LUP 641: Something New, Something Old¶
- Air Date: 2025-11-16
- Duration: 70 mins 27 secs
About this episode¶
We dig into the biggest Linux hardware news of the year, then fire up our new-to-us 1L PC server.
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Episode links¶
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- Download DNClient Desktop from Defined Networking
- OLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and Expo
- Registration - OLF Conference
- Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS
- Steam Controller — Steam Controller shares DNA with Steam Deck, with all the inputs to play all the games on Steam, wherever Steam is.
- Steam Machine — Made for powerful, versatile PC gaming on a big screen; quiet and small enough to fit under your TV, on your desk, or anywhere else you want to game. (It's a roughly 6-inch (160mm) cube!)
- Steam Frame — Comfortable, wireless, lightweight VR designed to give you a new way to experience your entire Steam library
- “The Steam machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home.”
- Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam Machine
- FEX-Emu/FEX: A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux
- FEX 2511 Delivers More Performance Improvements For Linux x86 Binaries On ARM64
- Commits · FEX-Emu/FEX · GitHub
- PLF10 Smart Plug – Kaufman Home Automation
- Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1
- About Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 — Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 is the new name for Home Assistant SkyConnect. Despite the new name and look, they have the exact same hardware, capability, and support.
- libvirt: The virtualization API
- libvirt - ArchWiki — Libvirt is a collection of software that provides a convenient way to manage virtual machines and other virtualization functionality, such as storage and network interface management. These software pieces include a long term stable C API, a daemon (libvirtd), and a command line utility (virsh).
- Category:Virtualization - NixOS Wiki
- Virt-manager - NixOS Wiki
- Libvirt - NixOS Wiki
- Pick: easyeffects — Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
- EasyEffects 8.0 Released In Porting From GTK4 To Qt / QML / Kirigami
- Easy Effects on Flathub
- Marcel Repo Email
Tags¶
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