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558: Top 5 Essential Apps
We asked, and you answered: Your top 5 Linux app essentials and post-install rituals. Plus, some news to better cope with "extreme file-system damage."Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMWarp — Warp allows you to securely send files to each other via the internet or local network by exchanging a word-based code.Bcachefs Repair Code Reaching Complete & Robust Recovery — "This patchset was kindly tested by a user from India who accidentally wiped one drive out of a three drive filesystem with no replication on the family computer - it took a couple weeks but we got everything important back."Linux 6.9-rc3 Released With Many Bcachefs Patches — "[...] but hey, if you had a corrupted bcachefs filesystem you'd probably want this, and if you thought bcachefs was stable already, I have a bridge to sell you. Special deal only for you, real cheap."Fedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOMEF42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation — Switch the default desktop experience for Workstation to KDE Plasma. The GNOME desktop is moved to a separate spin / edition, retaining release-blocking status.Changes/FedoraPlasmaWorkstation - Fedora Project Wiki412linux.io — N100 Media Serving Efficiency with Quick SyncPick: FreeTube — FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. Use YouTube without advertisements and prevent Google from tracking you with their cookies and JavaScript. Available for Windows, Mac & Linux thanks to Electron.FreeBSD Speedruns — The zero-to-desktop FreeBSD speedrun category records the time taken from the first boot of a FreeBSD image, through installation, to the display of a desktop environment or window manager.FreeBSD Zero to Desktop Speedrun Challenge — The operations and commands that needed to be done took me 1:33 and installation of base.txz/kernel.txz datasets took 0:28. Downloading and installing needed pkg(8) packages took 2:22 of time.
557: Crouching kexec, Hidden Linux
We're building a completely hidden Linux OS inside an existing system—with no trace left behind.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — The global money app for fast, safe payments and bitcoin. Get sats easy.📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM — Grab the Fountain app and listen live, boost along, and more. Shufflecake — Plausible deniability for multiple hidden filesystems on LinuxSystem76 and Jupiter Broadcasting Epic Parking Lot BBQ, Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 4:30 PM | MeetupJupiter Extras: Nostr Workshop — Our Nostr workshop. We'll help you get your Nostr identity and answer any questions. 24.05 Call for Release Manager & Editor - NixOS — Both roles are fulfilled in tandem, meaning you get paired with an experienced partner, who already filled the role during the previous release.HiddenVM — Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace. — HiddenVM is a simple, one-click, free and open-source Linux application that allows you to run Oracle's open-source VirtualBox software on the Tails operating system.Tailspersistent volume featureVeraCryptDefeating Plausible Deniability of VeraCrypt Hidden Operating Systems — This paper analyzes the security of VeraCrypt hidden operating systems. How To Emulate Persistent Memory using the Linux "memmap" Kernel Optionkexec [ArchWiki]Unplugged Core MembershipPodHome.FM — Unlimited Shows and EpisodesPodBean Example: This Week in Bitcoin PodcastAtuin - Magical Shell History — Sync, search and backup shell history with AtuinI quit my job to work full time on my open source project — The 22nd of December was my last day leading the infrastructure team at PostHog. Going forwards, I'm starting a company and working full time on Atuin.
556: The xz Backdoor Exposed 🚨
We're breaking down the attack: how it works, how it was hidden, and why time was running out for the attacker.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMoss-security mailing list — Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise.Fedora AnnouncementDebian AnnouncementUbuntu AnnouncementKali Linux AnnouncementArch Linux AnnouncementGentoo AnnouncementopenSUSE Tumbleweeed AnnouncementNixOS Unstable DiscussionWhy does it take two weeks for NixOS to replace xz?Andres Freund on Mastodon — I was doing some micro-benchmarking at the time, needed to quiesce the system to reduce noise. Saw sshd processes were using a surprising amount of CPU, despite immediately failing because of wrong usernames etc....rwmj on Hacker News — Very annoying - the apparent author of the backdoor was in communication with me over several weeks trying to get xz 5.6.x added to Fedora 40 & 41 because of its "great new features"A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects — Make no mistake. This is the way it works. It needs to change.Devuan GNU/Linux on X — Devuan is not affected by the latest vulnerability caused by systemd.systemd PR: Dynamically load compression librariesMatteo Croce on X — I'm the author of such PR. While I absolutely didn't know that libxz had a backdoor, I really think that libraries should be loaded on-demand when rarely used, hence my change :)Ryan C. Gordon on X — This is probably how the xz thing happened, right?Jan Wildeboer on the Fediverse — Again the FOSS world has proven to be vigilant and proactive in finding bugs and backdoors, IMHO.Unplugged Core MembershipTXLF is coming up! — April 12 - 13 in Austin, Texas.LFNW coming up! — April 26 - 28Mobile Game Ads Are Boosting Podcast Follower Counts — Wondery, iHeart and Lemonada Media are all using a non-public product from MowPod - which gives extra lives and game credits to gamers if they follow shows on Apple Podcasts from game apps.MowPod's podcast promotion tools: tales from the barfortydeux's NixOS ConfigsPrism Launcher — An Open Source Minecraft launcher with the ability to manage multiple instances, accounts and mods.World Backup Day — March 31st — One small accident or failure could destroy all the important stuff you care about.Updating Our Fiddly Bits | LINUX Unplugged 494
555: Glide like a Goose, Honk like a Moose
We test the Linux-first, all-AMD Sirius 16 laptop, discuss the new Hyprland release, and share a few stories from our recent trip.
554: SCaLEing Nix
We're on the ground live at NixCon and SCaLE. We catch up with old friends, and discover how Nix is devouring the Linux world one function at a time.
553: Portably Predictable Productivity
We each bring surprise topics, a mix of hardware and software, as we prepare to hit the road for NixCon and SCaLE.
552: Plasma's Perfect Play
Plasma 6 is out, and we've been giving it a go. What's new, our thoughts, and the lessons other desktops should learn.
551: AI Under Your Control
Corporate AI is a hot mess, but open-source alternatives can be open-ended chaos. We’ll test some of the best ways to get local AI tools under your control.
550: Ready Player Linux
Chris spends the week in a VR desktop, revealing the glitches, gains, and VR's open-source future.
549: Will it Nixcloud?
Deploying Nextcloud the Nix way promises a paradise of reproducibility and simplicity. But is it just a painful trek through configuration hell? We built the dream Nextcloud using Nix and faced reality. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.
548: Uncomfortable Linux Truths
Some uncomfortable truths about using Linux, and then we introduce a new segment: Will it Nix?
547: Behind the Shelves
Data-hoard with purpose and manage your audiobooks and podcasts with one application, plus the lone Linux box that remains on Mars.
546: What You’re Missing about NixOS
Trying NixOS can be fraught with complexity, half-completed guides, and boring videos. Even if you never plan to switch to NixOS, we invite you to come along for a hype-free ride that digs into one of the most rapidly developing areas of Linux.
545: 3,062 Days Later
Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole. Special Guest: Kent Overstreet.
544: Half the Bits, Double the Pain
This challenge gets ugly as we slowly realize we've just become zombie slayers. We load Linux on three barely alive systems, and it takes a turn we didn't expect.