Intel kills its Linux distro without any notice, the UK government might ban state organisations from paying ransomware ransoms, we laugh at a vibe coding disaster, KDE’s new immutable arch-based distro, and more.

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All good things come to an end: Shutting down Clear Linux OS

Clear Linux OS terminated as Intel trims the fat

Final Benchmarks Of Clear Linux On Intel: ~48% Faster Than Ubuntu Out-Of-The-Box

UK to lead crackdown on cyber criminals with ransomware measures

Hacker Plants Computer ‘Wiping’ Commands in Amazon’s AI Coding Agent

Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database

Terribly edited video

KDE Linux

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With the recent news of Bcachefs (probably) being removed from the Linux kernel, we are joined by Allan Jude from 2.5 Admins and Klara to discuss some of what we think went wrong, how to manage and maintain multiple releases of a project at once, and why release engineering is an important concept.

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What to think about when picking a public cloud provider, and why it depends on the needs of your business. Free credits, billing complexity, available tools, small clouds vs the big three, hiring people with experience of particular cloud platforms, support, compliance, ease of repatriation, and more.

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Two recent outages were handled very differently but show the dangers of centralisation, Let’s Encrypt is introducing certificates for IP addresses, and the differences between backup and production systems.

Plug

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News/discussion

Microsoft’s 19-hour Outlook outage exposes fragility in cloud infrastructure

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 incident on July 14, 2025

We’ve Issued Our First IP Address Certificate

Free consulting

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The sad reality of the AI crawler bot arms race, the baddies seem to be obsessed with Xorg, but Wayland will soon be a reality for older smaller desktops (hopefully). Plus controlling a silly Red Dwarf thing, software releases with feature flags, a massive list of cheat sheets, another way to avoid the likes of Reddit, old skool CPU monitoring, and an update on Joe’s KDE experiment.

News/discussion

Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers

FSF calls Anubis malware

Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org

Two weeks of wayback

The price of software freedom is eternal politics

Discoveries

smegcli

Flagsmith

cheatsheets

privacy-redirect

CPU-X

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It’s our 100th episode spectacular! We look back at some of the memes and themes of our first hundred episodes including our obsession with old hardware, our silly challenges, our move away from custom phone ROMs, our disappointment with Arm desktop Linux, composable/immutable distros, how we’ve changed as people, and more.

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To celebrate the 256 milestone we devote the whole episode to explaining why we use ZFS. We explain about data safety, data retention, data portability, and ease of administration.

Plugs

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Klara ZFS Basecamp – Central Resource for Everything ZFS

Practical ZFS

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Mixed gaming news, Google’s AI is seemingly inescapable, SUSE offers Europe-only support, Ubuntu is dropping support for loads of RISC-V boards in favour of future ones, a quick KDE Korner, and more.

News

Stop Killing Games consumer movement hits some major milestones

DOGWALK Official Release

Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps

SUSE to roll out Sovereign Premium Support

Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements

Firefox is fine. The people running it are not

KDE Korner

Plasma Keyboard

This Week in Plasma: tablet dials and day/night cycles

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What it takes to sustain a medium-to-large-sized open source project.

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