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541: Out with a Bang
LINUX Unplugged
Getting Started with Nix and Nix Package Manager
A conversation about the process of getting started with Nix and the Nix package manager, including exploring the official documentation, understanding the terminology, and choosing a specific component to focus on.
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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.
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Links:
- 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
- ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- 32-Bit Challenge Details — Can you live and work for a week on a 32-bit system? That's the challenge. It might seem simple, but we think you'll be surprised. Let's find out if the world has moved on too far for 32-bit systems, or if they can still be saved from the landfill.
- First NixCon North America!
- Southern California Linux Expo 19
- Ubuntu’s New Installer Milestone
- Ubuntu 23.10 Restores ZFS File-System Support In Its Installer
- Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop’s New Installer Set To Ship Without OpenZFS Install Support
- HDR Beginning To Work For Linux Gaming
- The State Of HDR On The Steam Deck With Valve’s Gamescope Compositor
- KDE KWin Preparing Preliminary Support For Running HDR Games
- End of the 4.9 Kernel Series
- CVE-2023-0179: Linux kernel stack buffer overflow in nftables
- Wine 8.0 is out now with major compatibility improvements
- Wine 9.0-rc2 Released With 33 More Fixes - Including Wine Wayland Fixes
- Stadia Shuts Down Jan 28th
- Google Stadia: Leaked Documents Explain its Failure
- elementary OS 7 Available Now
- Xfce Going Wayland
- FOSDEM 2023: Fedora Asahi
- Fedora Asahi Aims To Provide The Fedora Workstation Experience For Apple Silicon Systems
- SIGs/Asahi - Fedora Project Wiki
- Ubuntu Gets Real
- Canonical Promotes Ubuntu’s Real-Time “RT” Kernel To General Availability
- Plasma 5.27
- KDE Plasma 5.27 Released
- Final Version of KDE Plasma 5 Released – This is What’s New
- FFmpeg 6.0 Released
- FFmpeg on X: “FFmpeg CLI multithreading is now merged!” / X
- Flathub in 2023
- Flathub in 2023 - Flathub Discourse
- Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know
- Docker: We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan
- GNOME 44 Released
- GNOME 44 Released With Many Desktop Enhancements
- GNOME 44 Getting New Background Apps UI
- Ubuntu Cinnamon Flavor Status Announcement
- Plasma 6 Early Builds
- Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions
- Btrfs Improvments in 6.4
- Announcing Fedora Linux 38
- What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38
- Red Hat Cutting “Hundreds Of Jobs”
- Message to Red Hat associates today
- Linux Kernel 6.3 Officially Released
- The new Flathub Website
- Flathub Website Gets a Brand New Look
- Ubuntu 23.04 Released
- Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)
- Ubuntu 23.04 with GNOME 44 and a stable Steam Snap
- HDR hackfest wrap-up
- CVE-2023-28410: i915 graphics driver improperly restricts operations within the bounds of a memory buffer
- New NetFilter flaw gives attackers root privileges
- bcachefs out for review
- Fedora Program Manager Laid Off
- Fedora Program Manager Laid Off As Part Of Red Hat Cuts
- Podman Desktop 1.0 Annouced
- Introducing Azure Linux
- CodeWeavers An Employee Ownership Trust
- CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership Trust
- XFS Metadata Corruption On Linux 6.3 Tracked Down To One Missing One-Line Patch
- Linux 6.3.5 Released With XFS Metadata Corruption Fix
- Plasma 6 is Wayland only - No X11 for Plasma 6
- Xorg server is deprecated since RHEL 9.0
- Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base
- Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement
- LibreOffice to be cut out of RHEL installs
- Debian 12 “bookworm” released
- Linux 6.4 Released
- Linux 6.4 Released, focus on 6.5
- Btrfs In Linux 6.5 May Bring A Cumulative Performance Improvement
- Linux Kernel 6.4 Released with Interesting Mix of Changes
- Bcachefs File-System Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.5
- Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes
- Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream
- A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model
- Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code
- The future of AlmaLinux | Hacker News
- Rocky Linux: Keeping Open Source Open
- LXD Moves to Canonical
- LXD has been re-licensed and is now under a CLA
- Fedora Asahi Remix
- Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware
- Fedora Asahi Remix: bringing Fedora to Apple Silicon Macs (Flock To Fedora 2023)
- Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix
- The first conformant M1 GPU driver
- Asahi Linux’s Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant
- Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA’s Proprietary Driver
- Ubuntu Desktop: Charting a course for the future
- Ubuntu Desktop “Charting A Course For The Future” With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year
- Leap Replacement Discussion
- Linux’s Marketshare on Steam Still Higher Than Apple macOS
- Hub 6: Healthy meeting culture and the first local AI Assistant [YouTube]
- “Nextcloud Hub 6” launched🚀
- Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5!
- Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks
- Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics Continue With Open-Source Driver & Crazy Fast Compared To RPi 4
- Raspberry Pi 5 Review: A New Standard for Makers
- Raspberry Pi Approved Reseller – Raspberry Pi
- CPU decoding acording to Eben Upton in an interview
- Intel is killing off its NUC mini PCs
- Ubuntu 23.10 Released
- Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations
- Linux Mint Starts working on Wayland Support
- Linux 6.6 Features Include The EEVDF Scheduler, Shadow Stack, Intel IVSC, AMD DBC & More
- Btrfs For Linux 6.6 Brings Fixes, Partially Recovers From Scrub Performance Regression
- XFS File-System Maintainer Stepping Down
- XFS Begins Landing Online Repair, New Release Manager Takes Over
- Element Going AGPL
- Synapse goes AGPL Discussion on Hacker News
- Fedora Linux 39 Released As A Wonderful Upgrade For Leading Workstations & Servers
- Fedora Change: Retire Modularity
- Fedora Web Installer Delayed
- What’s new in Fedora Workstation 39
- GNOME 45 Release Notes
- Amazon Making its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android
- 🎉 PipeWire 1.0 🎉
- PipeWire 1.0.0 (El Presidente)
- Quick OwnTracks-Recorder-in-Docker dummies guide
- Pick: trippy — Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the analysis of networking issues.
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