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.

We got our eyes on the Vision Pro SDK and share our new insights. And why the claims of stalled Mastodon adoption might ring a bit true.Sponsored By:Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coderTailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Support Coder RadioLinks:Elon Musk Says He'd Be up for 'Cage Match' With Mark Zuckerberg — Elon Musk said he'd be up for fighting his tech world nemesis, jiu-jitsu lover Mark Zuckerberg.visionOS - Apple Developer — The choice is yours, and it all starts with the building blocks of spatial computing in visionOS.Bringing your existing apps to visionOS | Apple Developer Documentation — In some cases, it might not make sense to port your app for visionOS.Apple Vision Pro Will Support WebXR — With Apple now officially supporting WebXR, the standard can claim truly widespread support; WebXR is now supported, at least in some capacity, by Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Edge, and Safari, as well as the Quest browser, Pico browser, Magic Leap Browser, Chrome for Android, Samsung Internet, Opera Mobile, and Firefox for Android. Though like visionOS Safari, some of these browsers have kept the feature as a developer preview for now.Omni Group Apps Coming to 🍏Vision Pro — Now, we don’t expect this first generation Vision Pro to be adopted by everyone, any more than first generations of Apple’s other platforms—the Apple II, 128K Mac, iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch—were adopted by everyone.Apple's Phil Schiller refuses to fix app review and "needs to get his meaty paws off the App Store" — “I think the way to radically improve the App Store is have Phil be an Apple fellow and get his hands off the App Store,” says Shoemaker. “That’s what they really need to do. Eddy’s more progressive, Joz is more progressive, and we know Matt is as well. Phil just needs to get his meaty paws off the App Store.”Why did the #TwitterMigration fail? — I have evidence of this. I recently shut down my Mastodon instance that I started in November, mastodon.bloonface.com, and (as is proper) it sent out about 700,000 kill messages to inform other instances that it had federated with that it was going offline for good, and to delete all record of it from their databases. Around 25% of these were returned undelivered because the instances had simply dropped offline.Daring Fireball: Why Has Mastodon Adoption Stalled? — After Elon Musk took the helm at Twitter there was an initial burst of new users and increased usage on Mastodon (and the rest of the Fediverse, but mostly this is about Mastodon as an alternative to Twitter). And then it flattened, and perhaps has even declined. I would like to see Mastodon thrive. But the platform’s ideological zealotry is obviously holding it back and seemingly isn’t going to change.Boost with Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Boost from the web using the Podcast Index. Top off Alby first, and then visit Coder Radio on the Podcast Index and boost from our page there.

Chris tears into two old PCs, and builds a surprisingly powerful multi-monitor Wayland workstation. Plus, Wes has a new device, and Brent wants answers.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. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Too many Disks? Perfect.Chris' Workstation neofetchMicrosoft Ergonomic Keyboard — Black. Wired, Comfortable, Ergonomic Keyboard with Cushioned Wrist and Palm Support. Split Keyboard.Magic TrackPadNixOS Remote DesktopFOUR DisplaysU.S. Intelligence Has Admitted Amassed Data on ‘Nearly Everyone’ — A newly declassified report confirms that the government has unprecedented insight into our lives through smartphones, cars, web browsing, and other tech.DNI Haines Statement on Declassified Report on Commercially Available InformationODNI Senior Advisory Group Panel Declassified Report on Commercially Available InformationMillions of Americans’ personal data exposed in global hackUS government agencies hit in global cyberattackExtreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear by Michael Bazzell — This textbook is PROACTIVE. It is about starting over. It is the complete guide that he would give to any new client in an extreme situation.Have I Been Pwned — Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach.Stalkerware Resources and Help – Darknet Diaries — It’s a nightmare scenario that’s alarmingly common. Your spouse, partner, ex, co-worker, or vengeful person is determined they want to spy on you. To follow you everywhere you go digitally. They might have access to your location, the cameras in your home, your emails. It’s extremely violating and horrible. Here are a few resources that can help if you’re in this situation.Darknet Diaries — True stories from the dark side of the Internet.Privacy | Electronic Frontier FoundationSurveillance Self-Defense | Electronic Frontier FoundationGrapheneOS on Twitter — We’re deprecating SeedVault and will be replacing it with a new implementation. SeedVault was created by a member of the GrapheneOS community in 2017 based on our design for it. Unfortunately, it has been taken over by an untrustworthy group of developers without aligned goals.GrapheneOS/platformexternalseedvaultSeedVault - Calyx Instituteseedvault-app/seedvault — A backup application for the Android Open Source Project.How to use SeedVault Backup for Androidimmich — Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.DAVx5 — Sync your contacts, calendars and tasks. Get live-access to your WebDAV Cloud files. All-in-one CalDAV/CardDAV/WebDAV solution for AndroidAlbyLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.orgPick: go2tv — Cast media files to UPnP/DLNA Media Renderers and Smart TVs.

We share some recent adventures, and the tale of how water got dumped into Chris' new home server. Note: this episode was recorded on the 15th of June.Sponsored By:Linode: Get $100 to check out a rocking Linode system, and support the show!Send us a Boost w/a new Podcast App: Send a boost into the show, try out a new app, and help keep podcasting independent. Links:Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Get Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index to send a Boost.Office Hours on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web, once Alby is ready to go, visit our entry on the podcast index, and the boost area will automatically show up!

We open the robe and spend a little time chatting about the software development business.Sponsored By:Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coderTailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Support Coder RadioLinks:Devicescript — DeviceScript brings a TypeScript developer experience to low-resource microcontroller-based devices. DeviceScript is compiled to a custom VM bytecode, which can run in very constrained environments.GitHub accused of varying Copilot output to avoid copyright allegations — GitHub is alleged to have tuned its Copilot programming assistant to generate slight variations of ingested training code to prevent output from being flagged as a direct copy of licensed software.…Google doesn’t want employees working remotely — “We know that a number of people moved to fully remote work for many good reasons, as we all adjusted to the pandemic. For those who are remote and who live near a Google office, we hope you’ll consider switching to a hybrid work schedule. Our offices are where you’ll be most connected to Google’s community. Going forward, we’ll consider new remote work requests by exception only.”Hybrid combines the worst of office and remote work — The hybrid arrangement kills many of the key benefits of remote workWhy millions of usable hard drives are being destroyed — In 2021, the company approached IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) firms, who dispose of old technology for businesses that no longer need it. The answer came back: "Sorry, we have to shred old drives."The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens — A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals that the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans.Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Send a Boost into the show via the web. First, top-up Alby, then head over to our entry on the Podcast Index.

Is Ham Radio a natural hobby for Linux users? An old friend joins us to explain where the two overlap.Special Guest: Noah Chelliah.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. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Ask Noah Show Episode 200: Ham Radio Linux Superstation — We celebrate episode 200 by sharing our plans to serve the community better! Ham Radio has come a long way from tubes and dials. Alex Archer KC0REL joins us to discuss building the ideal ham shack on Linux!HAM - Official Documentary (2022) - YouTube — HAM is a short documentary that follows a group of Montanan amateur radio enthusiasts that show the loyal community of amateur radio, explore what it means to be a ham, and how they are trying to keep the hobby alive.FT8—What Is It and How Can I Get Started? — FT8 is one of the many digital modes often referred to as sound card modes (SCM) because they utilize a computer’s sound card to bring in audio from your radio to be processed by software to decode the information embedded in the signal.Amateur Radio Software For Linux | KC7NYRClosed Source Ham Radio Software on GNU/Linuxawesome-hamradio — Awesome hamradio repositories.Ham Radio Operators Tune In to Giant Waves in the Earth’s Ionosphere | Science Mission Directorate — This new technique vividly demonstrates the effect of these waves on radio communications.Amateur Radio: An Integral Tool for Atmospheric, Ionospheric, and Space Physics Research and Operationshamnix — A collection of Amateur Radio software packaged for NixRemote Ham Radio — On the air from anywhere. Big stacks. Kilowatts of power. DX has never been closer.ARRL - American Radio Relay LeagueStudying for a Technician LicenseLinux’s Slice of HAM | Linux Action Show 356Zeroretries substack — If you’re not yet licensed as an Amateur Radio Operator, and would like to join the fun by literally having a license to experiment with radio technology, here are some pointers:Chromeo: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert - YouTubeSam and Dave - Hold on I’m coming - YouTubeThe Clash - The Magnificent Seven (Official Audio) - YouTubePink Floyd - We Don’t Need No Education - YouTubebluetuith — A TUI bluetooth manager for Linux.NixOS Search - bluetuithFramework Cooler Master Mainboard Case — Cooler Master and Framework team up to produce a transparent case for the Framework Laptop 13 Mainboard.TrustedQSL — This is the TrustedQSL project, which provides tools for digitally signing Amateur Radio QSO records.

Lemmy, a self-hosted Reddit alternative, is discussed in this episode. They also touch on the practicality and drawbacks of Apple's Eye Tracking Technology, the switch from Reddit to Chad, a self-hosted chat pad application, scaling applications with Linode, license plate detection, building a storage box, and ideas for the 100th episode of the podcast.

What we really like in Debian 12, the big players backing RISC-V, and the improvements in NextCloud Hub 5. Note: Linux Action News will be off next week.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:Debian 12 “bookworm” released — This release contains over 11,089 new packages for a total count of 64,419 packages, while over 6,296 packages have been removed as "obsolete". 43,254 packages were updated in this release. The overall disk usage for "bookworm" is 365,016,420 kB (365 GB), and is made up of 1,341,564,204 lines of code.Debian 12 is nearly ready, and reassuringly boringDebian 12 discussion on Hacker NewsLinux Foundation & RISC-V International Launch RISC-V Fundamentals Course — This course prepares IT professionals to write assembly language code for RISC-V processors and use high-level languages like C to develop applications for RISC-V-based systems.RISC-V Fundamentals Training Course — Learn everything you need to know about RISC-V, the open-source instruction set architecture that is predicted to become ubiquitous as it paves the way for the next 50 years of computing design and innovation.Help Us Test Evolution — If you’re a bit more advanced user who would like to help with testing and you use Evolution from Flathub, consider switching to the beta channel. You wouldn’t switch to something broken. Milan doesn’t let low quality releases out. It’s for rather rare bugs that would be great to identify and fix before they hit everyone, or for early feedback when UX changes are being done.Evolution Email App Wants Flatpak Beta TestersNextcloud Hub 5 — Hub 5 builds on all the improvements we introduced earlier this year, including the Smart Picker and it’s AI integrations, the cool new Nextcloud Tables app and more.Nextcloud on Twitter — Announcing Hub 5: Self-hosted AI-powered digital workspace for everyone!

We chew on the ridiculous situation Reddit has created for itself and the weak position of app developers.Sponsored By:Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coderTailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Support Coder RadioLinks:New Xbox Unlikely as Microsoft Gaming Chief Doesn't Feel Need for Upgrade — “That’s not the feedback we’re getting right now,” Stephen Totilo on Twitter — At a behind-closed-doors presentation to press, Xbox boss Phil Spencer says gaming revenue for the company is double what it was in the 360 era, says Xbox has more players than ever, expecting more than $1 billion in PC gaming revenue this yearApple Releases Tool to Help Developers Port Windows Games to Mac — Developers interested in porting Windows games to the Mac can watch Apple's series of "bring your game to Mac" videos for more details. Apple also has a page on its website outlining various gaming technologies and tools available for developers.Whisky — Whisky provides a clean and easy to use graphical wrapper for Wine built in native SwiftUI. You can make and manage bottles, install and run Windows apps and games, and unlock the full potential of your Mac with no technical knowledge required. Coder Radio: Bite of the AR Apple | CR 276 — Wes joins Mike to chat all things Apple. We discuss the surprising implications of the iPhone X, including the challenges of its new special shape & the exciting possibilities of ARKit.Cheaper Apple Vision Headset Likely to Launch by End of 2025 — Apple still plans to launch a more affordable version of its Vision Pro headset by the end of 2025, with the non-Pro model likely to be called "Apple Vision One," or more simply, "Apple Vision," according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.Apple Executive Discusses New Mac Pro's Lack of Graphics Card Support — "Fundamentally, we've built our architecture around this shared memory model and that optimization, and so it's not entirely clear to me how you'd bring in another GPU and do so in a way that is optimized for our systems," Ternus told Gruber. "It hasn't been a direction that we wanted to pursue."Reddit’s users and moderators are revolting against its CEO — Fallout from the unpopular API pricing change and disastrous AMA with CEO Steve Huffman is turning out the lights on some of Reddit’s most prominent communities.ReddarkSebastiaan de With on Twitter — Reddit’s AMA with its CEO on their API (read: third party app killing) is a train wreck. These are remakes from their CEO. Why does Reddit consistently have such terrible leadership? Before this, Huffman had no public interactions with the community or website for 10 months.Paul Hudson on Twitter — Apologies for the interruption on r/swift, but Reddit needs a change in management. See https://reddark.untone.uk for the huge number of other subreddits going dark in support of @ChristianSelig 💪Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Send a Boost into the show via the web. First, top-up Alby, then head over to our entry on the Podcast Index.

We get the inside scoop on SouthEast LinuxFest, and share a few stories from the early days of the Linux community.Special Guest: Noah Chelliah.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. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:DebianBookworm — Bookworm is the development codename for Debian 12, released on 2023-06-10.Debian 12 “Bookworm” Officially Released, Here’s What’s NewFor the LAS Time | Linux Action Show 468 - YouTubeAsk NoahThinLinXJMP: Your phone number on every deviceSouthEast LinuxFest — For the regulars and newbies, please review our schedule to get a feel for what’s happening at this year’s events. For the newbies, be sure to read our About Us page to understand a bit more about the event in general.SELF 2023 Schedulesoutheastlinuxfest - YouTubeArgon ONE V2 Case for Raspberry Pi 4 — The Argon ONE Case is now better than ever as it has many new featurescomma — Comma runs software without installing it.org-roamTaking org-roam everywhere with logseqNix 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 knowledgeSUSE Partners with Collabora to Deliver Commercial LibreOffice SupportSend a Boot from web with Alby — Top off Alby, then head over to the Podcastindex.orgLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can Boost right from the web at the Podcast Index with Alby.Fractal — Fractal is a Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust. Its interface is optimized for collaboration in large groups, such as free software projects.fractal on GitLabFluffyChat — FluffyChat is an open-source, nonprofit and cute matrix messenger app. The app is easy to use but secure and decentralized.NixOS for the Impatient — This post is about how I set up NixOS.