Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04 are here—We break down what's new, what stands out, and what we love most about each release.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. ConfigCat Feature Flags: Manage features and change your software configuration using ConfigCat feature flags, without the need to re-deploy code. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMThe answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is.GNOME 48 Release NotesUbuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin)The newest Ubuntu version ushers in ARM64 support for early adoptersUbuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktopJB Gaming DenRetro Game Corps on YouTubePick: Ignition — Ignition is a minimal app for editing autostart entries on Freedesktop-compliant Linux distributions.Ignition on FlathubPick: RecordApps — A desktop application that allows you to record audio from specific applications on Linux. Built with Deno, Svelte, and WebView.Record Apps on Flathub

Apple's software is going rotten, while Linux sneaks up as the better Mac. Linus grumbles through Git's 20th birthday, and we spot a hardware window Linux better not slam shut.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. ConfigCat Feature Flags: Manage features and change your software configuration using ConfigCat feature flags, without the need to re-deploy code. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMTailscale Community Meetup Seattle — Calling all Tailscale users, homelabbers, and networking enthusiasts! We’re bringing the community together for a casual, community focused meetup in Seattle.POLL: Would you tune into a Saturday LFNW Live Stream?Celebrating Git's 20th anniversary with creator Linus Torvalds — Discover the origins of the open-source version control system, why he handed over the reins a few months in, and what he thinks about adding new programming languages to Git.Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds - YouTubeuemacs - Linus Editor — Random version of microemacs with my private modificatonsYes Linus' uemacs is pacakged in NixDebian APT 3.0 Stable Released With New Package Solver & Refined Text UI — This new version introduces a significantly refined command-line interface and a completely new package solver.I Want a Better Mac, so I’m Cheering for a Better Linux — "Apple needs a real competitor, one alternatives such as GNOME on Linux could actually be, if only the hardware rose to the occasion."I'd love to see someone help Linux take the next stepoutdoorgeek's laptop sleep optimized NixOS configRust is easy? Go is… hard?Pick: chat-gipitty: Terminal client for getting answers from LLMs — Chat Gipitty (Chat Get Information, Print Information TTY) is a command line client for ChatGPT. It allows you to chat with your chosen model of ChatGPT in a terminal and even pipe output into it.moreutils' sponge — soak up standard input and write to a file.GitHub - pgdr/moreutils — a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young.Pick: ALttP VT Randomizer — Each playthrough shuffles the location of all the important items in the game. Will you find the Bow atop Death Mountain, the Fire Rod resting silently in the library, or even the Master Sword itself waiting in a chicken coop?spannerisms/ALttPNG

We attempt to get one of the great gaming classics running on Linux, and dig into some of the technical issues still holding back Linux. Plus: Chris has a new handheld.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. ConfigCat Feature Flags: Manage features and change your software configuration using ConfigCat feature flags, without the need to re-deploy code. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2025 SchedulePOLL: Would You Tune Into a Saturday LFNW Live Stream?LINUX Unplugged LIVE@LFNW Sunday — Sunday 10:00 AM · 1h · HC 108Linux-Powered Payments: Running a Lightning Node with nix-bitcoin — Sunday 1:30 PM · 45 min · HC 204Lutris - Open Gaming Platform for Linux — video game preservation platform aiming to keep your video game collection up and running for the years to come.GitHub - ValveSoftware/Proton: Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional componentsR36MAX Retro Handheld Game Console with 64G Built-in 18000+ Classic Games — The R36Max is a budget device that puts the common RK3326 chip into a vertical handheld. It has the same specs as the R36Pro, but with a larger, 1:1 screen.R36 Max Handheld Game Console with 4" Screen Linux SystemKooha: Elegantly record your screen — Kooha is a simple screen recorder with a minimal interface. You can simply click the record button without having to configure a bunch of settings.vtt-summarizer: Summarize .vtt files into meeting notes — It uses open source LLMs to handle the data extraction and summarization, ensuring everything can be run locally and without the need to share with third parties.

Linux 6.14 lands with big improvements for gaming, laptops, and filesystems—but why is a Windows feature sneaking into our kernel?Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. River: River is the most trusted place in the U.S. for individuals and businesses to buy, sell, send, and receive Bitcoin. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2025 ScheduleLINUX Unplugged LIVE Sunday — Sunday 10:00 AM · 1h · HC 108Linux-Powered Payments: Running a Lightning Node with nix-bitcoin — Sunday 1:30 PM · 45 min · HC 204Linux 6.14Linux 6.14 from Linux Kernel NewbiesBtrfs Support for uncached buffered I/OFUSE and io_uringWindows NT synchronization primitives for LinuxNixOS/nixos-hardware: A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.NerfyGek0/MeshtasticIOAddon — Documentation of how to use Meshtastic serial and MQTT functionality to automation custom hardwarePick: Eloquent — Eloquent is a proofreading software for English and more than 20 other languages.Eloquent - Flathublanguagetool — Style and Grammar Checker; it finds many errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect.LanguageTool standalone server

Canonical's VP of Engineering for Ubuntu reveals why they're swapping coreutils for Rust-built tools. Then we break down the GNOME 48 release, and why this one is special.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. River: River is the most trusted place in the U.S. for individuals and businesses to buy, sell, send, and receive Bitcoin. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMJon SeagerEngineering Ubuntu For The Next 20 Years — We should look deeply at the tools we ship with Ubuntu by default, selecting for tools that have resilience, performance and maintainability at their core.Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu — Starting with Ubuntu 25.10, my goal is to adopt some of these modern implementations as the default. My immediate goal is to make uutils’ coreutils implementation the default in Ubuntu 25.10, and subsequently in our next Long Term Support (LTS) release, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, if the conditions are right.GNOME 48 Release Notes — The GNOME project is excited to introduce GNOME 48, a fresh release shaped by six months of hard work from our amazing community. Named “Bengaluru”, this release pays tribute to the dedication of the GNOME Asia 2024 organizers.awesome-tuisPick: Ulauncher — Application launcher for Linux🐧Ulauncher on GitHubHotkey In Wayland · Ulauncher WikiBrowse Ulauncher ExtensionsGitmoji ExtensionTodoist task management Extensionmariob88/ulauncher-todoist-integrationTurn Off Screen ExtensionHome Assistant Extensionqcasey/ulauncher-homeassistantObsidian Extension

We have stories to share, guests joining us, insights from our week at Planet Nix, and Brent's big bombshell.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. River: River is the most trusted place in the U.S. for individuals and businesses to buy, sell, send, and receive Bitcoin. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMFlox - Nix for Simplicity & Scale — Flox is all about simplifying your development workflow—think reproducible, portable dev environments powered by Nix, but without the steep learning curve. Whether you’re a solo coder or part of a big team, Flox lets you manage and share environments effortlessly, so you can focus on building great software instead of wrestling with setup headaches.Planet NixTalk - Kelsey Hightower's Perspective on NixTalk - Aneesh from Anthropic - Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced ItTalk - Eelco Dolstra Intros Configurable FlakesTalk - Mike Kelly - Building a Chromebook replacement with NixOSEelco Dolstra - Configurable FlakesAneesh Agrawal - Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in ProductionFireside Chat with Kelsey Hightower: An Outsider’s Look at NixBuilding a Chromebook replacement with NixOSWhy do people love NixOS so much? | Mike KellyHow to convert an old ChromeBook into a NixBook | Mike KellyOlympia Mike's Nixbook | GitHubFlox | Nix in the WildThe NixOS Foundation Board AnnouncedGuilty Pleasures | The Launch 🚀 13Pick: pyatv: A client library for Apple TV and AirPlay devices — This is an asyncio python library for interacting with Apple TV and AirPlay devices. It mainly targets Apple TVs (all generations, including tvOS 15 and later), but also supports audio streaming via AirPlay to receivers like the HomePod, AirPort Express and third-party speakers. It can act as remote control to the Music app/iTunes in macOS.Pick: atv-desktop-remote: A simple app to allow you to control an Apple TV from your desktop — The latest version works with tvOS 15 and up. It requires Python 3 to be installed on the system to work properly.

We are digging into a superpower inside your Linux Kernel. How eBPF works, and how anyone can take advantage of it.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. River: River is the most trusted place in the U.S. for individuals and businesses to buy, sell, send, and receive Bitcoin. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMeBPF Perf Tools 2019 | SCaLE 17xSCALE2019_eBPF_Perf_Tools.pdfOracle Releases DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 For Linux SystemsGentoo Linux Touts DTrace 2.0 Supportbpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018Full-system dynamic tracing on Linux using eBPF and bpftraceA thorough introduction to eBPFBCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more — The BPF Compiler Collection: BCC or BPF Compiler Collection is a set of tools leveraging eBPF for kernel tracing, Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more.BCC Tutorialxdp-tools: Utilities and example programs for use with XDPply: a dynamic tracer for LinuxLiam's Multi-Monitor SetupPick: netop — Network Top -- Help you monitor network traffic with bpfPick: bpftune — bpftune aims to provide lightweight, always-on auto-tuning of system behaviour.

We're pre-gaming two of the biggest Linux events of the year. Engineers, organizers, and surprise guests are dropping by to give us the scoop before it all begins.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. River: River is the most trusted place in the U.S. for individuals and businesses to buy, sell, send, and receive Bitcoin. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMSCALE 2025 Meetup — El Cholo Cafe Pasadena - Saturday, Mar 8, 2025, 7:00 PMPlanet Nix — March 6th-7th, 2025 @ Pasadena, CA at the Southern California Linux Expo.Flox - Your dev environment, everywhere — Flox help teams focus on building fast by providing reproducible environments that span the entire software lifecycle. With Flox, developers can create environments that contain all of the tools and frameworks they need, binding them with the software they ship into the world.Kelsey Hightower on Xkelseyhightower on GitHubKelsey Hightower on LinkedInRobert Hernandez SCaLE ProfileFireside Chat: An Outsider’s Look at Nix - Ron Efroni, Kelsey HightowerLearn Nix the Fun Way - Farid ZakariaDocker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production -Planet Nix FAQnix.conf - Adding GitHub Access Tokens — Access tokens used to access protected GitHub, GitLab, or other locations requiring token-based authentication.Olympia Mike's nixbookpeterfajdiga/karousel: Scrollable tiling Kwin scriptYaLTeR/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.paperwm/PaperWM: Tiled scrollable window management for GNOME ShellLibro.fm — Your Independent Bookstore for Digital AudiobooksPick: OpenAudible-To-AudibleBookShelf — This script automates the process of moving audiobook files from OpenAudible or Libation to an organized folder structure and updates AudioBookShelf accordingly. It handles file organization, metadata mapping, and interaction with the AudioBookShelf API.

There have been major Rust developments in the Linux Kernel; we discuss what's new and how it will impact the future. Plus, we're joined by a special guest.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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. River: River is the most trusted place in the U.S. for individuals and businesses to buy, sell, send, and receive Bitcoin. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Get started with River💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMPlanet Nix - SpeakersSCALE 22xGreg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust — Yes, mixed language codebases are rough, and hard to maintain, but we are kernel developers dammit, we've been maintaining and strengthening Linux for longer than anyone ever thought was going to be possible. We've turned our development model into a well-oiled engineering marvel creating something that no one else has ever been able to accomplish. Adding another language really shouldn't be a problem, we've handled much worse things in the past and we shouldn't give up now on wanting to ensure that our project succeeds for the next 20+ years. We've got to keep pushing forward when confronted with new good ideas, and embrace the people offering to join us in actually doing the work to help make sure that we all succeed together.Kees Cook on Rust in the kernel — In other words, I don't see any reason to focus on replacing existing code -- doing so would actually carry a lot of risk. But writing new stuff in Rust is very effective. Old code is more stable and has fewer bugs already, and yet, we're still going to continue the work of hardening C, because we still need to shake those bugs out. But new code can be written in Rust, and not have any of these classes of bugs at all from day one.Linus Re: Rust kernel policy — You are not forced to take any Rust code, or care about any Rust code in the DMA code. You can ignore it. But "ignore the Rust side" automatically also means that you don't have any say on the Rust side.Texas Linux Fest is back again in 2025!Pick: treetrum/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader — Allows you to bulk download all your Kindle eBook in a more automated fashion. This tool allows you to create backup copies of the books you've already purchased.Amazon removes your right to download Kindle booksAmazon will stop allowing Kindle book downloads to your PC soonHow to Download Kindle Books to Your Computer Before Amazon Kills the FeatureSimplest Way to Remove DRM from Books – No Kindle Serial Number Needed!Pick: nping — 🏎 Nping mean NB Ping, A Ping Tool in Rust with Real-Time Data and Visualizations

Our FreeBSD Challenge comes to a close, and chances are one of us will be paying the Windows tax.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMPlanet NixFlox — Your dev environment, everywhereThe Launch 🚀 09: The Eagle has LandedThe Rules of the FreeBSD Challengelibluksde — Library and tools to access LUKS Disk Encryption encrypted volumeslinuxulator-steam-utils — Linux Steam on FreeBSDbhyve/Windows - FreeBSD WikiChapter 12. Linux Binary Compatibilitydoas - dedicated openbsd application subexecutordoas masteryChapter 33. Firewallsardour « audio - ports - FreeBSD ports treejellyfin « multimedia - ports - FreeBSD ports treeHank wrote in about his testing with a Pi4FreeBSD pi4 tweak — I got lucky - that was posted two days before I gave this a go. I installed on a 4GB Pi 4B.Hank's BSD Notes — IMO should get a point just for figuring out how to configure NTP and time zone. Sheesh!Mizutamari — User-friendly Wine front-end primarily for FreeBSDOldschool Gaming on FreeBSDGames - GhostBSD WikiWhat’s Coming for Future Releases of GhostBSD? — We're making some important changes to how GhostBSD is built and released to provide a better, more stable experience for our users.Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Gene's Portable ScreenNetBSD Root on ZFSMusic Assistant — Music Assistant is a free, opensource Media library manager that connects to your streaming services and a wide range of connected speakers.Pick: HedgeDoc — HedgeDoc lets you create real-time collaborative markdown notes.Pick: Add Water — A utility app to easily install the Firefox GNOME Theme and automatically update it in the background. This theme keeps Firefox fashionable within the GNOME design ecosystem, and provides many helpful features to customize the interface to make browsing even more pleasant

It's week one of our FreeBSD challenge, and for one of us, that penalty Windows install looks uncomfortably close! Plus, Zach Mitchell joins us to update us on Planet Nix.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLINUX Unplugged - 2025 FreeBSD Challenge Rules.mdRaspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer KitFreeBSD 14.0 on aarch64 Raspberry Pi 4/400 - Download, Install & ConfigureLinuxBoot: Booting FreeBSD from LinuxEuroBSDCon booting FreeBSD using LinuxProvisioning LinuxBoot Images for FreeBSDFreeBSD Handbook: Chapter 1. Bootstrapping and Kernel InitializationFreeBSD Handbook: Chapter 15. The FreeBSD Booting ProcessHow to Manage FreeBSD Boot Process?LinuxBoot: let Linux do it!LinuxBoot IntroductionLinuxBoot on GitHubAnnual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Planet Nix — March 6th-7th, 2025 in Pasadena, CAZach MitchellLINUX Unplugged 554: SCaLEing NixLINUX Unplugged 538: Surprisingly Smooth TransitionLFNW2025 - April 25 - 27, 2025 • Bellingham Technical CollegePick: GarminDB — Download and parse data from Garmin Connect or a Garmin watch, FitBit CSV, and MS Health CSV files into and analyze data in Sqlite serverless databases with Jupyter notebooks.

We celebrate 600 episodes, announce a new show feature, and officially launch the FreeBSD challenge.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management 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:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMnixbsd: An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernelThe Rules of the FreeBSD ChallengeSpeedruns - FreeBSD WikiPick: direnv-vscode — This extension adds direnv support to Visual Studio Code by loading environment variables for the workspace root.Pick: Warehouse on Linux | Flathub — Warehouse provides a simple UI to control complex Flatpak options, all without resorting to the command line.