We asked, and you answered: Your top 5 Linux app essentials and post-install rituals. Plus, some news to better cope with "extreme file-system damage." Sponsored By: Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Berlin with Brent: May Meetup — Brent is back in Berlin! Please join the Jupiter Broadcasting community for an evening together, and bring your friends! 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Warp — Warp allows you to securely send files to each other via the internet or local network by exchanging a word-based code. Bcachefs Repair Code Reaching Complete & Robust Recovery — "This patchset was kindly tested by a user from India who accidentally wiped one drive out of a three drive filesystem with no replication on the family computer - it took a couple weeks but we got everything important back." Linux 6.9-rc3 Released With Many Bcachefs Patches — "[...] but hey, if you had a corrupted bcachefs filesystem you'd probably want this, and if you thought bcachefs was stable already, I have a bridge to sell you. Special deal only for you, real cheap." Fedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOME F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation — Switch the default desktop experience for Workstation to KDE Plasma. The GNOME desktop is moved to a separate spin / edition, retaining release-blocking status. Changes/FedoraPlasmaWorkstation - Fedora Project Wiki 412linux.io — N100 Media Serving Efficiency with Quick Sync Pick: FreeTube — FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. Use YouTube without advertisements and prevent Google from tracking you with their cookies and JavaScript. Available for Windows, Mac & Linux thanks to Electron. FreeBSD Speedruns — The zero-to-desktop FreeBSD speedrun category records the time taken from the first boot of a FreeBSD image, through installation, to the display of a desktop environment or window manager. FreeBSD Zero to Desktop Speedrun Challenge — The operations and commands that needed to be done took me 1:33 and installation of base.txz/kernel.txz datasets took 0:28. Downloading and installing needed pkg(8) packages took 2:22 of time.

We're building a completely hidden Linux OS inside an existing system—with no trace left behind. Sponsored By: Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — The global money app for fast, safe payments and bitcoin. Get sats easy. 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM — Grab the Fountain app and listen live, boost along, and more. Shufflecake — Plausible deniability for multiple hidden filesystems on Linux System76 and Jupiter Broadcasting Epic Parking Lot BBQ, Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 4:30 PM | Meetup Jupiter Extras: Nostr Workshop — Our Nostr workshop. We'll help you get your Nostr identity and answer any questions. 24.05 Call for Release Manager & Editor - NixOS — Both roles are fulfilled in tandem, meaning you get paired with an experienced partner, who already filled the role during the previous release. HiddenVM — Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace. — HiddenVM is a simple, one-click, free and open-source Linux application that allows you to run Oracle's open-source VirtualBox software on the Tails operating system. Tails persistent volume feature VeraCrypt Defeating Plausible Deniability of VeraCrypt Hidden Operating Systems — This paper analyzes the security of VeraCrypt hidden operating systems. How To Emulate Persistent Memory using the Linux "memmap" Kernel Option kexec [ArchWiki] Unplugged Core Membership PodHome.FM — Unlimited Shows and Episodes PodBean Example: This Week in Bitcoin Podcast Atuin - Magical Shell History — Sync, search and backup shell history with Atuin I quit my job to work full time on my open source project — The 22nd of December was my last day leading the infrastructure team at PostHog. Going forwards, I'm starting a company and working full time on Atuin.

We're breaking down the attack: how it works, how it was hidden, and why time was running out for the attacker. Sponsored By: Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM oss-security mailing list — Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise. Fedora Announcement Debian Announcement Ubuntu Announcement Kali Linux Announcement Arch Linux Announcement Gentoo Announcement openSUSE Tumbleweeed Announcement NixOS Unstable Discussion Why does it take two weeks for NixOS to replace xz? Andres Freund on Mastodon — I was doing some micro-benchmarking at the time, needed to quiesce the system to reduce noise. Saw sshd processes were using a surprising amount of CPU, despite immediately failing because of wrong usernames etc.... rwmj on Hacker News — Very annoying - the apparent author of the backdoor was in communication with me over several weeks trying to get xz 5.6.x added to Fedora 40 & 41 because of its "great new features" A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects — Make no mistake. This is the way it works. It needs to change. Devuan GNU/Linux on X — Devuan is not affected by the latest vulnerability caused by systemd. systemd PR: Dynamically load compression libraries Matteo Croce on X — I'm the author of such PR. While I absolutely didn't know that libxz had a backdoor, I really think that libraries should be loaded on-demand when rarely used, hence my change :) Ryan C. Gordon on X — This is probably how the xz thing happened, right? Jan Wildeboer on the Fediverse — Again the FOSS world has proven to be vigilant and proactive in finding bugs and backdoors, IMHO. Unplugged Core Membership TXLF is coming up! — April 12 - 13 in Austin, Texas. LFNW coming up! — April 26 - 28 Mobile Game Ads Are Boosting Podcast Follower Counts — Wondery, iHeart and Lemonada Media are all using a non-public product from MowPod - which gives extra lives and game credits to gamers if they follow shows on Apple Podcasts from game apps. MowPod's podcast promotion tools: tales from the bar fortydeux's NixOS Configs Prism Launcher — An Open Source Minecraft launcher with the ability to manage multiple instances, accounts and mods. World Backup Day — March 31st — One small accident or failure could destroy all the important stuff you care about. Updating Our Fiddly Bits | LINUX Unplugged 494

We test the Linux-first, all-AMD Sirius 16 laptop, discuss the new Hyprland release, and share a few stories from our recent trip. Sponsored By: Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! FlakeHub.com: FlakeHub.com is the all-in-one platform for secure, compliant, and transformative Nix development. Bring Nix to work the way you always wanted with FlakeHub.com. Register for the private beta and get a secure, compliance-friendly Nix and all the support you need. Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Introducing GNOME 46 — GNOME 46 is code-named “Kathmandu”, in recognition of the amazing work done by the organizers of GNOME.Asia 2023. S.O.D.A Machine (Shell On Demand Appliance) — A fusion of hardware, software, art, and hacking, all encapsulated in a project derived from recycled materials. LINUX Unplugged on Fountain Nostr Protocol Docs — Details on how the Nostr Protocol works and why. Hyprland — Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks. Hyprland Wayland Compositor Celebrates Two Years With A New Release hyprland 0.37.1 nixpkgs PR Hyprland Release v0.37.1 on GitHub Hyprland Release v0.37.0 on GitHub Installing NixOS with Hyprland! - by Josiah - Tech Prose — In this guide, we will install a minimal version of NixOS with the Wayland compositor Hyprland and Waybar. TUXEDO Sirius 16 - Gen1 — First all-AMD Linux gaming laptop with highly efficient Ryzen 7 7840HS and fast Radeon RX 7600M XT graphics. All AMD: TUXEDO Sirius 16 - Gen1 on YouTube Background information on the new keyboard lighting control - TUXEDO Computers Texas Linux Festival 2024 — April 12-13, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Scinary Cybersecurity — Your On-Demand Cybersecurity Firm. nixos-mailserver — A complete and Simple Nixos Mailserver. List of all NixOS Services jus10mar10's NixOS Config dockur/windows — Windows in a Docker container. Unplugged Core Membership Pick: ATLauncher — A launcher for Minecraft which integrates multiple different modpacks to allow you to download and install modpacks easily and quickly. Pick: Dissent — Unofficial GTK4 Discord client in Go, use at your own risk!

We're on the ground live at NixCon and SCaLE. We catch up with old friends, and discover how Nix is devouring the Linux world one function at a time. Sponsored By: Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! FlakeHub.com: FlakeHub.com is the all-in-one platform for secure, compliant, and transformative Nix development. Bring Nix to work the way you always wanted with FlakeHub.com. Register for the private beta and get a secure, compliance-friendly Nix and all the support you need. Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: nix-community/lanzaboote — Secure Boot for NixOS Eelco Dolstra’s PhD Thesis — The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model Docker and Nix (DockerCon 2023) [YouTube] Flox — Create development environments with all the dependencies you need and easily share them with colleagues. Work consistently across the entire software lifecycle. flox on GitHub — Developer environments you can take with you. Gsettings - Monitor All System Settings Change dconf Reference Manual foss-north — foss-north is a free / open source conference covering both software and hardware from the technical perspective. We provide a meeting place for the Nordic foss communities and will bring together great speakers with great audiences. An Open Letter from NixOS Users Against MIC Sponsorship — Several members of the community are uneasy with the current happenings around the North American Gathering aimed at NixOS Users and its community (also known as NixCon [sic] NA). pjones/plasma-manager — Manage KDE Plasma with Home Manager. Bastard Keyboards — Custom-designed split keyboards with feature-full firmware. Bastardkb on GitHub Pick: nix-starter-configs — Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes.

We each bring surprise topics, a mix of hardware and software, as we prepare to hit the road for NixCon and SCaLE.

Plasma 6 is out, and we've been giving it a go. What's new, our thoughts, and the lessons other desktops should learn.

Corporate AI is a hot mess, but open-source alternatives can be open-ended chaos. We’ll test some of the best ways to get local AI tools under your control.

Chris spends the week in a VR desktop, revealing the glitches, gains, and VR's open-source future.

Deploying Nextcloud the Nix way promises a paradise of reproducibility and simplicity. But is it just a painful trek through configuration hell? We built the dream Nextcloud using Nix and faced reality. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

Some uncomfortable truths about using Linux, and then we introduce a new segment: Will it Nix?

Data-hoard with purpose and manage your audiobooks and podcasts with one application, plus the lone Linux box that remains on Mars.

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

Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole. Special Guest: Kent Overstreet.

This challenge gets ugly as we slowly realize we've just become zombie slayers. We load Linux on three barely alive systems, and it takes a turn we didn't expect.

We make our big Linux predictions for 2024, but first, we score how we did for 2023. Special Guest: Michael Tunnell.

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

The stories that kept us talking all year, and are only getting hotter! Plus the big flops we're still sore about. Special Guest: Kenji Berthold.

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

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