Open Source Programmers need to eat, The 6.11 kernel is right around the corner, and Ubuntu 24.04 has a critical bug. Rhino Linux looks promising, the Furi Phone impresses, and Firefox marches on. For tips, we have Bleachbit for desktop cleanup, findmnt for filesystem info, DebPostInstall for the things you ought to do after a fresh install, and mqtt-explorer for sorting the firehose of data from an MQTT server. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4egaTY8 and Enjoy!

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The week brings the drama, from kernel hackers retiring in frustration, to a panning take on COSMIC, to a high profile fork of a very popular database program. It's not all drama, as Linux celebrates an all-time high in market share, Microsoft's LinkedIn moves to Microsoft's Azure Linux, and the Mono project calls Wine its new home. For tips we have findfs for looking up filesystem devices, bython for python with braces instead of whitespace, and gh for command line Github manipulation. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3XrIhWj and enjoy the show!

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The gang is back, and the big, weird news is that Microsoft is fixing Grub, and it may break your Linux dual boot. Then Torvalds talks about kernel work, AI, Rust, and more. Ubuntu is late, but will be fresher; Libreoffice ships 24.8; and Winter is coming for GIMP 3. For tips we have no more secrets for fun movie-style faux decryption, ProtonUp-Qt for managing Proton versions, brew for installing isolated software stacks, and crtlaltdel for managing what exactly your machine does in response to the classic three-finger salute. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3ADKZiu until next week!

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This week the guys are chatting about Snap improvements, the new Ryzen 9 9000 chips, and Debian 11 hitting LTS. Then they chat about Tails, Proton VPN, and ClamAV 1.4 all for security. Then Ubuntu prepares for 24.10 with some Easter eggs, and HandBrake fixes some irritating problems. For tips we have Cosmic community projects, Reflector for Arch Mirrors, wl-clipboard, and a one-liner to apply patches from a URL. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3M836zB and see you next week!

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We're talking about Linux on the Snapdragon laptops, AMD's latest chips, and LibCurl's 24th birthday. Then there are SerpentOS and Cosmic previews to try, and Firefox teases releases 129 and 130. And don't miss the scoop on GhostWire, the devastating vulnerability in a couple of RISC-V chips. For tips, we have Oneko for mouse cursor fun, feh for command line image viewing, xsel and xclp for manipulating the clipboard, and sensible for a sensible alternative for alternatives. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/3AsZ9me and enjoy!

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Xen 4.19 is released with a new 9pfs backend, why Snap and Flatpak make Linux a better OS and how they're different, FOSSA is buying StackShare, Canonical saw a $251M revenue last year and grew to more than 1,000 employees, and Intel extends its CPU warranties for its 13th and 14th-gen desktop CPUs as a result of crashing 13th and 14th-gen CPUs.

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It's about time that Fwupd supports the Pi 5, the kernel has moved to a minimum Rust version, and we chat about the TinyWatch. Then Fedora is headed towards some sane metric reporting, Curl fixes a vulnerability and blames C for it, and Gnome worries us again. For tips we have a Rust coreutils howto, a Bitlocker decryptor, and pdfgrep for finding text in PDFs. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3YoBCNk and see you next week!

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This week We chat about AMD's drive for Raytracing performance, Nvidia's push towards open kernel drivers, what Fedora did to help make that possible, and what's new in Kernel 6.10. Then Linux is making Rust safer, OpenSUSE is having a crisis, and oh yeah, the world's computers were bricked this weekend. It was a good day to be Linux users. For tips we have shuf for text suffling and mr for managing repositories en masse. Find the show notes at https://bit.ly/46cWzwA and have a great week!

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We start with gaming, talking about Bottles, Raytracing comparisons, and the Godot engine. We give the Zed editor a try, talk about changes at the Gnome foundation, and go all in on Wayland. Then put an M.2 drive in a Pi case, chat about Clonezilla, and celebrate Comet as the Linux implementation of GOG's Galaxy. For tips, we have findmnt, PiHole, run0, and hexyl. Find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4f1JTfV and enjoy!

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We take a victory lap for Linux, Cover the SSH vulnerability in great detail, and discuss Fedora's proposal to include opt-in telemetry. KDE ships an update, Nexus Mods is coming to Linux, and Meta has a clever link time optimization approach for the kernel. For tips, we have inxi for better system info, rolldice for all your command line dice rolling needs, dvtm and abduco for simple terminal splitting and detaching, and ollama for running LLMs locally. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3VWzJ7X Back next week!

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