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LUP 662: The GitHub Diet

  • Air Date: 2026-04-12
  • Duration: 85 mins 39 secs

About this episode

Is it time to replace GitHub in our workflow? We git into it. Plus, our favorite features in the new Linux 7.0 release.

Your hosts

  • 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
  • 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
  • LinuxFest Northwest 2026 — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
  • LFNW2026 Schedule
  • Linux 7.0: Btrfs — A translation layer of logical block addresses that allows changes without moving or rewriting blocks for relocation
  • Linux 7.0: XFS — Autonomous self-healing; delivers live filesystem health events to userspace for automatic repairs
  • Linux 7.0: EXT4 — Improves write performance for concurrent direct I/O writes
  • Linux 7.0: IO-uring — Adds support for BPF filtering to IO_uring for high performance async I/O
  • Linux 7.0: Scheduler — Scheduler updates land with time slice extension, performance and scalability work for high core count systems
  • Linux 7.0: Rust — Formally concluding the 'Rust experiment'; Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay
  • Linux 7.1: i486 — Begins phasing out Intel 486 CPU support; no known Linux distributions still ship with i486 support
  • Give Up GitHub — We realize this is not an easy task; GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their effective marketing, GitHub has convinced FOSS developers that GitHub is the best (and even the only) place for FOSS development.
  • opengist — Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, open-source alternative to Github Gist.
  • Forgejo on Codeberg — Beyond coding. We forge.
  • Forgejo — Self-hosted alternative to GitHub; liberate your software from proprietary shackles with a familiar environment
  • NixOS Wiki: Forgejo — Lightweight software forge; completely free software and a fork of Gitea
  • Forgejo Actions — Reusable pieces of code for CI workflows; compatible with GitHub Actions
  • NixOS Forgejo Actions Runner — NixOS configuration for turnkey deployment of Forgejo Actions runners
  • Forgejo Federation (PR #10453) — Work-in-progress for federated repositories; enabling decentralized software development
  • Forgejo Snippets (Issue #1069) — Create a shareable piece of text, be it code or plain text, publicly or privately
  • Git Novice Guide — Free interactive tutorial; learn version control with Git from scratch
  • Pick: sshroute — Network-aware SSH router - routes connections to different IPs/ports/keys/jump hosts based on active VPN or network
  • Pick: rendercv — Resume builder for academics and engineers
  • Pick: ESPHome Starter Kit — DIY sensor kit for Home Assistant with ESPHome; build your own smart home devices

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