vLLM is an inference server that speeds up the output of generative AI applications by making better use of the GPU memory.Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Image mode leverages the bootc tool to build and deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Bootc stands for bootable container, and the image will include the kernel, bootloader, and other items typically excluded from application containers.Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OverviewIntroducing Fedora Project Leader Jef SpaletaBluefin — Featuring automatic image-based updates and a simple graphical application store, Bluefin is designed to get out of your way. Get what you want without sacrificing system stability.KongrooParadox's nixfiles — This was my second nixos release since getting into Nix last year (February I think), and this strategy made it really painless. No surprises about deprecated options since I saw these cases slowly when these changes hit unstable.yazi: Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/Ojira-cli - Feature-rich interactive Jira command linebrowser-use — Make websites accessible for AI agentsThomato's TUI ResourcesPick: RamaLama — Make working with AI boring through the use of OCI containers.ramalama on GitHub — RamaLama is an open-source developer tool that simplifies the local serving of AI models from any source and facilitates their use for inference in production, all through the familiar language of containers.