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Your Linux box is a-changin'. systemd has a huge new release; we'll get into the most impressive features, including the new sudo replacement. Plus, our thoughts on the new Linux Arm laptops that are just around the corner.
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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMAnnouncing systemd v256 — In the weeks leading up to this release I have posted a series of serieses of posts to Mastodon about key new features in this release.systemd changes with v2⁸:systemd 256 Released With run0, systemd-vpick, importctl & Other New FeaturesLennart on systemd-vpick — Basically, you can now place multiple versions of the same resource in some dir of your choice, suffix that dir's name with .v/ and the you get some basic version management in place: delete or add new versions by just removing/adding new files, and the tools will find the newest item dropped in automatically.Introduction to Portable Services — “Portable services” do not provide a fully isolated environment to the payload, like containers mostly intend to. Instead, they are more like regular system services, can be controlled with the same tools, are exposed the same way in all infrastructure, and so on. The main difference is that they use a different root directory than the rest of the system.Trying out systemd's Portable Services — All in all, the core pieces are already in place for a very promising new technology that should make it easier for 3rd parties to provide Linux system-level software in a safe and convenient way, well done to the systemd team for a well executed concept. All it lacks is some polish around the tooling and integration.systemd sleep — Putting a PC to sleep is complicated business and there are different mechanisms available to achieve this on Linux. Lennart on SSH and AF_VSOCK — This automatic ssh-via-AF_VSOCK logic is particularly useful DDIs and systemd-nspawn — Or in other words: there's now unprivileged systemd-npsawn containers. Yay!Lennart on systemd-vmspawnLennart on sd_notifyLennart on dlopenLennart on run0 — There's a new tool in systemd, called run0. Or actually, it's not a new tool, it's actually the long existing tool systemd-run, but when invoked under the run0 name (via a symlink) it behaves a lot like a sudo clone. But with one key difference: it's not in fact SUID.doas - dedicated openbsd application subexecutorDoas - NixOS WikiDoas on WikipediaThe Tragedy of systemd — Join me on a journey through the bootstrap process, the history of init, the reasons why change can be scary, and the discovery of a part of your OS you may not even know existed.The Two Year Journey Funded By Arm/Qualcomm For Improving ARM Linux Laptop Support — ARM Kernel developers spent the last two years working on improving ARM Linux laptop support with a focus on the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s powered by a Qualcomm SoC.Ubuntu 24.04 LTS support to the Lenovo ThinkPad x13sSnapdragon 8cxUbuntu Asahi projectTUXEDO Working on Snapdragon X Elite Linux LaptopMembership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!Spokane Meetup, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PMBerlin with Brent: September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Fri, Sep 13, 2024 | MeetupA Nix Flake for Bitfocus CompanionChrisLAS' Beelink NixOS ConfigBluetooth - NixOS Wikinix-direnvxscreensaver on AndroidRainier cherry - WikipediaPick: Iotas — Markdown notes that syncs with NextCloud Notes.

We try Omakub, a new opinionated Ubuntu desktop for power users and macOS expats.
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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMHave a pint with Alex in Norwich , Sun, Jun 16, 2024, 2:30 PM | MeetupSpokane Meetup, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PMNextcloud Conference 2024: call for speakers - NextcloudNextcloud Conference 2024 - NextcloudBerlin with Brent: September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Fri, Sep 13, 2024 | Meetupnotch on X — Alright, that's enough spyware in my OS. Do I go desktop Mac, or do I have the energy to go full Linux? Not sure, but I'm tired of my operating system treating me like the product.DHH on X — If I have such a fundamental misalignment with where Apple has gone, why stay? I think that was the question I finally just asked myself for the umph-teenth time, and realized I didn’t have a good answer that wasn’t just based on comfort.For the Love of Linux — In this podcast episode, REWORK host Kimberly Rhodes talks with David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of 37signals and CTO, about his personal shift from using Apple products to exploring Linux and Windows platforms. He discusses the expanded platform integration at 37signals, which now includes all three operating systems.DHH on X — The big YearofLinuxontheDesktop will be 2025. Snapdragon X chips will be ready. Folks will be sick of AI shoved into every crevasse of their life. Thank heaven for disagreeable nerds refusing to bend the knee to the corporate agenda!Linux as the new developer default at 37signals — I've personally been having a blast over the last few months digging deeper and deeper into the Linux rabbit hole, and it's been a delight discovering just how good its become as developer platform.Introducing Omakub — Omakub turns a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system by running a single command.Xournal++FlameshotPintaFrameworkOmakub list of installed appsOmakub — An Omakase Developer Setup for Ubuntu 24.04 by DHHOmakub on GitHubOmakub introductory videoMembership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!devenv — Fast, Declarative, Reproducible and Composable Developer Environments using NixsquidGeneBean on X — My dad was so happy with his desktop after I switched him to #Pop_OS! that he had me do the same to the laptop he takes on trips. Thanks for such a stellar distro @system76Walkthrough of Nix Install and Setup on MacOS by zmre on YouTubeWildspaces.work — Wildpsaces.work is designed for remote workers interested in reconnecting with community and working from new and wild places.Chris' Amazon Tablet — 10.1 Inch Android 13 Octa-core with 8(4+4) GB+128GB Tablets, 5MP+8MP Camera, Bluetooth 5.0Fully Kiosk Browser LockdownJellyfin Media Player — Desktop client using jellyfin-web with embedded MPV player. Supports Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.kthresher: Tool to remove unused kernels in Debian/Ubuntuhelipad-flake — A Nix flake to provide a helipad package and NixOS module. Intended for use with nix-bitcoin.Kopia — Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup SoftwarePick: Multiplex — Multiplex is an app to watch torrents together, providing an experience similar to Apple's SharePlay and Amazon's Prime Video Watch Party.weron — weron provides lean, fast & secure overlay networks based on WebRTC.

The facepalm moments that make us question our sanity—and swear off sudo for a week.
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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare — What if you care about AI's environmental impact, privacy holes, and the ethical problems of training on data without the creators' permission? The answer might be to switch to Linux. Yes, Linux.Kate Asks about Mistakes to Avoid — Hey boys-Microsoft has officially gone off the deep end with this AI stuff. I'm pretty sure AI Clippy is pulling the strings behind the scenes. Any tips for escaping to Linux before I get assimilated? What are the big don'ts for a newbie?Jeremy Molina on X — sudo rm -rf ./ on the root directory 😓Lee Ball on X — I thought I was in a backup directory when I did an rm -rf but turned out I'd forgotten the ./ and just went into /var/lib/mysql and not the backup of said directory.ChaoticHuman on X — I think my most major beginner mistake once was something like sudochownuseraccount/ because I wanted to not have to deal with file-ownership-conflicts though I no longer remember what exactly I did. I only remember that it led to completely destroying my Linux-system.Ken Starks on X — What are all these files with a dot before them. They aren't programs. Might as well delete them.PDunn on X — Using fringe distos and too much distrohopping causing loss of time and not being productive. Linux can be a time sink I don't have time for. So I installed Ubuntu and moved on. I just use what works and is easy to maintain. Unplugged contributor here.Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!Chris' Beelink Nix ConfigNix from First Principles: Flake Edition — This guide is a beginner's guide to Nix and related tooling, focusing on the newer nix command, and flake.nix compared to older tools like nix-env and default.nix. It does not require any prior Nix knowledge, and instead builds up the Flake based world from first principles, so that it can serve as an introduction to Nix itself, as well as the concept and uses of Flakes.Pick: Delfin — Delfin is a native client for the Jellyfin media server. It features a fast and clean interface to stream your media in an embedded MPV-based video player.Delfin on FlathubDelfin repoDelfin nix packageA fireside chat with Nextcloud founder Frank Karlitschek - Nextcloud — Part of this talk was on LUP, now you can hear the full thing.

We're following one simple rule to build a Linux desktop so stable it could outlive us.
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After months of debate, the Nix community might be coming to a resolution. We'll examine what happened, what's changing.
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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMUsing Tailscale for Android just got a whole lot betterReport on NixOS Governance Discussions - by Chris McDonoughThe NixOS Foundation board announced on April 30 that Eelco Dolstra is stepping down from the board following the recent calls for his resignation.A leadership crisis in the Nix community (LWN) — On April 21, a group of anonymous authors and non-anonymous signatories published a lengthy open letter to the Nix community and Nix founder Eelco Dolstra calling for his resignation from the project.NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseNixOS Foundation Board: Constitutional Assembly Appointment - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseFull Email with GrahamChris' s nginx ConfigNixOS Manual: Using DNS validation with web server virtual hostsNixOS Manual: SSL/TLS Certificates with ACMEUnplugged Core MembershipSigning up with an email addressDell OEM Replacement PartsWinamp has announced that it is opening up its source — Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application's source code will be open to developers worldwide.RcloneShuttle — Upload your files to anywhere - GTK4 GUI for Rclone

Three revelations from Red Hat Summit. Our on-the-ground report will separate fact from hype.
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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMIntroducing image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a new deployment method that takes a container-native approach to deliver the OS as a bootc container image.Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OverviewImage mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux YouTube Examplepodman-desktop-extension-bootc — Support for bootable OS containers (bootc) and generating disk images.bootc Introduction — Transactional, in-place operating system updates using OCI/Docker container images. bootc is the key component in a broader mission of bootable containers.Show HN: Convert your Containerfile to a bootable OSWhat is InstructLab? — InstructLab is an open source project for enhancing large language models (LLMs) used in generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) applications.InstructLab — InstructLab is a model-agnostic open source AI project that facilitates contributions to Large Language Models (LLMs).instructlab CLI — Command-line interface. Use this to chat with the model or train the model (training consumes the taxonomy data).IBM's Granite code model family is going open source — We're releasing a series of decoder-only Granite code models for code generative tasks, trained with code written in 116 programming languages. The Granite code models family consists of models ranging in size from 3 to 34 billion parameters, in both a base model and instruction-following model variants.ibm-granite/granite-code-models — A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence.Getting Started with Fedora/CentOS bootc — The Fedora/CentOS bootc project generates reference base images that are designed for use with the bootc project. Its goal is to provide a host system easily configurable via container tooling, usable as a container host, but also to allow non-containerized deployments with applications bound to the host context.CentOS/centos-bootc — Create and maintain base bootable container images from Fedora ELN and CentOS Stream packages.LAB Paper: Large-Scale Alignment for ChatBotsSpring Membership Discount — $3 off forever.psitransfer — Simple open source self-hosted file sharing solution. It's an alternative to paid services like Dropbox, WeTransfer.bhh32's food-journal — Command line tool and web application to keep track of my food intake.Pick: URL to PNG — A URL to PNG generator over HTTP with a fairly simple API accessed via query params passed to the server.Bonus Pick: Telegraph — Telegraph is a simple Morse translator, start typing your message to see the resulting Morse code and vice versa.