LUP 625: They're Doing it Wrong!¶
- Air Date: 2025-07-27
- Duration: 75 mins 42 secs
About this episode¶
A radical rethink of what a Linux distro should do, and what it should stop doing. Plus, we dig into what's great about Linux 6.16.
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Episode links¶
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- F43 Change Proposal: Filter Fedora Flatpaks for Atomic Desktops — With this change, we want to make the availability of a Fedora Flatpak an explicit decision for the Fedora Atomic Desktops.
- Fedora Flatpaks creates more work
- Fedora Must (Carefully) Embrace Flathub
- Strategy 2028 Update – Fedora Community Blog
- Initiatives/Fedora bootc - Fedora Project Wiki — Silverblue & Kinoite are ready to be our desktop Editions, with bootc (Jason)
- Proposal: Enable Flathub by Default - Fedora Discussion
- The Case for Fedora Flatpaks
- bazaar: New App Store for GNOME
- Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance
- EXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance"
- Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More Devices
- Linux 6.16 Merges A Fix For The Macintosh II
- Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX
- The first half of the 6.16 merge window
- The second half of the 6.16 merge window
- Enforcement (or not) for module-specific exported symbols
- Toward the unification of kselftests and KUnit
- Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel
- Supporting kernel development with large language models
- Fending off unwanted file descriptors
- Linux 6.16 - Linux Kernel Newbies
- Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs
- Zoned Loop Block Device — The Linux Kernel documentation
- DJM-V10 Creative style 6-channel professional DJ mixer (black) - Pioneer DJ
- LLM generated git-resolve.sh
- Aidan's NixOS Flake
- Using Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula
- SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus
- Pick: Toney — Toney is a fast, lightweight, terminal-based note-taking app for the modern developer.
- Pick: Etesync-Knotes — A secure note-taking application for linux, integrated with Etebase for encrypted synchronization.
Tags¶
a-a-ron, app packaging, atomic write support, bcachefs, bluefin, bootc, btrfs, distro packaging, etesync-knotes, ext4, fedora, fedora flatpaks, fedora workstation, flathub, flatpak, flatpak-centric desktop, greg kroah-hartman, home assistant, homelab, immutable, io_uring, jupiter broadcasting, kent overstreet, kinoite, linkwarden, linux 6.16, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lwn, macintosh ii, managing nixos configs, michael catanzaro, nebula, netbird, nixos, open source, phoronix, rhel, rust, self-hosted, silverblue, snapdragon x1 elite, toney, ubuntu concept iso, wireguard, xfs, zigbee, zigbee dongle