Have Oracle and SUSE lost their minds? Plus, we dig into Fedora's proposal to add telemetry collection to Workstation.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 20 devices for free for a personal account. Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. 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 UnpluggedLinks:Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To — Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden.Berlin with Brent, Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 6:00 PM | MeetupBerlin Buds on MatrixDissociated Press: Clone WarsSUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment — SUSE is committed to working with the open source community to develop a long-term, enduring compatible alternative for RHEL and CentOS users. SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux — SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen today argues that SUSE is wading into this because of its belief that “becoming more proprietary should not be the basis for competition between open source companies."The future of AlmaLinux | Hacker NewsRocky Linux: Keeping Open Source Open — While we continuously explore other options, the aforementioned approaches are subject to change. However, our unwavering dedication and commitment to open source and the Enterprise Linux community remain steadfast.AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System — After much discussion, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board today has decided to drop the aim to be 1:1 with RHEL. AlmaLinux OS will instead aim to be Application Binary Interface (ABI) compatible.Fedora Workstation 40 Considering To Implement Privacy-Preserving Telemetry — Red Hat's desktop developers are interested in "limited data collection of anonymous Fedora Workstation usage metrics." They are not wanting to collect individual user data but are interested in aggregate usage metrics.Changes/Telemetry - Fedora Project WikiWhat data will be collected, exactly? — A breakout topic for the F40 Change Request on Privacy-preserving telemetry for Fedora Workstation.Endless OS’s privacy-preserving metrics system — Let’s stare directly at the elephant in the room: usage metrics – telemetry, analytics, or whatever other terms one might like to use – is something that free software community members are often opposed to, with some good justification.This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends — The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole PerlrothAlbyLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.orgOffice Hours 32: Things are ChangingOur Fastest, Most Beautiful Release Ever: Thunderbird 115 “Supernova” Is Here! — We did our best to strike a comfortable balance between new features and interface changes to appeal to new users, while maintaining the current layout and interface that millions of our users know and love.rustdesk 1.2 — Rewritten with Flutter, Wayland support, Headless Linux, Resolution adjustment, Dark theme.

The advantages of Federating a local and remote Nextcloud, Chris replaces Google Home Hub's photo powers and the new docker-compose feature that will change Alex's entire setup.Special Guest: Brent Gervais.Sponsored By:Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshTailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 20 devices for free for a personal account. 45drives: Big. Strong. Fast storage servers with affordable high-performance, high-capacity, enterprise storage solutions for all industries and now your Home Lab.Support Self-HostedLinks:Berlin with Brent, Sat, Jul 22, 2023 — Brent loved his time in Berlin so much, he's going back for more!Berlin Buds Matrix Chat — Join the realtime Berlin chat room on Matrix.MicroBin v2 Released — I am proud that MicroBin now contributes to a world-wide effort towards making privacy accessible and easy, and I hope v2 will help it towards becoming the secure self-hosted file-sharing solution. Docker | MicroBin — For Docker, you can either use our setup script, or download the Dockerfile and .env file in the repository and set it up yourself. The image is also available on DockerHub.MicroBin Demo PageFully Kiosk Browser - Home Assistant — Fully Kiosk Browser is a powerful kiosk browser for Android devices. It provides a number of features for monitoring and controlling your Android device. This integration gives you access to control your device and view the status in Home Assistant.Fotoo - Photo Frame Slideshow — Turn your tablet/TV/phone into an elegant digital photo frame and photo slideshow player!Fotoo - Digital Photo Frame Photo Slideshow Player on AmazonSamba - NixOS Wiki — This guide will help you on how to use samba on nixos. USB Smart WiFi Adaptor for USB — Splenssy Tuya Micro DC 5V. Turn on/off the light with your smartphone from miles away. What Exactly Is Federation, Anyways? — Really, federation is just, well, decentralization with extra features. Decentralized software is where, in effect, anyone can run their own instance, there is no one ‘central’ location. Configuring Federation Sharing — Nextcloud — Federated Cloud Sharing is now managed by the Federation app (9.0+), and is now called Federation sharing. When you enable the Federation app you can easily and securely link file shares between Nextcloud servers, in effect creating a cloud of Nextclouds.Include | Docker Documentation — A Compose application can declare dependency on another Compose application.introduce include to load sub-compose projects as dependencies by ndeloof — Pull Request #416Plex Dupefinder — Plex DupeFinder is a python script that finds duplicate versions of media (TV episodes and movies) in your Plex Library and tells Plex to remove the lowest rated files/versions (based on user-specified scoring) to leave behind a single file/version.Free your notes - Obsidian — The first conversion format we have added is .enex for Evernote. Why I stopped using Intel GVT-g on Proxmox with Quick Sync — The promise of GVT-g technically was very high. One box to rule them all. However in practice, it just didn't live up to expectations.Crackpipe — the decentralized gaming platform for 'alternatively obtained' games⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Send a Boost into the show, first grab Alby and then top it off directly or with the CashApp.⚡ Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Once Alby is topped off, head over to the Podcast Index and Boost from their website! 🍻

openAI's window to build their moat is closing, but they have a powerful friend stepping up to help seal the deal. Plus, our reaction to Oracle's very spicy response to Red Hat.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Support Coder RadioLinks:Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Help the show reach its 500K sat goal, and send your message to the show. Boost from the web with Alby.Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web, top-up Alby, then head over to our entry on the Podcast Index :)Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To — Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden.Traffic to OpenAI's ChatGPT fell almost 10% in June — Traffic to ChatGPT’s website fell by 9.7% over the month of June, according to preliminary estimates from Similarweb, a web analytics firm, released this week. The decline was even greater just in the U.S., with a 10.3% month-on-month decline. The number of unique visitors to ChatGPT also fell by 5.7% from the previous month. We’re Going Down A Very Dangerous Path With AI Regulation, Despite Better Options — Reading through the “SAFE Innovation Framework” is like a masterclass in the political game of making it sound like you’re saying something, while actually saying nothing at all:Chuck's MS Doc Exported to PDF SAFE FrameworkKatharina Koerner on Twitter — This article articulates the fear that with new AI regulations, big companies with the means to employ lawyers will dominate the AI market, and the more creative and innovative startups are shut out.Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement - The Verge — The lawsuits allege the companies trained their AI models on books without permission.

Can Ubuntu make a great immutable desktop? We're trying the brand-new "Everything is a Snap" Ubuntu Core Desktop.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 20 devices for free for a personal account. Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. 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 UnpluggedLinks:Berlin with Brent Meetup — Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:00 PMBerlin Buds on MatrixThings are Changing | Office Hours 32 — We've got a radically new format idea for Office Hours and want to tell you all about it.Linux Action News 299 — Recent advances in embedded Linux, Canonical takes full control of LXD, ZFS gets a handy Btrfs feature, and updates on the show's production.Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base — Behind the scenes, the Canonical team has been actively exploring the benefits of Ubuntu Core beyond the realm of IoT, most notably in the context of developers and daily users.ubuntu-core-desktop on GitHub — This directory contains an image of Ubuntu Core 22 with the GDM display manager loaded into the boot file system.Actions · canonical/ubuntu-core-desktop - GitHubcanonical/workshops on GitHub — Workshops provides a user friendly interface to create and manage LXD containers as well as provides a full featured terminal.Workshops on the Snap StoreSnikket Dev's take on XMPP and Embrace Extend Extinguishsnikket-server: Image builder for Snikket serverSnikket Chat — Simple, secure and private messaging.OLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and Expo — OLF is returning on September 8-9, 2023!Magnolia Mayhem’s CaterCloudSupport LINUX Unplugged on ConshaxAlbyLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.orgkz6fittycent/BobRossQuotes: A bunch of quotes from Bob RossBob Ross Quotes - Snap Store

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Recent advances in embedded Linux, Canonical takes full control of LXD, ZFS gets a handy Btrfs feature, and updates on the show's production.Sponsored By:Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Status of Embedded Linux — In this talk, Tim will give an overview of issues in the Linux in the embedded space that have come about in the past yearThe 2023 State of The Embedded Linux EcosystemLXD Moves to Canonical — While the team behind Linux Containers regrets that decision and will be missing LXD as one of its projects, it does respect Canonical’s decision and is now in the process of moving the project over.Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXDNearly 40% of Linux gamers on Steam are on Steam Deck — Overall the Steam Deck has kind of taken over Linux gaming and June 2023's statistic are pretty striking. Steam Deck on Twitter — “Hi all, just a quick note to celebrate a big milestone - we’ve just passed 10,000 Verified and Playable titles on Steam Deck! 🎉🥳🎉 A bunch of these titles are on sale (along with Steam Deck itself) at the Steam Summer Sale!ZFS Block Cloning — Block Cloning allows to clone a file (or a subset of its blocks) into another (or the same) file by just creating additional references to the data blocks without copying the data itself. Block Cloning can be described as a fast, manual deduplication

Mike updates us on his development adventures in Unreal 5, signs the Vision Pro might be a flop, and answer questions about abandoning Red Hat's platform.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Support Coder RadioLinks:Try a new Podcast App, cool features inbound! — Chapters, transcriptions, Boosts, and more. Try a new podcast app!Alby: Boost from the Web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — You can Boost the show from the Podcast Index web page, just top off Alby first, then head over to the Index!Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits: "It's amateur hour" — For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting “EXTREME levels of data scraping,” forcing them to bring “large numbers of servers online on an emergency basis” and enact emergency measures.Elon Musk on Twitter — Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!Kareem Carr | Data Scientist | 📊📈 on Twitter — Rate limiting starts the day their cloud contract (that they were having trouble paying) ends. This can’t be a coincidence right?LINUX Unplugged 517: Caught Red-Hatted — Just about every take on the Red Hat news seems to have missed the mark.Red Hat community contributions — Red Hat is a proud contributor to all aspects of the software stack, from the operating system and developer toolchain to middleware, desktop, and cloud. We financially support a number of open source organizations who help us create and maintain better open source software. We also contribute to a wide range of standardization efforts that help define future, interoperable technologies.Apple wants Xcode to write apps for you, automatically — "In an example, [the] code generator creates a subroutine that facilitates accessing values of the existing ML data," says Apple, "via the particular data type supported in the particular programming language" Report: Vision Pro Headset's Complex Design Forcing Apple to Make 'Drastic' Production Cuts — As a result of production challenges, Apple is preparing to make fewer than 400,000 units in 2024

Just about every take on the Red Hat news seems to have missed the mark.Special Guest: Carl George.Sponsored By:Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Berlin with Brent Meetup — Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:00 PMBerlin Buds Matrix RoomOur Essential Apps | Self-Hosted 100 — We cover our must-have self-hosted apps, reflect on the state of Self-Hosting now, and discuss what's new in Proxmox 8.Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes — There was a time, not too long ago, that Red Hat found value in the work done by rebuilders like CentOS. We pushed our SRPMs out to git.centos.org in a neat package that made them easy to rebuild; we even de-branded it for them. More recently, we have determined that there isn’t value in having a downstream rebuilder.Linux Action News 298 — Why everyone is excited about the next Linux kernel, Valve's big hire, and Red Hat's clone war.Ask Noah 343 Interview w/Mike McGrath — Mike McGrath joins the Ask Noah Show to discuss the changes Red Hat is making in how they make their source code available.A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model — We fear that be it through incompetence or malice, many RHEL salespeople and business development professionals may regularly violate GPL and no one knows about it. That said, the business model as described by IBM's Red Hat may well comply with the GPL — it's just so murky that any tweak to the model in any direction seems to definitely violate, in our experience.Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code — One option is through the usage of UBI container images which are based on RHEL and available from multiple online sources (including Docker Hub). Another method that we will leverage is pay-per-use public cloud instances. With this, anyone can spin up RHEL images in the cloud and thus obtain the source code for all packages and errata.Springdale Linux Discussions — While RedHat's action itself is not particularly surprising given somewhat-recent developments with regards to the likes of CentOS Stream, the timing has taken many in the RHEL-compatible-clone world by surprise.Red Hat & Fedora – largely stepping out of this ecosystem - Fedora Mailing-Lists — What Red Hat has done recently is depressing, but not a huge surprise to me. Red Hat struggled repeatedly with how to deal with "the clones".The core idea I always came back to in those discussions was that the value isn't in the bits, but in the stability, services and ecosystem Red Hat enables around the bits.How Red Hat killed its core product—and became a billion-dollar business — To move from small player to big-time enterprise software competitor, Cormier argued that Red Hat had to ditch the freely downloadable Red Hat Linux. Instead, it should replace Red Hat Linux with a more robust enterprise software package that maintained the principles of free (as in freedom) software without actually being free (as in price) to customers.Carl George on Fosstodon — “You should have already been using #CentOS Stream. There, I said it.”NASA secures contract with Rocky Enterprise Linux — NASA/NSSC has a requirement for FY23 CIQ Rocky Enterprise Linux Purchase. Item: CIQ Rocky Enterprise Linux Per Person Advanced - Annual Subscription. Quantity: 3NASA secures contract with Rocky Enterprise Linux (HN Discussion)catercloud.me — Originally, the project consisted of a web framework that glued together several other, more mature open-source projoects, but as scope creep and my own tendency toward re-inventing the wheel rose to the surface, the project’s development became more and more complex, slowly incorporating a lot of components that go way beyond a simple word cloud and into things like natural language processing.

We cover our must-have self-hosted apps, reflect on the state of Self-Hosting now, and discuss what's new in Proxmox 8.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 20 devices for free for a personal account. Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshSupport Self-HostedLinks:Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.0 — This major release is based on the latest Debian 12 (“Bookworm), and comes with an extensively tested and detailed upgrade path for users of Proxmox VE 7.4 or older versions to enable a smooth upgrade. Proxmox VE 8.0 uses a newer Linux kernel 6.2 as stable default, and includes updates to the latest versions of leading open-source technologies for virtual environments like QEMU 8.0.2, LXC 5.0.2, ZFS 2.1.12, and Ceph Quincy 17.2.6.Immich — Self-Hosted Google Photos alternative. Immich Recent ReleasesDownload iCloud photos and videos - Apple Support — With iCloud Photos, you can download a copy of your photos and videos on any device.Bulk Upload (Using the CLI) | Immich — You can use the CLI to upload an existing gallery to the Immich serveriVentoy — iVentoy is extremely easy to use, without complicated configuration, just put the ISO file in the specified location and select PXE boot in the client machine.Perfect Media Server — If you're looking to build a media server, then you've come to the right place. This site documents the many aspects of building a media server using Free and Open Source Software wherever possible.PairDrop — SnapDrop Altnerative recommended. Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — You can Boost the show from the Web! Grab Alby first, top it off, then head over to the Podcast Index and boot from there!

Why everyone is excited about the next Linux kernel, Valve's big hire, and Red Hat's clone war.Sponsored By:Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Linux 6.4 Released — Released With Early Apple M2 Code, More WiFi 7, AMD Guided Autonomous ModeLinux 6.4 Released, focus on 6.5 — Linus Torvalds on Sunday announced the release without making any comment at all on the state of the kernel, or the efforts that led to the release of this version. Indeed, he had little to say about the progress of version 6.4Btrfs In Linux 6.5 May Bring A Cumulative Performance ImprovementLinux Kernel 6.4 Released with Interesting Mix of ChangesBcachefs File-System Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.5Early access to the LXD graphical user interface — While we don’t yet advise you to use the LXD UI in a production setting, we made it available as an experimental feature and would like to invite you to take it out for a spin and share your feedback. Early look at the LXD web UI - YouTubeGoogle Pixel 8 could debut Desktop Mode — The Pixel 8 series is expected to leverage DisplayPort alternate mode, although specific details are not yet available. Through code analysis, it is possible to speculate on Google’s intentions for this feature. One obvious use would be to transform a Pixel 8 phone into a desktop replacement. Ubuntu EdgeValve Contracts Another Prominent Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Developer — Great to hear and given her vast experience will be exciting to see what open-source improvements she manages to further advance Linux gaming.Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes — Ultimately, we do not find value in a RHEL rebuild and we are not under any obligation to make things easier for rebuilders; this is our call to make. That brings me to CentOS Stream, of which there is immense confusion. I acknowledge that this is a change in a longstanding tradition where we went above and beyond, and change like this can cause some confusion. Furthering the evolution of CentOS Streamgit.centos.orgA Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model — We fear that be it through incompetence or malice, many RHEL salespeople and business development professionals may regularly violate GPL and no one knows about it. That said, the business model as described by IBM's Red Hat may well comply with the GPL — it's just so murky that any tweak to the model in any direction seems to definitely violate, in our experience.