625: They're Doing it Wrong!
27 July 2025
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.
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1Password Extended Access Management
Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
Unraid
A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.
Nebula
Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.